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The Men's Glee Club and the Women's Choral Group give their first concerts of the academic year at the Homecoming Dinner and Dad's Day event respectively. Dean Josephine Meredith addresses the Pennsylvania Association of Deans of Women at a...

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Paul Dietz, a well-known actor of the American and German stage, gives an address to the German Club. Over thirty students apply to join the Dickinsonian staff. The College Senate sends a delegate to the Sophomore Vigilance Committee in order to...

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The combined Glee Clubs and the Allison Church Choir sponsor a concert by the world-famous Westminster Choir. The college charters a train to transport students to Lancaster in order to support the football team in their game against Franklin and...

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The annual Doll Show is planned for the evening before Christmas break. The Vigilance Committee is disbanded.

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The Women's Choral Club assists Allison Memorial Church in their Christmas pageant, "The Conquest of Christmas". Team captains are abolished for all sports teams, beginning with the 1936 basketball team. The most successful football season in...

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The Dickinsonian accepts ten new staff writers, roughly one-third of the applicants. The Jewish Religious Association organizes three chapel programs, as well as biweekly meetings, emulating activities of the Protestant and Catholic...

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The all-college social committee presents C. Ray Smith and his Olvera Street Marionettes in "Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer" in Bosler Hall. The Executive Council and regional officers of the Pennsylvania Association of College Students meet in campus...

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Omicron Delta Kappa sponsors the publication of the first Dickinson Songbook since 1910. The Dickinson chapter of Tau Kappa Alpha prepares to hold the district convention of Tau Kappa Alpha colleges in Pennsylvania and surrounding states. Admiral...

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Toyohiko Kagawa, a noted Japanese religious and social worker, addresses the campus. The annual Pan Hellenic dance is held in the Alumni Gymnasium. The College Radio Station enters the International DX contest, the object of which is to contact...

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Six of the men's fraternities accept a total of thirty-seven new members. The Pennsylvania Association of College Students is held at Penn State and presided over by Dickinson student Arthur Bouton.

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The long-awaited Junior Prom is revived and made open to the entire campus, as well as alumni. It is the only all-college formal planned for the semester. Alpha Sigma Gamma, an honorary journalistic fraternity, elects four new members. Phi Beta...

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Sixteen students are granted permission to do honors work in their respective majors. The Men's Glee Club gives a concert at the YMCA. The bookstore's venture in selling second-hand books fails. It is planned to try again next semester.

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The Dickinsonian holds a short story contest open to the entire student  body. The winner will be awarded with three dollars, and the runners-up with two. Conway residents are staying up until nearly the break of dawn playing Monopoly. The Women'...

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The Dramatic Club's production of Big Hearted Herbert, a three-act comedy by Sophie Kerr, opens in Bosler Hall with much praise. The Protestant branch of the Religious Association holds elections.

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The Drinkinsonian, the annual spoof edition of the paper, offers a satirical look at college groups and individuals.

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The All-College Social Committee plans "Leap Year Week" at the urging of students. During this week, several events for women are planned, culminating in the Pan Hellenic Dance on April 4. The Dramatic Club holds auditions for their final...

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The College celebrates Founder's Day. Delegates are sent to the Inter-collegiate Conference on Government in Harrisburg, one of which is named chair of one of the event's nine major committees.

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Guest Day is held for students potentially enrolling in the college. Most of the fraternities hold elections for the next academic year. The Board of Trustees change the college seal to include the date of the founding, 1783, at the center of the...

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The Freshman class plans to hold an annual class picnic. The Men's Glee Club gives a concert at Carlisle High School. The club additionally hopes to revive the tradition of singing on the Old Stone Steps every Tuesday. Dickinson Law School...

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The rising junior class holds elections for the upcoming year, already beginning to discuss such events as the 1937 Junior Prom. Wheel and Chain, the women's honorary senior fraternity, selects its new members. Belles Lettres Literary Society...

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The Athletic Association compiles the "official" rules for all intramural sports to be presented in a handbook for the upcoming academic year. Student Senate elects a new president and members of the Committee on Committees for the 1936-1937...

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The annual Commencement issue honors the class of 1936. Honorary degrees are presented to Vice-Admiral Arthur Jay Hepburn, Judge W.A. Valentine, Rev. Roy N. Keiser, and Rev. George Henry Ketterer. Twenty-eight students, including one woman,...

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The Belles Lettres Society arranges a program to celebrate the 150th anniversary of its founding. Several freshman are punished (in comical ways) for disobeying the Freshmen Rules. Medical care is now free to all male students on campus....

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Dr. Pitman B. Potter talks to students about problems of the League of Nations. Freshmen are again punished for breaking the Freshmen Rules. The Men’s Glee Club adds new members and plans for several winter concerts. The football team wins their...

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Forty-seven Dickinson men compete for a space on the Debate Squad. The Homecoming program schedule is announced. The Greek Club has their first meeting of the year. Thoughts on the 1936 presidential candidates are given. News on President...

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