Dickinsonian Newspaper

1940

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The Social Committee announces that the Alex Bartha Orchestra will provide entertainment at the second annual Mid-Winter Ball. Belles Lettres and the Union Philosophical Society announce an inter-society debate, with the goal of rejuvenating the societies' age-old rivalry.

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Samuel McCartney is tapped to replace Paul Gorsuch as editor-in-chief of the Dickinsonian. The General Alumni Association publishes its annual report, revealing that there are 5,161 living Dickinson graduates--at least one in every U.S. state and 27 foreign countries. A plan for all...

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W. Albert Strong and Bernard Gingrich (both '40) are elected to join Phi Beta Kappa, the national honorary fraternity. Mary Lou Kirkpatrick is elected Queen of the Mid-Winter Ball. The College Orchestra's string quartet presents a two-song program at chapel. The Dickinsonian column "...

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Omicron Delta Kappa, the national leadership fraternity, taps John F. Campbell and W. Richard Eshelman (both '41) for membership, along with Governor Arthur H. James, who joins as an honorary member. Jack D. Hughes visits chapel via the New York Worlds Fair to demonstrate scientific advances and...

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Over 300 people, mostly alumni, attend the Mid-Winter Ball, which ultimately makes a profit of $16.98. Alpha Sigma Gamma, an honorary journalistic society, elects nine Dickinsonians as members. The owner of the horse that was the subject of a student prank some two months earlier demands $200...

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The Drama Club announces that it will present Merton Hodge's "The Wind and The Rain" the following week. Dr. Paul Swain Havens, president of Wilson College, visits campus to give a lecture on John Donne. Pan-Hellenic Week, to be extended by a day for the leap year, will feature Sadie Hawkins-...

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Traveler/self-educated savant/newsboy/bum Samuel H. "King" Cole passes through campus to collect autographs to add to his fifty-volume set of the people he meets, which includes Neville Chamberlain, King George VI, and President F.D. Roosevelt. Colonel Philip Mathews, supervisor of the Works...

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Missionary and author Sherwood Eddy visits campus to lead a Q&A session on the subject of Europe's economic, political, social, and religious situations. Demolition and renovation of Bosler Hall gets underway, the eventual goal being a $125,000 overhaul of the library building. The College...

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The seventh annual Guest Day for prospective students gets underway. A group of pranksters locks the only door to Bosler Hall (then under construction) while seven people, including College Dean Ernest Vuilleumier, are inside, forcing them to climb through the rubble in the back of the building...

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Coach Richard MacAndrews breaks three ribs during an accident at a baseball practice. Dickinson is one of 33 colleges in Pennsylvania to attend the Intercollegiate Conference on Government in Harrisburg. The track team wins their first meet of the season against Blue Ridge.

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The Province Convention of Sigma Alpha Epsilon comes to Dickinson for the first time, with an expected attendance of nearly 200 delegates and alumni. Little Jack Little is announced as the entertainment at the annual Senior Prom. Skull and Key taps nine sophomores for membership, while Wheel and...

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Dean M. Hoffman and Boyd Lee Spahr '00 address the College at the annual Founders' Day kickoff. Five of the original ten students taking flight classes from the Civil Aeronautics Authority receive recreational flying licenses, with the other five on track to earn them at a later date. W. Roberts...

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Omicron Delta Kappa taps six juniors for membership. Union Philosophical Society, Belles Lettres, Wheel and Chain, and Lambda Sigma Pi (honorary scientific society) elect officers.

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Doctor Gaylord H. Patterson, Professor Emeritus, dies at the age of 73. Bishop E.H. Hughes is announced as the year's Commencement speaker. Ten seniors are elected to join Pennsylvania's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. Edwin E. Willoughby '22 donates a collection of rare books to the College,...

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The Young People's Fellowship plans a hayride to disprove the rumors that they are a "stuffy" organization. The four women's fraternities pledge forty-three freshmen and transfer students. Dickinson is asked to take part in the Civilian Pilot Training Program which will allow students of the...

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The passage of the Selective Service Act requires ninety-two of the colleges' four hundred and twelve male students and seven faculty members to register for the United States military. This is the first peace-time conscription in the history of the nation. Senior women prepare to move into a...

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It’s the second annual Parents’ Weekend! Fifteen students meet to discuss their desire to start a Spanish Club on campus. Twenty students begin working with the Civil Aeronautics Authority to receive private pilot’s licenses. The Willkie Club of Dickinson College holds its first meeting as the...

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The reorganization of the Harman Literary Society is decided by a group of seven female students interested in the furthering of a literary and discussion group. The Dickinson Dramatic Club selects "Charley's Aunt" for their first production of the academic year and will be shown December sixth...

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The Commons Club's furniture mysteriously disappears. The third Dickinson Horn Book will be published in the coming weeks. It's homecoming/alumni weekend! A group of girls fights to get a cheerleading squad for athletic contests.

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An unidentified man breaks into the room of a female freshman in Metzger Hall. He smothers her screams with his hand and tries to remove her bedclothes before being frightened away by her second scream, which is not smothered. The Dramatic Club changes their December sixth production to "YOU CAN...

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The Dickinson Alumni Club of Ohio is formed in Cleveland, the twenty-second alumni organization to be formed. Seven freshmen are tried by the Student Tribune for laughing at their classmates who had to perform for upperclassmen. The intrusion of Metzger Hall reported last week is said to have...

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Student Senate organizes a pep rally for the big game against Gettysburg in response to the noticeable lack of spirit by students in the recent past. The head librarian at Dickinson, May Morris, suffers a fall from the library stairs, leaving her with both wrists broken and severe spine and...

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Dickinson joins a nation-wide Christmas stamp-selling campaign that raises funds for the National Tuberculosis Association. The Woman's Choral Club performs for the first time this semester, singing at the College Chapel Service. The renovations being made to Bosler Hall near completion and will...

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Sigma Alpha Epsilon will hold a Christmas party for needy children in the Carlisle area featuring a dinner, a trip to the movies and a gift. It is hoped that this will become and annual event. The Sociology Department announces the creation of a new award, the Gaylord H. Patterson Prize, to be...

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The college treasurer, Gilbert Malcolm, falls in a hotel room and injures both of his ankles.

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