Seniors to hold class day exercises. Dramatic Club to perform the comedy "The New Poor" as commencement play. Commencement season details announced. Sports prospects for the coming year are published. Women's Athletic Association closes best season yet.
Results of class elections published. Belles Lettres oratorical contest won by J. Wesley Lord, '27 and Russel King, '28. Baseball team loses to Albright. Track team defeated in Central Pa. Conference meet.
Baseball team defeats Haverford, loses to PMC and Mt. St. Mary's. Alumni Day program announced. Track team to compete against other colleges in meet at Island Park. Pan-Hellenic Council changes rushing rules.
May Day celebration program announced. Edgar Fahs Smith, noted chemist and Provost of the University of Pennsylvania to speak at commencement. Track team defeated by Bucknell. Baseball team defeats Delaware, loses to Temple. Glee Club to end season with concert at Harrisburg.
Relay team finishes second at Penn Relays in record breaking race. Founders' Day program announced. Glee Club to go on two weekend tours. Commencement Week activities announced.
Baseball team loses to F & M and Bucknell. Track team loses to Haverford. Relay teams to compete in Penn Relays. Tennis team to open season with match against Gettysburg. Laura Puffer Morgan, legislative secretary of the National Council for the Prevention of War, to address local branch of American Association of University Women.
Founders' Day celebration plans announced. Baseball team loses to Albright and Lafayette. Mrs. Mary C. Love Collins, class of 1902, publishes book, "Human Conduct and the Law".
Baseball team opens season with loss to Mt. St. Mary's. Campus beautification projects underway for the spring. Social Committee plans annual Founders' Day festivities. Pan-Hellenic Council discusses changes to rushing rules for upcoming year.
Student Senate joint committees reject honor system for the year. Basketball team defeats Mt. St. Mary's in final game of season. Baseball and Track teams begin practices.
Two orchestras to play at Junior Prom. Basketball loses to Princeton, defeats Gettysburg. Small fire breaks out in Theta Chi fraternity causing minimal damage. Men's Glee Club performs at Dickinson Seminary. Women's Glee Club performs in Harrisburg.
Basketball team beats Juniata, loses to St. Mary's. Dramatic Club to present their mid-winter production, "Peg O' My Heart". Debate team wins in dual debate with Lebanon Valley.
Peck Mills Orchestra to entertain at Junior Prom. Basketball team defeated by Williams and Amherst, win Temple match up. Senior class makes plans to build a class memorial at the corner of College and High Streets. Debate team to meet Lebanon Valley College. Girl's basketball team wins third consecutive game in match against Schuyllkill. Jacob M. "Dad" Steigelman, crossing watchman at College and High Streets and campus regular, dies; editorials published in his memory.
Junior class to hold Prom the night before spring break. Basketball team beats Temple. Dramatic Club prepares mid-winter play, "Peg O' My Heart". Basketball team debuts in New England for the first time, playing Williams College and Amherst. Women's team defeats Moravian.
Basketball teams lose to Penn and Gettysburg, to play Temple next. Small fire in Conway Hall causes excitement, only light damage sustained. Girls basketball team opens season with win over Gettysburg.
Basketball team beats Haverford. Committee on Athletics issues explanation of 1925 football schedule. Article from F & M's "Student Weekly" is published, critiquing honor system at University of Virginia. Proctors lose right to suspend freshman rules after meeting of Tribunal.
Phi Beta Kappa honor society to celebrate anniversary in 1926. Faculty delays vote on honor code, unlikely to go into effect for mid-years; students voice opinions on the code. Report of an intruder in Metzger Hall, the girl's dormitory. Dean of Women Josephine Meredith "grabbed a revolver and started after the bold intruder." Inter-fraternity Council bars Delta Chi fraternity of Law School from admission to council.
Professor Vuilleumier weds during vacation. G. Harold Keatley of the senior class selected to study in China for two years. Student Senates adopt honor code, contents published.
Dickinson attends the National Undergraduate Inter-Fraternity Council held in NYC and returns with new suggested policies. The Glee Club will give a Christmas Concert. Ninety men, 64% of the men in the present freshman class, pledged to a fraternity. The Annual Doll Show raised $95. Players are honored at the annual football banquet. Plans are made for the freshman song examination.
The YWCA will send proceeds and dolls from their Annual Doll Show to the children of prisoners in New York City. Mr. L. F. Bower, young people's secretary of the college, has been added as a chairman to the Debating Council and try-outs will be held for two full teams. The College Glee Club will give their first concert of the year at Newville Highschool. The basketball team opens the season in an away game against the City College of New York. With rushing drawn to a close, freshman will be pledged to their chosen fraternity.
The Dickinson football team has a good season, ending the year with only 2 defeats. Women's Senate will hold a meeting to vote upon recommendations made by the Woman's Intercollegiate Association of Student Government. Fraternity rushing begins. The poll taken by the YMCA and YWCA shows that the student body favors entering the World Court. The Women's Basketball team begins practices. The YWCA will hold its annual Doll Show.
A poll on the World Court is taken by the YMCA and YWCA, while Prof. Leon Prince spoke against US involvement in the World Court in chapel. The Inter-Fraternity Council adopts new by-laws; new laws on rushing, bidding, and preferential bidding for pledges; new policies for violations and penalties; and a required grade average to pledge. Photography begins for the 1927 Microcosm. The football team takes a 34 to 0 victory over the Pennsylvania Military College.
The cabinets of the YMCA and YWCA join forces to continue to educate students about US involvement in the World Court. The question of the United States entering the World Court will be put to Congress in December and it is the goal of the YMCA for students voices to be heard by taking a poll to present to Congress. The football team is defeated 0 to 6 by their Gettysburg rivals. Dickinson will receive $150,000 in the will of trustee Melville Gambrill.
The second annual Parents and Alumni Day is a great success. The Theta Chi fraternity has purchased 270 West High Street to be used as a fraternity home. The French Club plans to preform Moliere's "La Grammaire." Dr. Richard Burton delivered a lecture in chapel on the subject of "Modern Tendency in Drama." The football team takes Albright College in a 13 to 6 victory and prepares to meet their arch-rivals Gettysburg. Dickinsonians attend an east central Pennsylvania conference on the World Court. The College celebrates Halloween with a Dance.
Dickinson ties Muhlenberg College 0-0 in a rainy football match. Marthues Dougherty wins the award for best cheer handed into the cheer contest committee. Professor Richard Burton will deliver a lecture as part of a series of Chapel entertainments. The college prepares to celebrate Parents' and Alumni Day. The Interfraternity Council plans to revise rushing rules. Women's Basketball practice will begin. Pledge day for women's fraternities will be held in the coming week.
Dickinson takes a 7 - 0 victory over Franklin and Marshall and Robert Books is elected team captain. Paul Vernon and His cleveland Symphonic Quintet will give a concert in the Chapel. Presidents of the Men's and Women's Senates and Editor of the Dickinsonian will attend a District Council through the Council of Christian Associations to debate the entrance of the United States into the World Court. Zeta Tau Alpha sorority receives the Scholarship Cup given by Pi Beta Phi for scholastic achievement. The YWCA holds a service of recognition for all the new women of the college.