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Dickinsonian, December 7, 1900

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The twenty-sixth biennial Convention of the Phi Delta Theta is held. General Horatio C. King will lecture in Bosler Hall. The fourth Brockway performance was given.  Lafayette, Lehigh, Gettysburg, Swarthmore, Haverford and Ursinus are attempting to form a oratorical league.

Dickinsonian, November 15, 1911

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Football defeats Gettysburg 11-0. YMCA holds Week of Prayer.

Dickinsonian, February 28, 1912

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Preview of "The Private Secretary". Annual Washington's Birthday College Banquet is held. Gettysburg defeats Dickinson in last game of basketball season. Annual Mid-Winter Sigma Chi dance is held. Annual freshman smoker and parade occurs.

Dickinsonian, May 15, 1912

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Baseball defeats Gettysburg 4-3. Track ties Gettysburg. Gettysburg defeats tennis. President and Mrs. Noble hold reception for senior class. Senior class revives tradition of holding sings on steps of Old West. Adam Nagay and Lester W. Auman win sophomore oratorical contest. Senior class takes...

Dickinsonian, October 21, 1914

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Football game with Gettysburg is canceled over squabbles concerning player eligibility. Samuel Higgenbottom, Presbyterian missionary to India, speaks on agricultural improvement in India. Senior class election results. Students engage in impromptu late-night school spirit march.

Dickinsonian, October 28, 1914

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Gettysburg College accuses Dickinson of violating athletic contract. Alpha Chi Rho takes annual ride to Doubling Gap. Freshman class election results. Belles Lettres and Union Philosophical Society election results.

Dickinsonian, November 4, 1922

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Student run campaign expected to raise &125,000. Football season in full swing: 30 piece band to accompany team to Gettysburg and classes to be let out early, team to travel to Altoona for Bucknell game.

Dickinsonian, December 15, 1923

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Dickinson alumnus and professor Charles W. Super writes a book on college history, giving special attention to college traditions and student life during different periods. The Doll Show and Bazaar takes place in Metzger Hall. Plans for Christmas entertainment are announced, to include caroling...

Dickinsonian, March 10, 1932

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Worst men's basketball season in history ends with a defeat over Gettysburg. Grippe epidemic. Faculty obliges Women's Student Government Association's petition for explanation of demerit system. Men's Senate creates resolutions concerning the demerit system.

Dickinsonian, November 16, 1933

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Freshmen destroy Gettysburg banner at football game. Grades are the best in many years. Sophomore Vigilance Committee punishes freshmen. Omicron Delta Kappa plans to publish a Dickinson song book.

Dickinsonian, December 7, 1933

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Dickinson Players to put on "Icebound" by Owen Davis. Doll Show is planned. Robert "Josh" Bartley becomes football captain for 1934 season. Muhlenberg defeats Dickinson football in last game of season; overview of season. Gettysburg defeats men's soccer in final game of season. German club takes...

Dickinsonian, March 1, 1934

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Science publishes Dean E. A. Vuilleumier's article. Baksetball receives first defeat all year at hands of Gettysburg. German Club plans to attend Wagnerian opera. Young People's Fellowship discusses reasons behind drinking.

Dickinsonian, October 31, 1946

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William W. Edel is inaugurated college president. Athletic Board of Control continues in its policy not to play against Gettysburg. Earl Hee-Edward Seiber is elected president of German Club.

Dickinsonian, March 7, 1947

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Miriam Koontz, Jean Uhland, Fenton Adams, and Blake Spahr are elected to Phi Beta Kappa honorary fraternity. Omicron Delta Kappa taps seven new members. William T. Avery, Stacey E. Eaton, Richard M. Spong, John C. Pflaum, and John R. Embock are promoted from instructors to assistant professors....

Dickinsonian, November 10, 1951

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Frank J. Ayres, Jr., receives Susan Powers Hoffman chair of mathematics. Annual Campus Chest drive begins. New historical markers are unveiled and new lamposts are lit in ceremony. Homecoming pep rally and dance. Drayer Hall still under construction, should be completed by spring semester....

Dickinsonian, February 13, 1959

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President William Edel consents to extended term. Admissions plans class of '63 to be smallest in many years. Fire in kitchen of Phi Epsilon Pi house. Student Senate questions faculty changes. Frank A. Miller becomes history instructor; Jacqueline Smith Olin becomes chemistry instructor. Men's...

Dickinsonian, April 27, 1959

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Professor Katharine A. Bonney becomes Dean of Women. Campus Chest Drive is most successful yet. Library adopts new system for checking-out books. Gettysburg defeats men's lacrosse.

Dickinsonian, May 1, 1959

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Professor Daniel McDonald receives research grant from National Institute of Health. Philip B. Secor becomes political science instructor. Music department presents opera "Hansel and Gretel" in Carlisle Opera House (aka The Bucket). Mermaid Players present "Uncle Vanya". Possibilities for...

Dickinsonian, February 23, 1968

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Student Senate elections were held, with Tom Martin elected as president of the Senate. The Mermaid Players are slated to perform Richard Sheridan's "The Rivals" starting February 29 and ending March 2. Bucknell, Franklin and Marshall, Dickinson, Gettysburg, and Wilson are set to hold meetings...

Dickinsonian, November 10, 1988

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Study finds 78% of students think campus is discouraging of positive male-female relationships. College does not make U.S. News and World Report's top 25 liberal arts colleges. Leo Byron '58 speaks about his tenure as a hostage after a hijacking. Football defeats Gettysburg 21-7.
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