The German Club sponsors a movie entirely in German. The Junior Prom Committee is announced. The story is told of former students climbing atop Old West to fill the bell with water so that it froze and could not call them chapel in the morning. A Faculty Committee is appointed to examine the...
The Spencer Fullerton Baird Biology Building is dedicated at opening chapel services. College purchases five lots for new athletic fields. Dr. Howard Thurman gives talk to Young People's Fellowship. Postmaster General James A. Farley visits Carlisle post office, greeted by crowd of several...
Tribunal interviews and sentences five "unruly" freshmen, punishments to be a warning to other freshmen. Debate Club experiences a previously unheard of sixteen female students trying out for the squad, indicating future need for a women's squad. The Social Pathology class inspects the Tressler...
C. William Duncan of Philadelphia's Evening Public Ledger speaks at chapel assembly. American University football coach Gus Welch introduces female kicker to team.
Noted lecturer and commentator on Japan T.T. Brumbaugh begins four day visit to campus with chapel address. President Judge E. Foster Heller addresses annual Homecoming chapel. The undefeated Red Devil football team anticipates annual match against rival Gettysburg. Dramatic Club prepares fall...
Editorial on the "deadly parallels" between 1917 and 1937 in international affairs is published. Undefeated football team beats Gettysburg for the third year in a row. Spotlight on Dr. Julia Morgan's, daughter of former college president, experiences in China during war conditions.
Banquet held in honor of undefeated football team. Story on Dickinson and the Civil War is published, highlighting students' involvment in both the Union and Southern armies. Basketball team looking forward to successful season.
Football team finishes their first undefeated season season since 1917 with win over Muhlenberg. The Dramatic Club's production of "Ghost Train" is reviewed. College president Fred P. Corson initiated as honorary member of Tau Kappa Alpha.
Rushing activities for women's fraternities end as freshman girls and fraternities hand in pledges to Pan-Hellenic Council. Belles Lettres Society begins its 152nd year of existence at Dickinson with October meeting. John Burton Nicholson, Jr., accepts position as assistant librarian. ...
The All-College Social Body plans a series of events for the coming year, including a Dad's Day, a barn dance, and an open house. President Corson announces the new heads of ten committees. Judge Karl Richards is selected as speaker for the annual Homecoming chapel service. Dale O. Hartzell...
The editorial board of the Dickinsonian publishes an open letter to the Board of Deans regarding the findings of a report conducted by the Faculty committee on Extra-Curricular Activities. The Debating Association of Pennsylvania Colleges selects three topics for the coming debate...
Dr. Everett R. Clinchy gives chapel address linking Nazi rise to power to the vindictive retaliation of America and its European allies towards Germany after World War I. Hon. Karl E. Richards, Judge of the Orphans' Court of Dauphin County and Dickinson alumnus, speaks at the Homecoming Day...
Henry C. Hill, warden of the Federal Penitentiary in Lewisburg, gives speech on "The Problem of the Criminal" before the Young People's Fellowship at the Allison Memorial Methodist Church. Johnny Bruner organizes a jazz band on campus composed of seven undergraduates. The Dramatic Club...
Charles W. Boote, city judge of Yonkers, New York, plans to speak at Dad's Day program. Union Philosophical Society elects twenty-four new members. The Halloween Barn Dance succeeds socially and financially. The Greek Club is set to re-enact an ancient Greek wedding. Prof. Mulford Stough...
Dickinson's newly founded Religious Association established policies, precedents, and procedures at their first ever meeting. A group of students will assist the Religious Association in a social survey of hospitals, plants, and prisons. Union Philosophical Society makes Wilbur M. Rabinowitiz...
Dickinson College Religious Association decides to embrace Protestantism, Catholicism, and Judaism as the tree faiths represented on campus, and to restrict membership to only those who demonstrate interest in religion and sign up on the membership roll. The French Club plans to show the French...
John W. Ell discusses the meaning of "Dickinson's Tradition," and its place in Old West. Football coach Arthur D. Kahler selects a virtual "all-opponent team" composed of the best players at every position from the teams against which Dickinson has played thus far in the year. The Dickinson...
Fraternities, the All-College Social Committee, and other clubs prepare for the Annual Doll Dance and Doll Show. Student Senate alters election procedures. Elmer C. Herber speaks on "The Heart and Its Functions" to Lambda Sigma Pi, the science fraternity. Belles Lettres initiates new members...
The Bobolino Group Theatre performs "Candida" to an audience of 200 in Denny Hall. Union Philosophical Society rejects Belles Lettres' invitation for an inter-society debate and appoints Professor Wellman J. Warner as its new adviser. Chinese student I-Ying Li finally arrives on campus after...
An unidentified man breaks into the room of a female freshman in Metzger Hall. He smothers her screams with his hand and tries to remove her bedclothes before being frightened away by her second scream, which is not smothered. The Dramatic Club changes their December sixth production to "YOU CAN...
At opening of the 169th academic year, students hear about the role of education in the nation's defense. Fraternity bids will be announced Tuesday. $10,333.04 was raised with the 6th Annual Dickinson College Alumni Fund Campaign. Dr. Doney and Dr. Norcross passed away over the summer. Dickinson...
Sororities gain new members as bids were accepted. The Dickinsonian will be involved in a nation-wide Student Opinion Surveys of America which will try to compile data on student's opinions (the first question will be "Are you for or against changing the neutrality laws so that American...
Committee recommends that college end its policy on extra-curricular activities requiring participation with limits on number of activities as student may participate with. The thirty-one students arrested last week have each been ordered to pay a fine of $1.62. Dickinson's first all-college...
Metzger Hall will revise its constitution in the coming year. Wheel and Chain continues its book drive for the Negro Community Center in Carlisle that formally opened on October 26. New mandatory class, "How to Make Good in College," created for Freshmen. Nation wide poll discovered that most...
Alpha Sigma Gamma, the honorary journalistic fraternity, taps two new members. President Corson encourages students to read more often. An article outlines the schedule for the new freshmen class "How to Make Good in College." Dickinson students campaign for J. Pearson Miller for burgess of...
