1921

Dickinson joins the National Disarmament Body. Greek societies are expected to perform. Professor Prettyman reads to the Fornightly Club. Members for the inter-society debate team are announced. McIntire Society may debate with Wilson College. Raven's Claw Bolshevik session. Skull and Key Society formal. Plans for an orchestra concert.

Creation of the National Student Committee for the Limitation of Armament. The College Social Committee's plans for an all school event. Colonel Stanley Dunbar Embick addresses the college. Annual doll show. Article on Antonio Andrea Arrighi. Phi Delta Theta has an informal. Professor Baumgartner gives a health talk. French Club meeting. Chi Omega entertained Pi Beta Phi and Phi Mu. Formation of women's honorary society, Theta Omicron.

College extension in China campaign, along with many other articles concerning China. John Hays obituary. Dickinson on a "White List" of colleges. Summary and history of West China Union University. Preliminary trials for the inter-collegiate debating teams.

Adelaide Fisher performance at the Orpheum Theater of Harrisburg. Winners of the "D" will receive certificates. Announcement of Dramatic Club productions. Dramatic Club productions. Professor Baumgartner lectures on health. Thanksgiving day reunion of the Camp Moosilauke Lads. Good-English week. Phi Kappa Sigma, Phi Kappa Psi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Beta Theta Pi, Kappa Sigma, and Theta Chi all have Thanksgiving dances. Alpha Chi Rho has a luncheon.

Anniversary of the signing of the Armistice. Speaker Colbert N. Kurokawa visits. Resignation of Miss Hartman from women's athletic. Stuckenrath and Weist prizes are awarded. Article on the Women's Athletic Association organized hiking. Collegiate Disarmament Conference in Chicago. Raven's Claw meeting in the Phi Psi house. Press Club smoker in the Theta Chi house. Phi Mu and Pi Beta Phi violated rules.

Freshman-sophomore football game ends in tie. Change made to method of selection of Dickinsonian editors. Union Philosophical Society elects officers. Confusion follows merging of men’s and women’s student senates. Women’s Student Senate creates a Pay Day on which all membership fees are due. YWCA creates employment bureau to find paid employment for its members. Q. E. D. initiates new member.

Football loses to Gettysburg. Student Friendship Fund holds convention at Dickinson. Rushing season ends and bids are released.

Foreign Students Fund Society holds convention at Dickinson under the leadership of the YWCA. Professor C. E. Smith to instruct the college orchestra. Freshman class elects permanent officers. Student Senate organizes parade to precede football game against Gettysburg. Pi Beta Phi alumnae of Lancaster plan to give trophy to sorority with highest academic achievement each year.

Phi Beta Kappa initiates Chief Justice Robert von Moschzisker at Dickinson. Rushing season begins. Press Club publishes articles advertising Dickinson. YWCA installs new members. Phi Kappa Sigma holds founders’ day dance.

All-college picnic is held. Lutheran students form Lutheran Unit. Press Club elects new members. French Club elects officers. YWCA makes membership drive.

All-college picnic is prepared. Phi Mu sets up fund to support sending a delegate to the annual YWCA convention. Ministerial Association elects officers. Press Club elects officers. Metzger Hall obtains a dog named Dickinson Metzger. Kappa Sigma holds annual Fall house party. Sigma Chi holds pledge dance. Epworth League holds large reception. Freshman class elects temporary officers.

All-college picnic planned. Leon Simonetti ’24 is elected leader of the College Orchestra. Sophomores win annual flag scrap. Football season begins. YWCA begins service project assisting girls in Appalachia. Rushing schedule. Belles Lettres elects officers. Student Senate elects cheer leaders.

Dr. Noah B. Rosenberger joins the faculty to replace Dr. Landis as head of the math department while he is away. Milton W. Eddy is elected professor of biology. Matriculation. YMCA and YWCA give annual reception for freshmen. Professor William A. Baumgartner joins faculty as Bible professor. Karl Shedd joins faculty as associate professor of romance language. Herbert L. Davis ’21 becomes instructor in chemistry and history. Charles Thomas ’21 becomes instructor of mathematics. List of new students. YMCA and YWCA re-institute the Student Department of the College Church Sunday School.

A tablet honoring the 810 Dickinsonian World War I veterans is unveiled, as are plans to build Memorial Hall inside of Old West. Bishop Ernest Richardson is announced as the speaker for the Hall's dedication service. Bishop Charles Burns and former president George L. Reed are announced as speakers for Commencement, scheduled for the Sunday after publication. The track team finishes fourth in the first annual Central Pennsylvania College Conference. New rushing rules and the list of students to receive honors are published.

The graduating class of Cooper Township High School visits campus. William Baumgarten, newly-hired professor of Bible Studies, tours campus and meets faculty. The recently-formed Women's Athletic Association publishes its bylaws. Belles Lettres elects new officers.

Fred Holmes '24 wins first prize in the annual Freshman Oratorical Contest. The Dickinsonian attends a meeting of the Intercollegiate Newspaper Association at Gettysburg. The Freshman class votes 168-43 in favor of the Honor System. The Sophomore and Junior classes, Union Philosophical Society, McIntyre Literary Society, Harmon Literary Society, and Greek Club elect new officers.

Founder's Day celebrations are deemed a great success. Student Senate meets to discuss improving "chapel entertainment," a popular notion among the student body. The Honor System (renamed the "Student Government Examination System") is amended and enters its second trial phase. The freshman class elects its officers for the next academic year. The final examination schedule is published.

The freshmen defeat the sophomores in the annual tug-of-war contest. Former president George L. Reed addresses chapel. Senior Barbara McCrea passes away after a long bout with glandular illness.

The program for Founder's Day is announced, including an address by Professor Leon Prince as well as tennis, track, and baseball matches. The program for Commencement is also published. The Union Philosophical Society celebrates its 132nd anniversary.The Dickinsonian selects its new managerial staff, with Harry D. Kruse '22 as its editor-in-chief. William Bretz '21 gives an organ recital in Allison Church.

Journalist and founding member of the NAACP Hamilton Holt gives a talk defending the League of Nations at chapel. Senate announces that, in light of the lack of support for the Honor System, amendments will be made and proposed to the student body. The Mohler Science Club elects officers. Local merchant Foster Cromleigh offers the choice of a fountain pen or gold pencil to the first Dickinsonian batter to hit a home run.

The results from the Honor System (then in a trial run) are published: 179 votes in favor, 77 in favor of revising the current system, and 113 against any system whatsoever. A women's athletic association, headquartered in Metzger Hall, is proposed.

Mary Buttorff, popular singer, gives a recital with piano accompaniment from William Bretz '21. Bruno Roselli, professor at Vassar and native Florentine, gives a lecture on Italian industry and labor. Profiles on the track and baseball teams, whose seasons open soon, are published. The Y.M.C.A. holds elections.

The Dickinsonian changes its methods of selecting managerial staff, requiring that all applicants meet and test with local businessmen to ensure that their bookkeeping and business skills are sharp. The track team holds tryouts.

The basketball team ends their season with a 22-8 victory over Ursinus. Charles F. Underhill reads from "Rip Van Winkle" at chapel. Grades from the first semester are released, with 21 students (about 4%) averaging a 90 or better.

Frederick Watson Hannan is announced as the key speaker for Week of Prayer, to take place the next week between March 7 and 12. The Press Club, previously without a meeting place, secures a room in West College. The previous week's performance of "Daniel Druce" by the Devereux Players is lauded.