Class of 1893 Alumni Clyde B. Furst was caught in between the two vast armies fighting the First World War in Europe. Along with his wife and two sons he managed to arrive in Holland after being detained, and successfully boarded a ship bound for New York City.

Carlyle Earp (class of 1914) hosted German sailors of the North German Llyod Liners company who were stranded in Baltimore due to the outbreak of war in Europe. His extensive knowledge of German gained at Dickinson helped him to teach the sailors English.

After a meeting, Dickinson students wrote and sent a petition to Washington D.C. that asked the US Army to send a drillmaster to Dickinson.

President James Morgan outlined the wartime situation that faced Dickinson on this date. Issues included seniors preparing for wartime service, as well as credit transfer for those taking preparatory classes for commissions in the military.

The Cox-Roosevelt Club, a democratic club, is formed on campus. The main topics of debate were the League of Nations and the Treaty of Versailles. The members endorsed the candidacy of Governor James M. Cox and Franklin Delano Roosevelt for the presidential election of 1920.

Professor C. R. W. Thomas addressed the Belles Lettres Society on Tuesday, December 8th, at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house.  He argued that Germany and the U.S. were equally nationalistic in different ways and that "the present Hitlerite movement" in Germany, which he did not support, was...

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 specially-formed Dickinson College Registration Board held a draft registration event in the McCauley Room on Wednesday, October 16, 1940.  The event was held to help the students and faculty of the College comply with the recently-passed Burke-Wadsworth Selective Service Bill.  Ninety-two...

The Dickinson College Religious Association began a drive to raise funds for food for war-weary residents of England and unoccupied France.  The Association asked every student to donate one penny per meal eaten for the extent of the drive.  The money was to be given to the Friends Service Fund...

One of the student delegates that attended the conference, Moorad Mooradian, described the accomplishments of the Second West Point Conference on United States Affairs at the Military Academy. The conference was sponsored by the Academy at West Point and the Carnegie foundation. According to...

Both faculty and students reacted strongly to the news of Reverend Martin Luther King's assassination on April fourth, 1968, expressing sorrow, dismay, shame and fear.

Dickinson College President Howard Lane Rubendall expressed sympathy for King's family said April fourth would remain a "...

Student Senate and the Department of Political Science hosted a visit to campus by three people involved in the Harrisburg Six trials: Thomas Davidson, William Davidon, and Leonard Weinglass.  The three spoke in the Dining Hall about their predicament as "victims of justice".