The annual banquet of the Baltimore Alumni of Dickinson College is held, presenting the progress of the College over the years. The evening ends with the presentation of $1000 to President Reed to be spent in whatever he considers the College's best interests. The Union Philosophical Literary Society celebrates its one-hundred-and-seventeenth anniversary.
The annual mid-winter sports cup is held in the college gymnasium. Those men wishing to join the baseball team are called to begin practice for the upcoming season. Horatio C. King, '58, author of Songs of Dickinson and A History of Dickinson College writes another college song. A call is made for a new college yell which would be more distinctively Dickinsonian, rather than similar to those of other institutions. The Inter-society debate between the Belles Lettres and Union Philosophical societies is held in Bosler Hall.
In their first meeting in three years, Dickinson College loses the football game against the Carlisle Indian School with a final score of 36-0. Dickinson Alumni Claud M. Stauffer, class of 1905, leads the Carlisle Indian School band during the Dickinson-Indian game. False reports of a brawl between the Dickinson and Carlisle Indian School students published by the Philadelphia Press are rejected. The class of 1870 holds a reunion in Philadelphia. The Faculty is encouraged to make important announcements through The Dickinsonian instead of at Chapel.