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Dickinson College Lecture Journal

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Extensive Dickinson College student's lecture book recording notes on the various courses he took in 1846. ID'd to "B.R. Waugh" it lists in his "Table of Contents" "No. 1 Analysis of Dr. Arnold's lectures on Modern History...No. 2 Analysis of 'Butlers Analogy....No. 3 Lectures of the 'Greek Drama' by Prof. Mclintock...No. 4 Review of the Reformation...No. 5 Lectures on the 'National Scenes' by Prof. Allen...No. 6 Translation of Homers Ilead Bk. 2st...No. 7 [Translation of Homers Ilead] Bk 3rd...No. 8 'Commencement Scheme' for 1846...No. 9 Oration 'Pleasures of Memory'...No. 10 Oration 'Crime and Civilization.'...No 11 Oration 'National Decline'...No 12 Oration 'Necessity of Keeping an ilerated Public Taste.'...No 13 'Commencement Oration." all easily read in a nice neat handwritting. Fine.^tDickinson College is a private, residential liberal arts college in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Originally established as a Grammar School in 1773 , Dickinson was chartered September 9, 1783, five days after the signing of the Treaty of Paris, making it the first college to be founded in the newly-recognized United States. Dickinson was founded by Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and named in honor of a signer of the Constitution, John Dickinson, the President of Pennsylvania. Dickinson College is America's 16th oldest college.^t

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