The basketball team ends their season with a 22-8 victory over Ursinus. Charles F. Underhill reads from "Rip Van Winkle" at chapel. Grades from the first semester are released, with 21 students (about 4%) averaging a 90 or better.
East College improved over summer break at $60,000 renovation cost. Student's secretary of the College Lahman Forrest Bower writes book entitled "The Economic Waste of Sin". Inter-Fraternity Council to strictly enforce rushing rules. Alumnus Rev. Frank T. Bell '02 dies in car accident. Analysis...
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...
Women to be allowed to attend Union Philosophical Society-sponsored event for the first time. Analysis of grades for academic year 1947-48 reveals average grade was 77, down from 78.72 from 1946-47.
The Dickinsonian takes third place in national competition. Alpha Psi Omega admits three top drama students. Eero Saarinen receives Dickinson Art Award. A holiday concert will be given by the college choir. Thirty attend a leadership gathering given by Omicron Delta Kappa. Student...
Party candidates weigh in for the coming Student Senate campaign. Action party announces qualification of its slate, the New United Party states its platform of change. The Trustees Executive committee met to discuss Student housing, fraternity quadrangle propose. Students call for student...
New campaign begins for building program. Walter Carringer to open Cultural Affairs series. Judith Rogers reports on the Crossroads Africa Program. President Rubendall officially declares the school year open with article describing the atmosphere of Dickinson and what students can do to...
Pass/ fail options, freshmen grades, and general grading systems are discussed at an open hearing held by the Academic Standards Committee who are currently evaluating the grading system. An IPR subcommittee proposes to implement a college legislative body consisting of faculty, students, and...
Actor Will Stutts to present Evening with Mark Twain in ATS. An ice cream freezer and menu board are added to snack bar. Faculty favors plus-minus grading system. College plans a variety of cultural events for America's Bicentennial birthday. Prof. Happe is promoted to US Army Major....
In this edition, at least sixteen faculty members expressed with a petition a wish to end the pass/fail option. Professors Alan Kranz and Ann Mathews will be living on campus in student dorms due to the overcrowding on campus. A misprint in the College's catalogs cost around $4,000 to reprint. A...
