Bosler Hall

The College Social Committee plans the Mid-Winter Dance for March 7 and campus elects the queen and her attendants. All major construction on Bosler Hall is completed and it is expected that the building will reopen on March 1. Dramatic Club players are performing a skit live on WHP Harrisburg radio station. Carlisle honors its American Hero, Jim Thorpe, with a celebration and event.

Dickinson joins a nation-wide Christmas stamp-selling campaign that raises funds for the National Tuberculosis Association. The Woman's Choral Club performs for the first time this semester, singing at the College Chapel Service. The renovations being made to Bosler Hall near completion and will include a reserve room, a reference room, a Dickinsonia room, a faculty study, a music room and a recreational reading room. In addition, it is now limestone to match the other buildings on campus.

The Province Convention of Sigma Alpha Epsilon comes to Dickinson for the first time, with an expected attendance of nearly 200 delegates and alumni. Little Jack Little is announced as the entertainment at the annual Senior Prom. Skull and Key taps nine sophomores for membership, while Wheel and Chain picks eight juniors. The demolition of certain parts of Bosler Hall, now complete, reveals the location of a long-forgotten College cistern and unearths two lost pieces of administrative documentation.

The seventh annual Guest Day for prospective students gets underway. A group of pranksters locks the only door to Bosler Hall (then under construction) while seven people, including College Dean Ernest Vuilleumier, are inside, forcing them to climb through the rubble in the back of the building. Howard Williams, captain of the basketball team, is awarded the Phi Epsilon Pi Most Valuable Player trophy.

Missionary and author Sherwood Eddy visits campus to lead a Q&A session on the subject of Europe's economic, political, social, and religious situations. Demolition and renovation of Bosler Hall gets underway, the eventual goal being a $125,000 overhaul of the library building. The College Orchestra publishes the six-piece program for its annual spring concert, to be held the following night. The baseball team wins its first game of the season (against Blue Ridge) 9 to 4.

Work begins on the new Phi Delta Theta colonial house. Distribution and sale of the 1932 Microcosm will take place in Bosler starting next week. Senate approves the 1931-1932 budget and passes two new rules involving elections. Founder's Day breakfast will be held by YWCA. The freshman badges for next year will be metal instead of paste-board cards.

The basketball team ends its season, perhaps its best in school history. Sophomore Milton Davidson is awarded the sophomore cup for exemplary character and achievement by Omicron Delta Kappa. The winners of the 1932 Microcosm beauty contest are decided and include both fraternity and non-fraternity girls. Student Senate makes plans for a D Club on campus which will ensure that deserving athletic teams are adequately awarded. The Interfraternity Council revises rules for rushing. A distinguished alumnus is lost with the death of Dr. Clyde Bowman Furst.

Events for the inauguration of Fred P. Corson as president of the college are planned. The Dickinson Players present “The Late Christopher Bean” at Bosler Hall. The Biology Department attempts to draw a correlation between a person’s success and his birth month. A Dickinson French exchange student passes away while in Florida. The college holds a luncheon for prospective students. The Debate Team defeats Franklin and Marshall in a debate of the munitions question

The All-College Committee on social affairs meets to discuss campus events for the year. A poll for the candidates of the campus beauties section of the 1935 Microcosm is taken. The freshmen class elects class officers. It is projected that the Red Devil football team should make it to the Rose Bowl. By order of the Men’s Senate and its Tribunal committee, after Thanksgiving the girl rule, tie rule, and path rule will be dropped from the Freshmen Rules. The football team loses to Gettysburg. Shakespeare’s Hamlet will be performed by a professional company next week in Bosler Hall.

Professor Leon C. Prince gives a talk on the Golden Rule as aid for an economy recovery for the country. The soccer team loses to Delaware. The Debate Squad elects new officers. The Deputation Committee meets and plans out their work for the year. More freshmen are penalized by the Men's Tribunal for failing to memorize college songs and cheers. The faculty decides to shorten classes on Saturday so that everyone will be able to attend the football game against Gettysburg.

Alpha Chi Rho places automobile in Bosler hall. Tribunal punishes five freshmen. Annual Dickinsonian banquet is held. Women's Student Government Association petitions President Waugh to explain ambiguous demerit system to student body. Sigma Chi wins intramural basketball championship.

The annual Commencement issue honors the class of 1936. Honorary degrees are presented to Vice-Admiral Arthur Jay Hepburn, Judge W.A. Valentine, Rev. Roy N. Keiser, and Rev. George Henry Ketterer. Twenty-eight students, including one woman, receive Bachelor of Law degrees. The Dickinsonian enters the Associated Collegiate Press Spring Contest and receives an all-American rating. Eight men are inducted into the national honorary fraternity Omicron Delta Kappa. The Dramatic Club's presentation of Torch-bearers opens in Bosler Hall.

