The Belles Lettres Society announces its officers for the winter term. Students are given words of encouragement as a new semester begins on campus.
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1913
The Inter-class basketball series begins. There is a call for the men of the college to go out for the track and gymnastics teams. Everyone is called to go out for the Dramatic Club. The Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity holds a dance at their house.
The Junior and Sophomore classes win the first night of the Inter-class series. The Belles Lettres Society won the Inter-Society Debate held in Bosler Hall. The Skull and Key Dance was held in the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house.
The sophomores pull ahead in the Inter-class series. The Dramatic Club holds its first meeting of the year. The Phi Delta Theta Fraternity holds its ninth annual dance.
Both the Kappa Sigma and Chi Omega fraternities held dances. A date is set for the Mid-Winter Sports.
The Annual College Banquet was held in the gymnasium on the anniversary of George Washington’s birthday. The sophomore class continues to win every game in the Inter-class series. The Dramatic Club is to perform “The Comedy of Errors” by Shakespeare during Commencement week. The Phi Kappa Psi...
The sophomores remain in first place in the Inter-class series. Everyone is encouraged to audition for the Dramatic Club play “The Comedy of Errors.” The Sigma Chi fraternity held their annual mid-winter dance in Mentzer Hall. The winners of the Freshmen Declaration Contest are announced....
The Dickinson Debate Team received the first ever Inter-Collegiate Debating League of Pennsylvania trophy when they won against Pennsylvania State University. The sophomore class won the Inter-class series in basketball. A national Prohibition Oratorical contest is announced, and every man is...
The Musical Clubs went on their annual spring tour around Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland. The baseball team loses the first two games of the season to St. Joseph’s College and the Army at West Point. The freshmen beat the sophomores in the Mid-Winter Sports.
The Dickinson Reserves baseball team won against the Shippensburg Normal team. The college continues to discuss the possibility of implementing the honor system.
The senior class wins the Inter-class track meet. The Dickinson baseball team wins the first home game of the season. They also lost to Bellefonte and Penn State. Students are reminded of the rules against hazing and of the consequences that may result if those rules are disregarded.
The baseball team defeats Johns Hopkins 7 to 1. Dickinson places third in the Penn Relays. The Inter-fraternity baseball series is announced to begin during the next week. The Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity held their annual dance in the armory. An essay talks about the merits of fraternity life,...
The baseball team loses to Villanova. Nisbet Day is celebrated on campus. Students are encouraged to attend the Y.M.C.A Summer Conference. The Freshman win the annual Cap Scrap, allowing them to do away with their flashy green caps and replace them with understated gray ones. The tennis and...
The Student Senate votes to incorporate the Honor System. Dickinson beats Villanova in baseball. The track teams beats Gettysburg. J.H. Baker, of the class of 1893, wins honor for his work as the President of Baltimore’s Board of Liquor License Commissioners. The Student Senate makes several...
The baseball team defeats St. John’s, and loses to Lafayette. By a margin of only one vote, the Honor System is voted down at the College Assembly. The seniors go on the annual Senior Picnic. The Union Philosophical Society, College Band, and Class of 1916 chose their class officers.
The Dickinson baseball team defeats Gettysburg. The Musical Clubs held a concert at Boiling Springs. The Scientific Club holds a club banquet. The student body elects its Senators. The officers of the Politics Club are announced. The Skull and Key Junior Society holds a dance. The Commencement...
The Student Senate passes new legislation abolishing hazing and recommending faculty supervision of college publications and the combined Musical Clubs. The junior class elects its class officers. The baseball team loses to Gettysburg. S.W. Harrington of the University of Pennsylvania is chosen...
President Nobel delivers his address to the freshman to launch the new school year. The Dickinson College Athletic Committee elects a new coach for the football team- Dr. S.W. Harrington, who had previously coached at the University of Pennsylvania. It is resolved that hazing or trespassing into...
The football team has trouble finding new recruits. Literary societies, such as the Belles Lettres Society and the Union Philosophical Society have added new members and kept old ones. The Senate passes thirteen rules for the new freshmen.
The Dickinson Football team lost the first game of the season to Washington and Jefferson in Washington, PA. Dr. Super addresses the freshman class about the importance of ideas passed down through literature. The 1917 class elects their officers.
The Dramatic Club elects their officers and reveals the plays they will be rehearsing in the coming year. The sophomore class is called upon to maintain the sight of President Nesbit’s grave, and the entirety of the college is called upon to clean up and maintain the Trophy Room.
The freshmen and sophomore classes fought each other outside of a sophomore party. The fight broke up as police arrived on the scene. The junior class elected their class officers.
Senate proceedings ruled that each class must pay five dollars to the senate, and that daylight horseplay be extended for an indefinite period. The Alpha Chi Rho fraternity took their annual ride up to Doubling Gap.
The Dickinson football team defeats Gettysburg 39-13. Robert W. Lyman becomes a new member of the Law School. The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity holds its annual fall dance. The Schuylkill County Club is formed.
Dickinson wins its last home football game against Lebanon Valley. The Beta Theta Pi fraternity held a gathering in their chapter house in honor of Professor and Mrs. George F. Cole. The sophomore class elects a new president. The Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity holds their first “at home” of the...
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