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May 1928
The Dickinson College catalog for the 1927-1928 academic year. Through the years, the annual catalog was variously titled "The Bulletin," "Catalogue and Register," "Course Catalog," and similar variants. The catalog typically includes the list of courses offered, requirements for enrollment, requirements for graduation, tuition and other fees, and campus facilities, college policies, and lists of teaching faculty, college trustees, and various administrators.
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Education
Time Period: 1920-1939
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April 26, 1929
This program is for one of Allen Tanner's piano concert performances.
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Location: MC 2013.3, B4, F53
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Time Period: 1920-1939
View Item: "Allen Tanner Pianiste"
May 7, 1929
Painter Horace Thompson Carpenter writes to Dickinson College trustee Edward W. Biddle, announcing the completion of a portrait of Charles Nisbet commissioned by the College.
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Location: I-Original-1929-1
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Visual and Performing Arts
Time Period: 1920-1939
May 11, 1929
Dickinson College trustee Edward W. Biddle writes to Cassandra Lee Arnold regarding Horace Carpenter's portrait of Charles Nisbet. Biddle asks that she go through her family papers and "send them to 'Old Dickinson' to preserved with its collection of historical and personal data."
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Location: I-Original-1929-1
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Events, Genealogy and Family History
Time Period: 1920-1939
View Item: Letter from Edward W. Biddle to Cassandra Lee Arnold
May 21, 1929
Cassandra Lee Arnold writes to Dickinson College trustee Edward W. Biddle regarding Horace Carpenter's portrait of Charles Nisbet. Arnold thanks Biddle for the photograph of it that he sent her and promises "I will certainly go over all of the old letters in my return to the Farm this Summer."
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Location: I-Original-1929-1
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Genealogy and Family History, Visual and Performing Arts
Time Period: 1920-1939
View Item: Letter from Cassandra Lee Arnold to Edward W. Biddle
February 1930
The Dickinson College catalog for the 1929-1930 academic year. Through the years, the annual catalog was variously titled "The Bulletin," "Catalogue and Register," "Course Catalog," and similar variants. The catalog typically includes the list of courses offered, requirements for enrollment, requirements for graduation, tuition and other fees, and campus facilities, college policies, and lists of teaching faculty, college trustees, and various administrators.
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Education
Time Period: 1920-1939
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June 9, 1930
Harold Wildie Weigel receives his Bachelor of Arts Diploma from Dickinson College on June 9, 1930.
Format: Certificates and Diplomas
Location: Diploma Collection
Subject: Education
Time Period: 1920-1939
View Item: Bachelor of Arts Diploma - Harold Weigel
December 1, 1930
Mary Logan writes to William White regarding Charles Wilson Peale's portrait of John Dickinson. Logan explains that her husband left the portrait to the Pennsylvania Historical Society in his will.
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Location: I-Original-1929-1
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Visual and Performing Arts
Time Period: 1920-1939
View Item: Letter from Mary Logan to William White
December 2, 1930
Lawyer William White writes to Dickinson College Trustee Edward W. Biddle regarding Charles Wilson Peale's portrait of John Dickinson, housed at the Pennsylvania Historical Society. "The enclosed letter has sad news and I am very sorry that it will probably be impossible for Dickinson College ever to receive the original portrait of John Dickinson painted by Peale," White explains.
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Location: I-Original-1929-1
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Visual and Performing Arts
Time Period: 1920-1939
1931
This brochure advertises Russian ballet dancer Laurent Novikoff's services as a coach for classes and private lessons in ballet training, improvisation, rhythmics, and modern dance forms.
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Location: MC 2013.3, B5, F4
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Time Period: 1920-1939
View Item: Laurent Novikoff brochure
1932
Hazelle Myra Allen's diary documents her experience with classes, student life, social events, and personal matters as an undergraduate at Dickinson College. Allen, a member of the class of 1934, is a sophomore in spring 1932 and a junior in fall 1932. Transcript included.
Format: Diaries and Journals
Location: MC 2011.3, B1, F1
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Personal and Family Life
Time Period: 1920-1939
View Item: Diary of Hazelle Allen (Transcript)
February 3, 1932
William Rose Benet writes to an unspecified "Albert" concerning the publication details of a book of poems by an unspecified "Sara." Benet also discusses details of payment.
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Location: I-Friends-1979 -2
Subject: Business and Industry, Literary Pursuits
Time Period: 1920-1939
View Item: Letter from William Rose Benet to "Albert"
May 1932
The Dickinson College catalog for the 1931-1932 academic year. Through the years, the annual catalog was variously titled "The Bulletin," "Catalogue and Register," "Course Catalog," and similar variants. The catalog typically includes the list of courses offered, requirements for enrollment, requirements for graduation, tuition and other fees, and campus facilities, college policies, and lists of teaching faculty, college trustees, and various administrators.