The all-college social committee presents C. Ray Smith and his Olvera Street Marionettes in "Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer" in Bosler Hall. The Executive Council and regional officers of the Pennsylvania Association of College Students meet in campus to discuss the upcoming state convention and the structure and purpose of the organization. The Board of Trustees votes to increase the athletic budget, raise graduation fees and introduce a student health fee. The Dramatic Club holds auditions for its second production of the academic year: Big Hearted Herbert. 

The Dickinsonian accepts ten new staff writers, roughly one-third of the applicants. The Jewish Religious Association organizes three chapel programs, as well as biweekly meetings, emulating activities of the Protestant and Catholic groups on campus. The Dickinson Players' production of The Goose Hangs High opens in Bosler Hall. Phi Epsilon Pi pledges hold an unusual, yet popular informal dance, the theme of which was "vacation" in honor of the upcoming holiday recess.

Norwegian explorer Dr. Fridtjof Nansen gives a stirring lecture on Arctic survival.  Students continue to anticipate the arrival of the German "Sea Devil" Count Felix Von Luckner for a lecture on his exploits during World War I.  Selections of German music from C.R.W. Thomas' private collection will feature in Bosler Hall.

Professor Leon C. Prince will speak at the upcoming Homecoming pep rally at Bosler Hall before the football team's game against Gettysburg.  Dickinson alumnus Reverend Edmund Davison Soper, D.D., class of 1898, is elected president of Ohio Wesleyan University.  Pacifist Dr. Frank W. Norwood, minister of the City Temple Church in London, England, to speak at Allison Methodist Episcopal church.  The Scientific Club begins meetings at the Tome Scientific Building with talks by Professor J.D. Hardy.

In the last Dickinsonian of the academic year, eighty-five seniors graduate with eight elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society.  The Belles Lettres Exhibit of Historic Dickinson and other exhibits are reopened in Bosler Hall for returning alumni. Furthermore, under the direction of librarian May Morris, over 700 books were added to the library and more than 2400 volumes relocated from the inaccessible old sections to the new through the previous year.  Dickinson is called upon to finish its new gymnasium.

A large audience enjoyed the presentation of the comedic play "The Patsy" by the Dickinson Players dramatic club in Bosler Hall.  The Patton Troupe, a trio composed of Lowell Patton, Johann Qualin, and Edward Qualin, performed a series of original musical pieces entitled "Six Episodes and an Epilogue" in the Chapel.  G.M. Steinmetz, editor of the Harrisburg Telegraph, commends the work and journalistic dignity of The Dickinsonian.  

Students await the performance of the Patton Troupe musical trio in the chapel.  The Dickinson Players dramatic club plan a three-act play entitled "The Patsy" in Bosler Hall.  G.M. Steinmetz, editor of the Harrisburg Telegraph, is secured by the Alpha Gamma fraternity to speak about and in favor of collegiate journalism.

The Library’s annual budget of $6,000 will be reduced to $5,000 due to the end of a grant usually given to the library. Jocko, the Biology Lab’s six-foot boa constrictor, died after losing a fang and contracting an infection. Columbia won against Dickinson in the debate over minimum wage regulations. During Pan-Hellenic Week, the boys and girls switch places to get a glimpse into the lives of the opposite sex. The week ended with a dance. The College Library opens a Newspaper Room in the basement of Bosler Hall.

Renowned actor and dramatist Charles Laughton to give a reading in Bosler Hall. Portrait of James Buchanan, painted by artist George Peter Alexander Healy, to be presented to the College.

Opera star, Cesare Siepi to give concert in January. Outstanding clergymen, Howard Rubendall and James Pike to speak in January chapel meetings. Leonardo da Vinci art on exhibit in Bosler Hall. The Dickinson College Christian Service Project will send a team to the Bustletown Methodist Church in Philadelphia. Drama critic, Thomas Radcliff speaks in chapel meeting. Details on the annual Doll Dance. Profile on new faculty member, English instructor James C. Hinkle.

Dean Dr. William Tyler returns to campus after conducting classes elsewhere worldwide. Professor Whitfield Bell, Jr., presented a paper on Early America in Williamsburg, Virginia. The Cultural Affairs Committee announces the arrangement of three musical events to take place in Bosler Hall in the future. The Little Theater production fo "Beggar on Horeback" will be the first arena type play at Dickinson. The Department of Political Science announces sponsored trip for mid-November to the new United Nations Headquarters on the East River.

Dr. Horace E. Rogers will address chapel with a lecture entitled "Analytical Chemistry - Past and Present" in formal recognition of his receival of the DuPont Chair of Chemistry. New portrait of James Buchanan to hang in the Bosler Hall Alumni Gallery. Plans underway for the development of a rifle team. Article on the prohibition of political demonstrations at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Profile on student athlete, Jack Smith. Kappa Sigma remains undefeated in the Inter-Fraternity Football League. New book by Dr. Frank Ayres, Jr., Professor of Mathematics.

Details of Bosler Hall renovation. Commencement Ball a success. Outline of Commencement activities. Dickinson baseball beats Drexel. Track team finishes their best season in several years with only one loss to Bucknell.