Student Senate considers new organization of itself. Athletic committee sells baseball season tickets in effort to engage townspeople. Sigma Alpha Epsilon celebrates its anniversary. Thermae Club holds Founders' Day banquet.
The YWCA holds a very successful night of entertainment, including musical and theatrical acts. The editors complain of the incorrect reports and anti-Dickinson attitude in the Carlisle newspapers and the Carlisle community of "know-it-alls" at large. The last Comus Club dance of the year is planned. Sigma Alpha Epsilon holds a dance at the Armory. YMCA holds its officer elections. Belles Lettres and Union Philosophical Society celebrate their anniversaries with a lecture by Dr. W. V.
Students light firecrackers in classrooms, then vandalize the town. Juniors defeat Sophomores in first baseball game of season. A glee club is formed. Seniors plant a class tree and bury a time capsule with it. Phi Kappa Psi holds fifteenth annual symposium.
General Alumni Reunion is planned. College vs. Townies baseball game. Reconstruction of the limestone wall bordering campus begins. Dickinson chapter of Phi Kappa Sigma to celebrate its anniversary.
Dickinson students are accused of being behind an apparent haunting in Carlisle. Supreme Court of Pennsylvania denies college students the right to vote at school. J. W. Hendrix donates rocks to college museum.
Baseball defeats Franklin and Marshall. Distinguished alumnus Alexander Ramsey dies. Spring Sports event planned. Louis Heib donates specimens to college mineralogical collection. Carlisle physicians team up to purchase an induction coil for use with the Dickinson x-ray machine.
John V. Shoemaker, '72, is appointed director of the Philadelphia Department of Health and Charities. The Carlisle High School Crucible publishes a special issue written by Dickinson faculty and students. Professor Stephens decides to experiment with pigeon raising at his house on College Street.
Annual Week of Prayer for Colleges upcoming. John DeWitt Miller to give a lecture, hosted by the YMCA. Dr. Prince is made an honorary member of the Union Philosophical Society. Many students returned home to vote in the presidential election. "Sound Money" students participate in a demonstration in Carlisle. Dr. Reed gives a speech on campaign issues at the Court House, and then in response to the negative article about it in the Carlisle Sentinel, challenges any local Democrat to a debate, which none accept.
An elderly Carlisle local is released from the hospital after over a month after being injured by Dickinson freshmen during a pep parade. The undefeated freshman football team will battle another undefeated team, Gettysburg, in a game this weekend. Esther Chambers, vice president of the Women's Student Government Association, attends the annual meeting of the Women's Intercollegiate Association as one of sixty delegates from forty-two universities across the nation. Two students, Edgar Bayler and Anna Greene, are involved in an automobile accident due to wet roads.
YWCA plans May breakfast for Founders' Day. Plans for senior class picnic. Glee club nominates officers. Students volunteer to fight forest fires on South Mountain. Interfraternity Council elects officers. Student Senate passes legislation concerning election of campus organization officers. President Filler appeals to alumni for funding for Alumni Gymnasium.
Interfraternity Council has pledges clean Lindner Park to improve college-community relations. Rowland R. Lehman dies. Sir Robert Chance to speak at commencement.
An honor code will be introduced to new freshmen starting next semester as requested by many students. Methodist churches of the Central Pennsylvania Conference will observe college day, meaning that they will focus on the idea of Christian Education. Students and faculty of Dickinson will go speak at 56 churches on behalf of this event. Dr. William Sloane's book on children's literature has been so widely accepted and praised by critics that it requires a second printing. Dr. Elmer Herber, professor of biology, receives the Darbecker Award from the Pennsylvania Academy of Science.