04/25/1861
At Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, students are leaving for home in large numbers
Education/Culture
04/20/1861
At Dickinson College, the Junior and Senior classes request the end of term be brought forward
Education/Culture
09/01/1808
Dickinson College expels James Buchanan
Personal
07/09/1846
Dickinson College holds annual commencement ceremonies
Dickinsonian
07/08/1847
Dickinson College holds annual commencement ceremonies
Dickinsonian
07/13/1848
Dickinson College holds annual commencement ceremonies
Dickinsonian
07/12/1849
Dickinson College holds annual commencement ceremonies
Dickinsonian
06/11/1850
Dickinson College holds annual commencement ceremonies
Dickinsonian
06/26/1851
Dickinson College holds annual commencement ceremonies
Dickinsonian
07/08/1852
Dickinson College holds annual commencement ceremonies
Dickinsonian
07/14/1853
Dickinson College holds annual commencement ceremonies
Dickinsonian
07/13/1854
Dickinson College holds annual commencement ceremonies
Dickinsonian
07/12/1855
Dickinson College holds annual commencement ceremonies
Dickinsonian
07/10/1856
Dickinson College holds annual commencement ceremonies
Dickinsonian
07/09/1857
Dickinson College holds annual commencement ceremonies
Dickinsonian
07/14/1859
Dickinson College holds annual commencement ceremonies
Dickinsonian
07/12/1860
Dickinson College holds annual commencement ceremonies
Dickinsonian
07/11/1861
Dickinson College holds annual commencement ceremonies
Carlisle/Dickinson
06/26/1862
Dickinson College holds annual commencement ceremonies
Dickinsonian
07/08/1858
Dickinson College holds annual commencement ceremonies (1858)
Dickinsonian
10/08/1860
Dickinson College students given a day off classes to attend the local Agricultural Fair
Education/Culture
12/17/1860
Dickinson College students punished for "smoking out" a classmate from his dormitory room
Education/Culture
07/11/1860
Dickinson College trustees hold firm that daily morning prayers will take place "before breakfast"
Religion/Philosophy
10/22/1860
Dickinson student, John F. Frederick '64, takes another drunken step towards ending his college career
Education/Culture
07/29/1858
Former Dickinson College president Jeremiah Atwater dies, aged eighty-five
Dickinsonian
12/16/1866
Henry Vethake, former pioneer lecturer in "Political Economy" at Dickinson College dies in Philadelphia
Carlisle/Dickinson
06/27/1863
- 06/29/1863
In Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Confederate troops occupy a town familiar to some of their officers
Battles/Soldiers
06/25/1863
In Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Dickinson College holds its annual commencement ceremonies
Carlisle/Dickinson
04/29/1861
In Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Dickinson College students are finding it difficult to attend class
Education/Culture
11/26/1860
In Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the Dickinson College faculty discipline a student for "hissing in the Chapel"
Education/Culture
03/04/1861
In Carlisle, Pennsylvania, two Dickinson College students punished for gun play on campus
Education/Culture
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
12/17/1860
J.D. Frederick, class of 1864, appeals his expulsion from Dickinson College for drunkenness
Education/Culture
11/01/1807
James Buchanan enters Dickinson College
Personal
09/19/1809
James Buchanan graduates from Dickinson College
Personal
05/01/1847
Moncure Conway enters Dickinson College
Personal
Robert Grier enters Dickinson College
Personal
07/01/1863
Shells from General J.E.B. Stuart's horse artillery rain down on Carlisle in an evening bombardment
Battles/Soldiers
07/06/1846
Spencer Fullerton Baird is appointed full professor of natural history at Dickinson College
Carlisle/Dickinson
07/01/1845
Spencer Fullerton Baird is offered position of honorary professor of natural science at Dickinson College
Carlisle/Dickinson