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Fall 1964
The Daily Senator newsletter covers Student Senate news, sports, social events and club meetings, and announces upcoming events to the student body.
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Location: RG 8/1 - 7.1.15
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Time Period: 1960-1979
View Item: The Daily Senator (Fall 1964)
1964-1965
A Pocketful of Rules is produced by the Women’s Inter-Dormitory Council of Dickinson College. The guidebook contains a general summary of dormitory and campus procedures for female students. It includes guidelines and laws for the women’s dormitory government, honor code rules, and general information.
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Location: RG 8/103, B1, F10
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Time Period: 1960-1979
View Item: A Pocketful of Rules, 1964-65
circa 1965
Poet Marianne Moore writes to editor John Hunt to "hazard a specimen or two;" she includes a variety of poetic fragments.
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Poetry and Lyrics
Location: I-AsbellY-2002-73
Subject: Literary Pursuits
Time Period: 1960-1979
View Item: Letter from Marianne Moore to John Hunt
circa 1965
Poet Marianne Moore writes to an unspecified "kind, kind Don." Moore thanks Don for "taking [his] time to help [her], and send for a taxi;" she is also grateful for his gift of "The Adoration of the Magi, the one true message for the days." Finally, Moore hopes that Christmas will help "lift [Don's] burdens."
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Location: I-AsbellY-2002-34
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life
Time Period: 1960-1979
View Item: Postcard from Marianne Moore to “Don”
1965-1966
A Pocketful of Rules is produced by the Women’s Inter-Dormitory Council of Dickinson College. The guidebook contains a general summary of dormitory and campus procedures for female students. It includes guidelines and laws for the women’s dormitory government, honor code rules, and general information.
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Location: RG 2/103, B1, F11
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Time Period: 1960-1979
View Item: A Pocketful of Rules, 1965-66
Spring 1965
The Daily Senator newsletter covers Student Senate news, sports, social events and club meetings, and announces upcoming events to the student body.
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Location: RG 8/1 - 7.1.16
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Time Period: 1960-1979
View Item: The Daily Senator (Spring 1965)
June 6, 1965
This copy of the printed program for the commencement exercises held on June 6, 1965 shows the order of exercises and lists the members of the graduating class from the college.
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Location: Dickinsoniana Programs
Subject: Dickinson College Events
Time Period: 1960-1979
View Item: 1965 Commencement Program
Fall 1965
The Daily Senator newsletter covers Student Senate news, sports, social events and club meetings, and announces upcoming events to the student body.
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Location: RG 8/1 - 7.1.17
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Time Period: 1960-1979
View Item: The Daily Senator (Fall 1965)
1966-1967
A Pocketful of Rules is produced by the Women’s Inter-Dormitory Council of Dickinson College. The guidebook contains a general summary of dormitory and campus procedures for female students. It includes guidelines and laws for the women’s dormitory government, honor code rules, and general information.
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Location: RG 8/103, B1, F12
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Time Period: 1960-1979
View Item: A Pocketful of Rules, 1966-67
Fall 1966
The Daily Senator, which becomes The Senator during this semester, is a weekly newsletter that covers Student Senate news, sports, social events and club meetings, and announces upcoming events to the student body.
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Location: RG 8/1 - 7.2.1
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Time Period: 1960-1979
View Item: The Senator (Fall 1966)
October 1966
The Dickinson College catalog for the 1966-1967 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: 1960-1979
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1967
Allen Tanner writes a brief autobiography for the liner notes of his 1967 album Allen Tanner Plays Bach, Debussy, Scriabin, Granados, Rachmaninoff, Liszt, and Steinert.
Format: Essays and Dissertations
Location: MC 2013.13 B4, F39
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Time Period: 1960-1979
View Item: "About the Pianist" by Allen Tanner
1967
This postcard is an advertisement for Allen Tanner's 1967 album Allen Tanner Plays Bach, Debussy, Scriabin, Granados, Rachmaninoff, Steinert.
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Location: MC 2013.3, B4, F56
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Time Period: 1960-1979
1967-1968
A Pocketful of Rules is produced by the Women’s Inter-Dormitory Council of Dickinson College. The guidebook contains a general summary of dormitory and campus procedures for female students. It includes guidelines and laws for the women’s dormitory government, honor code rules, and general information.
