1. Reception of Dr. Dashiell, President Elect of Dickinson College. Broadside, DCA. In contrast to the formal inaugurals of an earlier day, here we see Dashiell given a welcome spiced with classical allusions but all in the cheerful spirit of an alumni reunion. Dashiell's response to the congratulatory speeches recalled his own student days with emotion. "He made a very happy allusion to Dr. Emory-that model man-whose heavenly deportment, pious and exemplary life had so inspired him (Dashiell) while under his (Emory's) administration, that as he stood before his (Emory's) portrait a few days ago, the involuntary prayer arose from his heart, 'O that his mantle may descend upon me.' " Dashiell's student days are more directly reflected in his "College ms.," DCA, with such pieces as "A History of the Greek Drama," a "History of the Reformation," 1844, dedicated to Dr. Durbin, and an essay, "Kindness-the moving force of Society."
3. Trustee Minutes, June 22, 1869, pp. 297-308.
4. Ibid., June 8, 1870, pp. 337, 351.Microcosm, 1867-68.
5. Trustee Minutes, June 8, 1870, pp. 340-41.
6. Central Pennsylvania Conference, Annual Minutes (Harrisburg, 1869), p. 38.
7. James Henry Morgan, Dickinson College (Carlisle, 1933), p. 327. Trustee Minutes, June 8, 1870, p. 338, list assets of $71,134 held by the Philadelphia Conference, $101,280 by Baltimore, "about $7,500" by New Jersey and $19,976 in the hands of the trustees as the basis of a reconstituted College endowment.
8. Trustee Papers, June 23, 1868, Folder V. DCA.
9. Harman's A Journey to Egypt and the Holy Land in 1869-1870 (Phila., 1873) was followed in 1879 by his Introduction to the Study of the Holy Scriptures which was long in print as Vol. 1 of G. R. Crooks and J. F. Hurst's Library of Biblical and Theological Literature.
10. Information to the author from Merkel Landis.
11. George H. Bucher to Gilbert Malcolm, March 31, 1959. Spahr Papers 1003 A-C, DCA.
14. Faculty Minutes, Sept. 20, 1869. DCA.
15. Trustee Minutes, June 6, 1871, p. 358.
16. Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., "Highlights of Dickinson History," Dickinsonian, May 19, 1932.
17. Faculty Minutes, April 26, 1870.
19. Trustee Minutes, June 8, 1870, p. 350. Morgan, pp. 331-32.
20. Executive Committee Minutes, April 27, 1868. DCA.
21. Faculty Minutes, Nov. 10, 28, Dec. 9, 13, 1870; June 7, 1871. Trustee Minutes, June, 1871, pp. 361-62, 371. Charles T. Dunning, "Reminiscences of College Days," Dickinsonian, Nov. 4, 1903, pp. 6-7. Morgan, pp. 333-34, 423. The Independents became a chapter of Theta Chi, Dashiell breathing his relief at this event to the trustees, June 25, 1872: "The young gentlemen of the independent persuasion have organized a new fraternity & wear with proper pride a beautiful badge as the symbol of their new order. This I think will finish for some years the war between fraternities and independents."
22. Trustee Minutes, June 6, 1871, p. 356.
23. Faculty Minutes, Oct. 11, 1870, May 30, 1871. Orson D. Foulks, depositions, etc, DCA.
24. Central Pennsylvania Conference, Minutes, 1880, p. 65.
25. McCauley, graduating with second honors, had been recommended to the teaching profession, July 9, 1847, by Allen, McClintock, Sudler and Baird. DCA.
26. Wilson Lee Spottswood, Brief Annals (Harrisburg, 1888), p. 81.
27. Obituary, Feb. 3, 1897, by James H. Morgan and Henry C. Whiting. DCA.
28. Obituary by Charles F. Himes, Baltimore Methodist, Dec. 16, 1897.
29. E.g., petition of 27 Grammar School pupils asking the "continuance of the services of S. D. Hillman as our Principal," Trustee Papers, Feb. 18, 1852, Folder IV.
30. John Price Durbin to Robert Emory, Jan. 19, 1846. DCA.
31. Trustee Minutes, Aug. 8, 1872. F. A. Ellis to Charles F. Himes, Nov. 29, 1874. Trustee Papers, Dec. 9, 1874, Folder 1.
33. Trustee Minutes, June 24, 1874, p. 14.
34. Dr. George Wilds Linn, '69, to William R. Fisher, Nov. 7, 1874. Fisher Papers, DCA.
35. Himes to Fisher, June 5, 1874. Fisher Papers.
36. Conway Wing Hillman, statement on his father's connection with the College. DCA.
38. June 18, 1874. Trustee Papers, 1874, Folder IV.
40. Trustee Minutes, June 24, 1874.
41. Ibid. Himes to Fisher, July 1, 1874. Fisher Papers.
43. Sunday Mercury (Phila.), July 19, 1874.
45. Ibid., Aug. 2, 1874, "One of '73" replying to the reply, "In reference to the blarney-cant and windy nothingness contained in an article communicated to you last Sunday . . . ."
