Dickinsonian to hold annual banquet. Sigma Chi wins Interfraternity cup in intramural basketball. A portrait of James Wilson to be purchased for the college under the leadership of Boyd Lee Spahr, Esq. Debate team defeats Penn State. Men's basketball finishes its season with a second defeat...
Presidential candidate, William D. Upshaw, speaks to student body in Bosler Hall. The Debate Team, to begin try-outs shortly, has gotten the topics to be debated this season from Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Debating Association. The Board approved the purchase of the Mooreland Estate. The...
Herbert Hoover leads the student straw poll on the presidential election. Sophomores keep their flag in the annual Flag Scrap. Mob of Carlisle residents and students threatens a Football official, Earle Killinger, after the game against Muhlenberg. The Dickinson Alumnus suggests moving John...
Plans for Homecoming, which will be November 11 and 12, appear. Hoover wins student presidential poll. Freshmen punished by Tribunal. Endowments to be used to fund the education of underprivileged students given to Dickinson.
Announces speakers for Vocational Guidance Week. Committees appointed to help plan the Sesquicentennial dance. The Dickinson Debate team won a debate against Colgate. Article on initials carved into the "famous old stone steps" of Old West. The Men's Glee Club will travel to sing for Dickinson...
President Waugh and Dean Hitchler give alumni assurances about the direction the college is going in, even though it is a tough economic time. Dickinson's dog population continues to increase. Elections to the Board of Trustees are soon to come. Schedule of upcoming speakers at Chapel. Lindsey...
The football team wins against Allegheny by the wide margin of 21-0. The freshmen football team wins against the Carlisle Y.M.C.A team. A tea is held in honor of the president’s wife, Mrs. Frances Corson. The Archaeological Institute of America claims that the college is in possession of a very...
Changes in The Dickinsonian staff are announced. The Debate Team loses to Lafayette and will soon face off with Muhlenberg. The prom chairman announces the date of the Junior Prom. President Corson issues a budget for student groups. Professor Parlin perfects a portable intensitometer...
Fraternities hold initiation. The Junior class holds their annual dance for the first time in three years, and invitation is extended to all classes. The Women’s Glee Club prepares for three future performances. Arthur D. Kahler, from Brown University, is selected to be the new football coach....
The Women’s Glee Club performs for the Carlisle Civic Club. The basketball team defeats Bucknell. The Debate Team will face off with State College. Prayer Week begins. There is a change in the cast of the Dramatic Club play. The Men’s Glee Club is to begin a series of concerts...
Klein S. Merriman received the Class of 1902 Award for being the all-around Dickinsonian of the Junior class. The Greek Club initiates seven new members. W3YC, Dickinson’s amateur radio station, enters an international radio contest. Sigma Alpha Epsilon celebrates the 79th...
The results of the student poll on national politics are announced. The Debate Teams goes up against the University of Pennsylvania. The President of a university in China gives a talk about present day China and Eastern views. Hostilities between members of two fraternities...
Events for the inauguration of Fred P. Corson as president of the college are planned. The Dickinson Players present “The Late Christopher Bean” at Bosler Hall. The Biology Department attempts to draw a correlation between a person’s success and his birth month. A Dickinson French exchange...
The Debate Team will end the season with a debate later in the week. The golf team loses to Johns Hopkins. The Dramatic Club begins try-outs for the play “Lady Windermere’s Fan.” The tennis team loses to Bucknell. Forty new books are added to the library. Wheel and Chain taps...
Through the use of questionnaires, the American College Research Bureau outlines what quantities and brands of products students are more likely to buy. The Debate Team prepares for the big debate that will answer the question of whether or not Congress should have the power to set a minimum...
Robert L. Myers gives a talk on the newly enacted Social Security Act and unemployment in the country. After buying the adjacent properties, Dickinson plans to enlarge Biddle Field. The Debate Team schedule is posted. Fraternities and Sororities induct new members. In an effort to make peace...
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...
The Library’s annual budget of $6,000 will be reduced to $5,000 due to the end of a grant usually given to the library. Jocko, the Biology Lab’s six-foot boa constrictor, died after losing a fang and contracting an infection. Columbia won against Dickinson in the debate over minimum wage...
The Guest Day issue of the Dickinsonian. The annual celebration of Founder’s Day turns into a double celebration with the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the local chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. Bill Depp wins the Skull and Key Award for Outstanding Activity. Pennsylvanians celebrate the...
The Founder’s Day issue of the Dickinsonian. President Corson gives a speech concerning the childish views in which most people view religion, and promotes introspection as a way to fix personal problems and be happy. Wheel and Chain taps eight new members. Methodist Bishop and former...
Tribunal interviews and sentences five "unruly" freshmen, punishments to be a warning to other freshmen. Debate Club experiences a previously unheard of sixteen female students trying out for the squad, indicating future need for a women's squad. The Social Pathology class inspects the Tressler...
Dr. Everett R. Clinchy gives chapel address linking Nazi rise to power to the vindictive retaliation of America and its European allies towards Germany after World War I. Hon. Karl E. Richards, Judge of the Orphans' Court of Dauphin County and Dickinson alumnus, speaks at the Homecoming Day...
Charles W. Boote, city judge of Yonkers, New York, plans to speak at Dad's Day program. Union Philosophical Society elects twenty-four new members. The Halloween Barn Dance succeeds socially and financially. The Greek Club is set to re-enact an ancient Greek wedding. Prof. Mulford Stough...
Dickinson's newly founded Religious Association established policies, precedents, and procedures at their first ever meeting. A group of students will assist the Religious Association in a social survey of hospitals, plants, and prisons. Union Philosophical Society makes Wilbur M. Rabinowitiz...
