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A GREATER GETTYSBURG Historical Society, of which he was in fact if not in name executive director. In the mid-1930s Librarian Knickerbocker and Professor Sanders worked with others in the community in an attempt to organize a county library. The 1904 G-Book informed readers that "the people in general are very courteous to the students." The wording strongly suggests that there were some exceptions to this statement, and the evidence supports this interpretation. The near-inevitable tensions of earlier days remained. "There seems to be a disposition on the part of some of the citizens of Gettysburg to regard the students as common nuisances," declared the Gettysburgian for February 20,1907. Three years later, after the freshmen and sophomores used the town streets for what the paper called a "fifteen minute tussle," the borough council created a special riot police, "for the purpose of preventing and suppressing unlawful demonstrations within the Borough on the part of the student body or other persons." In response, the Gettysburgian for March 23,1910 concluded that "student disturbances always have been comparatively few in Gettysburg" and regretted that local newspapers had goaded the borough council into hasty and ill-advised action, the reasons for which would soon be forgotten. The Gettysburgian often reminded its readers, undoubtedly in the hope townspeople would take due notice, just how much money, along with many other benefits, the College brought into the community. The 1910 estimate was $75,000. By 1924 the figure had risen to $300,000 and by 1932 to $330,000. During the Hanson years the Gettysburgian could usually be counted upon to criticize students whose carefree activities incurred the wrath of the townspeople. "There is no excuse for such downright numb-skull tricks of witless fervor as were pulled on Monday night," declared the issue of November 16, 1933, after a football victory celebration had gotten out of hand. "Dr. Hanson has worked long and hard to obtain a harmonious relation between College and town, but in a few hours some nit-wit, big-feeling he-men, who did nothing to win the Dickinson game, did more to wreck that feeling than Dr. Hanson can repair in months." The College and the Lutheran Church In the fall of 1904 the College positions on its relationship to the Lutheran church and on religion in general were both long- established and recently reaffirmed. Professor Charles F. Sanders expressed them succinctly in writing the brief article describing the College which appeared in the fourth volume of A Cyclopedia of Education, published in 1913. He called Gettysburg "a nonsectarian 70