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.
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.
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 annual trip to Luray Caverns. Student Senate elections are held. Class of 1915 elects its officers.
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.
Football defeats Gettysburg 11-0. YMCA holds Week of Prayer.
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.
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.
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.
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 trip to Baltimore German-speaking church. Student Senate creates budget with large cuts to student organizations and a restructuring of the Microcosm's financing. Dickinson Club of West Branch Valley (alumni club near Williamsport) is founded.
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.
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 and a collection of donations for underprivileged children in Tennessee. An informal debate with Gettysburg is planned for after the holiday break. Belles Lettres holds a spelling bee and a debate on coeducation at Dickinson in a joint meeting with the Harmon and McIntyre women's literary societies.
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.
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. Gettysburg defeats Dickinson football 34-7.
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. E. A. Vuilleumier resigns as Dean of the College; Russell I. Thompson to take over. Beta Theta Pi wins intramural swim meet. Basketball defeats Gettysburg but loses to Bucknell.
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.
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 college radio station explored. ROTC faculty are reassigned. Professors Asa W. Climenhaga, Freidrich Sandels, and Mary B. Taintor retire. Events planned for Mother's Weekend. Professor George H. Frogen teaches local children Russian. Music classes added to summer session.
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.
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 swimming defeats Gettysburg. Professor William L. Taylor embarks on lecture tour of Near East and Far East on American way of life for State Department.
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.
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 to decide what to do with a grant from the Danforth Commission. Paul Kaylor announced that the Public Affairs Symposium for 1969 would be more of a symposium than a lecture series. The IFC held a series of lectures on life within a fraternity.