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September 1943
Aviation cadets from the 32nd College Training Detachment produce the Quintillion "to serve as an honest, revealing record of the time we spent at Dickinson College." The magazine provides an overview of cadets' life at Dickinson during World War II.
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Location: I-Original-1943-2
Subject: Dickinson College History, Education, Military Affairs and Conflict
Time Period: 1940-1959
View Item: Quintillion - Seventh Quintile
October 2, 1943
Army Air Corps Cadets from the 32nd College Training Detachment published the Eager Eagle while stationed at Dickinson College in 1943.
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Location: O-Original-1943-3
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College History, Education, Military Affairs and Conflict
Time Period: 1940-1959
View Item: Eager Eagle (Vol. 1, No. 21)
October 9, 1943
Army Air Corps Cadets from the 32nd College Training Detachment published the Eager Eagle while stationed at Dickinson College in 1943.
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Location: O-Original-1943-3
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College History, Education, Military Affairs and Conflict
Time Period: 1940-1959
View Item: Eager Eagle (Vol. 1, No. 22)
October 16, 1943
Army Air Corps Cadets from the 32nd College Training Detachment published the Eager Eagle while stationed at Dickinson College in 1943.
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Location: O-Original-1943-3
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College History, Education, Military Affairs and Conflict
Time Period: 1940-1959
View Item: Eager Eagle (Vol. 1, No. 23)
October 23, 1943
Army Air Corps Cadets from the 32nd College Training Detachment published the Eager Eagle while stationed at Dickinson College in 1943.
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Location: O-Original-1943-3
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College History, Education, Military Affairs and Conflict
Time Period: 1940-1959
View Item: Eager Eagle (Vol. 1, No. 24)
October 30, 1943
Army Air Corps Cadets from the 32nd College Training Detachment published the Eager Eagle while stationed at Dickinson College in 1943.
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Location: O-Original-1943-3
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College History, Education, Military Affairs and Conflict
Time Period: 1940-1959
View Item: Eager Eagle (Vol. 1, No. 25)
June 3, 1944
Robert Evans Faddis receives his Bachelor of Science Diploma from Dickinson College on June 3, 1944.
Format: Certificates and Diplomas
Location: Diploma Collection
Subject: Education
Time Period: 1940-1959
View Item: Bachelor of Science Diploma - Robert Faddis
February 9, 1945
This program is for the launch of the S.S. Dickinson Victory on February 9, 1945.
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Location: Dickinson Victory Dropfile
Subject: Military Affairs and Conflict
Time Period: 1940-1959
View Item: S.S. Dickinson Victory, Launch Program
April 1945
The Dickinson College catalog for the 1944-1945 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: 1940-1959
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June 6, 1945
Whitfield Jenks Bell Jr. writes to Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Potter from Belsen Concentration Camp in Germany about some of his experiences during World War II and the current conditions in Europe. "There is no peace in Europe today; and from everyone’s [ hating?] Hitler, they have now all turned to [hating?] one another," as Bell notes. Bell also mentions the bickering between the Allied powers and the contempt some have for soldiers who had not shot "all the Germans in sight." Transcript included.
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Location: I-BellW-2000-1
Subject: International Affairs, Military Affairs and Conflict
Time Period: 1940-1959
View Item: Letter from Whitfield Bell Jr. to Mr. & Mrs. J. Wesley Potter
May 1947
The Dickinson College catalog for the 1946-1947 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: 1940-1959
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June 8, 1947
Retired Professor Forrest Eugene Craver, a member of the Class of 1899, receives his Honorary Doctor of Science in Education Diploma from Dickinson College on June 8, 1947.
Format: Certificates and Diplomas
Location: Diploma Collection
Subject: Education
Time Period: 1940-1959
View Item: Honorary Doctor of Science in Education Diploma - Forrest Craver
1948
Publisher: New York: The Woman's Press
Esther Popel discusses some of her experience regarding race in the United States.
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Location: DC 1919 S534p
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life
Time Period: 1940-1959
View Item: "Personal Adventures in Race Relations," by Esther Popel
May 6, 1948
Two letters from William Rose Benét to Lawton Mackall: the first asking for details about a play Mackall has written; the second explaining that he has no room to publish a piece by one of Mackall's friends.
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Location: I-Friends-1982-3
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life
Time Period: 1940-1959
April 1949
The Dickinson College catalog for the 1949-1950 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: 1940-1959
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August 8, 1949
William Rose Benét writes to his sister, Laura Benét, with a clipping about the family from the Cape Ann Summer Sun.
