Dickinson Dramatic Club

The 63-strong senior class graduates, with Mildred Conklin as its valedictorian. Conklin, Edna Moyer, Edith Hornbough, Martlia Morrette, Albert Greene, and Edgar Lawrence are tapped to join Phi Beta Kappa, the national honors fraternity. The Dickinson Dramatic Club performs Afred Noyes' "Sherwood." Student Senate and Belles Lettres elect new officers. Rushing rules are changed, with fall fraternity pushed back to after Thanksgiving break.

The track team defeats Muhlenberg 73-53, and the baseball team loses to Ursinus at home, 4-3. The tennis team loses to Franklin & Marshall. Sports players from the different teams are profiled, including George C. Moose and Kenneth Bruce Vaughn. The track team is reviewed by their coach. Performances of the Glee Club and the Dramatic Club are scheduled. Kenneth Vaughn is also placed in the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame. Members of the sophomore class are initiated into the Skitch-A-Genee Sophomore Society.

The Dramatic Club elects their officers and reveals the plays they will be rehearsing in the coming year. The sophomore class is called upon to maintain the sight of President Nesbit’s grave, and the entirety of the college is called upon to clean up and maintain the Trophy Room.

Establishment of the Dickinson Dramatic Club. Biennial convention of Alpha Province of Phi Delta Theta. Speech given by Dr. Reed at Yale's Bi-Centennial Celebration.

The Sigma Tau Phi Jewish fraternity requests recognition by the college as a national fraternity.  Fred A. Lumb, president of the Dramatic Club, predicts "Children of the Moon" Christmas performance to be a great success.  Professor C.W. Prettyman defends new fashions of coeds, remarking "the pendulum of college activity may be swinging back to the Puritanical as far as Dickinsonians are concerned."  Following the resignation of Professor C. Ennis Wass as Glee Club leader, Mooredeen Plough has taken up responsiblities.

Fraternities forbid use of intoxicants and begin to lead weekly YMCA meetings.  The Dickinsonian reports that Professor Leon C. Prince and alum Russel R. Kohr are elected as State Senator and Assemblyman, respectively.  Despite rain, Dickinson College hosts its largest Homecoming yet, with six hundred at the reception.  Alumni, however, ask that the Homecoming contest be held in Carlisle in years to follow, as opposed to Harrisburg.  The Dramatic Club chooses the cast for its December rendition of the melodramatic play "Children of the Moon".

The Mohler Scientific Society plans a series of meetings: C. C. Bowman will speak on the Alpha Rayin the Tome Scientific Building; Dr. John Frederick Mohler will provide students an opportunity to view the moon through a telescope; and Dr. Brown of Bucknell University will speak on liquid air.  On Monday the 16th, two girls, Mary McCrone and Nancy Reese, were injured in an explosion in the chemistry lab.  The Dickinson Players announce that they will perform the three-act farce "Honor Bright" at Commencement.

Students await the performance of the Patton Troupe musical trio in the chapel.  The Dickinson Players dramatic club plan a three-act play entitled "The Patsy" in Bosler Hall.  G.M. Steinmetz, editor of the Harrisburg Telegraph, is secured by the Alpha Gamma fraternity to speak about and in favor of collegiate journalism.

Raymond Bell discusses the concept of television at a meeting of the Mohler Scientific Society.  Touring lecturer Samuel Grathwell to deliver his renowned "Getting by Your Hoodoo" speech on overcoming fears.  The basketball season ends with a game against Gettysburg.  The Dramatic Club presents its "Tea for Three" comedy show, starring Claude C. Bowman, Anna May Bell, and Fred A. Lumb.  The Student Senates meet with faculty to discuss student-faculty relations and the curriculum.

In this issue of the Dickinsonian, the Inter-Fraternity Council meets to discuss a new timeline for yearly Rush activities. President Morgan's health improves after a recent condition. In her chapel address, Cora Wilson Stewart, co-founder of the Moonlight Schools, calls to wipe out illiteracy by 1930. The Dramatic club will stage the comedies "Tea for Three" and "The Pastry." The Glee Club plans a tour of Central and Southern Pennsylvania. A collection of "Dickinson Lore" will be presented in an exhibition about the early days of the college. Progress continues on the new gymnasium.

Delegates from Dickinson College attend the Inter-Collegiate Government Conference in Harrisburg. Members of the Dickinson Dramatic Club present "Swamp Spirit" at the Cultural Olympics in Philadelphia. Student athlete Kinzie Weimer receives the Jacob Cohen, Phi Epsilon Pi trophy. Premier concert baritone, John Charles Thomas gives a concert in Carlisle. Dickinson alum Colonel William A. Ganoe to speak at Founders' Day event.