The baseball team loses to both Bucknell and Penn State. The senior class wins the Bosler Cup at the Inter-Class Track meet on Biddle Field. A successful Chautauqua Week comes to a close. Francis A. Dunn, a senior football star and the most popular man at Dickinson, secretly marries Miss Mary Mentzer.
The baseball team loses against Lafayette. Chautauqua Week, a series of lectures, will be coming to Carlisle.
The baseball season opens up with a loss against Princeton, and a victory against West Point. The Musical Clubs went on their Spring Trip, performing in various locations throughout Pennsylvania. The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity held their Annual Founders day dance. The new Dickinsonian board members are announced. Mr. Nillard, a seventy-two year old contortionist, gives a lecture at the college. The Washington Alumni Association of Dickinson celebrated their fourth anniversary with a huge banquet in Washington.
The 1913 Football team Banquet was attended by over two hundred men. The baseball schedule is released. The Belles Lettres Literary Society elects their fall officers. The Debating teams are chosen.
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 and Belles Lettres hold annual general meetings. Frank Moore wins and George Edward Mills receives second place in Senior Oratorical Contest for Walkley prize. President Reed holds a reception for the senior class in his mansion. Phi Kappa Psi holds its annual symposium.
Journalist and founding member of the NAACP Hamilton Holt gives a talk defending the League of Nations at chapel. Senate announces that, in light of the lack of support for the Honor System, amendments will be made and proposed to the student body. The Mohler Science Club elects officers. Local merchant Foster Cromleigh offers the choice of a fountain pen or gold pencil to the first Dickinsonian batter to hit a home run.
Mary Buttorff, popular singer, gives a recital with piano accompaniment from William Bretz '21. Bruno Roselli, professor at Vassar and native Florentine, gives a lecture on Italian industry and labor. Profiles on the track and baseball teams, whose seasons open soon, are published. The Y.M.C.A. holds elections.
A student assaults a fellow student late at night in the house of his ex girlfriend. He is arrested and and suspended from campus until further notice. Student Senate completely cuts funding for single-sex organizations on campus as per a previously unenforced bylaw. Delta Sigma Theta, a historically prominently black sorority, earns a charter from Dickinson College. The Sigma Phi chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity is nominated for ten national awards. Two members of the baseball team are named to the Centennial Conference Team for their achievements during the season.
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. The Belles Lettres and Union Philosophical Societies elect officers and honorary members. The Alumni Association also elects officers. An inter-class baseball
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 Society holds their annual sophomore oratorical contest, as does the Belles Lettres Society. President Reed holds a reception for students in the President’s House. Burglars are decried for breaking into
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. A profile of President-elect Dr. George E.
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 College Boarding Club is established. The Union Philosophical Society plans its centennial anniversary. The baseball team begins practices.
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 play baseball, with the freshmen winning the day 28 to 18. The freshmen lose a baseball game to the preparatory students, 21 to 11. Dickinson’s baseball team also wins against teams from Carlisle, Harrisburg, and Pennsylvania College.
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 sportsmanship and rude behavior during a baseball game between preparatory students and students from the School. Tennis becomes popular on campus, with many fraternities creating courts. The election for Directors of Athletics is held. The town of Carlisle bans the use of college yells in the stree
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. Dickinson beats Pennsylvania College in baseball 16-4. The Sophomores beat the Freshman in baseball 24-18.
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 arranged.
The 103rd annual Commencement Week is held. Bosler Memorial Library Hall is formally presented to the Board of Trustees in an elaborate ceremony. Professor Lindsay is elected to a full professorship position for Chemistry. The baseball team loses to a Harrisburg team 12 to 6, with complaints regarding a biased umpire. Chi Phi, Sigma Chi, Theta Delta Chi, and Phi Kappa Psi hold their annual banquets.
Tempers flare and issues arise regarding the rumors of President McCauley's resignation. Dickinson is challenged to a boat race by Wilson College in Chambersburg, but it is cancelled due to an injury. The Union Philosophical Society holds their annual Oratorical Contest, as does the Belles Lettres Society. The baseball team wins against Pennsylvania College in Harrisburg 26 to 12.
Rumors that President McCauley will resign are dispelled by multiple sources. Some minor renovations are made to the college during the clean-up of the mess after the construction of Bosley Memorial Library Hall. Two baseball games, played against Mechanicsburg and Gettysburg, are both won by Dickinson. Field Day is held after two rain date delays, and is a great success.
The challenge of combining and cataloging the society libraries is discussed. The Ramblers' Walking Club is the latest craze at Dickinson. The Sophomore Oratorical Contest is planned. The recently formed Pennsylvania Inter-Collegiate Baseball Association is disbanded due to a lack of interested schools. The Union Philosophical Society holds their anniversary, and the Baltimore Alumni Association holds a reunion.
The formation of the Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Inter-Collegiate Baseball Association give Dickinson students access to larger fields of play and more opponents. Efforts to produce a Microcosm cease. The Athletic Association decides to reject recognition of the separate teams created by the pro- and anti- co-education factions in the Freshman class, and the idea of a combined team is also rejected. An underground co-education group is created, with rumors that it is named The Dickinson College Co-Ed Woman's Rights Association
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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 Fletcher Durell. Union Philosophical Society and Belles Lettres Society contests. Dickinson defeats the Carlisle Indians in baseball. Beta Theta Pi banquet. The Alpha Zeta Phi fraternity no longer exists at Dickinson. Sigma Chi banquet.
Baltimore Alumni Association meets. Schedule for commencement week. Belles Lettres Society holds sixth annual oratorical contest; James C. Nicholson wins. Union Philosophical Society holds its sophomore oratorical contest. Dickinson baseball defeats State Normal School of Shippensburg.