Dickinsonian, October 15, 1921
All-college picnic is held. Lutheran students form Lutheran Unit. Press Club elects new members. French Club elects officers. YWCA makes membership drive.
All-college picnic is held. Lutheran students form Lutheran Unit. Press Club elects new members. French Club elects officers. YWCA makes membership drive.
All-college picnic is prepared. Phi Mu sets up fund to support sending a delegate to the annual YWCA convention. Ministerial Association elects officers. Press Club elects officers. Metzger Hall obtains a dog named Dickinson Metzger. Kappa Sigma holds annual Fall house party. Sigma Chi holds pledge dance. Epworth League holds large reception. Freshman class elects temporary officers.
All-college picnic planned. Leon Simonetti ’24 is elected leader of the College Orchestra. Sophomores win annual flag scrap. Football season begins. YWCA begins service project assisting girls in Appalachia. Rushing schedule. Belles Lettres elects officers. Student Senate elects cheer leaders.
Second annual all-college picnic held in Boiling Springs. Football team to play Swarthmore in Harrisburg, parade to be held before game. College unites with Carlisle Chamber of Commerce and Civic Club to establish lyceum course. Sixty-seven answer call to form new college glee club.
Despite cold weather, the Annual College Picnic is a great success. The Belles Lettres Society received a letter from well-known minister and author Henry Van Dyke. The Interfraternity Scholarship Cup is presented to Phi Kappa Sigma. A meeting of the Interfraternity Council rejects the proposed arrangements for first year / fraternity interactions. A more moderate proposal calls for a series of gatherings in the college gymnasium where freshman will be the guests of fraternities. A novice tennis tournament is held to discover talent for next season's team.
This week's issue of the Dickinsonian announces the elections of F. B. Giebel as president of the freshman class and Christopher P. Crook to the sophomore class. Football practice begins early in an effort to continue the path of last season's success. A committee of the Interfraternity Council presents their ideas for freshman involvement. In previous years, rushing agreements prohibited fraternity members to communicate with first year men; leading to a feeling of isolation from the rest of the campus.
Plans for the all-college picnic in Boiling Springs are announced. The Interfraternity Council determines the rushing periods for the 1923 fall semester and institutes the payment of yearly dues by each member fraternity. Dickinson opens their football preseason with "the strongest team in the country to date on paper." Plans to establish a college sports news service are laid. A piece on the Christianization and Americanization of Hawiian islanders appears.
Athletic Association institutes stricter ticket policy for game admission. Annual college picnic features faculty-student baseball game. Fraternities pledge new members.
Dickinson College is to be represented in the American Association of University Women's Founders' Book. The Union Philosophical Society and Belles Lettres Society continue their "stunt" of selective rushing. Professor Benjamin Wilbur Folsom takes charge of the Dickinson Debate Council. Studies on student ill-adjustment to higher education are made by the Joint Committee of the Association of Pennsylvania Presidents, the Pennsylvania State Department of Public Instruction, and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The student body enjoys thei