Dickinson College - Microcosm Yearbook (Carlisle, PA)

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after six o'clock, but when the sun rises before six o'clock, the public exercises shall commence at six o'clock precisely, and it shall be the duty of every member of the Faculty to be present at the opening exercises of the day. Dr. Durbin was succeeded' by Drs. Roberty Emory, jesse T. Peck, Charles Collins, Caldwell, McClintock, Nadal, Herman M. johnson, Robert L. Dashiell and james A. Mc- Cauley. In 1888 Prof. Charles F. Himes became acting president, and was followed in the' spring of 1889 by Dr. George Edward Reed, who has continued at the head of the institution down to the present time, and under whose wise and aggressive leadership the entire scope of the col- lege has been enlarged and her facilities improved until she ranks among th leading colleges of the country. Old West soon proved inadequate for the needs of the college, and in 1835 additional ground was purchased and South College was erected, to be used as a place of public worship, and for the purpose of the Grammar School. This building was destroyed by fire the following year, but was at once replaced by the present edifice. East College was built in 1836, and is finely adapted for dormitory pur- poses. In 1877 Emory Chapel, originally erected as a Meth- odist Episcopal Church, passed into the hands of the col- lege, and was used as a Preparatory School until the erec- tion of the Tome Scientific Building, through the generosity of the late jacob Tome, of Port Deposit, Md., in 1884, per- mitted the removal of the scientific department from South College. It became then, in 1890, the home of the Law School, while South College was used as the Preparatory School. In 1884 a gymnasium was presented anonymously. In 1885 the james W. Bosler Memorial Library Hall was opened, with accommodations for the College and Society Libraries, and for the chapel services andpublic exercises of the institution. In 1895 Lloyd Hall was provided as a dormitory for the female students, who had been admitted since 1884. In 1896 Denny Memorial Hall was built for the accommodation of recitation rooms, college offices, and halls for the Literary Societies. This building was com- pletely destroyed by fire March 3, 1904. A new building was erected on the site of the old structure and dedicated in june, 1905. In 1901 additional ground was purchased and a building erected therefor for the Preparatory School, while South College was again used as a dormitory. The Preparatory School building was dedicated in june, 1905, and at the request of Mr. Andrew Carnegie, whose liberal subscription made the dedication possible, the building was called Conway Hall, in honor of Moncure D. Conway, L. H. D., of the class of 1849. The Civil War almost disrupted the college. A large part of her patronage was from the South, and at the out- break of the war the Southerners left to join the army of the Confederacy, while the Northerners joined the Union forces. During the battle of Gettysburg the dormitories were turned into hospitals. The popularity of the college in the South no doubt did much to save the college from destruction during the invasion of Pennsylvania, for the Confederate order was that not a stone of old Dickinson should be touched. A true conception of Dickinson is to be gotten only by a visit, under the guidance of some sympathetic and loyal Dickinsonian, who alone can fitly exhibit the accumulated treasures of 'her long life. He will show the old books in the library, the relics in the physical laboratory, the lines of portraits of college worthies in Chapel Hall, the time- worn steps of Old West, chiseled with the autographs of students of long agog the window sill where President James Buchanan cut his name in the soft stoneg the spots where the annual rushes take -place, and will tell of the customs peculiar to Dickinson and of all the old jokes, and as the evening shadows grow deeper he will turn to the steps of Bosler Hall and listen to the closing words of the old Even- ing Song and Alma Mater. Most ofthis article was compiled from a brief history by Clyde B. Furst, '93, published in ' 72, and from-Prof. Himes' Sketch of Dickinson College published in 1879, and in severa 'the '96 Mierocgqnpn from a history by PresideiiPMi:Cauley, publisheriin the Dickinsonhan l instances the writer has copied verbatim.-EDITOR.

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was purchased from the Penns, a building was erected and partially occupied by the students, when, in February, 1803, it was totally destroyed by fire. Wide sympathy was aroused by this disaster, and contributions came in from all sides, so that in August of the ,same year it was possible to lay anew the foundations of the building, and West Col- lege, as it is to-day, was finished and occupied in 1805. The society system began at Dickinson soon after its founding, for on February 22, 1786, the Belles Lettres Society was founded, and the Union Philosophical followed on.August 31, 1789. These societies have had a continuous existence ever since. and have comfortably furnished halls and libraries of ten thousand volumes each. I After Dr. Nisbet's death Dr. Robert Davidson acted as principal until 1809, when Rev. Jeremiah Atwater, D. D., of Vermont, was elected principal. He served until 1815, when the college suspended operations until 1821. The War of 1812 brought a series of difficulties for the college. So many of the Senior Class of 1814 had been called to the defense of Philadelphia that it was found necessary to con- fer the degrees in absentiaf' In 1815 a duel, resulting in the death of a member of the Junior Class and the disap- pearance of five other students implicated in the matter, had a depressing effect. Defects in the charter and in the administration also began to appear. In 1821 the college was reopened under Dr. I. M. Mason, of New York, as principal and flourished until 1824, when Dr. Mason resigned. Drs. William Neill and Samuel lf. Howe succeeded him, 'ut the college declined, until, in I832, it was determined to discontinue it. The Methodist Episcopal Church happened to be casting about at this time for a suitable location for a college.. Attention was directed to Dickinson, and after the necessary preliminaries it was purchased by the Baltimore and Philadelphia Conferences in 1833. Although the college before this transfer had not been definitely denominational, the larger part of the trustees and faculty had been members of the Presbyterian Church. Immediately after the transfer a new and vigorous rule was inaugurated by electing Rev. John Price Durbin, D. D., president. The college was carefully organized in all its parts, and law and preparatory departments were added. Quotations from the catalogue of 1834 may serve to show the careful minuteness of the plans. The government, for example, consisted of Private advice, affectionate entreaty and frequent private admonition. The section on the Steward and his duties -the janitor was graced with this title--provides that the steward shall conduct himself toward the Faculty and students with all proper respect, shall ring the bell as often and at such hours as the faculty may direct, shall regularly, every morning, sweep the stairs, entries and passages of the college building, and see to pre- serve them in neat and clean order.', It further states that the Steward shall prohibit all hawkers or venders of fruit or confectionery or jewelry, or any other article whatever, fromentering the college edifice or coming upon the campus to trafiic with the students, and hc shall, regularly, at nine o'clock in the winter and at ten o'clock in summer, have all the doors of the college building and gates of the campus closed. A good example of the regulations for the students is found in the section, If any student shall, during the session, attend a ball, private dancing party, the- atrical performance, dancing school, horse race, or any place of similar resort, he shall be suspended or dismissed if he reform not upon admonition by the Faculty. An interest- ing bit of daily life is found in the paragraph which reads, The public exercises of the college shall commence at sunrise during the whole period of time when the sun rises

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