William Pearson Tolley, President of Allegheny College, gave a talk warning about the abandonment of land and a regression to wilderness, in contrast to the establishment of civilization. Clarence B. Hendrickson was given the award as All-Around Dickinsonian. The first baseball practice of the...
The Debate Team loses the first debate of the season. A date for the premiere of the Dramatic Club’s play The Royal Family is set. An article is found explaining that Dickinson was the beneficiary of the lottery in 1790. The All-College Social Committee plans a Pan-Hellenic week. An...
Plans for a Pan-Hellenic Week continue, and it is said that if successful, it will become a Dickinson tradition. The Belles Lettres Society discusses three modern novelists, Undst, Lewis, and Mann. Gettysburg beats Dickinson at a swim meet. The Debate Team wins against Ursinus and Ashland in the...
Committee reports on final exams, proposes changes. Journal of Chemical Education publishes paper by Prof. Horace E. Rogers. Table Tennis tournament to be added to intramural competition. Swim team to incorporate the butterfly and an augmented backstroke to program.
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...
College Social Committee brings Claude Hopkins and his orchestra to campus for a concert. Greek Club holds a meeting devoted to "Idylls of Theocritus," its last meeting of the semester. William Nicklets writes a piece bemoaning the female gender's attachment to the need for male chivalrous...
The Upsilon Circle of the Omicron Delta Kappa chose five new members to its regular meeting, and elected Christian V. Graf and Leon M. Robinson as the delegate and alternate delegate, respectively, to the national convention of the fraternity. Dickinson alumn Governor Arthur H. James appointed...
Alpha Sigma Gamma, the journalism fraternity, elects seven new members. Professor of American History Hiram Herr Shenk speaks before Young People's Fellowship. Dr. Reinhard Beutner of the Hahnemann Medical College speaks before the Mohler Scientific Club. Alvin Blumberg to play part of David...
Rev. Dr. Henry Smith Leiper, leader in the world movement for peace and Christian unity , speaks on "Germany's New Religion" at a meeting of the Young People's Fellowship. Bill Nickels speaks about the trips taken by the Social Survey Committee. Fraternities Beta Theta Pi, Phi Delta Theta, and...
Professor Wellman J. Warner is appointed to permanent position as sociology professor at Dickinson. Leon M. Robinson, Bernard Kotulak, and Paul Gorsuch will go to the Ta Kappa Alpha district convention as delegates. Dr. Paul Popenoe will discuss marital relations before the Dickinson College...
Over one hundred delegates from the member papers of the Intercollegiate Newspaper Association gather at Dickinson for the Spring Convention of the organization, recognizing its 20th Anniversary. 500 attend concert by Dickinson College Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Wilbur V. Mallalieu addresses the...
Eighty students are to be honored at the annual "A" banquet, given each year to recognize those students receiving an overall A average during either semester in the year preceding the banquet. A new president and executive board of the Student Athletic Association is elected. Music critic and...
Article discussing the schedule of events for Religion-in-Life Week. Article remembering the life of Professor Mulford Stough after his recent death. Details of the Mid-Winter Ball where the Queen will be crowned. Dickinson swimmers beat Gettysburg College, but lose to Georgetown University....
The Student Senate hears of the Board of Trustees refusal for the establishment of a campus radio statement. The Inter-Fraternity Council receives independence from the Student Senate. Profile on Dr. Milton W. Eddy. Dickinson Swimming beats Drexel University. Beta Theta Pi and Phi Psi remain...
Professors Flaherty and Mercer to address the International Relations Club. Phi Delta Theta wins the Display Contest at Homecoming. Charles Tharp is the new cataloging librarian. World famous blind pianist, Alec Templeton to play recital in December. Colonel Rachal praises the new ROTC program....
Student reviews of the play, "Anne of the Thousand Days." Bishop John Wesley Lord, Dickinson alumnus, to speak in an upcoming chapel meeting. Dickinsonians file a petition to retain Professor Hugh Mercer, who was rumored to have been dropped from the College faculty. Details on the upcoming...
More information on Mermaid Players' production of "The Male Animal" given. Dr. McDonald appointed to biology department. Tuition to be increased by $50 annually. Swimming team continues excellent season.
Allison Methodist awards building contract for new church to be built on Benjamin Rush campus. D-book to be revised. The Mermaid Players' "The Male Animal," dealing with the Red Scare, reviewed. Swimming Team has first winning season, coming in second to Gettysburg. Photography competition to be...
Dickinson Follies to perform "Jamaican Jaunt." Norwegian exchange student Gaute Gregusson discusses his experiences at Dickinson the year before. Students complain over lack of faculty attendance at athletics-backed chapels. Swimming Team has first season where they won more than they lost in 23...
Doris Weigel replaces Sandercock as the Dickinsonian's Editor-in-Chief. Plans for a new science building underway. Dickinson Swimming scores its seventh victory.
Bishop Fred P. Corson to speak at the annual Scholarship Dinner. Changes made to the upcoming Religion-In-Life program, "A Faith For Life." $5,000 grant received by the Biology Department. John Scott, a member of the editorial staff of Time Magazine, to give a lecture. Men's basketball faces an...
The Board of Trustees of the College to sponsor a special recognition dinner for faculty members who have served the College for twenty-five years or longer. Outline of Religion-In-Life events. The Student Senate votes to support the National Student Association in their sponsorship of a...
The New Art Wind Quintet to perform at the next Cultural Affairs event. Dr. Bunderman of Harrisburg to speak on "Inspiring the Student" at the next meeting of the Future Teachers of America. Physicist Dr. Edward Teller to receive the Priestley Award. Dickinson Swimming ranks fourth in the Middle...
Thre Dickinson freshmen were killed and a fourth critically injured in an automobile accident in Carlisle. Author Dr. Karlis Leyasmeyer to come to Dickinson to speak about Russia. Newly developed Junior-Year-in-New-York Program offered through New York University. News regarding the building of...
Dr. J.S. Leslie, a chaplain at Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Wellesley University, is chosen to lead the Danforth Experiment outlined by Dickinson College's Danforth Foundation. Duke Ellington and his jazz orchestra play at the Mid-Winter Ball. The Editor-in-...
