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June 6, 1936
Ruth Agnes Trout receives her Bachelor of Arts Diploma from Dickinson College on June 6, 1936.
Format: Certificates and Diplomas
Location: OC 2005.1, F5
Subject: Education
Time Period: 1920-1939
View Item: Bachelor of Arts Diploma - Ruth Trout
July 4, 1936
Edward S. Delaplaine addresses the Forty-First Annual Meeting of the Maryland State Bar Association with a paper titled "The Home of Taney." Delaplaine, a member of the Frederick Bar and the President of the Roger Brooke Taney Home, Inc., discusses Taney's home and family life.
Format: Speeches and Sermons
Location: I-Delaplaine-1967-1
Subject: Legal Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government
Time Period: 1920-1939
View Item: "The Home of Taney," by Edward Delaplaine
July 25, 1936
Stephen Vincent Benét writes to his sister, Laura Benét, on the slowness of his writing and distress over news from abroad. Includes envelope.
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Location: I-Friends-1982-2
Subject: International Affairs, Personal and Family Life
Time Period: 1920-1939
August 1936
William H. Vastine, a member of the Class of 1937, writes to Dr. Hartman regarding his experience taking classes at State College during the summer as well as preaching in local churches. "State College is a very lovely place but," as Vastine explains, "the school is so large and the student body so sophisticated that I’d rather attend Dickinson." In addition, Vastine discusses making plans for a retreat of the Young People's Fellowship. Transcript included.
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Location: I-Original-1936-2
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality
Time Period: 1920-1939
View Item: Letter from William Vastine to Dr. Hartman
October 24, 1936
The program for Dickinson's football game against Swarthmore College at Biddle field on October 24, 1936.
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Location: Dickinsoniana Programs
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Sport and Recreation
Time Period: 1920-1939
View Item: Dickinson vs Swarthmore Football Program (Oct. 1936)
November 17, 1936
Newton Tarkington writes to Charles Sellers with advice on the attribution of a portrait of painter Benjamin West.
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Location: I-SellersC-1955-1
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Time Period: 1920-1939
December 14, 1936
Marianne Moore responds to Miss McGlade's request for copies of Moore's published work. While Moore states that she will request copies of The Egoist for McGlade and a friend, Moore dissuades McGlade from purchasing a copy of her most recent book, The Pangolin. "Our high duty on English books makes it seem more reasonable to be without things than be punished unjustly for getting them," as Moore explains. Partial transcript included.
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Location: I-AsbellY-2002-55
Subject: Literary Pursuits
Time Period: 1920-1939
View Item: Letter from Marianne Moore to Miss McGlade
1937
Publisher: Carlisle, PA: Dickinson College
Professor Ralph Wendell Schecter is editor for Songs of Dickinson, whose publication is sponsored by Upsilon Chapter, Omicron Delta Kappa.
Format: Music
Location: SC 784.622 D553s3
Subject: Dickinson College History, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Time Period:
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February 24, 1937
The program for Dickinson's basketball game against Gettysburg College in the Alumni Gymnasium on February 24, 1937.
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Location: Dickinsoniana Programs
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Sport and Recreation
Time Period: 1920-1939
View Item: Dickinson vs Gettysburg Basketball Program (Feb. 1937)
March 1937
The Dickinson College catalog for the 1936-1937 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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March 12, 1937
Marianne Moore writes James S. Watson about his review of "Nightwood" by Djuna Barnes. "I read your review with great interest, heartily approving until I came to the part where you make 'Nightwood' a companion piece to 'The Waste Land,'" as Moore explains. In addition, Moore mentions Watson's reviews of her own work and comments on the poetry of William Butler Yeats.
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Location: I-Friends-2002-2
Subject: Literary Pursuits
Time Period: 1920-1939
View Item: Letter from Marianne Moore to James Watson
June 7, 1937
Zatae Longsdorff Straw (Class of 1887) receives her Honorary Doctor of Science Diploma from Dickinson College on June 7, 1937.
