Dickinsonian Newspaper

1917


Dickinsonian, January 11, 1917

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Interfraternity basketball series begins.  Dramatic club to begin producing modern plays.  YMCA holds prayer meetings in jail.  Intercollegiate Prohibition Association sends delegates to national convention.

Dickinsonian, January 18, 1917

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Rev. Frederick W. Hannan to lead Week of Prayer.  Athletic Association's financial report.  Sophomore class elects officers; Fayette Talley is president.

Dickinsonian, January 25, 1917

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Annual Week of Prayer is observed.  Interclass basketball series begins.  Commencement schedule is announced.  Frank L. Shelley is elected captain of senior basketball team; Edward C. Brady is elected captain of junior basketball team.

Dickinsonian, February 1, 1917

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Dr. Hannan, Week of Prayer speaker, extends his stay at Dickinson at the students' requests.  A book of Rev. Charles Nisbet's handwritten speeches and lectures is discovered.

Dickinsonian, February 8, 1917

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Dr. Ira Landrich, Prohibition candidate for president in 1916, gives well-received speech in chapel.  The annual intersociety debate to be on compulsory arbitration of labor vs. capital disputes.  Alpha Chi Rho holds 12th anniversary banquet.  J.H. Atkinson urges Dickinson to adopt military...

Dickinsonian, February 15, 1917

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Union Philosophical Society wins inter-society debate.  Freshmen defeat sophomores in annual button game of interclass basketball tournament.  Dramatic Club performs "What Happened to Jones".  Senior banquet is held.  Phi Kappa Psi holds its annual Founders' Day Dance.  Junior banquet is held....

Dickinsonian, February 22, 1917

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Annual banquet in honor of Washington's birthday is held along with annual freshman parade.  Belles Lettres celebrates its 131st anniversary.  Dramatic Club performs "What Happened to Jones".  YWCA holds annual masquerade party.  The Dickinsonian is proud to be considered yellow journalism. 

Dickinsonian, March 1, 1917

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Sigma Chi celebrates its 59th anniversary.  Dr. George E. Reed returns to Dickinson to give a chapel address.  German actors return to Dickinson to give two plays.  The text of Dr. Filler's speech to Carlisle's Company G upon their return from military training is published.  A list of all...

Dickinsonian, March 8, 1917

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Mid-Winter Sports event is held.  Program for musical clubs' spring tour.  A proposed amendment to the honor system does not receive the required majority vote.  Kappa Sigma holds eighth annual Mid-Winter Dance.  Herr Waldemar Alfredo and his German players perform in Bosler.  Final exam...

Dickinsonian, April 5, 1917

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Musical clubs make annual spring tour.  Students sign petition requesting a drillmaster to ready the student body for military service.  Class Day is planned.  The Educational Jubilee Organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church convinces conferences to increase Dickinson's endowment. ...

Dickinsonian, April 12, 1917

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Military training begins at Dickinson, and seniors opt to take courses preparing them for military commision examinations.  Woman's issue has fashion page and literary page focused on Metzger.  Gaither P. Warfield encourages conscientious objectors to stand firm.  GPAs of fraternities. 

Dickinsonian, April 19, 1917

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Tau Kappa Alpha initiates new members.  F. T. Woodward '01 submits a letter to the editor in favor of patriotism and US entry in WWI.  Band of Dickinson student voulnteers tours region encouraging support of mission work in Asia.

Dickinsonian, April 26, 1917

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Class of 1900 plans to erect a new gate to the campus at the corner of High and West streets.  Phi Delta Theta plans to raise funds for an ambulance to service the battlefields of France.

Dickinsonian, May 3, 1917

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College observes Charles Nisbet day.  The faculty allows students in good standing to spend three months in a reserve officers' training camp or working on a farm without academic repercussions.  Female students hold annual May Day party.  Female students enroll in First Aid classes to support...

Dickinsonian, May 10, 1917

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President Morgan details how WWI affects Dickinson.  Landis and Harris win freshman oratorical contest.  Phi Kappa Sigma holds annual spring dance.  Skull and Key holds annual pledge dance.  Fred P. Corson '17's Nisbet Day speech.

Dickinsonian, May 17, 1917

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Annual May Day Fete is held.  Students elected to Student Senate positions.  Interfraternity council elects officers.  Dickinsonian financial report. 

Dickinsonian, May 24, 1917

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Summary of track season.  Photo of May Day celebration.  Belles Lettres elects officers.

Dickinsonian, October 4, 1917

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Text of Professor Leon Prince's matriculation sermon.  Opening ceremony of new academic year.  Interfraternity Council elects officers.  Military training becomes compulsory.  New Bible classes are compulsory for female students.  Metzger inhabitants to participate in a meatless and wheatless...

Dickinsonian, October 11, 1917

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List of men from class of 1917 and current undergraduate body serving in military.  Rushing season begins.  Class of 1900 completes gate replacing famed old iron gate.  Class elections are held.  Athletic Association elects officers; H.K. Robinson '18 is president.

Dickinsonian, October 18, 1917

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President Morgan spearheads campaign to increase endowment.  Rushing season continues.

Dickinsonian, October 25, 1917

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College holds parade in town to convince Carlislians to donate money to Dickinson endowment.  A flag is raised on the top of Old West, probably for the first time in its history, in honor of Liberty Day.  List of fraternity pledges.

Dickinsonian, November 1, 1917

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Colonel Embick donates a manuscript copy of Dr. Nesbit's lectures to the College Library. 

Dickinsonian, November 8, 1917

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F. D. Empey, conductor of endowment campaign, asks students for donations.  Phi Kappa Sigma celebrates its Founders' Day. 

Dickinsonian, November 15, 1917

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YWCA holds Week of Prayer.  Allen Thompson '07 gives talk at YMCA meeting. 

Dickinsonian, November 22, 1917

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Lieut-Col. James Steese, alumnus, speaks on the war.  Dickinson participates in Students' Friendship War Fund.

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