Representatives from the YMCAs of Gettysburg College, Franklin & Marshall, and Dickinson met for a retreat in the McCaulay room of Old West.  The representatives discussed the role of YMCAs on college campuses, how to get faculty involved in YMCA programming, plans for the coming year, and...

The annual Senior Class Picnic was held at Williams' Grove on Tuesday, May 17, 1932.  Canoeing, swimming, sports, and races were followed by a supper of potato salad, sandwiches, ice cream.  The evening ended with dancing to music by the Dickinson College Dance Orchestra in its first public...

At a pep meeting held in Bosler Hall prior to a football game against Ursinus, presidential candidate on the Prohibition ticket William D. Upshaw gave a witty, non-political speech.

The McIntire Literary Society held a "depression party" in Old West on November 30, 1932.  They played word games, then sang together.

A club formed for the purpose of gathering Jewish students to discuss cultural and timely issues met for the first time in the Phi Epsilon Pi house on Sunday, December 11, 1932.  At this first meeting, Professor Cornelius Prettyman (Class of 1891), the club advisor, spoke about the value of...

The two national Jewish fraternities active on campus, Sigma Tau Phi and Phi Epsilon Pi, both applied for admission to the Dickinson Interfraternity Council; their petition was defeated on March 2 by a vote of 3-6 for undisclosed reasons.  The fraternities were confident that a second petition...

At its meeting on May 18, 1933, the International Relations Club unanimously voted to dissolve itself due to lack of interest.

A few hours prior to the flag scrap on Wednesday, November 20, 1940, two freshmen sawed the flag pole nearly in half to make it easier to pull over.  Shortly after the scrap started, the pole began to crack, and the contest was called off in order to save the pole.  The Tribunal retaliated by...

The traditional sophomore invasion of Conway Hall, the freshman men's dormitory, occurred at 11:30pm on Tuesday, October 20, 1942.  Upperclassmen declared the scrap a draw and rewarded the freshmen by suspending the regulation requiring them to wear white socks and garters.

Senior Mary Mackie and Lieutenant Smith of the Army Air Corps Cadets created a Conferences and Appointments Bureau, otherwise known as the Date Bureau, which set up cadets and female Dickinson students on dates.  The bureau was created sometime in late March 1943.

The Hornbook is a literary publication sponsored by the student organization Belles Lettres Society. They altered the literary publication to released two publications per year. The organization increased their issues in response to the popularity of their copy the...

Women became eligible to be members of the Theological Society due to their new constitutional change. This society was open to anyone who planned to enter into the Christian service such as pastoral work, social service, and broad field of missions.