46. Thomas Green Chattle to Himes. Trustee Papers, Dec. 9, 1874, Folder 111.
48. Carlisle Herald, Sept. 24, 1874.
49. Details were reported in the Dickinsonian Oct. 6, Nov. 3, 1874.
50. Dickinson College, Charter and Bylaws (Carlisle, 1966), p. 7.
51. Trustee Minutes, Jan. 4, 1875. Hillman's case differed in that he had accepted severance pay. He joined the faculty of the new Cumberland County State Normal School, Shippensburg, vacating his West College rooms in April, 1875.
52. Morgan, p. 345. Northwestern University Bulletin, March 23, 1911. He had begun his teaching career as Professor of Mathematics, Dickinson Seminary.
53. Himes' Lecture on the Telephone, June 13, 1878, has been noted as perhaps the first musical broadcast. After the lecture, music played in Philadelphia was heard by the audience in Carlisle.
54. Minutes, April 19, 1887. DCA.
55. Trustee Minutes, June 24, 1876, p. 71. Original draft in Trustee Papers, 1876, Folder 11 B.
56. Trustee Papers, 1876, Folder 11. Dickinson College, Charter, 10-11.
57. Trustee Minutes, June 28, 1876, p. 66.
58. Charles Francis Himes, A Sketch of Dickinson College (Harrisburg, 1879), pp. 88-89.
59. Carl. F. Price, Wesleyan's First Century (Middletown, Conn., 1932), p. 121. Trustee Minutes, June 26, 1877, pp. 4, 13.
60. Morgan, p. 352. Trustee Minutes, June 23, 1885.
61. Faculty Minutes, May 14, 1877. Trustee Minutes, June 27, 1877, pp. 86, 95. Trustee Minutes, Sept. 4, 1884, record the establishment of a "course of four years with Modern Languages in place of Latin & Greek."
62. The paper was proposed by Wilbur Fisk Spottswood of U. P., according to Catalogue of the Union Philosophical Society (Carlisle, 1896), p. 6. There had been no student publication since 1849, when Moncure had transformed The Bouquet (manuscript, read in Chapel) in the five issues of his Collegian, 1849. Belles Lettres Minutes, Sept. 18, 1872, DCA, record the Dickinsonian's editorial organization and purpose.
63. Himes, "Introductory Lecture to juniors and Seniors," Dickinsonian, Oct. 7, 1873, pp. 2-3.
64. Dickinsonian, Oct. 7, 1873, p. 3; Dec. 2, 1873, pp. 18-19; Feb. 3, 1874, pp. 34-35; April 7, 1874, p. 51.
65. Faculty Minutes, Dec. 21, 1876.
66. Collection of Charles E. Feinberg, Detroit, Mich.
67. Professor Stayman despised tobacco chewers in class, but took a tolerant view even on discovering that Elias Dunlevy Maine had cut a hole in the bench through which to spit. "Ah, Maine, how can you expect to rate high in my estimation when you act in this way-"?his pun greeted with the usual feet stamping. Duncan M. Graham, "Some Wayside Yarns of '73," Dickinsonian, Dec., 1882, p. 16.
68. Wilbur J. Gobrecht, History of Dickinson College Football (Carlisle, 1971), p. 7.
69. Oliver Mordorf, '89, "Social Life at Dickinson College," Dickinsonian, Feb., 1888,pp.3-6.
70. Treasurer's vouchers. DCA. Executive Committee Minutes, Feb. 14, 1907, record Fells' retirement as a carpenter after more than fifty years of service.
71. Executive Committee Minutes, Jan. 27, 1864. Trustee Minutes, June 26, 1867, p. 220; June 24, 1879, p. 127; June 25, 1880, p. 155. Faculty Minutes, March 31,1879.