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Location: I-Friends-1982-4
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Time Period: 1940-1959
circa 1950
In this unfinished draft, Montagu Frank Modder traces the history of Great Britain from the fifteenth century up through the mid-nineteenth century. Elaborate illustrations, often in full color, accompany the text on every page. This section is titled "The Romantic Age."
Format: Engravings and Illustrations
Location: MC 2002.1
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Visual and Performing Arts
Time Period: 1940-1959
View Item: "The Spirit of Britain" Section 12, by Montagu F. Modder
circa 1950
In this unfinished draft, Montagu Frank Modder traces the history of Great Britain from the fifteenth century up through the mid-nineteenth century. Elaborate illustrations, often in full color, accompany the text on every page. This section is titled "England in the Romantic Age."
Format: Engravings and Illustrations
Location: MC 2002.1
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Visual and Performing Arts
Time Period: 1940-1959
View Item: "The Spirit of Britain" Section 04, by Montagu F. Modder
circa 1950
In this unfinished draft, Montagu Frank Modder traces the history of Great Britain from the fifteenth century up through the mid-nineteenth century. Elaborate illustrations, often in full color, accompany the text on every page. This section is titled "England under the Stuarts."
Format: Engravings and Illustrations
Location: MC 2002.1
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Visual and Performing Arts
Time Period: 1940-1959
View Item: "The Spirit of Britain" Section 03, by Montagu F. Modder
circa 1950
In this unfinished draft, Montagu Frank Modder traces the history of Great Britain from the fifteenth century up through the mid-nineteenth century. Elaborate illustrations, often in full color, accompany the text on every page. This section is titled "Peace and War."
Format: Engravings and Illustrations
Location: MC 2002.1
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Visual and Performing Arts
Time Period: 1940-1959
View Item: "The Spirit of Britain" Section 13, by Montagu F. Modder
circa 1950
In this unfinished draft, Montagu Frank Modder traces the history of Great Britain from the fifteenth century up through the mid-nineteenth century. Elaborate illustrations, often in full color, accompany the text on every page. This section is titled "The Restoration."
Format: Engravings and Illustrations
Location: MC 2002.1
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Visual and Performing Arts
Time Period: 1940-1959
View Item: "The Spirit of Britain" Section 05, by Montagu F. Modder
1950
Publisher: New York: Fleming H. Revell Company
Volume 1 of the Boyd Lee Spahr Lectures in Americana series includes essays from scholars that focus on various aspects of Dickinson College's history.
Table of Contents:
-- "Boyd Lee Spahr, Dickinsonian: An Appreciation"
-- "Bulwark of Liberty" by Whitfield J. Bell Jr.
-- "Benjamin Rush and the Beginnings of 'John and Mary's College' Over Susquehanna" by Lyman H. Butterfield
-- "Charles Nisbet, Portrait in Miniature" by Boyd Lee Spahr
-- "A Frontier Experiment with Higher Education" by Joseph B. Smith
-- "The Sources of the Original Dickinson College Library" by James W. Phillips
-- "Hugh Brackenridge's Ride: How We Got 'Old West'" by William W. Edel
-- "The Education of Roger B. Taney" by Carl B. Swisher
-- "James Buchanan: Lessons in Leadership in Trying Times" by Roy F. Nichols
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Location: SC 378.748 D553b
Subject: Dickinson College History, Education, Politics and Government
Time Period: 1940-1959
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circa 1950
In this unfinished draft, Montagu Frank Modder traces the history of Great Britain from the fifteenth century up through the mid-nineteenth century. Elaborate illustrations, often in full color, accompany the text on every page. This section is titled "England in the Eighteenth Century."
Format: Engravings and Illustrations
Location: MC 2002.1
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Visual and Performing Arts
Time Period: 1940-1959
View Item: "The Spirit of Britain" Section 06, by Montagu F. Modder
circa 1950
In this unfinished draft, Montagu Frank Modder traces the history of Great Britain from the fifteenth century up through the mid-nineteenth century. Elaborate illustrations, often in full color, accompany the text on every page. This section is titled "The House of Hanover."
Format: Engravings and Illustrations
Location: MC 2002.1
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Visual and Performing Arts
Time Period: 1940-1959
View Item: "The Spirit of Britain" Section 07, by Montagu F. Modder
circa 1950
In this unfinished draft, Montagu Frank Modder traces the history of Great Britain from the fifteenth century up through the mid-nineteenth century. Elaborate illustrations, often in full color, accompany the text on every page. This section is titled "The Elizabethan Renaissance."
Format: Engravings and Illustrations
Location: MC 2002.1
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Visual and Performing Arts
Time Period: 1940-1959
View Item: "The Spirit of Britain" Section 02, by Montagu F. Modder