1920

The 63-strong senior class graduates, with Mildred Conklin as its valedictorian. Conklin, Edna Moyer, Edith Hornbough, Martlia Morrette, Albert Greene, and Edgar Lawrence are tapped to join Phi Beta Kappa, the national honors fraternity. The Dickinson Dramatic Club performs Afred Noyes' "Sherwood." Student Senate and Belles Lettres elect new officers. Rushing rules are changed, with fall fraternity pushed back to after Thanksgiving break.

Elections for redesigned Senate are held.  Track team defeats Gettysburg.  Skitch-a-genee initiates new members.  Women's student government elects officers.  Baseball defeats Gettysburg.  Freshmen win inter-class track meet.  Rising seniors elect class officers.  French Club holds end-of-year social event.  Interfraternity League elects officers.  YWCA holds May Breakfast.  Women's student government will issue demerits to students who stay out too late. 

Plans for a Women's Student Senate are initiated.  Interfraternity League forms to facilitate inter-fraternity athletics.  May Breakfast is planned.  Sophomore class elects officers with contention.  YWCA adopts new constitution. 

College celebrates Founders' Day.  Dickinson finishes fourth in University of Pennsylvania Relay Races.  Sophomores win annual tug-of-war.  YWCA holds well-attended meeting on social interaction. 

College to observe Nisbit Day.  Theta Chi holds large dance.  Sophomores interfere little with freshman party at Metzger.  Cast of Dramatic Club's production of "Sherwood".  Gettysburg defeats debate team. 

New plan for Student Senate is accepted by Student Assembly.  Dramatic Club prepares to produce "Sherwood" under the direction of Mildred Little from Irving College.  Phi Kappa Sigma holds annual spring dance.  Program for Commencement Week.  Students of the Greek department perform Aristophanes' "The Birds". 

Philomel Club gives concert.  Proposed plan for reorganizing Student Senate is refined.  Students participate in annual cross country race.  YMCA, YWCA, BLS, and UPS elect officers.  Chi Omega holds annual Founders' Day dance.  G. Hurst Paul, '21, wins first prize in the Dickinsonian's short story contest. 

Class of 1917 to hold its first reunion.  Lafayette defeats debate team. 

Student Senate considers new organization of itself.  Athletic committee sells baseball season tickets in effort to engage townspeople.  Sigma Alpha Epsilon celebrates its anniversary.  Thermae Club holds Founders' Day banquet. 

Freshmen win button game.  Professor Landis is knighted by king of Italy.  Pi Beta Phi initiates new members.  Baseball season begins.  Arthur J. Latham '10 is appointed graduate manager of athletics.  YMCA elects officers.  Eta Pi initiates new members.  Philomel Club performs. 

Intercollegiate debating team defeats Bucknell and Penn State.  Harmon Literary Society defeats Union Philosophical Society in a debate concerning co-education at Dickinson.  French Club celebrates Washington's birthday.  Phi Mu initiates new members.  Philomel Club (women's glee club) to perform. 

Freshmen do not hold a parade on Washington's Birthday.  Phi Kappa Psi house is burglarized.  Girls' Dramatic Club performs "Powder and Patches".  Belles Lettres celebrates its 134th anniversary.  Intercollegiate debate team loses to Lafayette.  Phi Delta Theta holds annual dance.  Phi Kappa Psi celebrates its founders' day.  Harman Literary Society elects officers; Sadie Mindlin is president. 

Construction continues on Memorial Hall.  Flu outbreak wanes. 

Belles Lettres wins annual inter-society debate.  Dr. Landis plans to lead a summer tourist trip through Europe.  Women's intercollegiate basketball team forms.  Alpha Chi Rho holds anniversary banquet. 

Basketball season begins.  Week of Prayer is observed.  Professor Prince gives well-attended speech on League of Nations.  Campus Club adopts constitution. 

Directory of campus organization officers.  Campus Club forms to facilitate town-college interaction.  Week of Prayer is observed. 

The three-day dramatic festival put on by the Devereux Players is a huge success. Plays performed include "Her Husband's Wife," "The Boor," "Ghosts," and scenes from "Twelfth Night" and "The School for Scandal." Plans to organize a gym team are announced. Belles Lettres elects new officers. 82 freshman men pledge the College's nine fraternities.

Reverend Schaeffer of the Carlisle Second Presbyterian Church addresses the Y.M.C.A. Fraternity rush concludes.

The literary societies and Intercollegiate Debating Team hold tryouts. The football team ends its season with a 20-6 loss to Bucknell, after a 35-7 win over Delaware; the team's final record is 4-4-1. Fraternity rush begins.

A vote on the pertinence of the College honor system is proposed. Irishman Seumas McManus addresses the chapel, speaking on his experience as a student of a rural schoolhouse and eventually a large university. The football team ties Haverford 7-7, the same score that the two teams achieved in their game one year prior (to the day).

The 1920 Christmas Seal is released, with all proceeds from its sale going towards charities aiming to eradicate tuberculosis. The football team defeats Gettysburg 7-0.

A three-day dramatic festival officially gets underway, with pledge cards and ticket requests distributed to the student body. The football team, despite enormous support, loses to Gettysburg 7-0.

The Greek Club officially forms as the Drama Club elects new officers. The football team loses to Ursinus 7-6.

Two new organizations--one for those interested in ministry careers, and another for students of Greek--are proposed. The football team defeats Allegheny 7-0 in a packed away game.

Belles Lettres, Union Philosophical Society, and the Glee Club all hold their first meetings. Statistics on the 1919-1920 academic year are released, with about 15% of enrolled students dropping out or withdrawing for various reasons. The current student body of 443 is the largest in Dickinson history by more than 50 students.