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Location: RG 8/103, B1, F13
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Time Period: 1960-1979
View Item: A Pocketful of Rules, 1967-68
May 16, 1968
This is a carbon copy of a letter from Roy Wilkins to Democratic National Committee Chairman Ray C. Bliss, in which Wilkins implores the Party to ensure integrated delegations. Wilkins writes to Chairman John M. Bailey on the same subject (posted here).
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Location: I-Friends-1986-11
Subject: Politics and Government
Time Period: 1960-1979
View Item: Letter from Roy Wilkins to Ray Bliss
May 16, 1968
Roy Wilkins writes to John M. Bailey, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, asking how the Convention intends to implement the 1964 commitment to fully representative delegations. Wilkins includes a copy of a letter to Chairman Ray Bliss on the same subject (posted here).
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Location: I-Friends-1986-11
Subject: Politics and Government
Time Period: 1960-1979
View Item: Letter from Roy Wilkins to John Bailey
Summer 1968
A program for Project Africa, an organization that provides vital experience living and working with African counterparts in an African nation. Founded by Judy Rogers '65, this program promotes various activities associated with the program, such as discussions concerning the dynamics of continental Africa with students from Africa.
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Location: RG 5/2 7.6.2
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Social Reform and Advocacy
Time Period: 1960-1979
View Item: Project Africa
October 1968
The Dickinson College catalog for the 1968-1969 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: 1960-1979
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April 24, 1969
Typescript of "Moncure Conway and German Philosophy," a speech given by Loyd D. Easton of Ohio Wesleyan University for the Boyd Lee Spahr Lecture at Dickinson College on April 24, 1969.
Format: Speeches and Sermons
Location: I-Original-1969-1
Subject: Religion and Spirituality, Social Reform and Advocacy
Time Period: 1960-1979
View Item: "Moncure Conway and German Philosophy," by Loyd D. Easton
Fall 1969
The Senator is a weekly newsletter that covers Student Senate news, sports, social events and club meetings, and announces upcoming events to the student body.
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Location: RG 8/1 - 7.2.2
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Time Period: 1960-1979
View Item: The Senator (Fall 1969)
October 1969
The Dickinson College catalog for the 1969-1970 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: 1960-1979
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1970
Publisher: York, PA: York Composition Company, Inc.
Volume 4 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:
-- "Liberal Education: What Is It?" by Saul Sack
-- "The Free, or Not So Free, Air of Pennsylvania" by Irving Brant
-- "Benjamin Rush, America's Philosopher of Revolutionary Education" by Donald J. D'Elia
-- "We Have Aimed Honestly at Doing Good: Trusteeship at Dickinson, 1783-1816" by James A. Bonar
-- "Johnny Reb and Billy Yank" by Bell Irvin Wiley
-- "Captain Conrad's Spy Nest" by John Bakeless
-- "The Loyal Opposition in Civil War Philadelphia" by Nicholas B. Wainwright
-- "Moncure Conway and German Philosophy" by Loyd D. Eaton
-- "Moncure Conway's Journey Back to Earthy" by Warren Sylvester Smith
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Location: SC 378.748 D553b
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College History, Education, Military Affairs and Conflict, Politics and Government
Time Period: 1960-1979
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c.1970
Mabel Abbott provides an overview of Joseph Priestley and his house in central Pennsylvania in "The Story of Joseph Priestley House" by Mabel Abbott.
Format: Essays and Dissertations
Location: I-ShentonJ-1970-1
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality, Science and Technology
Time Period: 1960-1979
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Fall 1970
The Senator is a weekly newsletter that covers Student Senate news, sports, social events and club meetings, and announces upcoming events to the student body.
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Location: RG 8/1 - 7.2.3
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education
Time Period: 1960-1979
View Item: The Senator (Fall 1970)
September 1970
The Kol Hillel newsletter is produced by Hillel Council of Dickinson College:
Selected highlights from this issue include:
- The recently renovated Durbin Oratory in Old West will be ready for full operations soon.
- Students and faculty attend annual Passover Seder.
- Jewish Christian Dialogue Weekend’s guest speaker Rabbi Solomon S. Bernards “exchanged views” with Professor Daniel Bechtel.
- Dickinson College’s Religion department hires Ned Rosenbaum as a Hebrew scholar.
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Location: RG 9/9, Series 5
Subject: Dickinson College History, Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Religion and Spirituality
Time Period: 1960-1979
View Item: Kol Hillel (Sep. 1970)