The new school year begins with a large freshman class, and publication of the names of those who matriculated. Physical Director, Professor Forrest E. Craver resigns and is replaced by John W. Williams, '04. A list of the prizes awarded at the 1905 Commencement, both college and law school,...
The members of the Glee and Mandolin clubs are selected from a large group of interested and talented men. The YMCA procures new hymn books. The editors write on the worth of small colleges. An inter-fraternity meeting is held. The Freshmen are reminded to obey the rules, and the Sophomores...
Improvements are made to the athletic fields to keep the crowd from surging onto the field. Students are encouraged to attend the upcoming football game against the Carlisle Indian School and ticket prices are reduced so more students can attend. Freshman are reminded to obey the rules set by...
The Athletic Committee and President Reed discuss the possibility of introducing soccer to the campus on an inter-class and inter-fraternity level. The resources for a varsity team are not yet available, but if enough interest is shown such a team could be formed. The Intercollegiate Football...
A Dickinson branch of the Tau Kappa Alpha national debating fraternity is established. Freshman Picnic is held. Slight changes are made to class rules.
A visiting evangelist leaves Dickinson after a week’s stay. The track schedule is completed for this year’s season, as is next year’s football season schedule. A proposed amendment to the student assembly’s constitution that would have only allowed men to serve was shot down...
A chapter of the Theta Chi fraternity installed at the College. New rules concerning the enforcement of the Freshman Rules adopted by Senate.
Freshmen celebrate Washington's birthday. Week of Prayer is observed. Dickinsonians lead the Four Minute Men. List of freshman rules.
A Dickinson in China fundraiser drive begins with a goal of $2,000, to be put towards the maintenance of a professor at the West China Union University. Joe Lightner is reelected head football coach for the 1924 season. A feature on West China Union University, its history, and graduates appears...
The Dickinsonian holds an exam to select new editorial staff members for the following academic year. Plans for the senior party and a picnic are laid out, as well as a tentative date for Class Day. Twenty-seven members of Dickinson's chapter of the Pi Beta Phi sorority are hosted at a reception...
Basketball team beats Haverford. Committee on Athletics issues explanation of 1925 football schedule. Article from F & M's "Student Weekly" is published, critiquing honor system at University of Virginia. Proctors lose right to suspend freshman rules after meeting of Tribunal.
Fred E. Sweeley chosen as the football team's new captain. Religion questionnaire for students included. Deferred rushing and pledging is extensively discussed at the National Inter-fraternity Conference. Article on the variation of Freshman rules amongst colleges and universities statewide....
John Hall Hopkins of the junior class is named the most outstanding Dickinsonian as he receives the distinguished 1902 Award. The German department expands is repertoire of classes to include a course entitled Cultural History of the German and Scandinavian People. German will be made the...
All freshman rules are suspended for the rest of the semester by the Tribunal, marking another step in the evolution away from traditional rules.
"D" Banquet held; new rules of football league are presented. Men's Senate resolves to increase freshman rules. Annual prayer week begins. President Karl T. Waugh creates teacher placement bureau to assist Dickinson alumni and undergraduates in finding teaching positions.
Men's Senate revises freshman rules and stresses the importance of the four (named) all-college rules. Sigma Chis win intramural boxing. William M. Gilbert, '32, wins German scholarship prize and German travel scholarship. Athletic Association proposes changs to its constitution. Class of 1912...
Mothers' Day and joint Founders' Day-May Day programs are planned. Dickinson to host Eastern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Men's Senate votes to add a thirteenth member to its body, then rescinds this vote. Tribunal punishes freshmen for failing to wear dinks. Sigma Chi wins intramural...
Collections in center room of Tome Scientific Building are exhibited. Homecoming and Sesqui-centennial. Telescope is repaired and moved from South College to Conway Hall rooftop. Equipment is built for W3YC. Vigilance committee gives haircuts to freshmen convicted of being cocky. Tribunal...
Sophomore Vigilance Committee hands down sentences. Trustee Robert Y. Stuart, '03, dies. Transcription of Rutgers President Robert C. Clothier's speech praising Dickinson.
Alpha Chi Rho resigns from the Interfraternity Council. The upperclassmen have some fun punishing the freshmen for breaking the freshmen rules. The Men’s Senate will form a permanent organization of unaffiliated students in order for them to form a more unified group. The soccer team loses to...
Dickinson students and members of the Allison Memorial church will work together to create of performance of a Nativity play. The Men’s Senate ordered its Tribunal to remove several Freshman Rules, affective after the winter break. It is discovered that the library has great diversity in books....
Dean Montgomery P. Sellers returns to campus after a year-long medical leave of absence. The tradition of an all-college picnic is revived. A College holiday is declared and classes are cancelled for the occasion. Freshmen rules for both men and women are revised.
Student Senate changes tenure of freshman rules, voting to end them after the first semester of the academic year. Social Committee begins planning carnival.
The passage of the Selective Service Act requires ninety-two of the colleges' four hundred and twelve male students and seven faculty members to register for the United States military. This is the first peace-time conscription in the history of the nation. Senior women prepare to move into a...
Student Senate organizes a pep rally for the big game against Gettysburg in response to the noticeable lack of spirit by students in the recent past. The head librarian at Dickinson, May Morris, suffers a fall from the library stairs, leaving her with both wrists broken and severe spine and...