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Education
Time Period: 1920-1939
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June 6, 1932
Elizabeth Horn Clarke receives her Bachelor of Arts Diploma from Dickinson College on June 6, 1932.
Format: Certificates and Diplomas
Location: Diploma Collection
Subject: Education
Time Period: 1920-1939
View Item: Bachelor of Arts Diploma - Elizabeth Clarke
June 23, 1932
Robert Allen Waidner receives his Bachelor of Arts Diploma from Dickinson College on June 23, 1932.
Format: Certificates and Diplomas
Location: Diploma Collection
Subject: Education
Time Period: 1920-1939
View Item: Bachelor of Arts Diploma - Robert Waidner
1933
Publisher: Carlisle, PA: Dickinson College
James H. Morgan, alumnus and former president of Dickinson College, authors a history of his alma mater in celebration of its sesquicentennial.
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Location: DC 378.748 DEMo
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College History, Education
Time Period: 1920-1939
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1933
Hazelle Myra Allen's diary documents her experience with classes, student life, social events, and personal matters as an undergraduate at Dickinson College. Allen, a member of the class of 1934, is a junior in spring 1933 and a senior in fall 1933. Transcript included.
Format: Diaries and Journals
Location: MC 2011.3, B1, F1
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Personal and Family Life
Time Period: 1920-1939
View Item: Diary of Hazelle Allen (Transcript)
1934
Publisher: Washington, DC: Privately Printed
A selection of Esther Popel's poetry.
Format: Poetry and Lyrics
Location: DC 1919 S534fo
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life
Time Period: 1920-1939
View Item: "A Forest Pool," by Esther Popel
1934
Hazelle Myra Allen's diary documents her experience with classes, student life, social events, and personal matters as an undergraduate at Dickinson College. Allen is a senior and graduates with the class of 1934. Allen did not write any entries in her diary between August 27 and December 31, 1934. Transcript included.
Format: Diaries and Journals
Location: MC 2011.3, B1, F2
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Personal and Family Life
Time Period: 1920-1939
View Item: Diary of Hazelle Allen (Transcript)
November 1934
The Dickinson College catalog for the 1934-1935 academic year. Through the years, the annual catalog was variously titled "The Bulletin," "Catalogue and Register," "Course Catalog," and similar variants. The catalog typically includes the list of courses offered, requirements for enrollment, requirements for graduation, tuition and other fees, and campus facilities, college policies, and lists of teaching faculty, college trustees, and various administrators.
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Location: Dickinsoniana Periodicals
Subject: Dickinson College Academic Affairs, Dickinson College Administration, Education
Time Period: 1920-1939
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circa 1935
Stephen Vincent Benet thanks a Miss Adlard for her letter describing the performance of Miss Locke. "It was extremely interesting to hear about it and I know that Miss Locke must have given a beautiful and unusual performance," as Benet observes.
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Location: I-Friends-1975-3
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Time Period: 1920-1939
circa 1935
"Rain After a Vaudeville Show," a 30 line poem by Stephen Vincent Benet.
Format: Poetry and Lyrics
Location: I-Friends-1991-13
Subject: Literary Pursuits
Time Period: 1920-1939
View Item: "Rain After a Vaudeville Show," by Stephen Vincent Benet
January 10, 1935
Stephen Vincent Benet's introduction of Florence Locke before her pageant recital in New York City of Benet's "John Brown's Body" on January 10, 1935. Benet states the need for poetry to be a living thing, spoken aloud and lauds Locke as an interpreter. The recital program as well as a clipping from the New York Herald Tribune are also included in the PDF file.
Format: Miscellaneous
Location: O-Friends-1975-1
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Visual and Performing Arts
Time Period: 1920-1939
View Item: Introduction to Florence Locke’s Pageant Recital of "John Brown’s Body," by Stephen Benet
April 28, 1935
This news clipping describes a recital by Allen Tanner after his return from Europe.
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Location: MC 2013.3, B5, F23
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Time Period: 1920-1939
View Item: "Allen Tanner the young pianist…" Chicago Herald and Examiner newspaper clipping
June 10, 1935
This copy of the printed program for the commencement exercises held on June 10, 1935 shows the order of exercises, lists the members of the graduating class from the college, and also lists graduates from the Dickinson School of Law.
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Location: Dickinsoniana Programs
Subject: Dickinson College Events
Time Period: 1920-1939
View Item: 1935 Commencement Program