Entries drawn from the college history timeline
The Freshman class was the winner in the annual Tug-O-War competition against the Sophomores. The competition could have went to either class as the competition time concluded, but the judges decided in a secret session that the Freshmen were victorious.
The Sophomore class was the winner in the annual Tug-O-War competition against the Freshman. As a result the freshman had to wear their 'dinks' during the remainder of the year.
The faculty hosted a dinner in honor of the three new members of the Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity on the 40th anniversary of the fraternity's Alpha Chapter in Pennsylvania. These new members were Helen M. Bowser, Mary A. Brightbill and Paul D. McNamee (all class of 1927).
The Women's Senate hosted a luncheon for first-year women. Helen Hackman spoke on "The History of the College" and Jesse Poticher presented "A Biographical Sketch of the Faculty."
The faculty and College YMCA led what they claimed to be Dickinson's first-ever Freshman Week program beginning Monday, September 15th, one week before the start of term. Over the course of the week, students learned the Dewey decimal system, were given physical and psychological examinations,...
In the first scrap of the year, the sophomores hurled buckets of blood, rotting fruit, and other refuse at the freshmen attempting to enter Biddle Field. For the first time in many years, the sophomores were victorious.
The annual College picnic was held, featuring roast beef and a faculty-student baseball game. Students were surprised with the cancellation of classes and bus rides out to Boiling Springs, the site of the picnic.
The sophomores won the annual freshman-sophomore flag scrap at Biddle Field. The scrap lasted for ten minutes, during which time the freshmen, led by Jack Fowler, attempted to remove the sophomores' flag from a greased and defended flagpole. The sophomores' leader, Jimmy Knight, sat atop the...
Empowered by President Mervin Filler's public disdain for the freshman rules, freshmen men staged an anti-rules demonstration outside Bosler Hall in which they wore colorful ties, unbuttoned their coats, and put their hands in their pockets but retained their dinks. Violence was averted by...
The Board of Trustees denied College recognition to two Jewish fraternities, Sigma Tau Phi and Phi Epsilon Pi, on the premise that the ratio of fraternity to non-fraternity Jewish students would be too high. It was widely assumed that the denial of official recognition to the fraternities was...
In the 31st annual Doll Show, dolls donated by the College community for children of prisoners in New York City were displayed along with toys donated by students for children at the Methodist Home in Shirestown. The YWCA-sponsored event occurred in the Alumni Gymnasium and featured a play...
The Men's Student Senate repealed 12 of the freshman class rules for the coming school year following unusual levels of rebellion and complaint against the rules by the class of 1934. Most importantly, the "girl rule" limiting freshman men's contact with freshman women, the path rule...
The sophomores won by 21-17 the annual Button Game, a basketball game between the sophomores and first years that determines whether the first years must continue to wear their identifying buttons. Harry Kane, Milt Davidson, and Joe Lipinski were the outstanding players for the sophomores.
The junior promenade of the class of 1932 was held in the American Legion Hall. Leather cases including mirrors and coin purses were provided as favors. The decorating committee created a jail for the dance chaperones.
The Men's Tribunal, citing lack of accusations of rulebreaking and mindful of changes in the rules for the upcoming year, suspended the freshman class rules for the remainder of the 1930-1931 school year, a month earlier than any other Tribunal in Dickinson history.
In their last social event as a class before graduation, approximately 100 seniors and their guests attended the annual senior ball, which was held in the American Legion hall. The main event of the evening was a lengthy promenade.
The Commons Club and Beta Psi formally ratified their merger. The two organizations had the same goal, and faced with the prospect of decreased male enrollment in the coming year, deemed it best to become one organization. They retained the name "Commons Club" because it was chartered and...
The YWCA hosted a May Day breakfast of ham and eggs in the Old Gymnasium to kick off Founders' Day celebrations. Each female guest was given a corsage; male guests were given daisies for their buttonholes.
The annual senior picnic was held at Williams' Grove on Monday, May 18th. It featured boating, golfing, skee-balling, dancing, swinging, baseball, and a dinner of baked ham, baked beans, cheese, pickles, preserves, potato chips, rolls, coffee, and homemade cake and ice cream.
The freshmen won the annual freshman-sophomore flag scrap, succeeding in removing the sophomore class flag from atop its pole. Few members of the sophomore class participated in the scrap, which was a short affair.
Students took buses to Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania, for the annual college picnic, which featured a spelling game for the female students, a pie-eating contest, a student-faculty baseball game, and dancing. Dinner consisted of ham, potato chips, beans, pickles, milk, rolls, and pie a la mode...
An International Relations Club held its first meeting on January 14, 1932. The purpose of the club was to study world politics, the League of Nations, and other problems of international scope. The Carnegie Foundation helped create the club.
The freshman class held a dance in the Carlisle armory on Saturday, February 6, 1932. They decorated the armory in red, white and blue and with silhouettes of Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
Seventy-five couples attended the annual sophomore class dance held in the armory on February 13, 1932. The event was marked by the performance of Joe Haynes and his Missourians, who had never before performed at a Dickinson function. The hall was decorated with hearts and cupids.
A Ford coupe that belonged J. Carlton Godlove of Hagerstown, Maryland, was found on its side, tires deflated, inside the Bosler Hall library. The Alpha Chi Rho fraternity was blamed for the prank.
