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A Salutary Influence: Gettysburg College, 1832-1985, Charles H. Glatfelter
A Salutary Influence: Gettysburg College, 1832-1985, Charles H. Glatfelter
Gettysburg College Faculty Books
Written by Professor and Alumnus Dr. Charles H. Glatfelter '46, A Salutary Influence was published in 1987 in commemoration of Gettysburg College’s 150th anniversary. The two-volume set includes a detailed index at the end of the second volume.
Yonder Beautiful And Stately College Edifice : A History Of Pennsylvania Hall (Old Dorm), Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Charles H. Glatfelter, Michael J. Birkner
Yonder Beautiful And Stately College Edifice : A History Of Pennsylvania Hall (Old Dorm), Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Charles H. Glatfelter, Michael J. Birkner
Gettysburg College Faculty Books
On January 21, 1834 Thaddeus Stevens, a freshman member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Adams County, rose in that body to speak in favor of a bill appropriating a sum of money to the new college at Gettysburg in whose fortunes he had become deeply interested. After answering the arguments of his colleague from Adams County, who had just spoken against the bill, Stevens undertook to explain in a few words the predicament in which the fledgling college found itself: It has been chartered two years ; and organized about eighteen months. It has now ninety-eight students, without …