1929

Annual Doll Show is planned.  YMCA and YWCA lead drive to donate Christmas gifts to orphaned children.

Juniors win the women's inter-class swim meet.  Doll Show to be held in the Old Gymnasium. 

Hugh MacCotter elected president of Freshman class.  Annual Soph Hop planned.  Week of Prayer is held.  Freshman football defeats Gettysburg.

Debate team faces team from Victoria College of New Zealand.  Tribunal clarifies freshman rules.  College celebrates Armistice Day.

Cross-country wins Central Pennsylvania Conference cup.  Dickinson football loses to Gettysburg.  Nineteen freshmen pledge into Belles Lettres. 

The Dickinson faculty are listed along with their C.V.s.  F. E. Craver denies the Carnegie Foundation's accusation that Dickinson subsidizes athletes beyond tuition costs.  Homecoming Weekend. 

The Literary Societies plan their rushing program.  C. Lincoln Brown is elected vice president of Student Senate.

Athletic Association institutes stricter ticket policy for game admission.  Annual college picnic features faculty-student baseball game.  Fraternities pledge new members. 

Homecoming Weekend is planned.  Sororities pledge new members.

Class in archery offered to female students.  Freshman class ('33) elects officers.

Daily chapel services abolished; services will only be held on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.  George Robert Stephens, Horace A. Rogers, Elmer Charles Herber and E. Winifred Chapman join the faculty.  Renovations of Old West are completed.  Lovers' Lane is removed.  Freshman girls are each assigned five big sisters, one from each sorority and one independent, to introduce them to the college and win their loyalty.

Another year is culminated by graduation and the annual commencement ceremonies.  Bradford Oliver McIntire, Professor of English and American Literature, retires after 39 years of service.  Former Dickinson president James Henry Morgan returns from a trip abroad.

Sophomore George R. Conners publishes a booklet of verse entitled "Poems of a Shut-In", written by his prominent father during a long period of illness.  John Biddle is unanimously chosen as the president of the Men's Senate.  Various class reunions are planned for Alumni Day.  Preparations continue for the 146th Annual Commencement, including an address by Kentucky Senator Alben William Barkley.

The Alpha Chi Rho fraternity hosts a special reception for Mothers' Day.  "The Temple", a magazine of campus verse created by Beau Geste, the Dickinson College poetry club, is ready for print.  Harold Kline is elected as the new head of the Intra-fraternity Council.  Founder's Day celebrations take place.  Meetings are held to discuss campus politics.

Track and Field mentor, Professor Forrest E. Craver accidentally ignites a blank .22 bullet in his tobacco pipe.  Plans for four days of commencement programs begin.  Everett F. Hallack is elected president of the State Student Council of the YMCA.

Paul C. Meng, secretary of the Chinese YMCA in America, addresses the "Y" meeting of the week.  The Glee Club enjoys a four day journey of singing and "warbling" through Central Pennsylvania.

"Grand Old Man of Dickinson" J.H. Morgan steps down from presidency as Mervin G. Filler, fourteen year dean, takes the reigns at the inaugural ceremony.  Boyd Lee Spahr, class of 1900 and president of the Alumni Association, presides over a luncheon as part of the ceremony.  Brigadier General Frank R. Keefer, class of 1885 and Surgeon General of the United States Army is among those to give an address.

Prominent educators and public men prepare to take part in the inauguration ceremony of Mervin G. Filler, the eighteenth president of "Old Dickinson".  Clarence A. Welliver is elected as student leader of college band.  William S. Bender wins oratorical contest held in Belles Lettres Hall for his speech on "Lincoln and the Constitution".

In response to the withdrawal from political cliques by two fraternities in the prior week, Theta Chi endorses a move for a reform of on campus politics.  The freshmen women of Metzger Hall with a B average are rewarded with the freedom to go out on all nights of the week exluding Monday, on which all students are bound to their living quarters.

The Chi Omega and Phi Kappa Sigma fraternities renounce on-campus ties to political cliques and vow to allow members to vote according to personal sentiments.  The Harrisburg Mozart Festival commences its second annual program of concerts at William Penn High School in Harrisburg.

Devotees push for "soccer football" to be established as an official Dickinson sport.  The Philadelphia Inquirer interviews Professor Leon C. Prince, one of the newest members of the Pennsylvania Senate.  A newly founded poetry club flourishes at Conway Hall.

Reverend Gilbert Darlington of the American bible Society delivers an address on John M. Mason, Dickinson College president from 1821 to 1824.  An economical professor hoards tin cans to later redeem the profitable metal.  A drive is set to begin for the Dickinson-in-China fund.

Members of the Sophomore class kidnap the Freshmen class president the day before the Freshman Hop dance.  1895 Dickinson Alumnus William "Billy" Clarke expresses approval and nostalgia, confirming the tradition.  The Glee Club debuts its spring concert series.  Students organize a new German club aiming to enable fluency among members.  The coeds of Metzger ponder on the future home of their only male resident, a dog named Dapper.

German Naval Commander Count Felix Von Luckner gives a thrilling lecture to a packed crowd.  College Sophomore Russel Spinney is caught delivering a false story to a local barber involving his near drowning.  The story is published in the Carlisle Evening Sentinel.  A number of coeds consider abandoning education for Hollywood.

Boyd Lee Spahr, Head of Alumni Association, presents the college with large portrait of Dickinson grad and eminent scientist Spencer Fullerton Baird.  College President Mervin G. Filler is presented with an honorary degree of doctor of laws at the induction of Dr. Edmund Davison Soper as president of Ohio Wesleyan University.