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DICKINSON ALUMNUS 11 Vol. 19, No. 3 I I F•bm•y, 19'2 I 'The 'New The History of JAMES WILSON Dickinson College HOTEL BY CARLISLE, PA. James Heivy Morgan, Ph. D., D. D., LLD • • "The book every Dickinsonian should Headquarters for have in his library and read." DICKINSONIANS • $3.50 Postpaid Send orders with remittance made payable to Dickinson College. Carlisle, -B. S. SWARTZ, Owner Pa. Whenever You VISIT I'N_ CARLISLE ... You CAN SPEND THE NIGHT AT THE NEw GEORGIAN HALL ONE MILE w EST OF CAMP HILL ON THE CARLISLE ,. HARRISBURG PIKE Rooms $i.25 and $i.50 Per Person GEORGE W. BARNITZ, '14, OWNER When You Come Back to Carlisle Don't Forget to Visit Your Old Friends KRONENBERG'S '"The College Store" In the New Fireproof Kronenberg Building PROFESSIONAL CARDS R. R. McWHINNEY C. W. SHARP, '14 LAW Attorney-at-Law Aitorneu-ai-Ltuo 1303 Berger Building, Pittsburgh, Pa. Baltimore, l\Id. LESTER S. 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Pa. ~be i'Dtcktnson a1umnus Published Quarterly for the Alumni of Dickinson College and the Dickinson School of Law Editor - - - - - - - - - - - - - Gilbert Malcolm, '15, '17L Associate Editors - Dean M. Hoffman, '02, Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., '35 ALUMNI COUNCIL Terms Expire In 1942 Terms Expire in 1943 · J. B. Kremer,'97 Terms Expire in 1944 J. Merrill Williams, '08 Wllllam A. Jordan, '97 Harry B. Stock, '91 '17 Marjorie L. Mcintyre, '10 Wilbur V. Mallalieu, '99 George C. Hering, Jr., lJ;Sb -oan B. Shelley, '17 Karl E. Rlchard9_ '10 Mrs. Margaret M. McEl ' Wendell Holmes, '21 Earl S. Johnston, '13 c. Mrs. Anne B. Benneth '25 '14 Bernard J. Kotulak, um, Robert W. Crist, '2~ Class or 1939 Kenneth F. Tyson, Class of 1940 J. Watson Pedlow, 2 9 Ma.rkln R~ Knight, Class of 1941 GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF DICKINSON COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF DICKINSON SCHOOL OF LAW President •••.••.. George Hering, Jr. c. President .•.. Justice John· W. K ephart Ith Vice-President .•....• Karl E. Richards First Vice-Pres .•... Robert Hays S~an Secretary .........• c. Wendell Holmes Sec'y.-Treas ..•.... Joseph P. McKee ··¢1•-:===========~;;~~:================~·ie>··Treasurer ......••. , .•.. Harry B. Stock TABLE OF CONTENTS Adopt All-Year Program to Meet War Emergencies ..... ·. 3 The President's Page · · 5 Seek Alumni Fund Gifts As l 70th Fund Is Deferred 6 Make Changes in Faculty and College Staff 8 Many Dickinsonians In Active War Zones . 10 Many Stars in Dickinson's Service Flag · · · 11 Editorial · · - · · 16 Freshmen To Be Eligible for Varsity Football . 18 Authors of Two Scholarly Books Win Praise .. 19 Bright Prospects for Commencement on New Dates . 20 letters to the Editor . .. · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · 22 Personals 23 Obituary . '' '.' '.: . 28 I(>•· Life Membership $40. May be paid in two installments of $20 each, six months apart or in $10 installments. Alumni dues $2.00 per year, including $1.00 for one year's sub• scription to the magazine. All communications should be addressed to The Dickinson Alumnus, West College, Carlisle, Pa. "Entered as second-class matter May 23, 1923, at the post office at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, under the Act of March 3, 1879." ~·==========================~~~ THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS FEBRUARY, 1942 Adopt All- Year Program to Meet War Emergencies WIFTLY and unmistakably the war sion will start on June 22 and run until S has already put its mark upon the September 12. The fall session will College as taculty and student_s have start two weeks later, on September 24. made adjustments to the new situanon The whole program will make it which are, perhaps, only the first of possible for students to complete their many changes which will be required college course in three years or less, and during the emergency. thus, in rr_:iost cases, have their diplomas Two days after the opening of armed before bemg called to military service. conflict, President Corson addressed an . In the second place, the College de• extraordinary faculty meeting in West oded to admit a _small and highly se• College. In an atmosphere charged lected group of high school seniors in with suppressed emotions, he explained February, for a special accelerated fresh• the present situation of the College and man course, which will give them status its probable future course at least for as sophomores at the end