The Dickinson College faculty convened their weekly meeting in the afternoon.  Absences for the month were marked in the roll, a student was assessed ten penalty points for "hissing in the Chapel," another, James Smith Elliott, '64, was "put on the last stages of discipline," and Thanksgiving Day, three days later, was made free from study "after morning recitation."  Sixteen-year-old Smith did graduate and became a dentist. (By John Osborne)

In Carlisle, Pennsylvania, at the weekly faculty meeting at Dickinson College, the only recorded item of business was that "Fredericks [John Durell Frederick, '64] ...being found intoxicated.  He was found also to be neglecting his recitations." He was awarded "minus marks" that placed him perilously close to expulsion.  The nineteen-year-old did not finish his degree and became a photographer and father of six in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania.  (By John Osborne)

In Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the five faculty members, including the president, of Dickinson College met in their weekly meeting.  The only recorded item of business was to decide whether to call off classes on the upcoming Thursday so as to permit students to attend the local Cumberland County Agricultural Show.  The vote was in the affirmative, with authority to the President to change the free day to a Friday if the students preferred that.  (By John Osborne)