In Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the six faculty members of Dickinson College determined in their weekly meeting that William De Vecmon '63 of Fairfield, Iowa be given ten penalty points for possessing a pistol. Henry Clay Sherwood '64 of Baltimore was also punished for "handling it at the same time and immediately after its discharge." De Vecmon later became a lawyer and his fraternity brother Sherwood a printer and Union war veteran. (By John Osborne)
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Minutes of the Faculty of Dickinson College for March 4, 1861, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
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