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11/01/1807 |
James Buchanan enters Dickinson College |
Personal |
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09/01/1808 |
Dickinson College expells James Buchanan |
Personal |
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09/19/1808 |
James Buchanan graduates from Dickinson College |
Personal |
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00/00/1812 |
Robert Grier enters Dickinson College |
Personal |
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07/01/1845 |
Spencer Fullerton Baird is offered position of honorary professor of natural science at Dickinson College |
Carlisle/Dickinson |
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07/06/1846 |
Spencer Fullerton Baird is appointed full professor of natural history at Dickinson College |
Carlisle/Dickinson |
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07/09/1846 |
Dickinson College holds annual commencement ceremonies |
Dickinsonian |
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05/01/1847 |
Moncure Conway enters Dickinson College |
Personal |
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07/08/1847 |
Dickinson College holds annual commencement ceremonies |
Dickinsonian |
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07/13/1848 |
Dickinson College holds annual commencement ceremonies |
Dickinsonian |
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07/12/1849 |
Dickinson College holds annual commencement ceremonies |
Dickinsonian |
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06/11/1850 |
Dickinson College holds annual commencement ceremonies |
Dickinsonian |
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06/26/1851 |
Dickinson College holds annual commencement ceremonies |
Dickinsonian |
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07/08/1852 |
Dickinson College holds annual commencement ceremonies |
Dickinsonian |
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07/14/1853 |
Dickinson College holds annual commencement ceremonies |
Dickinsonian |
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07/13/1854 |
Dickinson College holds annual commencement ceremonies |
Dickinsonian |
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07/12/1855 |
Dickinson College holds annual commencement ceremonies |
Dickinsonian |
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07/10/1856 |
Dickinson College holds annual commencement ceremonies |
Dickinsonian |
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07/09/1857 |
Dickinson College holds annual commencement ceremonies |
Dickinsonian |
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07/08/1858 |
Dickinson College holds annual commencement ceremonies (1858) |
Dickinsonian |
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07/29/1858 |
Former Dickinson College president Jeremiah Atwater dies, aged eighty-five |
Dickinsonian |
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07/14/1859 |
Dickinson College holds annual commencement ceremonies |
Dickinsonian |
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07/11/1860 |
Dickinson College trustees hold firm that daily morning prayers will take place "before breakfast" |
Religion/Philosophy |
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07/12/1860 |
Dickinson College holds annual commencement ceremonies |
Dickinsonian |
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10/08/1860 |
Dickinson College students given a day off classes to attend the local Agricultural Fair |
Education/Culture |
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10/22/1860 |
Dickinson student, John F. Frederick '64, takes another drunken step towards ending his college career |
Education/Culture |
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11/26/1860 |
In Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the Dickinson College faculty discipline a student for "hissing in the Chapel" |
Education/Culture |
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12/17/1860 |
Dickinson College students punished for "smoking out" a classmate from his dormitory room |
Education/Culture |
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12/17/1860 |
J.D. Frederick, class of 1864, appeals his expulsion from Dickinson College for drunkenness |
Education/Culture |
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03/04/1861 |
In Carlisle, Pennsylvania, two Dickinson College students punished for gun play on campus |
Education/Culture |
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04/20/1861 |
At Dickinson College, the Junior and Senior classes request the end of term be brought forward |
Education/Culture |
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04/25/1861 |
At Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, students are leaving for home in large numbers |
Education/Culture |
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04/29/1861 |
In Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Dickinson College students are finding it difficult to attend class |
Education/Culture |
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07/11/1861 |
Dickinson College holds annual commencement ceremonies |
Carlisle/Dickinson |
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06/26/1862 |
Dickinson College holds annual commencement ceremonies |
Dickinsonian |
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06/25/1863 |
In Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Dickinson College holds its annual commencement ceremonies |
Carlisle/Dickinson |
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06/27/1863—06/29/1863 |
In Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Confederate troops occupy a town familiar to some of their officers |
Battles/Soldiers |
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06/27/1863—06/29/1863 |
In Carlisle, Rodes' infantry enjoy a brief but comfortable respite at the U.S. Army Cavalry School |
Battles/Soldiers |
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07/01/1863 |
Shells from General J.E.B. Stuart's horse artillery rain down on Carlisle in an evening bombardment |
Battles/Soldiers |