of the semes• another year. ter. Announcement was accordingly Immediately after the Christmas re• made, and when the second semester cess, another special meeting was called, opened at the beginning of the month, and at this time the faculty ratified ac• 20 new students were on the campus. tion taken during the holiday and ap• These students will thus save a year in proved other suggested changes. their academic preparation, and if they In the first place, after hearing a re• choose to study in the summers, they port from President Corson, Dean Ernest will have completed their high school A. Vuilleumier, and Professor Herbert and college courses in a little more than Wing, Jr., who attended the Baltimore six years instead of the usual eight. conference of educators in December, The students on the accelerated pro• the faculty voted to put Dickinson Col• gram are taking a heavy schedule lege on an all-year basis, allowing weighted toward chemistry and mathe• students to take up to 12 hours of work matics. All stood in the upper ten per in summer session. When, a few cent of their high school classes and were days later, the student body was sur• interviewed by an officer of the College veyed and it was learned how many before being accepted. students now in College intend to take In the third place, sensing the prob• summer work, it was decided that able demand on the students for war Dickinson College will hold the twelve work of a volunteer character, such as weeks' summer session on the campus Red Cross work, President Corson ap• here. pointed a faculty committee of eight, The adoption of the all-year program with Professor Wing as chairman, to demanded the changing of the College meet with eight students to examine the calendar. This has been done. Vaca• extra-curricular program of the College tions have been shortened or cut out al• with a view to coordinating its elements together: the time given to the semester to allow more time for volunteer war and final examinations was cut down; activities. and commencement was moved up from This committee, labeled from the June 15 to June 1. The summer ses- number of its members the Committee of 4 THE DICKINSON ALUMNUS Sixteen, has been making a study of fense Council has called upon the Col• extra-curricular matters and has already lege to furnish the stretcher-bearers suggested limitations on the number of needed as part of the local defense set• social events and other time-consumers. up and the standard course is a pre• One sub-committee, which finds itself requi:ite to instruction in stretcher• very busy because of constant calls upon carrymg. it from the men of the College, is that which is gathering material on the quali• fications and requirements of the several Alumni Club Dinner Dates branches of the military and naval serv• Six of the alumni clubs have set the ices, especially those affecting candidates dates for their annual dinners, and others for commissions. will be announced by letter or in issues Finally, looking toward the prepara• of the Dickinson College Bulletin. tion of students likely to be called into The Dickinson Club of Northeastern some form of national service, the facul• Pennsylvania will hold a banquet in the ty adopted recommendations for the in• Westmoreland Club, Wilkes-Barre, on troduction of several "war courses." Wednesday night, February 25. These are not at all similar to the "war The third annual dinner of the Dickin• aims courses" of the last war, but are son Club of Delaware will be held in specialized and technical in nature. The the DuBarry Room of the Hotel DuPont, psychology department is offering a Wilmington on Friday night, April 10. course in the psychology of propaganda, the chemistry department one in nutri• While the date is not definitely set, tion, and the physics department one in April 17 is being reserved for the annual meteorology. In addition, trigonometry, dinner of the Dickinson Club of Balti• usually a freshman course, was thrown more at the request of the Rev. J. J. open to students of all classes, with Resh, '97. preference given to seniors; and there The Dickinson Club of Northern New is a very large enrolment this semester. Jersey has set Friday, April 23 for a As if to lend point to these actions dinner, probably in one of the Oranges. on the part of the faculty, the borough A year ago the Dickinson Club of officials of Carlisle decreed a practice Trenton set Friday, May 1 for this air-raid drill in December and a practice year's annual dinner.