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Dickinsonian, December 1884

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Progress on the Scientific Building, now known by the name of Tome, is delayed.  The new gymnasium is scheduled to be opened by the beginning of the next semester. 

Dickinsonian, March 1885

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Students request an Inter-Class Debate and the formation of a baseball team.  The Tome Scientific Building is dedicated.  The Belles Lettres Society holds their anniversary. 

Dickinsonian, October 1885

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The junior class decides to publish a Microcosm, the first in many years to do so.  The Jacob Tome Scientific Building is opened.  The college is taking athletics more seriously, and the number of enrolled students increases.  With the opening of the Scientific Building, Professor Himes...

Dickinsonian, November 1888

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Dickinson is represented at a YMCA Convention in Allentown.  The Glee Club begins planning for concerts. A bonfire on campus on Halloween night causes a well-publicized scuffle between the Carlisle Chief of Police and a combined detachment of firefighters...

Dickinsonian, November 12, 1898

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The Dickinson football team suffers its first defeat of the season against the Carlisle Indian School. The editors request that a student help curate the Dickinson Museum in Tome. Gettysburg representatives visit Dickinson to set up the athletic game schedule. Meeting held for...

Dickinsonian, January 10, 1918

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Methodist Church Central Pennsylvania Conference endowment drive ends in success.  Trickett Hall opens.  Belles Lettres holds general information bee.  Tome Scientific Building I catches on fire.

Dickinsonian, December 8, 1927

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The theme for the first annual student conference of Eastern Pennsylvania Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. is "Jesus: What is His part in my life?". The Dramatic Club will present two one-act plays--The Goose With the Golden Egg, with an all-freshman cast, and Mr. X, featuring an all-...

Dickinsonian, November 11, 1939

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George S. Williams '00, Delaware's lone Congressional Representative, speaks in chapel for Homecoming Weekend. Members of the Dickinsonian editorial staff travel to Lewisburg for a conference of the Intercollegiate Newspaper Association, of which current editor-in-chief Paul Gorsuch '40 is...
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