Speeches and lectures, 1840-1855.

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Speeches and lectures, 1840-1855.

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The collection contains photocopies of three published speeches: A Baccalaureate Address, Delivered Before the Senior Class, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, July 8th, 1840 (Philadelphia: T.K. and P.G. Collins, 1840); Tendencies of the Age to Peace, an Address Delivered Before the American Peace Society, at Its Twenty-sixth Anniversary in Boston, May 29, 1854 (Boston: American Peace Society, 1854); and, Our Country's Mission in History, an Address Delivered at the Anniversary of the Philomathaean Society of Pennsylvania College, September 19, 1855 (Philadelphia: T.K. and P.G. Collins, 1855). Also, includes photocopied notes of Professor Allen's Lectures on Natural Science, as taken by Robert L. Dashiell, Dickinson College, 1845-1846.

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Pennsylvania College

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Dickinson College

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Allen, William H. (William Henry), 1808-1882

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William H. Allen was a professor of chemistry and natural philosophy at Dickinson College (ca. 1840), professor of Girard College for Orphans in Philadelphia (ca. 1854), president of the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania (1864-1866), and president of Girard College. From the description of Speeches and lectures, 1840-1855. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 32075636 ...

American Peace Society.

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Formed in 1828 in New York City; headquarters later moved to Hartford, Boston, and Washington, D.C. From the description of Certification, 1871 Jan. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70963148 The American Peace Society was the first nationally based secular peace organization in the United States. It was formed in 1828 from the merging of several state and local peace societies of New York, Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts; the oldest, the New York Peace Society, dat...