Dickinson College - Microcosm Yearbook (Carlisle, PA)

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. her centennial was indeed the sign of an epoch. The destructive hand of civil war, bearing disintegration and bitterness, dealt kindly with Dickinson, and the experiences of the College in this trying period of our national history only add to the richness of her heritage. Up the brownstone steps, through the ivy-encircled portal were carried wounded soldiers from Gettysburg, in these halls of learning to be brought back to life. Wfearers of the Gray, in their occupancy of Carlisle and quartering ill lvest College, were careful to preserve from damage the buildings and other property of Dickinson, as well as the campus, for many of them loyalty to their Alma hlater coming out of the past to be a more unchange- able passion than devotion to a new cause. It was under the guidance of a man of wide learning and progressive industry that Dickinson passed the century mark of her career. Dr. James A. McCauley so directed the affairs of the College that her centennial was indeed the sign of an epoch, celebrated by renovation and expansion that brought Dickinson into step with the pace of the years that were hurrying the nineteenth century to its close and heralding the dawn of the modern era. In 18841, the Jacob Tome Scientific Building was erected, making available new accommodations for the rapidly growing science department of the College. In the museum of this building have been brought together many interesting scientific specimens and much historical apparatus, including a valu- able portion of Joseph Priestley,s laboratory equipment. In 1885, arose Bosler llflemorial Hall, combining a chapel auditorium and library, thus bringing together two important centers of college activity. Dr. lVIcCauley,s administration saw also the construction of a gymnasium to provide physical education and recreation facilities. This building served faithfully until the coming of a new building many years later gave it the title of The Old G3'Ill.,, The College inaugurated education for women in 188-L, and so with co-education as with other phases of educational policy identified herself with the movement of the times. YVith more than a hundred years behind her, Dickinson found herself well prepared for continued advance as she stood on the threshold of the twentieth century.

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. . scion of a hundred and fifty years. 1Vith the opening of the twentieth century in Dickinson is identified the progressive administration of Dr. George Edward Reed. Denny Hall had been erected in 1896 to provide the additional facilities required by the College,s growth. Utterly destroyed by fire in ltilarch, 1904, Denny rose again the follow- ing year. During Dr. Reed,s tenure of office there were also added to the equipment of the College, Conway Hall and the President,s home. Conway Hall served for some time as a preparatory school, between 1917 and 1918 was the home of the Dickinson Student Army Training Corps, and late in 1918 became the present dormitory for Dickinson freshmen. Shortly following the tragic death, in 1908, of Herman Bosler, of the Class of 1905, the 1-Ierman Bosler Biddle hlemorial Athletic Field was added to the College. In 1913, Dickinson acquired ltietzger College. This school had been erected in 1881 to serve as a school for girls and so was admirably fitted to its new role of women's dormitory. In 1911, the administration of Dickinson fell to Dr. James Henry Biorgan, a graduate of the College and member of the faculty. To Dr. lVIorgan go the honor' of guiding the College to the peak of the first sesqui-centenary of her career and the credit for making that peak a height of material superiority and cultural prestige. In a world moving ever at a more dizzying speed, with an established order facing always the danger of falling behind the times, the grand old man of Dickinson', kept the College abreast of the age and moving ever forwa1'd. The desire of alumni to see their Alma lVIater have im- proved athletic facilities crystallized in the erection of the Alumni Gymnasium on the site of old South College in 1928. Harmonizing in design with Old VVest and fitted with the most modern equipment, the New Gymv forms an admirable link between the old and the new. VVith Dr. Karl Tinsley Wlaugh at the head of administra- tion, Dickinson faces the future at the opening of another era in her life. Now Scion of a hundred and fifty years, she may well look forward with confidence to even greater prosperity in the years to come. The tradition, the lore, the ideals that bind students, alumni, and faculty to Noble Diekinsoniav are the stuff of which immortality is made. Pietnte et rloctrivza tum Zibertn.s.,'