The inter-society debate is held. The freshman football team is left with no opponents in the school or out. The Union Philosophical Society is to hold their annual anniversary.
The football team wins against Allegheny by the wide margin of 21-0. The freshmen football team wins against the Carlisle Y.M.C.A team. A tea is held in honor of the president’s wife, Mrs. Frances Corson. The Archaeological Institute of America claims that the college is in possession of a very valuable stone sarcophagus. A search concluded that such a gift was indeed presented to the college, but it had been removed some time ago. The number of freshmen pledged to fraternities totals twenty-one. The Senate names a new chairman of the Senate Tribunal Committee.
Hugh MacCotter elected president of Freshman class. Annual Soph Hop planned. Week of Prayer is held. Freshman football defeats Gettysburg.
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 head of the committee. Dramatic Club presents "The Bat," a three-act play, to popular success; Elizabeth Ralston directs the production. Belles Lettres admits ten new men; Dickinsonian admits 11 new members. Dickinson graduate Arthur H.
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 becomes a member of the Council of the Pennsylvania Historical Association. Microcosm wins First-class honor rating and an All-American award by the National Scholastic Press Association. Freshman football set to meet Blue Ridge Junior College. Harold E.
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.
Painter and art critic Michel Gilbert visits campus, hosted by Dr. and Mrs. Roger E. Sellers. The Belles Lettres Literary Society holds its first meeting, with hopes to publish the Hornbook (the College literary review) semi-annually after several years of annual publishing. Parents Day, scheduled for Oct. 15, will include a faculty luncheon, fraternity buffets, and the Ursinus vs. Dickinson football game. A freshman football team is organized for the first time since the conclusion of World War II. A total of 122 men pledge the College's ten fraternities.