Wednesday, August 8, 2012

1843 & 1845 Programs to celebrate Anniversaries of Union Philosophical Society, Dickinson College, Pennsylvania


1843 and 1845 programs for celebrating the 54th and 56th anniversary of the Union Philosophical Society, Dickinson College, at Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Above, the cover of the 1843 program.  Below, the inside pane, with names transcribed below it.


Order of Exercises
Prayer
Music (Directed by Prof. E. L. Walker)
1.  Anniversary Address, Washington Lee, Wyoming Valley
Music
2.  Accommodation to Circumstances, W. L. Whitney, Schuylkill
Music
3.  The Tyrol, Otis H. Tiffany, Baltimore, Maryland
Music
4.  Intellectual Bondage, I. Willis McCord, Lewistown
Music
5.  The Ploughman of the Deep. (Poem), Warren Holden, Newark, New Jersey
Music
6.  Action, Perley R. Lovejoy, Fayette, Maine
Music
Benediction

Below, the cover of the program from 1845


And the inside pane:


Order of Exercises
Music (Carlisle Brass Band)
Prayer
Music 
1.  Anniversary Address, James Wallace Duncan, Centre County
Music
2.  Charms of Mystery, A. S. Gibbons, Rockingham County, Virginia
Music
3.  Our Oratory, S. C. Wingard, Huntingdon County
Music
4.  Ecclesiastical Despotism, R. L. Dashiell, Sallisbury, Maryland
Music
5.  Spirit of Reform, J. A. Devinney, Juniata County
Music
6.  Concentration of Power, John Horace Stevens, Harrisonburg, Virginia
Music
Benediction

The website of Dickinson College has a section on its history.  
The Union Philosophical Society was founded at Dickinson College in 1789.

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