Plans for a Women's Student Senate are initiated. Interfraternity League forms to facilitate inter-fraternity athletics. May Breakfast is planned. Sophomore class elects officers with contention. YWCA adopts new constitution.
Summary of track season. Photo of May Day celebration. Belles Lettres elects officers.
College observes Charles Nisbet day. The faculty allows students in good standing to spend three months in a reserve officers' training camp or working on a farm without academic repercussions. Female students hold annual May Day party. Female students enroll in First Aid classes to support the war effort.
May Day celebration is held. Dickinson participates in Middle Atlantic States Intercollegiate Meet. The program for commencement week is published. A student referendum passes the new honor system. The sophomore class holds elections; David Sharman is president. Senior Picnic is held. Thomas R. Jeffrey is elected president of the Student Senate; Perry F. Prather is elected vice-president.
Nisbet memorial ceremony is held. Freshmen defeat Sophomores in tug-of-war. The program for May Day is announced. An honor system is proposed.
Founders' Day and May Day events announced. Athletic Association sponsors large inter-scholastic track meet to be held on Biddle Field. Final cast selected for Commencement Play. Senior Guy Rolland conducts important research in nickel plating, his results to be published by the American Electrochemical Society. Class of 1903 submits plans for campus improvements. Juniors win inter-class track meet.
May Day celebration program announced. Edgar Fahs Smith, noted chemist and Provost of the University of Pennsylvania to speak at commencement. Track team defeated by Bucknell. Baseball team defeats Delaware, loses to Temple. Glee Club to end season with concert at Harrisburg.
Belles Lettres is victorious in the Annual Founder's Day contest. Student Senate elections are postponed to address the issues that the Senate's current composition of nine fraternity men to five Commons' Club men will remain. Robert H. Duffy will be assisting Coach Johnson with the football team this coming season. Prof. Prince continues his campaign for a seat in Congress.
Founders Day and May Day will be celebrated Thursday of this week. The annual Senior Picnic will be held at Medowbrook Park this year. Mr. G. R. Hemminger presents the College with a rare stuffed "Duckbill" (a platypus) through Prof. B. Floyd Rinker of the English department. The Track team prepares to meet their Gettysburg rivals. Results of a poll by the Dickinsonian show that students favor the current prohibition law. Ohio State Senator Simeon D. Fess will be this years Commencement speaker.
The Dickinson Relay team takes second at the Middle Atlantic Class B College Championship. Nominations are made for Student Senate. Sophomores win the annual tug-of-war, pulling the freshman into LeTort Spring. A celebration of Founder's Day and May Day is planed for May 13th. The festivities will close with a contest between Belles Lettres and the Union Philosophical Society consisting of an original oration, a debate, an impromptu, and a humorous selection. Plans for freshman entertainment in the fall are accepted by the Interfraternity Council. Offices are announced for the Y.W.C.A.
Eight students participate in Pennsylvania constitutional convention. Mothers' Day activities are planned. May Day and Founders' Day are celebrated. Catholic students present their faith to the Young People's Fellowship. Five female students chosen to wear Junior Sportsmanship blazers.
Student Senate abolishes the Men's Tribunal and creates a new senate committee to take over the Tribunal's duties. May Day festivities are unlikely to be held. College buys new recording machine for the use of the orchestra.
Microcosm is published. Professor G. H. Patterson returns from leave of absence. YWCA holds May Day breakfast. College radio plans to broadcast vocally; prospective radio operators build vocal broadcasting devices. Professor E. A. Vuilleumier is published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry. Senior picnic is planned. Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference meets at Dickinson. Mothers' Day service held.
Mothers' Day and joint Founders' Day-May Day programs are planned. Dickinson to host Eastern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Men's Senate votes to add a thirteenth member to its body, then rescinds this vote. Tribunal punishes freshmen for failing to wear dinks. Sigma Chi wins intramural volleyball tournament.
Wheel and Chain elects new members. Founders' Day and May Day are celebrated. Representatives to Men's Student Senate are elected. The results of a survey of Dickinson students' attitudes toward naval armaments are reported.
YWCA plans May breakfast for Founders' Day. Plans for senior class picnic. Glee club nominates officers. Students volunteer to fight forest fires on South Mountain. Interfraternity Council elects officers. Student Senate passes legislation concerning election of campus organization officers. President Filler appeals to alumni for funding for Alumni Gymnasium.
The Bernard Center for Humanities, the former East College, is dedicated. A thorough debate of the college Governance is made from multiple angles. The Mermaid Player's last production of the season "Time of Your Life" receives good reviews. Two college guards are arrested in connection with recent robberies. The college hosts its first intercollegiate bowling meet.
Student Senate discusses housing issues, the Governance proposal, and budget for the Microcosm in a detailed progress report. May Day movement members will march on the army war college. Nominations are opened for positions on the Institutional Priorities and Resources Committee, Academic Affairs Committee, and Academic Standards Committee. A method of academic program examination is being formulated for the college.
Harold Howe, a vice-president of the Ford Foundation and former U.S. commissioner of Education, will be the speaker at Commencement. Senior William Durden is awarded a Fulbright Scholarship. May Day plans are elaborated on. The India Semester program will continue over the summer. Wheel and Chain and ODK tap members. PEER will conduct its annual fund-raising auction. Information on completing an interdepartmental major is given. The Cumberland Conservancy Committee on Recycling prepares for their first collection of solid waste materials.
At their most recent meeting, the faculty passes changes in the academic program: a new academic calendar is adopted and the modern language requirement adopted calls for three semesters of instruction in a language. Fred Lumb resigns his position as Executive Director of Communications and Development. The federally funded work-study program has run out of money. Former Student Senate president Jack Stower addresses the Senate on Dickinson's judicial system. The Follies production of "Carnival" is well performed, but dated.