The Autobiography of 15th president James Buchanan tells of early days at Dickinson College. The Debating season opens with a triangular meet with Haverford and Ursinus. Prof. Quimby speaks on Sex and the Bible. Dickinson attends the annual National Student Federation of America conference. Prof...
Tentative plans are made for the formation of an Alpha Gamma honorary journalistic fraternity. In his Chapel address to the College, Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman speaks on "The Gift of Imagination" and urges students to dream. President Morgan celebrates his 50th year of almost continuous service to...
Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart will lecture on illiteracy. President Morgan is taken to the hospital having suffered from a breakdown. Prof. F.E. Craver is considered for a supervising football coach next year. The Dickinson Players will present the comedy Tea For Three. Men's Senate passed a...
In this issue of the Dickinsonian, the Inter-Fraternity Council meets to discuss a new timeline for yearly Rush activities. President Morgan's health improves after a recent condition. In her chapel address, Cora Wilson Stewart, co-founder of the Moonlight Schools, calls to wipe out illiteracy...
Bob Duffy is re-elected as football coach for next year. Plans are underway for the Junior Prom. The Debate Squad will hold its third event of the season co-hosted with Franklin and Marshal. A list of honors students is released. The track team will open the season next Tuesday.
This week's Dickinsonian reports that the Medley Relay Team takes third place at the annual intercollegiate Philadelphia meet. Martha Sloan, President of the Women's Student Senate of Wilson College, will discuss "Practical Problems of Student Government" at a meeting of the Women's Student...
Raymond Bell discusses the concept of television at a meeting of the Mohler Scientific Society. Touring lecturer Samuel Grathwell to deliver his renowned "Getting by Your Hoodoo" speech on overcoming fears. The basketball season ends with a game against Gettysburg. The Dramatic Club presents...
Students await Samuel Grathwell's fiery "Getting By Your Hoodoo" lecture. Victories against Gettysburg and Mt. St. Mary's conclude the basketball season and the old gymnasium is retired after a 44 game win streak. Dickinson Law School Alumnus of 1904 David E. Kaufman is nominated as President...
Musical artist Lowell Patton and his ensemble procured to perform on March 28, 1928. Dr. Roy M. Dorcas, Associate Professor of Psychology at Johns Hopkins University, addresses and demonstrates hypnotism to psychology students. Professor E.A. Vuilleumier to discuss "Christianity and Chemistry...
Students await the performance of the Patton Troupe musical trio in the chapel. The Dickinson Players dramatic club plan a three-act play entitled "The Patsy" in Bosler Hall. G.M. Steinmetz, editor of the Harrisburg Telegraph, is secured by the Alpha Gamma fraternity to speak about and in...
A large audience enjoyed the presentation of the comedic play "The Patsy" by the Dickinson Players dramatic club in Bosler Hall. The Patton Troupe, a trio composed of Lowell Patton, Johann Qualin, and Edward Qualin, performed a series of original musical pieces entitled "Six Episodes and an...
Several sports teams begin their campaigns: the track team in a dual meet against Schuykill at Biddle Field; the tennis team against the netmen of Franklin and Marshall; and the baseball team away against Penn State University. It is announced that United States Commissioner of Education John...
The Mohler Scientific Society plans a series of meetings: C. C. Bowman will speak on the Alpha Rayin the Tome Scientific Building; Dr. John Frederick Mohler will provide students an opportunity to view the moon through a telescope; and Dr. Brown of Bucknell University will speak on liquid air. ...
The Alpha Gamma honorary journalistic fraternity holds an editorial contest with the subject "What Dickinson Needs Most". A humor paper entitled "Thalia", privately owned by several Dickinson students, prepares to make its debut on May 20th. English literature instructor B. Floyd Rinker gives...
Professor J.F. Mohler leads the Scientific Club in studying the heavens via powerful telescopes. Professor Leon C. Prince thanks the school band for their assistance in a campaign visit to Duncannon. Senior William R. Smith and his Sigma Chi fraternity brothers direct traffic and return a deer...
Seniors H.G. Stutzman and Betsy Ann Cloud take the lead roles in the Commencement play "Honor Bright". Donald Smith is elected leader of the college band. Phi Psi wins the inter-fraternity track event for the second year in a row. The orchestra announces a surprise symphony by Haydn on May...
Three new professors are added to the faculty: Russel I. Thompson, Education and Psychology; Walter Thomas, German; and Mary B. Taintor, French. Dr. J.F. Brown of the Pennsylvania State Department of Science and Research plans to take charge of a demonstration sponsored by the Scientific Club...
In the last Dickinsonian of the academic year, eighty-five seniors graduate with eight elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society. The Belles Lettres Exhibit of Historic Dickinson and other exhibits are reopened in Bosler Hall for returning alumni. Furthermore, under the direction of librarian...
The Dickinsonian begins its 56th year of publication, noting its roots as a literary magazine under the Belles Lettres and Union Philosophical Literary societies. Mervin Grant Filler is elected 18th president of the college, filling the vacancy of the newly resigned Dr. James Henry Morgan,...
Professor E.A. Vuilleumier, head of the Chemistry Department, speaks on his goal to invent an air dehumifidication machine that will induce silence among a garrulous student body. The "Romance and Adventure" of Cave Hill is advertised. Former professor Hazel Jane Bullock writes of her travels...
The All-College Social committee has changed the date of the college picnic, much to the chagrin of the students. The Senior Blazer committee calls upon seniors to be measured for their jackets. New rules lightening the strict regulations regarding social privileges and required classes for...
Dickinson College is to be represented in the American Association of University Women's Founders' Book. The Union Philosophical Society and Belles Lettres Society continue their "stunt" of selective rushing. Professor Benjamin Wilbur Folsom takes charge of the Dickinson Debate Council. ...
Professor Leon C. Prince will speak at the upcoming Homecoming pep rally at Bosler Hall before the football team's game against Gettysburg. Dickinson alumnus Reverend Edmund Davison Soper, D.D., class of 1898, is elected president of Ohio Wesleyan University. Pacifist Dr. Frank W. Norwood,...
The All-College Social Committee continues its preparations for Homecoming events. Professor C.R. Walther Thomas takes his German class for a walk.
Fraternities forbid use of intoxicants and begin to lead weekly YMCA meetings. The Dickinsonian reports that Professor Leon C. Prince and alum Russel R. Kohr are elected as State Senator and Assemblyman, respectively. Despite rain, Dickinson College hosts its largest Homecoming yet, with six...
