The student body grades professors and provide detailed information. Dr. N. Krishna, a Hindu mystic and Christian philosopher, will be giving several talks in chapel.
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The Schubert Male Quartet to perform. Chris Cook elected President of the Athletic Association.
News report on a soldier from the Army Barracks, John Thomas Davies entered a Dickinson dormitory at night. $1000 donation given to the College by T.F. Miller. Possibility of a new gym being built materializes when a model is created and put on display in the library. The library adds 500 books...
Seniors pledge $1535 for new books in the library - The largest sum pledged during the history of the Dickinson Library Guild. The winners of the Dickinson Beauty Contest announced.
Dr. Robert Tipton, a prominent speaker on industrial subjects, will speak to the student body at the next chapel meeting. Article regarding balancing social life and coursework - Quoting President William W. Campbell of the University of California.
The Women's Basketball team wins against Shippensburg. Degree of Master of Arts will be discontinued at Dickinson College after June 1927 - Only the degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, and Bachelor of Philosophy will be given. Dean Meredith traveled to New York to address the New...
Leader of the British Youth movement, Harold F. Bing will discuss "The World Challenges to Youth" at the next Y.M.C.A. meeting. Dickinson Men's Basketball wins against Gettysburg. Men's Football defeats the Pennsylvania State team. Thirty-nine consecutive victories counted for the Men's...
Detailed discussion of the Junior Prom. Upcoming production of "Icebound" by the Dickinson Theater Group. Religion professor, L. G. Rohrbaugh just completed a book to be published entitled, "The Science of Religion." Dickinson Men's Basketball finishes their season win a victory over Gettysburg...
The Glee Club prepares for this season's first long tour, traveling to Virginia and and West Virginia. The Senate voted to become a member of the National Student Federation of the United States of America. Three Dickinsonians will participate this summer in the orchestra group, the Dickinson...
Fred E. Sweely elected captain of the Men's Basketball team for next year. Dr. Frederick D. Losey of New York City will discuss the play "Macbeth" and give a dramatic reading of it during an upcoming chapel meeting. Professor Edwin Edgar Voigt of Garrett Biblical Institute in Evanston, Illinois...
Raymond R. Brewer, Dickinson's representative at West China's Union University, will revisit the College. Fourteen graduates of the College were in China amidst civil unrest, but were able to leave without danger. Taylor and P.E. Smith earned first place medals in the two cross country races...
Arrangements for the contests in oratory and declamation for members of the Junior, Sophomore, and Freshman classes have been completed by the faculty members in charge - Several awards will be given. Mrs. Mabel W. Willebrandt has been chosen to deliver the Commencement address this year....
Work on the new gymnasium starts on the grounds of Old South College. President Morgan's wife dies unexpectedly of a heart attack and is buried in Carlisle. Omicron Delta Kappa, a national honorary fraternity, has granted a charter to Dickinson College. Raymond R. Brewer, Dickinson's...
Plans to revive an old tradition on Alumni Day: Alumni address assembled students on the traditions and conditions of the College in their day. The Dickinson One Mile Relay Team won the Class B Middle Atlantic States College Championship event at the Pennsylvania Relay Carnival.
An article outlines Professor Norcross's reasoning surrounding the rise in student suicides. Professor Leon C. Prince has eleven speeches to give in various states between mid-May and Commencement, including nine Commencement addresses. The Dickinson Tennis team opened the season successfully...
The Omicron Delta Kappa national honorary fraternity is officially installed at Dickinson College. Only three track men will go to the Middle Atlantic Championships at Schenectady on Saturday as a result of the Athletic Association's refusal to appropriate the funds necessary to take more....
New system and rules for fraternity rushing described. The Dickinson Players presented the annual Commencement Play, performing "Are You a Mason?" Opening of the new Beta Theta Pi fraternity house. Miss Edna E. White presented to the College a large Galilean reflecting telescope. S. Marsh...
Freshman class enrollment is a record high. Practices begin for what is promised to be "Dickinson's greatest football team of the present decade." Fraternities commence rushing for new members. The College is left a large sum by Robert Weaver, class of 1875. Faculty changes this year bring May...
President Morgan speaks out on rushing as fraternities plan to pledge new members this week. Professor Quimbly defends America's youth for not being as devilish and frank as many make them out to be and also speaks out about evolution. The All College Social Committee begins to plan the College...
The football team opens their season with an 8 to 0 win over Juniata College. The College Body looses 198 students from last year who fail to return for various reasons. The Athletic Association debates dropping baseball as an Intercolligate sport at Dickinson. 103 men, 63% of the freshman class...
The Schubert Male Quartet will open this year's chapel entertainment series. The new Dickinson Alumni Gymnasium is scheduled for completion at the beginning of January. An article describes the history of Old West. Students write in to the Editor's Mail Bag in support of Dickinson's baseball...
Mr. Sherwood Eddy will address the YMCA and YWCA. This week's chapel entertainment will be provided by the Schubert Male Quartet. Organization of this year's debate team begins. The history and growth of the fraternity system at Dickinson is assessed.
Plans are underway for the annual Home-Coming Celebration. A large four foot by six foot college calendar marked with all college events for the year will be placed in the entrance hall to chapel. Four sororities pledge new members. From now on, the Denny bell tower will ring to commemorate any...
Famed author and lecturer Dr. George A. Coe speaks on student government in colleges in chapel. Subjects for debate this year are chosen by the Pennsylvania State Debating Association and twenty men are chosen for the Dickinson debate squad. The football team takes a victory over the...
The Alumni Council holds their annual banquet with Boyd Lee Spahr as keynote speaker. A statistic study of the freshman class indicates that half of the members are either Presbyterian or Methodist. The Debate Club announces the subjects for intercollegiate debate this year. The Pelletier-...
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