The Glee Club goes on tour over Easter vacation up and down the eastern seaboard. The Union Philosophical Society holds its annual banquet. Electricity is to be installed at the college. Plans for baseball games against Lehigh, Johns Hopkins, Pennsylvania College, and Bucknell are all...
Issues with misbehaved Carlisle children wandering Dickinson's campus becomes an issue of contention between students and the greater Carlisle community. Seniors go on the traditional Class Ride. Lehigh beats Dickinson in baseball 17-14, and Johns Hopkins beats Dickinson in baseball 10-4. ...
Students are criticized for “jumping the fence” to get into baseball games at the fairground without payment. The Belles Lettres and Union Philosophical Societies’ Sophomore Contests are held. The disciplinarian from the Indian Training School is criticized for poor...
A harmonious and progressive year ends for the college with the 105th Commencement Ceremony. The Junior Class Oratorical Contest is held. Theta Nu Epsilon, Phi Kappa Psi, and Chi Phi hold their annual banquets. Dr. Himes photographs students in the gymnasium. The classes of 1890 and 1891...
Dr. George E. Reed is selected as Dickinson College’s new President at a meeting of the Board of Trustees on Thursday, January 3rd, 1889. The sophomores and freshman hold a vocal contest. The Dickinson...
Seniors enjoy a psychology lecture series put on by Dr. Rittenhouse. Bishop Cyrus D. Foss speaks at the well-attended Day of Prayer for Colleges. Professors Whiting and Harman host supper parties for the seniors....
The College Chapel, West College, and the outside walkways of the campus are all renovated and improved. The Seniors partake in the traditional Senior Class-Ride through the mountains. The Union Philosophical...
Commencement is held. Bishop Foss holds a sermon for the YMCA. The Junior Oratorical Contest is held is Bosler Hall. Class Day is celebrated by the Class of 1889....
Account of commencement. Junior Oratorical Contest is followed by a Junior Promenade. Board of Trustees meets, decides to purchase the athletic field, and authorizes the construction of a new building for offices, recitation rooms, and literary society halls as soon as funding is secured. UPS...
An article discusses national changes in college curricula. The baseball team loses several games.
Baseball plays against Carlisle Indian School. Debates about the validity of the honor system take shape within the pages of the editorial section. A chapter of the Delta Chi Law Fraternity is founded at the Law School. Dickinson wins one game and loses one game of chess with Bucknell. The...
Criticism of the Dickinsonians from the past few years. Beta Theta Pi will secure a house. Annual conference of College Y. M. C. A. presidents held at State College. University Day celebration at Wilkes-Barre. Dickinson defeats the Carlisle Indians in baseball.
Phi Beta Kappa meetings. Professor Harry F. Whiting is married to Miss Grace Derland. Junior Oratorical Contest held for the Pierson Prizes in Bosler Hall. Commencement notes. Stopper and Fisk Orchestra concert given in Bosler Hall. Literary Society election results. Banquet held for Professor...
The makeshift Dickinson baseball team is defeated by the Carlisle Indian School. Former slave, Civil War veteran, and college janitor Henry W. Spradley dies.
Dickinson's baseball team is barely bested by the Cuban Giants by a score of 17 to 13. The Dickinsonian remarks on a medical breakthrough in Germany - a supposed newly discovered remedy for fever.
Rev. Frank D. Gamewell, class of 1881 and professor at Peking University, China, presents a Chinese idol to his alma mater. Student preachers organize themselves into a Divinity Club. The Sigma Phi chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity celebrates their 42nd anniversary with literary...
Five of Dickinson's trustees have died within the past twelve months, the most recent being Jacob Tome. James Russell Lowell is to be honored through a plan to construct Lowell Memorial Park. The eighth annual Inter-Society Debate between the Union Philosophical and Belles Lettres literary...
Dickinson men's track prepares to compete in a dual meet with the Carlisle Indian School. The baseball team defeats Mercersburg by a score of 9 to 7. Various YMCA committees are appointed.
The Dickinson Reserves baseball team loses to Carlisle in an atmosphere so severe as to make "good ball playing impossible," whereas the varsity team defeated Penn State 23 to 9. The Gamma Epsilon Literary Society plans to hold a public debate.
Dickinson is defeated in baseball by the Carlisle Indian School by a scoreline of 6-2. Dickinsonians hope to display their patriotism during wartime (Spanish-American War) by erecting flagstaffs to wave the Stars and Stripes.
The football team wins against Gettysburg and Lebanon Valley. This was the first game Dickinson played against Gettysburg in five years; the colleges had stopped interactions due to several grievances between them. The constitution of the Athletic Association is analyzed after...
Robert H. Richards gave an address on the “Life and Services of John Dickinson” at the college at Bosler Hall. Rev. Cassard gives a lecture on the "Indiana". The Y. M. C. A. was addressed by Earl Taylor to talk about the Student Missionary Campaign.The basketball team continues...
The revised baseball schedule is announced. The Ladies of the college held a reception for the Freshman Class. The results of the Prep School strength tests are announced, revealing that on average the prep school students are stronger than the freshmen and sophomores. The...
In the first game of the season, the baseball team wins 25 to 1 against Mercersburg. The coming track events are announced. The Y.M.C.A. committees are announced for the coming year. The intercollegiate and interscholastic races will be held on Franklin Field at the University...
The baseball team wins 8 to 6 against Albright, while the Dickinson Reserves loses to Mercersburg Academy. The Glee Club and Orchestra travels south to Coatesville to perform. The Phi Kappa Psi convention was attended by representatives from all the colleges in the area....
