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Dickinsonian, May 11, 1939

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Details of several new student elections and awards. Baseball team beats University of Delaware and Temple University. Golf team wins against Western Maryland University. They also earned their first intercollegiate invitation tournament by...

Dickinsonian, May 18, 1939

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Dickinson College to reconstruct Bosler Hall. Dr. Dixon Ryan Fox to speak at Commencement. Former Cumberland County resident, Daniel Drawbaugh laid claim to title of inventor of the telephone in 1881. Alice Abbott, the first girl to make the men'...

Dickinsonian, June 3, 1939

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Details of Bosler Hall renovation. Commencement Ball a success. Outline of Commencement activities. Dickinson baseball beats Drexel. Track team finishes their best season in several years with only one loss to Bucknell.

Dickinsonian, October 5, 1939

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President Corson addresses the 556-strong student body at Convocation. Belles Lettres announces that it will publish the Hornbook for the first time since 1934. Three foreign students (one Chinese, one French, and one German) are unable to come...

Dickinsonian, October 12, 1939

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William Walter Van Kirk, director of the National Peace Conference, addresses chapel. Professor Cornelius W. Fink resigns as adviser for the Union Philosophical Society. Belles Lettres announces that, in addition to publishing the Hornbook, it...

Dickinsonian, October 19, 1939

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Dr. James Henry Morgan, former president of the College, dies at the age of 82 from an "illness of many months." The College plans to take part in the Carlisle Community Chest Drive to raise money for various charitable causes. The Civil...

Dickinsonian, October 26, 1939

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The Bobolino Group Theatre performs "Candida" to an audience of 200 in Denny Hall. Union Philosophical Society rejects Belles Lettres' invitation for an inter-society debate and appoints Professor Wellman J. Warner as its new adviser. Chinese...

Dickinsonian, November 4, 1939

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The traditional Dad's Day, during which fathers of Dickinson students were welcomed to campus, is changed into the first all-inclusive Parent's Day. The results of an Intercollegiate Newspaper Association poll suggests that Dickinsonians are...

Dickinsonian, November 11, 1939

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George S. Williams '00, Delaware's lone Congressional Representative, speaks in chapel for Homecoming Weekend. Members of the Dickinsonian editorial staff travel to Lewisburg for a conference of the Intercollegiate Newspaper Association, of which...

Dickinsonian, November 16, 1939

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Author, journalist, and radio personality John Kieran is announced as the speaker for the Alumni Football Banquet. The Drama Club's fall production, "Petticoat Fever," is set to open the evening of publication. Several pranks were pulled over...

Dickinsonian, November 30, 1939

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Pi Beta Phi plans to move their house from Louther Street to 157 West High Street. The Kittochtiny Players, a local drama troupe of which seven Dickinsonians are members, performs Helen Jerome's adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice." The ten...

Dickinsonian, December 7, 1939

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Dr. H.H. Nininger, leading expert on meteorites, visits campus and gives a lecture on the subject. The College Athletic Association announces that 37 football and soccer players, coaches, and staff members will receive letters. The annual...

Dickinsonian, December 15, 1939

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Attendance is high at the Alumni Football Banquet. Mrs. Bradford McIntire, one of the original planners of the Doll Show, arrives on campus to fulfill her role as guest of honor at this year's incarnation of that event. John Bunting wins the...

Dickinsonian, January 11, 1940

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The Social Committee announces that the Alex Bartha Orchestra will provide entertainment at the second annual Mid-Winter Ball. Belles Lettres and the Union Philosophical Society announce an inter-society debate, with the goal of rejuvenating the...

Dickinsonian, January 19, 1940

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Samuel McCartney is tapped to replace Paul Gorsuch as editor-in-chief of the Dickinsonian. The General Alumni Association publishes its annual report, revealing that there are 5,161 living Dickinson graduates--at least one in every U.S....

Dickinsonian, February 15, 1940

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W. Albert Strong and Bernard Gingrich (both '40) are elected to join Phi Beta Kappa, the national honorary fraternity. Mary Lou Kirkpatrick is elected Queen of the Mid-Winter Ball. The College Orchestra's string quartet presents a two-song...

Dickinsonian, February 23, 1940

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Omicron Delta Kappa, the national leadership fraternity, taps John F. Campbell and W. Richard Eshelman (both '41) for membership, along with Governor Arthur H. James, who joins as an honorary member. Jack D. Hughes visits chapel via the New York...

Dickinsonian, February 29, 1940

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Over 300 people, mostly alumni, attend the Mid-Winter Ball, which ultimately makes a profit of $16.98. Alpha Sigma Gamma, an honorary journalistic society, elects nine Dickinsonians as members. The owner of the horse that was the subject of a...

Dickinsonian, March 7, 1940

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The Drama Club announces that it will present Merton Hodge's "The Wind and The Rain" the following week. Dr. Paul Swain Havens, president of Wilson College, visits campus to give a lecture on John Donne. Pan-Hellenic Week, to be extended by a day...

Dickinsonian, March 14, 1940

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Traveler/self-educated savant/newsboy/bum Samuel H. "King" Cole passes through campus to collect autographs to add to his fifty-volume set of the people he meets, which includes Neville Chamberlain, King George VI, and President F.D. Roosevelt....

Dickinsonian, April 11, 1940

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Missionary and author Sherwood Eddy visits campus to lead a Q&A session on the subject of Europe's economic, political, social, and religious situations. Demolition and renovation of Bosler Hall gets underway, the eventual goal being a $125,...

Dickinsonian, April 20, 1940

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The seventh annual Guest Day for prospective students gets underway. A group of pranksters locks the only door to Bosler Hall (then under construction) while seven people, including College Dean Ernest Vuilleumier, are inside, forcing them to...

Dickinsonian, April 25, 1940

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Coach Richard MacAndrews breaks three ribs during an accident at a baseball practice. Dickinson is one of 33 colleges in Pennsylvania to attend the Intercollegiate Conference on Government in Harrisburg. The track team wins their first meet of...

Dickinsonian, May 2, 1940

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The Province Convention of Sigma Alpha Epsilon comes to Dickinson for the first time, with an expected attendance of nearly 200 delegates and alumni. Little Jack Little is announced as the entertainment at the annual Senior Prom. Skull and Key...

Dickinsonian, May 11, 1940

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Dean M. Hoffman and Boyd Lee Spahr '00 address the College at the annual Founders' Day kickoff. Five of the original ten students taking flight classes from the Civil Aeronautics Authority receive recreational flying licenses, with the other five...

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