Plans are underway for the annual Home-Coming Celebration. A large four foot by six foot college calendar marked with all college events for the year will be placed in the entrance hall to chapel. Four sororities pledge new members. From now on, the Denny bell tower will ring to commemorate any...
Plans for Homecoming, November 15, are underway. Two recent Dickinson graduates, John Pipa and Robert Forney, take part in local politics, running for positions in Northumberland County. The freshman class revolts against the class rules system, violating every rule but wearing the dink. This is...
German exchange student discusses school life in homeland. Plan for homecoming weekend. Interior designers work on Phi Delta Theta house. Burgess J. Fred Myers fines college $100 for damages resulting from student victory demonstration.
Collections in center room of Tome Scientific Building are exhibited. Homecoming and Sesqui-centennial. Telescope is repaired and moved from South College to Conway Hall rooftop. Equipment is built for W3YC. Vigilance committee gives haircuts to freshmen convicted of being cocky. Tribunal...
The football team loses to Albright. The Sophomore Vigilance Committee, with a new chairman, will be in charge of enforcing the freshmen rules. The schedule for the Homecoming program is announced. The Dramatic Club announces that its first production of the year will be Death Takes a Holiday....
Alpha Chi Rho resigns from the Interfraternity Council. The upperclassmen have some fun punishing the freshmen for breaking the freshmen rules. The Men’s Senate will form a permanent organization of unaffiliated students in order for them to form a more unified group. The soccer team loses to...
Forty-seven Dickinson men compete for a space on the Debate Squad. The Homecoming program schedule is announced. The Greek Club has their first meeting of the year. Thoughts on the 1936 presidential candidates are given. News on President Roosevelt is also given. For the first time, the Dramatic...
The football team will face Swarthmore in the Homecoming game. The Joint Society dissolves in order to reform its two original parts: the Union Philosophical and Belles Lettres Societies. An All-College Halloween party will be held in the gym. The school plans for the enlargement of Biddle Field...
The “Elect-Landon” club holds its first and only pre-election meeting. The Dramatic Club considers a play with a murder-mystery plot. The Tribunal punishes more freshmen, both men and women, for disobeying the Freshmen Rules. The Dickinson Democratic Club holds their final meeting. Dickinson...
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...
George S. Williams '00, Delaware's lone Congressional Representative, speaks in chapel for Homecoming Weekend. Members of the Dickinsonian editorial staff travel to Lewisburg for a conference of the Intercollegiate Newspaper Association, of which current editor-in-chief Paul Gorsuch '40 is...
Author, journalist, and radio personality John Kieran is announced as the speaker for the Alumni Football Banquet. The Drama Club's fall production, "Petticoat Fever," is set to open the evening of publication. Several pranks were pulled over Homecoming weekend, including the placement of a live...
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...
Faculty vote to require all students to receive influenza vaccinations. German Club opens membership to German students of all levels. First Homecoming since 1941 is planned.
Dickinson raises over $700 for the Community Chest Drive, falling short of $1,000 goal. Homecoming is planned.
Plans to unveil a memorial to the 47 Dickinson alumni killed in WWII are announced. The memorial tablet, sculpted by Hans Schuler, will hang in Memorial Hall next to the College's WWI memorial, also created by Schuler. Eighty students accept the constitution of the College Radio Club, further...
Over 1,000 alumni are expected to attend the weekend's Homecoming ceremonies. George Scott, Henry Gasull, Jr., Kay Gleim, and Anna Mae Hollis (all '53) are elected freshman class president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer, respectively. John Ressler '50 is elected editor of the newly-...
The Red Devils football team defeats Johns Hopkins 20-13 in the (somewhat rainy) Homecoming game, ending their season with a five-game winning streak. An estimated 4,000 spectators watched the game, and Homecoming Weekend is declared an overall success. Contemporary British poet Stephen Spender...
Famous trumpeter, Hank Hoffman will play in the band during Homecoming.The International Relations Club sponsors a U.N. display in the window of the Kronenberg clothing store. Professor Frank Ayres , Jr., announces his publication of a new math book. Dickinson alum General James G. Steese, a...
President Edel speaks at chapel. Dean of Women, Phoebe G. Follmer takes a leave of absence and Mary Margaret Kellogg is appointed the acting Dean. Article discussing the upcoming Homecoming football match for the Old Mahogany Bucket between Dickinson and Gettysburg College. The Dickinson Mermaid...
The Student Senate censures a number of men for participating in a raid of Gibbs House on October 31. Famous British novelist, Elizabeth Bowen will speak at the College. Kappa Sigma wins the contest for best display during Homecoming. The Dickinson Mermaid is returned to President Edel and the...
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....
Class elections occur and fewer members of the freshman and sophomore class cast votes than anticipated. The Dickinsonian undergoes printing changes including being printed on new paper that will better highlight photographs. Homecoming weekend is next weekend, events including the alumni dinner...
Sauter-Finegan Orchestra selected for Winter Ball entertainment; Maynard McKissick and Orchestra has been selected to play the Homecoming Dance. Zeta Tau Alpha celebrate Founders' Day with a luncheon. Inter-fraternity football is considered in terms of its possible negative affects on the...
Christian Service Team travels to local churches. Music programs for the remainder of the year are announced; new programs under the direction of Paul Smith, who takes over program organization from students. Private Stan Singer continues occasional column, discussing different people he...
