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 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,...

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.

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...

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 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 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. 

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 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.

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...

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.