Dickinson College - Microcosm Yearbook (Carlisle, PA)

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DEGREES CONFERRED BY THE COLLEGE JUNE 7, i905 HONORIS CAUSA Legum Doctor JAMES MONROE GREEN, Ph. D. CDickinson, '78J, Principal of State Normal and Model Schools, Trenton, N. J. Rev. JAMES MARcUs KING, D. D., Secretary of the Church Exten- sion Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, Pa. HON. DAVID KEMPER WATSON fDickinson, '7IJ, Member of the Commission to revise and codify the laws of the United States, Washington D. C. HON. MARLIN EDGAR OLMS'T.ED, Member of Congress, Eighteenth Congressional District of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, Pa. HON. EDWARD CASPAR STOKES, Governor of New Jersey, Trenton, N. J. Musical Doctor HARRY Rowe SIIELLEY, New York City, N. Y. Legis Civllis Doctor ISSA TANIMURA, B. S., LL. B., Chief of International Bureau of Information, Tokyo, Japan. Pedagoglae Doctor VERGIL PRETT.YMAN, A. M. CDickinson, '92J, Principal of the Illilotgace Mann School, Columbia University, New York City, FRED ELLIOTT DOWNES, A. M. CDickinsOn, '93J, Superintendent of Schools, Harrisburg, Pa. Dlvlnltatls Doctor REV. SAMUEI. HEFELIIOWER, President of Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, Pa. RI-:v. FRANK MOORE, A. M. CDiekinson, '9Ij, President of Pen- nington Seminary, Pennington, N. J. REV. RICHARD HENRY GILBERT, Berwick, Pa. REV. LUTHER B. FREEMAN, Chattanooga, Tenn. REV. FRANKLIN FILLMORE BOND CDickinson, 'SIDI Lebanon, Pa. Artlum Magister JOHN C. WAGNER, Superintendent of Schools, Carlisle, Pa. JULIA REDRORD ToMxINsoN, Carlisle, Pa. RAPHAEL BENIIAM HAY fDickinson. '8oJ, Medical Interpreter of the Faculty of Medicine, Brussels University, Brussels, Belgium. ALUMNI STATISTICS 1 Whole number of Alumni .................... ..... 4 ,272 Professional life ............ . 2,034 Legal profession .... - - - 708 Ministry .............. - -- 318 Physicians ..................... . . . 344 Editors and Journalists ........., . 09 Financial and mercantile pursuits .. 440 Agricultural pursuits ......................... 158 Presilent of United States ....................... - I Chief Justice of United States Supreme Court ....... . I Associate Justice of United State Supreme Court .... . I Judges of Federal Courts .......................... . 5 United States Cabinet Officers .............. ..... - 9 Ministers to foreign Governments .... - 7 United States Consuls ............. . ll United States Senators .......... - 10 Members of Congress... - 50 Ofiicers of the Army .... 209 Othcers of the Navy ............ - 25 Governors of States .............. - 0 Lieutenant Governors of States ..... - 3 Attorney Generals of States ............ - 7 Secretaries of Conimounwealths ............. . 8 Chancellors of States ........................ . 3 Chief Justices of State Supreme Courts ......... . 6 Associate Justices of State Supreme Courts .... - 14 Judges of lower Courts .............4 ........ - 58 State Senators ...........,................... -- - 37 Members of State Assemblies .................. 112 Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church .... - 3 Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church ..... - 2 Bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church ..... . I Presidents of colleges ......................... . 40 Heads of professional schools ............. ......... . . . I0 Professors in colleges. ...... Q .... ' ..,...... I . ......... .... . 122 Principals of academies, seminaries and high schools. 223 Instructors in lower grade schools ...... . .. . . . .. . . . . .. . . . 500

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eral donation to the Institution, the said college shall be forever hereafter called and known by the name of Dick- inson College. On September 1 5,1 at the house of Governor Dickin- son, in Philadelphia, the first meeting of the Board of Trus- tees was held and an organization effected, making Gov- ernor Dickinson president, an office which he held till his death, in 1808. The seal adopted was suggested by Gov- ernor Dickinson, as also the motto, Pietate et doctrina tuta libertas, which embodied the thought uppermost in all minds-the protection of the new liberty through the safe- guards of virtue and learning. The Revolutionary War had exhausted the resources of the States and had left a large debt, manufactures were ruined, commerce was seriously affected by the lack of general tariff legislation, the paper currency was worthless, and poverty everywhere abounded. The political and eco- nomic conditions were closely paralleled in the educational world. There were but eleven colleges in the country, and they were nearly all small and feeble. Columbia, for ex- ample, had but two professors and twenty-four students, while Princeton, with the same sized faculty, had sixty students. Primarily the college owes its origin to Governor Dick- inson and Dr. Benjamin Rush, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Its assured income during the early yearswas only S5650 a year, supplemented by pri- yate donations and occasional appropriations of the Legis- ature. On April 6, 1784, the trustees met in Carlisle and elected Rev. Charles Nisbet, of Montrose, Scotland, prin- cipal ,of the Board of Instruction, while james Ross was chosen Professor of Languages. Prof. Ross at once started the Grammar School, with his assistant, Robert Johnson. When Dr. Nisbet arrived, in July, 1785, he had Rev. Robert Davidson, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Carlisle, appointed to the chair of History and Belles Lettres. Prof. Johnson was promoted to the professorship of Mathe- matics, and a Mr. Jait was chosen to teach the students to read and write the English language with elegance and propriety. Principal Nisbet taught Moral Philosophy, Logic, Philosophy of the Mind and Systematic Theology. The college long did effective work while occupying only a small two-story brick building near the corner of Bed- ford street and East Liberty avenue, now used'as a school- house. Dr. Nisbet's intellectual attaimnents were little short of marvelous. While he was considered one of the best Greek scholars of Europe, and could repeat whole books of Homer, he was scarcely less learned in Latin, and was familiar with seven other languages. His collection of books, containing many old, original and first editions, is now the Nisbet Library at Princeton Theological Semi- nary, and shows him to have been a polyglot and a collector of odds and ends in many languages. For nineteen years, until his death, on February 14, 1804, Dr. Nisbet guided the college well, though he was sadly disappointed in the new land of promise, which seemed, as he expressed it, not the land of performance. He was buried in the old grave- yard at Carlisle, and his monument is still frequently visited. In 1787, the college being in good working condition and the Bachelor's degree having been conferred on nine men, arrangements were begun for obtaining more suitable buildings. In the years immediately succeeding, although the public and private funds alike were crippled, money gradually came into the treasury of the college. The fund was augmented by a State lottery in 1790, and by a State appropriation soon after. In 1788 the present campus