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The Track team takes first in it's division at the Intercollegiate Central Pennsylvania track meet and will continue on to Middle Atlantics. Student Senate elections are held, with the ballots unchanged, and results are announced. Extensive plans continue to be made for the 143rd commencement;...

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The Glee Club prepares for this season's first long tour, traveling to Virginia and and West Virginia. The Senate voted to become a member of the National Student Federation of the United States of America. Three Dickinsonians will participate this summer in the orchestra group, the Dickinson...

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Freshman class enrollment is a record high. Practices begin for what is promised to be "Dickinson's greatest football team of the present decade." Fraternities commence rushing for new members. The College is left a large sum by Robert Weaver, class of 1875. Faculty changes this year bring May...

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Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart will lecture on illiteracy. President Morgan is taken to the hospital having suffered from a breakdown. Prof. F.E. Craver is considered for a supervising football coach next year. The Dickinson Players will present the comedy Tea For Three. Men's Senate passed a...

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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...

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The Literary Societies plan their rushing program.  C. Lincoln Brown is elected vice president of Student Senate.

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YWCA plans May breakfast for Founders' Day.  Plans for senior class picnic.  Glee club nominates officers.  Students volunteer to fight forest fires on South Mountain.  Interfraternity Council elects officers.  Student Senate passes legislation concerning election of campus organization officers...

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Funds for a new library are expected to be raised over the next four years. The Dramatic Club announces the cast for their April production of "Tommy." The Interfraternity Council announces a new resolution regarding alumni in the rushing process. Student Senate passes a resolution that will...

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Work begins on the new Phi Delta Theta colonial house. Distribution and sale of the 1932 Microcosm will take place in Bosler starting next week. Senate approves the 1931-1932 budget and passes two new rules involving elections. Founder's Day breakfast will be held by YWCA. The freshman badges...

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The men's and women's glee club put on their first combined performance since 1925. The old Phi Delta Theta house will be turned into a psychology lab. The radio transmitter built by Dickinson students is fully operational and reaches several other radio stations in the eastern half of the...

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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...

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The Board of Trustees chooses Reverend Dr. Fred Pierce Corson to be the college’s twentieth president. The freshmen beat the sophomores in the Evening Scrap. In addition to choosing a new president, the Board of Trustees also created an alumni fund and a new scheme of athletic control. Senate...

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Professor Leon C. Prince gives a talk on the Golden Rule as aid for an economy recovery for the country. The soccer team loses to Delaware. The Debate Squad elects new officers. The Deputation Committee meets and plans out their work for the year. More freshmen are penalized by the Men's...

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The basketball team wins in a game against Gettysburg. A German exchange student states his opinions of the college. Dr. Phillips Packer Elliott is to lead the Dickinson Week of Prayer. Five members of the faculty play in a basketball game. Omicron Delta Kappa presents a plan to form a new...

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The Athletic Association compiles the "official" rules for all intramural sports to be presented in a handbook for the upcoming academic year. Student Senate elects a new president and members of the Committee on Committees for the 1936-1937 academic year. 

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In honor of Armistice Day, Gilbert Malcolm gives a talk entitled “Memories of a Soldier,” based on his experiences fighting in World War I. A Peace Panel, held at a local church, discusses whether a pacifistic plan or educating the common man in defensive warfare is a better plan to lead us to...

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The Senate’s request for an extended Thanksgiving Break was denied by the Board of Deans. The Greek Club is to present Aristophanes’ The Birds. The College Date Bureau is now available for student use. The men are to submit their height, name, and class, and the women are then allowed to choose...

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Plans for the content of this year’s Microcosm are expanded. The Dramatic Club has started rehearsing for its next production, The Royal Family. The Student Senate discusses ways to create a better relationship between Gettysburg and Dickinson and how to increase scholarship...

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The seniors are honored in a five day program, including addresses and the academic procession. The baseball team ended their losing streak in a victory against Delaware. This year is the fiftieth anniversary of the graduation of the first woman of Dickinson College. A Dickinson songbook is...

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Renown chemist and member of the class of 1869 Dr. Wilbur Fiske Horn passes away at the age of ninety-one. Student Senate calls special meeting in response to police intervention in freshmen and sophomore fights

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Student Senate changes tenure of freshman rules, voting to end them after the first semester of the academic year. Social Committee begins planning carnival.

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Head speakers in religious forum announced. Senate recommends three new bylaws be added to Constitution. Track team announces plans for season.

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Fraternities, the All-College Social Committee, and other clubs prepare for the Annual Doll Dance and Doll Show.  Student Senate alters election procedures.  Elmer C. Herber speaks on "The Heart and Its Functions" to Lambda Sigma Pi, the science fraternity.  Belles Lettres initiates new members...

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Student Senate organizes a pep rally for the big game against Gettysburg in response to the noticeable lack of spirit by students in the recent past. The head librarian at Dickinson, May Morris, suffers a fall from the library stairs, leaving her with both wrists broken and severe spine and...

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The College Symphony Orchestra gives its first concert of the academic year, the customary Winter Concert. Student Senate proposes a change in the extra-curricular activities policy in place, fighting to eliminate value points and hour requirements to help keep academic averages up.

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