Update on the 1902 Microcosm. Union Philosophical Society Election Results. Juniors will hold a cremation ceremony. New York Association of the Alumni of Dickinson College's annual dinner in the Germania Club.
The College Alumni of the Central Pennsylvania Conference held a banquet. Annual session of the Philadelphia Conference held at Stroudsburg. Financial statements for the Athletic Association. Freshmen banquet in the Assembly Hall. Beta Theta Pi reception. Annoucenment of debate between Dickinson and State College in Bosler Hall. Programs for the Belles Lettres Society and Union Philosophical Society.
The play Uncle Rube was presented by students at the Carlisle Opera House. Dr. Reed clears up rumors about his career path. Update on the 1902 Mircrocosm. Obituary for Dickinson graduate William Andrew Snively. Comments on the lack of light in dormitory buildings. Belles Lettres Society and Union Philosophical Society election results.
Summary of Washington's birthday celebration. Beta Theta Pi dinner. Debate between Belles Lettres Society and the Union Philosophical Society, in which the Union Philosophical Society Wins. Article on various youth societies and movements. Article outlining the honor system used at Wesleyan University. Update on the upcoming Microcosm. Summary of the Philadelphia alumni banquet.
Major Pilcher lectures the college on the subject of family. Beta Theta Pi held a dinner party. The Reed and Dare prizes are presented to students for academic excellence. McKinley supper given to Beta Theta Pi. Election results for the Union Philosophical Society.
Belles Lettres is victorious in the Annual Founder's Day contest. Student Senate elections are postponed to address the issues that the Senate's current composition of nine fraternity men to five Commons' Club men will remain. Robert H. Duffy will be assisting Coach Johnson with the football team this coming season. Prof. Prince continues his campaign for a seat in Congress.
The Dickinson Relay team takes second at the Middle Atlantic Class B College Championship. Nominations are made for Student Senate. Sophomores win the annual tug-of-war, pulling the freshman into LeTort Spring. A celebration of Founder's Day and May Day is planed for May 13th. The festivities will close with a contest between Belles Lettres and the Union Philosophical Society consisting of an original oration, a debate, an impromptu, and a humorous selection. Plans for freshman entertainment in the fall are accepted by the Interfraternity Council. Offices are announced for the Y.W.C.A.
Despite cold weather, the Annual College Picnic is a great success. The Belles Lettres Society received a letter from well-known minister and author Henry Van Dyke. The Interfraternity Scholarship Cup is presented to Phi Kappa Sigma. A meeting of the Interfraternity Council rejects the proposed arrangements for first year / fraternity interactions. A more moderate proposal calls for a series of gatherings in the college gymnasium where freshman will be the guests of fraternities. A novice tennis tournament is held to discover talent for next season's team.
Belles Lettres Society and Union Philosophical Society elections. General Horatio C. King will be at commencement. Senior Class honors. Karmarian Club outing.
Sophomore Oratorical Contest of the Union Philosophical Society. Lecture on "German survivals" in Bosler Hall by Dr. Larned. State Oratorical Contest held in Lancaster. Sophomore Oratorical Contest of the Belles Lettres Society.
Student Volunteer Convention in Toronto. Athletic Committee takes up the subject of school colors. Union Philosophical Society election results. Law School Reception.
Inter-Society debate between the Union Philosophical Society and Belles Lettres Society, in which the former wins. Washington Birthday Celebration. Belles Lettres Literary Society's anniversary in Bosler Hall. Phi Kappa Psi smoker. Senior class reception.
Union Philosophical Society's anniversary. Announcement of the Dramatic Club's play at the Carlisle Opera House. Delta Chi holds a reception. Notes and comments on the school banquet. Omega Psi has a reception.
The Freshmen win the annual Freshmen-Sophomore football game. Glee and Mandolin club trip to Mechanicsburg. Union Philosophical Society anniversary. Belles Lettres Society election results. Belles Lettres Society anniversary.
