Gymnasium

Professor F. E. Craver is elected as the new Physical Director of the College. Swarthmore and Franklin and Marshall will debate in Bosler Hall. Article on Football injuries. Smoker held in the gymnasium. Winners of the Freshmen oratorical contest are announced. Judge Ben B. Lindsey will be the last lecture of the Civic Club Entertainment Course. Comus Club dance. Update on the minstrel shows. Spring Musical Festival to be held at the Carlisle Opera House.

The bowling alleys are the most popular part of the new gymnasium.  Interest forms over the Inter-Collegiate Mock Trial, and in preparation the Belles Lettres and Union Philosophical Societies decide not to hold anniversaries.  The sophomores hold a class supper. 

A large number of fires during the winter prompts students to request the installation of fire escapes in the buildings.  The gymnasium is now opened.  President Grover Cleveland writes to the editors of the Dickinsonian. 

Progress on the Scientific Building, now known by the name of Tome, is delayed.  The new gymnasium is scheduled to be opened by the beginning of the next semester. 

Neither the Scientific Building nor the new gymnasium are yet ready to use, much to the dismay of the students.  The college orchestra is reorganized.  The Sophomores beat the Freshmen in baseball 19 to 7 and then refuse to play against the Preparatory students.  A combined football team of sophomores and freshman beat a senior-preparatory team 9 to 8.  The college baseball team loses to Mechanicsburg 23 to 9, but then wins in a rematch.  A history of the fraternities at Dickinson is given. 

Carlisle Indians defeat Dickinson in football. Glee Club and Orchestra selections are announced. Criticism of the state of the gymnasium. Summary of the convention held by Phi Delta Theta. Opening of the Brockway course.

Professor Cumnock's reading of literary selections as part of the YMCA Star Course was well attended.  The College Quartet has a performance.  The College Association has its annual convention at the University of Pennsylvania.  Five dollar prize offered for he who comes up with the best new yell for the College.  Compulsory gymnasium work begins for Preparatory students and lower classmen.  A brick pavement is laid from East College to Denny Hall.

Comments on holding a smoker in the gymnasium. Celebration of Washington's birthday. Karmarian Club (all females) social event. Announcement of a day of prayer. General Horatio C. King lectures the college. Medical students witnessed an interesting operation. Banquet held on Lincoln day.

Freshman class enrollment is a record high. Practices begin for what is promised to be "Dickinson's greatest football team of the present decade." Fraternities commence rushing for new members. The College is left a large sum by Robert Weaver, class of 1875. Faculty changes this year bring May Morris as head librarian, Frances A. Janney as Women's Athletic Director, Henry W. Monyer as lab assistant, and Herbert L. Davis returns after two years to the chemistry department.

Fraternities, the All-College Social Committee, and other clubs prepare for the Annual Doll Dance and Doll Show.  Student Senate alters election procedures.  Elmer C. Herber speaks on "The Heart and Its Functions" to Lambda Sigma Pi, the science fraternity.  Belles Lettres initiates new members in ceremony.  Union Philosophical Society to give a cup to the winner of an All-College Oratorical Contest.  French Club holds its Christmas party at the S.A.E. house.  Eight teams remain in inter-fraternity debate contest.  Col.