A shake-up of Dickinson's intramural system is under consideration by the Intramural Director which will reduce the number of intramural teams with hopes of students participating in different activities instead of intramural sports and in response to the slightly low number of participants in...
The Dickinsonian is ranked the second oldest college newspaper in the state. Dickinson offers a summer engineering course for recent high school graduates not entering college this fall. This is part of the federal government’s defense training plan. The points and hours system for...
Sororities gain new members as bids were accepted. The Dickinsonian will be involved in a nation-wide Student Opinion Surveys of America which will try to compile data on student's opinions (the first question will be "Are you for or against changing the neutrality laws so that American...
Junior class, Class of 1943, elects president. Student Senate decides that Rushing will not occur during the summer session. the 169th Commencement. Approximately 120 students are enrolled for the summer session. the 1942 Microcosm comes out on time. Six high school seniors are awarded Trustee...
Janet Respess is elected Mid-Winter Ball Queen. First January commencement ceremonies in Dickinson history to be held for wartime fast-track students. Stanley Wilson is elected president of Student Senate. Program of partial credit for partial semester completion adopted for those called to...
Activities fee budget is explained by Student Senate. Seniors debate having a Senior Ball in May.
Free Dickinsonian Summer Edition. Plans for Student Senate are drawn up. Colonel Smith, superintendent of College grounds, is interviewed. Ineffectiveness of Carlisle Police is deplored. Social Committee works to keep events interesting despite almost complete lack of male student body...
Annual Scholarship Dinner held in honor of "A" average students. Second and third floor hallways in Old West renovated. All-College Dance held. Chaplain Albert C. Oliver, Colonel U.S.A., '07 presents account of his activities as a P.O.W of the Japanese. Dr. John C. Hepler resigns from faculty to...
Forty veterans enroll at Dickinson. Skull and Key Society reactivates on campus. Orientation Committee becomes new and permanent section of the Student Senate. John Gibson '47 is elected president of the Methodist Student Conference. Dickinson Students attend Mock Congress. Plans for a new women...
W.W. Edel is elected college President by Trustees. Ph. B degree is dropped. Trustees appoint new faculty. Phi Beta Kappa choose nine seniors. Wheel and Chain and Debate Squad Reactivate. Professor Craver retires. Student Senate reorganizes. College Award honorary degrees.
Inauguration of President William Wilcox Edel is planned. Former president C. William Prettyman dies from cardiovascular disease. Helen B. Norcross becomes dean of women. The Commons in the old gymnasium and the chemistry laboratory in the Tome Scientific Building are remodeled. Warren Spencer...
Robert Crist is elected senior class president, James Yingling vice-president, Barbara Macy secretary, and David Berner treasurer. Robert G. Crist is also elected president of Union Philosophical Society. President Edel returns responsibility for drawing up the student budget to the senate's...
March of Dimes begins. Fred Wilson is elected Student Senate chairman. William Lonsdale Taylor becomes head of political science department. Virginia Rickenbach elected Mid-Winter Ball queen.
Student Senate amends its constitution. Faculty denies Student Senate request for coeds to be permitted to visit fraternity houses without chaperones. Freshmen win women's interclass basketball tournament.
Ten seniors elected to national scholastic honor society Phi Beta Kappa. Raven's Claw taps seven seniors. Herbert Sheidy is elected president of Student Senate. Editorial staff for 1947-1948 Microcosm is announced. Russell I. Thompson succeeds Ernest A. Vuilleumier as College Dean. Whitfield J....
Professor of English Charles L. Swift retires. Enrollment rises above 900 for the first time in college history. A massive reappraisal project is undertaken to include all academic departments and extra-curricular activities. Significant changes are made to attendance, grading, and vacation...
Dean of Students Russel I. Thompson declares that no exams will be given on the day after major dances. An exhibit of American Folk art is held in Bosler Hall. The psychology department begins offering career aptitude examinations to students. The student senate president calls for an inquiry...
Sociology students conduct a survey of housing conditions for white residents to Carlisle and a broader study of African-American residents' living conditions and experiences. The Board of Trustees approves significantly increased salaries for faculty and creates the new position of professor...
Plans for the celebration of the college's 175th anniversary are announced. A committee of 50 students will help the administration to draw up the plans for this celebration. The Campus Chest drive reports having received 16% of their goal in donations at the close of its first week. A...
A second meeting of members of the "Little Three" was held, at which several plans for inter-college cooperation were laid, including the immediate creation of a Little Three basketball team and the sharing of news items between the colleges' respective newspapers each week. The queen and court...
Eighty students are to be honored at the annual "A" banquet, given each year to recognize those students receiving an overall A average during either semester in the year preceding the banquet. A new president and executive board of the Student Athletic Association is elected. Music critic and...
The first annual Inter-fraternity weekend begins. A proposal for a student disciplinary committee is introduced to the Student Senate. Painter Grant Reynard visits Dickinson to give a lecture and a small demonstration of his work. The basketball team participates in the Middle Atlantic...
An overview of Student Senate's report on popular elections appears, calling for a petition system to nominate candidates and outlining the duties of a popularly elected president. The local journalistic fraternity, Alpha Sigma Gamma, receives a charter from the national Pi Delta Epsilon. The...
The motion for the popular election of officers of the Student Senate was defeated by a vote of 9-4. The date for the Little Theater's spring production of Macbeth is set. The Choral Club completes a three-day tour of churches and schools in neighboring Altoona. Three Dickinson basketball...
Kappa Sigma hosts delegates from seven schools for the fraternity's Pennsylvania convention. The Little Theater's production of Macbeth opens to good reviews. The Intercollegiate Conference on Government hosts a mock presidential election. Phi Delta Theta takes fist place in the 175 anniversary...