Class Day is planned. Commencement is planned. Rising Sophomore John Burnite is selected to spend summer at German student labor camp. YMCA and YWCA are replaced with Dickinson College Religious Association. Interfraternity Council denies Phi Epsilon Pi and Sigma Tau Phi's requests to join. Belles Lettres Society and Union Philosophical Society unite to form Union Literary Society. Dramatic Club presents "The Fugitive". Summary of men's basketball, men's cross-country and men's tennis seasons.
Robert Bartley wins 1902 Class Award. Eddie Steele is elected basketball captain. C. R. Walther Thomas speaks to Union Philosophical Society about the state of Germany and Nazism. Omicron Delta Kappa convention held at Dickinson. Professor Mulford Stough speaks to Young People's Fellowship about the threat of war in the Balkans and Central Europe. Sigma Alpha Epsilon wins intramural basketball tournament. J. Gardner Zerby breaks college backstroke record.
German Club plans to attend Wagnerian opera, invites all students and Carlislians. Omicron Delta Kappa to hold convention at Dickinson. President Morgan dissolves All-College Social committee. Fifty students begin on-campus work under provisions of Civil Works Administration. Union Philosophical society hears speech on Nazism. Basketball wins last game of season. Portraits in Bosler Hall are rearranged.
The track team defeats Lehigh 71 to 55 in its opening match of the season. The Freshman baseball team defeats the Sophomores, thus revoking the "girl rule." Belles Lettres defeats UPS in the groups' intersociety informal debate and speech contest. Small improvements are made to college buildings, including painting and landscaping. Dickinson faculty compile a reading list of 50 influential and interesting books.The 1925 Microcosm yearbook is copyrighted. The Press Club reorganizes with intention to be active during the next academic year.
The Dramatic Club's production of Clarence debuts. Belles Lettres and UPS plan a contest to include informal debates and speeches. A survey of the most popular names among Dickinson students appears. The Alumni Council requests the cooperation of undergraduate students for the preparation of banquets and commencement activities for alumni due to overwhelming interest. Professor Leon C. Prince begins actively campaigning for the Republican party nomination for Congress after announcing his candidacy a week prior.
Omicron Delta Kappa taps six juniors for membership. Union Philosophical Society, Belles Lettres, Wheel and Chain, and Lambda Sigma Pi (honorary scientific society) elect officers.
Traveler/self-educated savant/newsboy/bum Samuel H. "King" Cole passes through campus to collect autographs to add to his fifty-volume set of the people he meets, which includes Neville Chamberlain, King George VI, and President F.D. Roosevelt. Colonel Philip Mathews, supervisor of the Works Progress Association, is announced as speaker at the annual Union Philosophical Society banquet. Edgar Washabaugh, one of the ten students training in personal flight with the Civil Aeronautics Authority, is the first of that group to fly solo across the country.
The Social Committee announces that the Alex Bartha Orchestra will provide entertainment at the second annual Mid-Winter Ball. Belles Lettres and the Union Philosophical Society announce an inter-society debate, with the goal of rejuvenating the societies' age-old rivalry.
George S. Williams '00, Delaware's lone Congressional Representative, speaks in chapel for Homecoming Weekend. Members of the Dickinsonian editorial staff travel to Lewisburg for a conference of the Intercollegiate Newspaper Association, of which current editor-in-chief Paul Gorsuch '40 is president. Union Philosophical Society reverses their previous decision and accepts Belles Lettres' invitation for an inter-society debate. The Mermaid is returned, and President Fred P. Corson announces that it will move to the Tome Scientific Building, replaced by a replica on top of Old West.
The Bobolino Group Theatre performs "Candida" to an audience of 200 in Denny Hall. Union Philosophical Society rejects Belles Lettres' invitation for an inter-society debate and appoints Professor Wellman J. Warner as its new adviser. Chinese student I-Ying Li finally arrives on campus after significant problems leaving his home country due to war activity. The football team loses their first game of the season to Washington and Jefferson, after going four games undefeated.
William Walter Van Kirk, director of the National Peace Conference, addresses chapel. Professor Cornelius W. Fink resigns as adviser for the Union Philosophical Society. Belles Lettres announces that, in addition to publishing the Hornbook, it will hold an essay contest open to the entire student body.