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Introduction
Personal Word
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The Background, 1751-1782
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Benjamin Rush and the Charter
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Organization of the College
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Charles Nisbet Comes to America
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Dr. Nisbet Resigns, and is Reelected
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Charles Nisbet, the Man
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College Sites and Early Buildings
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The Early College Faculty
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The Finances of the New College
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Unfortunate Trustee Interference
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Dickinson's Early Alumni
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The Private Life of Dr. Nisbet
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Dickinson Students Address President Adams
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Robert Davidson — 1804-1809. The Interregnum
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Jeremiah Atwater — 1809-1815. A Brave Fight Lost
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John McKnight — 1815-1816. The College Hibernates
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John Mitchell Mason — 1821-1824. Renewal
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William Neill — 1824-1828. Trustee Meddling
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Samuel Blanchard How — 1829-1832. Another Hibernation
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The Transfer to Methodist Trustees in 1833
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Preparation for Reopening — 1833-1834
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John Price Durbin--1834-1845. Rebirth of the College
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Robert Emory — 1845-1848. Three Years of Waning Strength
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The Administrations of John Price Durbin — 1834-1845; and Robert Emory — 1845-1848
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Jesse Truesdell Peck — 1848-1852. A Misfit, and Resultant Disorder
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Charles Collins — 1852-1860. Order Reëstablished
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Herman Merrills Johnson — 1860-1868. Death in Victory
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Robert Laurenson Dashiell — 1868-1872. Student Troubles
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James Andrew McCauley — 1872-1888. A Man of Peace in a Storm
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George Edward Reed — 1889-1911. Great Development
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Eugene Allen Noble — 1911-1914. Threatened Disaster
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James Henry Morgan — 1914-1928; 1931-1932; 1933—
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Mervin Grant Filler — 1928-1931. Waning Vigor
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Karl Tinsley Waugh — 1932-1933. A Brief Administration
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Law in the College
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Conclusion
Summary of Enrolment
[chart of alumni]
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