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Student Senate requests the foundation of a Dickinson chapter of the Chimes Women's Honorary Society. Dr. and Mrs. George H. Ketterer donate $20,000 to Dickinson endowment. Overview of upcoming Religion-in-Life Week. List of students admitted for...
Dean's list for fall 1951. Donald W. Flaherty becomes political science instructor. John L. Groom resigns. Little Theater elects officers.
Interfraternity Council has pledges clean Lindner Park to improve college-community relations. Rowland R. Lehman dies. Sir Robert Chance to speak at commencement.
Professor Elmer C. Herber receives grant from American Philosophical Society to write a biography of Spencer Fullerton Baird. College receives two ancient building stones from Carlisle, England; they are placed on display in Bosler lobby....
Joseph Priestley Day and the Priestley Award are created. Student demonstration results in student-faculty-administration meeting that determines to improve the class dean system and create a student-faculty committee to make recommendations on...
Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., is given Boyd Lee Spahr Chair of American History. Profile of Professor William Sloane. Phi Kappa Sigma wins interfraternity basketball.
Drayer Hall to open soon, is described. Little Theater performs "All My Sons".
The Drinkinsonian, the annual spoof edition of the paper, offers a satirical look at college groups and individuals.
Pan-Hell Weekend program. Frank S. Houck chosen outstanding chemistry student. Profile of Professor Ferdinando Maurino. Phi Kappa Psi wins interfraternity track meet.
Professor Francis W. Warlow receives grant from the Fund for the Advancement of Education to finish his book. Student E. Donald Shapiro wins award in national debate contest. Drayer Hall is named.
List of honorary degrees to be conferred on Founders' Day. President William W. Edel discusses ten-year development plan begun in 1948. Kenneth Washinger wins Dickinson Pentathalon.
Pi Delta Epsilon elects officers. Frederic W. Ness is appointed dean of Dickinson College. H. Chace Davis, '50, is appointed assistant director of admissions. Guest Day planned (sponsored by Omicron Delta Kappa and organized by Dean James)....
Dickinson Follies perform original show. Student Senate election results: Bob Keuch is president. Professor Russel I. Thompson is promoted to the new position of Provost. Sidney Kline receives outstanding sophomore award from Omicron Delta Kappa...
ROTC established at Dickinson. Bob Jones is elected president of sophomore class. Robert High is elected president of College Choir. Edward Adourian, Norman McWhinney, Frank Skrapits, and Emil Weiss to attend the Washington Semester. Women's...
Seven men to receive honorary degrees at commencement. Donald Masten is elected president of Union Philosophical Society. Program for Commencement Weekend (Senior Day, Alumni Day). Five rising freshmen (Kenneth Dietrich, Theodore Sky, John Matta...
Freshman class largest in the College's history. Introduction of ROTC program at Dickinson. Dr. F.W. Ness named Dean of the College. Common Club regains status as a club for independent men. Professor Pflaum returns to campus after his tenth trip...
A series of sixteen worship services featuring the preaching of outstanding American clergymen and entitled "Religion in Today's World" will be presented by the College this term during chapel. Three teams remain undefeated in the Inter-...
Dr. Horace E. Rogers will address chapel with a lecture entitled "Analytical Chemistry - Past and Present" in formal recognition of his receival of the DuPont Chair of Chemistry. New portrait of James Buchanan to hang in the Bosler Hall Alumni...
Details regarding the first Senate-sponsored chapel meeting. Dr. Horace Rogers awarded the DuPont Chair of Chemistry. Professor John C. Pflaum to deliver a talk on European-American political relations at the next meeting of the International...
Dean Dr. William Tyler returns to campus after conducting classes elsewhere worldwide. Professor Whitfield Bell, Jr., presented a paper on Early America in Williamsburg, Virginia. The Cultural Affairs Committee announces the arrangement of three...
Campus Chest Drive to open next week. Profile on student athlete, George Slingland. Junior girls take the Inter-Class Hockey Championship, causing the Seniors to break their four-year winning streak.
Professors Flaherty and Mercer to address the International Relations Club. Phi Delta Theta wins the Display Contest at Homecoming. Charles Tharp is the new cataloging librarian. World famous blind pianist, Alec Templeton to play recital in...
Dr. Arthur Vaughn Bishop is awarded the A.J. Clarke Chair of Classical Languages and Literature. The annual Hornbook will be published by the Belles Lettres Literary Society in December. Professor Alfred Haas of Drew Theological Seminary will...
Mrs. Helen Wing, wife of Dr. Herbert Wing, Jr., passed away after a lingering illness. Doll Dance scheduled to be held on 17 December. The National Poetry Association announces that its "National Intercollegiate Poetry Anthology for 1953" will...