Eligibility Requirements

A visiting evangelist leaves Dickinson after a week’s stay.  The track schedule is completed for this year’s season, as is next year’s football season schedule.  A proposed amendment to the student assembly’s constitution that would have only allowed men to serve was shot down, much to the pleasure of the women on campus.  Six freshmen are convicted of breaking freshmen rules, but the issue of abolishing such rules is tabled.  Dickinson’s faculty redrafts the eligibility rules for student athletes.  

A dramatic club is organized.  Eligibility rules are adopted for athletes, including rules against receiving financial compensation or playing without taking a full course load.  The ladies of Lloyd Hall entertain with a "Hallowe'en" party.

Five thousand domestic students and 1000 international students, including 5 representatives from Dickinson College, attend a youth leadership conference in Indiana to discuss the possibility of Christian solutions to global problems. Coach Richard McAndrews is elected athletic director of the college. The non-fraternity men create a new social organization for themselves. Dickinson participates in a nation-wide referendum on the winning Bok Peace Plan. The various men's fraternities pledge 71 men. New rules regarding eligibility to participate in athletics go into effect.