Dickinson College - Microcosm Yearbook (Carlisle, PA)

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year in the history of the institution. The curriculum has been remodeled and made more interesting, and 11ow embraces a wide range of electives. President, faculty, alumni, and student-body, consider Dickinson's life their life, and a steady growth has been the gratifying result. The history of the tenth oldest college in the United States is one of which her sons and daughters may well be proud. The traditions of the past are only such as to inspire reverence and devotion. The thousands of alumni whom Dickinson has graduated are filling important and honorable positions in life. The only President Pennsylvania ever gave the Union was a graduate of this college. From its walls went Chief Justice Taney to honor his alma wafer. In contests, athletic and intellectual, the red and white has reflected the trained genius of its followers. As we pass from day to day within the shadows of these college walls, we l-:now not whether to raise our voices in one glad hurrah for college successes, or whether to bow our heads and lift our hats in veneration and respect. V 0 ...2f1

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the Emporium qfflrts and Sfz'enccs. He also edited an American edition of ACCllll1,S Chemistry, and Tll0ll1S01l,S Chemistryj' to both of which were added copious 11otes. Difficulties, external a11d internal, now began to interfere with the continued prosperity of the college. In 1816 the exercises of the institution were suspended, but were resumed again in 1821, after the election of john B. Mason, D. D., as president. Between 1824, the time of Dr. Mason's resignation, and 1832, whe11 the college was closed for a second time, there were three presidents and two complete changes in the faculty, all the professors resigning in each instance. ' 1 . 1 , . f , In 1834, Dickinson Collegeentered upon the epoch -of church control. Up to this time the institution had not been a denominational school, though it was generally supposed to be Presbyterian. At this juncture, however, the. Methodist church was beginning to manifest an. interest in educational movements. Augusta College, in Kentucky, Wesleyan University, in Connecticut, had been established by it, and now the Baltimore and Philadelphia Conferences entered into negotiations by which the control of Dickinson College came into their hands. , With wise forethought, john Price Durbin, D. D., was taken from the editorial chair of the Chrz's!z'a1z Advocaief' and placed at the head of the rejuvenated college. Dr. Durbin surrounded himself with men who were not controlled by mercenary motives, but who, like himself, had a personal interest in the prosperity of the institution. Consequently his administration wasqthe most successfulithe college had yet seen. The char- acter of the work done in the early history of Methodist control is manifest in the careers of graduates of those days, many of whom have become distinguished in church and state. Doctor Durbin resigned in 1845, a11d was succeeded by Dr. Robert Emory. Then followed tl1e genial Dr. Peck 5 the scholarly Collins, who brought order out of chaos 3 the energetic Johnson, who guided the col- lege through the troublesome days of civil warg after Dr. Johnson ca111e Dashiell, the first graduate of the college to be elected its president, following him came Dr. McCauley, of 'whom Carlisle citizens tell many stories of great interest g then Dr. Charles F. Himes assumed control until the election of Dr. George Edward Reed in 1889. . Since the -presidency of Dr. Reed, Dickinson has been making a new epoch for itself. Under the present administration-ua law school has been established, and each succeeding year brings a11 increasing attendance to its instruction. ' The handsome and commodious Denny Hall has been erected, and most of the other buildings have been enlarged or improved. The Faculty of the college continues to increase by the addition of new members, and the number of students in attendance is more than double the number enrolled in any previous - 20 -

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