1915

College reflects on football season.

Journalist, humorist, and poet Thomas Augustine Daily addresses College community. Football team loses to Lafayette in annual Thanksgiving game. First year student dies in football accident during game in Williamsport. Collection of student and alumni essays and poems published.

John W. Yost, Class of 1903, petitions the school's support of his educational and missionary work in Chengtu, West China.  Testimonies appear from President J. H. Morgan, George B. Neumann of West China Union University, and John W. Yost.  The requested amount is $350.00.

Mass meeting held to prepare for football game against the Indian School. College Prohibition League organizes.

Football team defeated for the first time by Delaware. Faculty announces changes in class regulations.

Tien Lan Lin, Chinese graduate student at Princeton, speaks at the College about Christianity in China. Regular gym classes for female students introduced.

Point system to limit office holding among individual students in College organizations introduced to Senate.

Football team defeated by F&M. Freshmen win track meet against Sophomores. Inter-Fraternity Council charges Beta Theta Pi with violations of the Inter-Fraternity agreement.

Mass meeting called to rally the College's spirit behind the football team. Alumni account of zeppelin raid over London is published.

Agreement between Faculty and Senate is revised. The Navy League's campaign to educate college men about national defense is discussed. Literary columns published on Benjamin Rush and John Dickinson.

Football season opens. Largest freshman class yet enters College. Interfraternity Conference discusses rushing rules.

Class Day is held. Summary of Commencement Week. Trustees elect James Henry Morgan president of Dickinson College. List of members of graduating class. Nora M. Mohler receives Cannon Prize for sophomore mathematics. Elma May Houseman receives Chi Omega Prize for sophomore economics. Raymond R. Brewer receives Clemens Prize for an essay on missionary work. Lawson S. Laverty receives Charles Mortimer Griffin Prize in English Bible. Union Philosophical Society wins Johnson Prize. Nora M. Mohler, Harold H. Bixler, and Elva R. Lippi receive McDaniel Prizes. Francis W.

A Dickinson branch of the Tau Kappa Alpha national debating fraternity is established. Freshman Picnic is held. Slight changes are made to class rules.

Interfraternity Council creates rushing rules. Quadrangular Tennis Tournament to be held at Dickinson. Freshman class elects officers for coming year.

May Day celebration is held. Dickinson participates in Middle Atlantic States Intercollegiate Meet. The program for commencement week is published. A student referendum passes the new honor system. The sophomore class holds elections; David Sharman is president. Senior Picnic is held. Thomas R. Jeffrey is elected president of the Student Senate; Perry F. Prather is elected vice-president.

Student Assembly is held to discuss proposed honor system.

Nisbet memorial ceremony is held. Freshmen defeat Sophomores in tug-of-war. The program for May Day is announced. An honor system is proposed.

Phi Kappa Sigma holds annual dance.

Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Prohibition Association holds convention at Dickinson. Freshmen win annual inter-class track meet. Dickinsonian holds elections for next year's editorial board; Daniel F. Graham, '16, is editor-in-chief. Scholastic averages of the various fraternities are published.

Pennsylvania Inter-collegiate Prohibition Association to hold annual convention at Dickinson. Highlights of Student Senate meeting.

Music clubs (Men's Glee and Mandolin) make annual spring trip. Belles Lettres elects officers. Sophomore Banquet is held.

Union Philosophical Society elects new officers. The newly-formed Interfraternity Council creates its constitution, which is published here.

Francis Dunn, '14, is elected football coach.

College Banquet/Washington's Birthday Banquet is held along with annual Freshman Parade. Union Philosophical Society wins 24th annual debate against Belles Lettres. Freshman Banquet is held.

Union Philosophical Society holds 125th anniversary celebration. George Metzger Hays, '93, is elected director of Library Guild.