Dickinsonian, November 15, 1905

The Dickinson branch of the YMCA will present the annual Week of Prayer November 20-24. For the first time in several years a home football game is celebrated with a parade, following the team's victory over Lehigh. Saturday morning chapel is cancelled to allow students to travel to Williamsport to support the football team in their game against State College. The Damage Committee holds a meeting to clarify its rules and policies. 

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Dickinsonian, May 4, 1933

The Student Social Committee has finished its report on social rules at Dickinson and it will be considered at the next meeting of this committee and the Faculty Social Committee. Parents are especially invited to visit on Mother's Day. More work is put into the plans and preparations of the pageant celebrating the Sesquicentennial. Eligibility for awarding Varsity Letters is modified. The Men's Senate decides that elections for the senate will be held in a modified form of the traditional methods, despite all of the criticism students have given this process.

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Dickinsonian, April 6, 1933

Leo Tolstoy's youngest daughter spoke in Chapel. Official dates of the Sesquicentennial were set as Oct, 20-22, 1933. Men's Student Senate and representatives from each dorm (including Metzger Hall) meet to discuss changes to Dickinson's rules and laws. Faculty releases their view on the campus' social rules. Article on prominent professions for graduates of Dickinson. Students contemplate the way that student government operates with separate senates for men and women and if they should make one senate for both sexes to utilize.

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Dickinsonian, March 23, 1933

Announces speakers for Vocational Guidance Week. Committees appointed to help plan the Sesquicentennial dance. The Dickinson Debate team won a debate against Colgate. Article on initials carved into the "famous old stone steps" of Old West. The Men's Glee Club will travel to sing for Dickinson alumni clubs in New Jersey and New York.

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Dickinsonian, March 2, 1933

Student committee on social affairs and the faculty social committee to change organization of social functions. About 25 students plan to go to Washington, D.C. for Franklin Roosevelt's presidential inauguration. Junior class votes to have Microcosm dedicated to Mr. Malcolm, the college's treasurer and superintendent of the grounds and buildings. Plans for students to go to a performance of one of Wagner's operas commence. Metzger Hall gets brighter lights by request of its residents. President Waugh proposes changes to the curriculum, which the faculty will vote on soon.

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Dickinsonian, February 16, 1933

The Board of Trustees met and discussed modernizing the campus, the endowment, and alumni contributions. A speakers' bureaus will be formed to allow students to practice public speaking outside of debating. Plans for the Miami Triad formal dance, hosted by Beta Theta Pi, Phi Delta Theta and Sigma Chi, are almost complete. Speech on "Patriotism versus Nationalism" will occur at the next meeting of the Young People's Fellowship. Belles Lettres Society to gain new officers.

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Dickinsonian, December 8, 1932

Approximately 40 sentences were given out to Freshmen by the Men's Student Tribunal for various infractions. Board of Trustees decides to offer 5 scholarships (full tuition for the students' first year) to those students with the best essays about John Dickinson. Article recounting the Phi Delta Theta convention at Dickinson, held the previous weekend. The first issue of the new literary magazine came out with much success. The Athletic Association has a new constitution proposed--article includes the proposal.

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Dickinsonian, October 6, 1932

Professor of History, Leon C. Prince, seeks re-election to state senate. Rushing continues for potential new fraternity pledges, while sorority rushing ends. Dickinsonian celebrates 60th anniversary. Dickinson Law School has 54 new men enrolled. The Football team is to open the season with a game against Ursinus . Dickinsonian to conduct straw vote for US Presidential Election.

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