Dickinsonian, April 18, 1906
The Comus Club holds an Easter Dance. Students prepare for the upcoming tennis tournament.
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The Comus Club holds an Easter Dance. Students prepare for the upcoming tennis tournament.
The Athletic Committee and President Reed discuss the possibility of introducing soccer to the campus on an inter-class and inter-fraternity level. The resources for a varsity team are not yet available, but if enough interest is shown such a team could be formed. The Intercollegiate Football Rules Committee amends the game, disallowing athletes to deliberately strike their opponents with fists, elbows, knees or feet in order to provide a safer environment for players. New rules are outlined for freshmen girls, including the regulation of parasol and hairpin use.
Commencement. Annual oratorical contests are held. May Day Fete is held. Raven’s Claw initiates new members. List of members of graduating class. Phi Beta Kappa initiates new members. Dr. Mervin G. Filler is appointed the International YMCA’s delegate to the War Service Exchange. Tau Kappa alpha initiates new members. Theta Chi holds annual banquet. Comus Club dance is held.
Senior standings announced. Oratorical contest held. The Comus Club to hold a dance in the Armory.
The YWCA holds a very successful night of entertainment, including musical and theatrical acts. The editors complain of the incorrect reports and anti-Dickinson attitude in the Carlisle newspapers and the Carlisle community of "know-it-alls" at large. The last Comus Club dance of the year is planned. Sigma Alpha Epsilon holds a dance at the Armory. YMCA holds its officer elections. Belles Lettres and Union Philosophical Society celebrate their anniversaries with a lecture by Dr. W. V.
"Minna Von Barnheim" play is a great success. Comus Club holds its midwinter dance. Day of Prayer is observed. Freshmen hold banquet. Passed Dickinsonians compiled, some found to be missing. Speaker Elbert Hubbard is entertained by Alpha Chi Rho after delivering an excellent lecture o the College. Phi Kappa Psi holds a dance in the Armory. Sophomores and Freshman have a scrap, which ends in a tie.
Successful performance by Kitty Cheatham hosted by the Civic Club. Sophomore society Skitchagenee was revived, with seven men initiated. Comus Club to hold a midwinter dance in the Armory.
Masquerade Carnival to be held for Halloween. The Music Department to host a musical. New alumni page a great success so far. Comus Club to hold its first dance. Rhodes Scholar D. R. Porter addresses the YMCA. Phi Kappa Sigma celebrates Founders' Day anniversary with ride to Dillsburg.
Freshmen win sophomores in annual cap scrap. Flag in college colors presented at chapel. Lecture to be given by Mr. Irving E. Vining about the " Types and tendencies of men". Phi Kappa Psi hosts housewarming to mark the remodeling of their house. Comus CLub dance postponed. Dr. W. A. Hunsberger resigns from post of assistant to the president. Short story titled "The Caterpiller" published in entirety.
Combined musical clubs, including Glee Club, Mandolin Club, complete a tour giving performances throughout Central Pennsylvania. Roy M. Dunkleberger, class of 1906, marries in India while serving as a Missionary. Alumni Gatherings to take place in New York City and Bloomsburg, PA. President Reed and Mrs. Reed host evening gathering of the senior class. Old-time fair held in the Gymnasium for the benefit of the Athletic Assiciation. Comul Club dance rescheduled in observance of Lent.
A review of the football season by the football coach, with biographies of team members. The will of Samuel W. Bowne bequests a large gift of stock to the college. Freshmen draft class resolutions. Comus Club holds autumn dance. Freshmen succussfully post and guard posters. Update from the staff of the Microcosm.
President Reed's twentieth anniversary as president of the college. Organization of a fraternity baseball league. Inter-class track meet. Update on the Minstrel show. Comus Club dance. Judge Ben B. Lindsey lecture. Phi Kappa Psi convention.
Professor F. E. Craver is elected as the new Physical Director of the College. Swarthmore and Franklin and Marshall will debate in Bosler Hall. Article on Football injuries. Smoker held in the gymnasium. Winners of the Freshmen oratorical contest are announced. Judge Ben B. Lindsey will be the last lecture of the Civic Club Entertainment Course. Comus Club dance. Update on the minstrel shows. Spring Musical Festival to be held at the Carlisle Opera House.
Old athletic field sold to the Cumberland Valley Railroad. Comus Club dance. Union Philosophical Society election results. Mrs. John Linder obituary. Phi Kappa Sigma party. Notes on the boys of Conway Hall. Phi Kappa Psi dance. Problems of the timing of Mission Study Classes.
Finals for the inter-collegiate debate team held in Denny Hall. Comus Club Dance. Leap year dance. West Virginia Club elections. Special Y. M. C. A. meeting. Update on the 1910 Microcosm. Second Civic Club Entertainment Course.
Notes on the progress of the Student Assembly. A class letter from the class of '98. Comus Club election results. Civic Club announces its entertainment course. Republican Club meeting. Update on the 1910 Microcosm.
Dickinson becomes a member of the Intercollegiate Track Athletic Association. Tablet to Daniel W. McCurdy placed in Trinity Church of Clearfield, PA. Comus Club holds dance. Walter Wells Hoover writes from Sudan about African Farming.
Kappa Sigma holds a smoker for members of the Inter-Collegiate Debate Team. The Comus Club puts on its Spring dance, furnished by the Germania Orchestra. The Track meet with Swarthmore is cancelled due to last week's "fiasco" against State. Instead, a trial meet is held among Dickinsonians to determine who will travel to Bucknell for the coming week's competition.
The Comus Club holds its Easter German dance. The Dickinson-State debate is set to decide the champion of the Intercollegiate Debating League of Pennsylvania. The Kneisel Quartete of Boston is chosen to give the final entertainment of the Civic Club Course.
The annual inter-society debate between the Belles Lettres Society and Union Philosophical Society is set to take place. Dickinson's YMCA invite S.M. Sayford to speak to all "Christian men of the college." Dances are held by Phi Kappa Psi and the Comus Club.
George A. Crider, college trustee, prepares to give a speech at Allison M.E. Church. Athletic Association officers are elected; the Athletic treasurer's report is released. The Philadelphia Club holds elections. The Kappa Sigma fraternity entertains Hon. Philip P. Campell. The Comus Club holds the second dance of the season.
Dr. Reed celebrates his fifteenth anniversary as college president. Students are offered the opportunity to work over the summer at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition for $0.18 per hour.
The walls of Denny are demolished and rebuilding begins following the successful start of a fundraising campaign. There is a senior physics excursion to visit Daniel Drawbaugh who is attempting to invent a wireless telephone.
Johnson the quarterback of the "Indian Football Team" and Dickinson class of 1906 was listed as part of the All-American Football Team. The Dickinsonian pays tribute to the 1903 football team at the end of their season.
The college fair far exceeds expectations, Phi Delta Theta attended a convention in Syracuse and the Comus Club Dances are set to resume. Professor David B. Brunner class of 1860 passed away at the age of 68.