Schedule for commencement activities is published. The committee for organizing Class Day is chosen. Seniors R. M. Parker, R. B. Weaver, and W. C. Gross lecture to Scientific Society. Literary societies plan sophomore contests. G. W. Miller, J. A. H. Barnitz, A. R. Bender, and Ed. Hilton are elected Dickinsonian editors. Baseball club is formed with C. W. Emmerich as president.
Belles Lettres Society celebrates its eighty-eighth anniversary. Union Philosophical Society celebrates its eighty-fifth anniversary. Senior J. W. Wetzel presents research on arsenic detection to Scientific Society.
Union Philosophical Society faces turmoil over attempt to charge debaters to have their names engraved on invitations. G. W. Miller, J. A. Barnitz, and C. W. Emmerich become new leaders of Belles Lettres Society. The college and ministers from town engage in a day of prayer for colleges.
Scientific Society discusses experiments. Suggestions are made for the libraries of the Union Philosophical and Belles Lettres Societies.
Revisions made to the Pennsylvania Constitution by the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention are discussed. A letter from Representative Hendrick B. Wright is published.
The Belles Lettres Society holds their anniversary celebration, with a disappointing Anniversarian speaking. The Union Philosophical Society also holds its anniversary celebration, with a more adept Anniversarian. Complaints of the marking system run rampant around campus.
The need for secular books in the college’s reading room is discussed. Alumni in Philadelphia move for the creation of a national alumni association, the American Alumni Association. The Union Philosophical Society abolishes customary invitations to their annual banquet. The story of President Jesse T. Peck’s brief stay in an insane asylum is recounted.
The College Regatta is discussed, and its benefits debated. The Dickinsonian announces the possible institution of a law course into the curriculum. The death of the valedictorian of 1874 in memorialized, with special inserts by the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity and the Union Philosophical Society. President McCauley returns from the British Wesleyan Conference to fanfare from the Carlisle Band.
Commencement week is detailed. J. Richard Parkison and E. H. Conklin win Pierson Prizes in Junior oratorical contest. Class Day is detailed. First Class Spread is a success. Board of Trustees meets. Alumni Association holds annual meeting. J. W. Wetzel, G. H. Miller, J. R. Parkison, and W. L. Gooding are elected Dickinsonian editors. J. Y. Dobbins and C. F. Robbins are elected secretaries; E. F. Hilton is elected treasurer. Senior D. M. Graham holds class party. Henry Thomas wins Union Philosophical Society's sophomore oratorical contest. Jno. F.
The Belles Lettres and Union Philosophical Societies abolish their initiation fees. The Belles Lettres Sophomore Contest and Union Philosophical Society Sophomore Contest are held. A group of undergraduate students steal from a senior reception two freezers full of ice cream. Students visit Gettysburg Battlefield on Decoration Day. The second annual Field Day of the State Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association of Pennsylvania is held. Dickinson ties Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg in baseball.
Complaints are aired about the random nature of the oratorical awards given by the Literary societies. The Sophomores beat the Freshmen in baseball 53 to 4. The Belles Lettres Society holds its annual Sophomore Contest, as does the Union Philosophical Society. Baseball games are rained out.
A committee of Union Philosophical Society and Belles Lettres Society members is formed to revise the "Joint Rules" for using the libraries. The Dickinsonian defends its existence in the wake of complaints from students. Seniors begin competitions for the Scientific Society prize. Baseball games abound between picked teams, Carlisle teams, and class teams.
The bowling alleys are the most popular part of the new gymnasium. Interest forms over the Inter-Collegiate Mock Trial, and in preparation the Belles Lettres and Union Philosophical Societies decide not to hold anniversaries. The sophomores hold a class supper.
Professors Super and Morgan are added to the staff at Dickinson. A field is donated to the college for student athletics. Class spirit sags as Freshman avoid traditional hazing and fraternities pit members of the same class against each other. The Union Philosophical Society decides that it will not admit women. A cricket club is formed. The builder for the Bosler Memorial Library Hall is selected.
The Union Philosophical Society emerges victorious against the Belles Lettres Society in the Annual Inter-Society Debate. The Combined Musical Clubs deliver an excellent program at Shippensburg, with Director John Craig King producing an exceptional Mandolin Club. Phi Delta Theta celebrates a fraternal Alumni Day with a banquet.
The annual inter-society debate between the Belles Lettres Society and Union Philosophical Society is set to take place. Dickinson's YMCA invite S.M. Sayford to speak to all "Christian men of the college." Dances are held by Phi Kappa Psi and the Comus Club.
"On a slippery field" Dickinson loses to State by one touchdown, 6-0. Dr. C.T. Winchester of Wesleyan University gives the first lecture of the Civic Club course in the opera house. Members of the Union Philosophical and Belles Lettres literary societies choose question and candidate for the Inter-Society Debate.
Union Philosophical and Belles Lettres had their annual debate, Union Philosophical was declared the winner. The topic was "That the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution should be repealed." The Lyric Club will hold a concert in Bosler Hall.
Union Philosophical Society celebrates 116 years. The Alumni Record is completed. Students worry they will not have their annual banquet.
Prohibition League elects next year's officers. Commencement programme is detailed. Annual cap scrap occurs. Union Philosophical Society elects officers.
Annual Mid-Winter Sports event is held. L. Wellington Johnson, Elmer L. Williams and Frank P. Fleegal of the Union Philosophical Society defeat Thomas J. Towers, George L. Reed and George E. Mark of Belles Lettres in the annual inter-society debate on a question of arbitration in strikes. The Dickinson Library Guild petitions the Board of Trustees for approval of its existence and work. Union Philosophical Society elects officers.
Harman Literary Society performs a section of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Toasters for the College Banquet are announced. Union Philosophical Society celebrates its 116th anniversary with debates and music.
Union Philosophical Society plans its anniversary celebration. Dick the dog is sent to a taxidermist; the autopsy indicates pneumonia as cause of death, not poison, as had been rumored. Dramatic Club to put on "Charley's Aunt".
Football team refuses to play against Carlisle Indian School because the latter will not agree to shortened halves. Dr. Hutchins replaces Ralph Hutchinson in department of Physiology and Hygiene and Physical Culture. Office of The Dickinsonian moves from South College to the former Book Room of East College. J. A.
Combined Musical Clubs make annual spring break tour. YMCA Presidents' Convention to be held at Dickinson. Simon Pauxtis is selected as baseball and football coach for 1912. Description of the work of the Library Guild. Sophomores win annual Sophomore-Freshman basketball game. Union Philosophical Society holds elections.