72. Paul E. Zuver, A Short History of Carlisle Barracks (n. p., 19 34), p. 126.
73. Dickinson College, Minutal, 1881. Treasurer's vouchers, 1880-81.
74. Trustee Minutes, June 23, 1880, pp. 145-46; June 29, 1881, pp. 164-65.
75. Carlisle American Volunteer, Feb. 23, 1887.
76. Pennsylvania County Court Reports (Phila., 1887), vol. 2, pp. 459-64; vol. 3, pp. 77-89.
78. Trustee Minutes, June 28, 1876, p. 66; June 26, 1877, p. 90.
79. Ibid., June 25, 1878, pp. 114-15. Faculty Minutes, June 17, 1878.
81. Morgan, p. 350. Faculty Minutes, May 21, 1883. The trustees, June 25, 1884, stepped warily into the debatable ground: "Whereas application has been made to the Faculty to admit ladies to certain lectures in the College be it Resolved That the whole matter as to the admission of females to the College course be left with the faculty to determine, upon cases as they may arise." At least the step was taken more resolutely than at Middlebury, where women were admitted on equal status simply because President Cyrus Hamlin, an opponent, had not heard the trustee vote correctly.
82. Information from Mrs. Ernest W. Sipple (Persis Longsdorff), Nov. 10, 1968.
83. Dickinsonian, Nov., 1877, p. 11.
84. What Henry Steele Commager in The American Mind describes as a long flight from reason and from the realities of American experience came often as a shock to earnest church members, as when Lucy Holt Doney of the Library staff, summoned in 1958 to a meeting held by the Lecturer in Practical Theology, found herself in a circle, holding hands and singing, "Blest be the tie that binds."
85. Trustee Minutes, June 24, 1873, pp. 400, 410-11. Morgan, p. 337.
86. Minutes, 1874, pp. 46-47; 1875, p. 48.
87. Himes, speaking "at the Educational Anniversary held in Altoona, Mar. 23." Dickinsonian, April 7, 1874 p. 52.
88. Report of James C. Clarke for the Harrisburg District. Central Pennsylvania Conference, Minutes, 1879, p. 43.
89. Central Pennsylvania Conference, Minutes, 1885, p. 64. Dickinsonian, Jan., 1884, p. 6.
90. Morgan, pp. 347-48. Central Pennsylvania Conference, Minutes, 1885 p. 64.
91. Edwin Post in Dickinsonian, Nov. 4, 1873, p. 3.
92. Himes, pp. 131-33. Meigs' plans in DCA. In Trustee Minutes, June 25, 1878, pp. 117-18, Himes included a plea for erection of the building in his departmental report; and ibid., June 22, 1880, pp. 139-40, reiterated his hopes, announcing publication of his history of the College at his own expense.
94. Gifts of over $200,000 were reported to the Central Pennsylvania Conference, Minutes, 1885, pp. 62-64, inspiring resolutions for the "enlargement and up-building of Dickinson College into an institution second to none in the land in educational appliances, facilities and opportunities," and renewed determination to try to raise $40,000 for the Conference professorship.
95. McCauley report, June 24, 1884. Trustee Papers, Folder 111.
96. McCauley report, Trustee Minutes, June 25, 1885, pp. 280-81.
97. Treasurer's vouchers, 1872-73. DCA. Dickinsonian, Feb. 5, 1874, p. 37; March 3, 1874, p. 44; April 7, 1874, p. 52.
98. Dickinsonian, Jan. 6, 1874, p. 28.
99. Trustee Papers, 1876, Folder V.
100. Trustee Minutes, June 23, 1886, pp. 294, 304.
101. Rusling's works include Across America; or, The Great West and the Pacific Coast, 1874; The Railroad! The Stock-yards! The Eveners! Expose of the Great Railroad Ring that Robs the Laborer of the East and the Producer of the West of $5,000,000 a Year, 1878; Men and Things I Saw in Civil War Days, 1899; and European Days and Ways, 1902.
102. Matthew Simpson, Cyclopaedia of Methodism (Phila., 1881), p. 769.
103. Trustee Minutes, June 23, 1874, pp. 12-13.
104. Ibid., June 28, 1881, pp. 168-70. Hargis to Himes, July 12, 1888, DCA, acknowledging D.D. conferred during Himes' Acting Presidency.
105. Trustee Minutes, June 29, 1881, p. 170.
106. Ibid., June 28, 1882, p. 201. Trustee Papers, 1882, Folder VI. Executive Committee Minutes, Sept. 8, 1882.
107. Trustee Minutes, June 23, 1886, pp. 300-01. Dickinsonian, April, 1886, p. 10; May, 1886, pp. 5-6, 12; June, 1886, pp. 3-5. Morgan, pp. 352-54. American Volunteer, Feb. 23, 1887, describes an attempt to blackmail McCauley into paying hush-money.
108. Conway Wing Hillman statement. DCA.
110. George Van Derveer Morris, A Man for A' That (Cin. & N.Y., 1902), pp. 271-76.
111. George Edward Reed, "Reminiscences of Dickinson," Dickinson Alumnus, Feb., 1925, pp. 7-8. Alphonso A. Hopkins, The Life of Clinton Bowen Fisk (N.Y., 1890), pp. 280-81.