Format: Certificates and Diplomas
Location: OC 2002.2, F1
Subject: Education
Time Period: 1920-1939
November 4, 1937
This program is for Mrs. McAllister's First Musical Morning at the Copley Plaza in Boston, Massachusetts. Allen Tanner is listed as Marguerite d'Alvarez's accompanist. On the reverse side news clippings are attached that report on Tanner's accompaniment of baritone Howard Gartner.
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Location: MC 2013.3, B4, F57
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Time Period: 1920-1939
November 6, 1937
The program for Dickinson's football game against Gettysburg College at Biddle field on November 6, 1937.
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Location: Dickinsoniana Programs
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Social Reform and Advocacy
Time Period: 1920-1939
View Item: Dickinson vs Gettysburg Football Program (Nov. 1937)
November 31, 1937
Carrie A. W. Cobb writes to Professor Bradford Oliver McIntire, updating him in her life. Cobb discusses how members of the Class of 1881 became ministers, including "my husband Charles H. Rorer being one of the number, who received the medal for oratory from the Belles Letters Society." Cobb also mentions Francis Gamewell's missionary work in China during the Boxer Rebellion. Transcript included.
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Location: I-Original-1937-2
Subject: Dickinson College Alumni Affairs, Religion and Spirituality
Time Period: 1920-1939
View Item: Letter from Carrie Cobb to Bradford McIntire
circa 1938
This brochure offers a brief biography and reviews of Allen Tanner's student Howard Gartner. Contact information for performance booking purposes is included.
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Location: MC 2013.3, B5, F2
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Time Period: 1920-1939
View Item: Howard Gartner, Baritone brochure
1938
This is a working manuscript by Nobel Prizewinning author Pearl S. Buck, including ink and pencil corrections, written during the Japanese invasion of China and the war that ensued.
Format: Essays and Dissertations
Location: I-Friends-1993-2
Subject: International Affairs, Literary Pursuits, Military Affairs and Conflict
Time Period: 1920-1939
View Item: "An Open Letter to the Chinese People" by Pearl Buck
April 7, 1938
This program is for a recital by Howard Gaertner, with Allen Tanner as accompanist, at the Columbia Damen Club.
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Location: MC 2013.3, B4, F55
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Time Period: 1920-1939
View Item: Columbia Damen Club program
November 12, 1938
The program for Dickinson's football game against Susquehanna University at Biddle field on November 12, 1938.
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Location: Dickinsoniana Programs
Subject: Dickinson College Student Life, Sport and Recreation
Time Period: 1920-1939
View Item: Dickinson vs Susquehanna Football Program (Nov. 1938)
circa 1939
This program is for the St. Francis ballet. Pavel Tchelitchew is listed as the set and costume designer.
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Location: MC 2013.3, B4, F62
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Time Period: 1920-1939
View Item: St. Francis ballet program
March 19, 1939
This news clipping describes a costume owned by Allen Tanner, and worn by Bentley Stone in the Federal ballet program at the Blackstone theater.
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Location: MC 2013.3, B5, F23
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Time Period: 1920-1939
View Item: "In the Federal ballet program…" Chicago Sunday Tribune newspaper clipping
November 17, 1939
Stephen Vincent Benet asks his mother, Frances Rose Benet, to come to Thanksgiving.
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Location: I-Friends-1991-1
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Time Period: 1920-1939
View Item: Letter from Stephan Vincent Benet to Frances Benet
circa 1940
William Rose Benet, the contributing editor of The Saturday Review of Literature, asks Mr. Roberts to "send the book."
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Location: I-Friends-1974-1
Subject: Literary Pursuits
Time Period: 1940-1959
View Item: Letter from William Benet to Mr. Roberts
January 9, 1940
Writer and poet Stephan Vincent Benét writes to his mother, Frances. He discusses a recent speaking engagement at Saybrook College, the cold weather, and his daughter Rachel's pet canary. Envelope included.
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Location: I-Friends-1983-1
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Time Period: 1940-1959
View Item: Letter from Stephan Vincent Benét to Frances Rose Benét
March 1940
The Dickinson College catalog for the 1939-1940 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, 1940-1959
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