Homecoming luncheon, 1948
View as people enter the Alumni Gymnasium for a luncheon during Homecoming weekend in fall 1948.
View as people enter the Alumni Gymnasium for a luncheon during Homecoming weekend in fall 1948.
Members of the Commons Club create this team spirit display for the Homecoming game against Johns Hopkins on November 12, 1949. The display features a car labeled "Johns Hopkins" crashing into a football player.
A team spirit display created by the Phi Delta Theta fraternity for the Homecoming game against Johns Hopkins in fall 1949. The headline on the poster is "Johns Hopkins Wrecked By D'Son Devils: Open Season Declared on Jays."
View of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity's spirit display for the Homecoming game against Johns Hopkins on November 12, 1949. The display includes a sign with the quote "'Abandon hope all ye who enter here' - Dante."
A team spirit banner for the Homecoming game against Johns Hopkins on November 12, 1949. It features a large bunny and the quote "Let's hop on Hopkins - the rest will be easy!"
A team spirit display for the Homecoming game against Johns Hopkins on November 12, 1949. The display includes signs that read: "Even Kignmies know - a disaster - when they see one."
Students create this team spirit display for the Homecoming football game against Johns Hopkins on November 12, 1949. The display includes the figure of a devil cleaning a bathroom and a sign saying "It's time for'nother Saturday clean up."
The Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity creates this team spirit display for the Homecoming game against Johns Hopkins on November 12, 1949. The main banner says "You raze Hopkins, we'll raise the devil."
The Sigma Chi fraternity creates this team spirit display for the Homecoming game against Johns Hopkins on November 12, 1949. One of the headlines on the poster is "Omicron Sigs Celebrate 90th Anniversary"
Homecoming buffet featuring a swan ice sculpture with three cheerleaders in front of it.
View as President William Edel (Class of 1915) holds the Mermaid and the Little Brown Bucket at the Homecoming football game against Gettysburg College at Biddle field in November 1950.
Students return the mermaid to President William Edel during the Homecoming football game in fall 1950.
President William W. Edel holds the Mermaid after Phi Kappa Psi brothers surrender it during Homecoming weekend in fall 1950.
Two students stand next to a banner for the 1951 Homecoming weekend.
The banner reads: "November - Four seasons now are past and gone, and Homecoming is here. We welcome back to Dickinson Alums from far and near."
Two men with the president's boat that the Kappa Sigma fraternity had stolen as a part of a prank for the Homecoming celebrations in November 1951. President William Edel (Class of 1915) is shaking hands with the student standing in the boat.
People eating at a buffet during Homecoming weekend in fall 1951.
Line up of the chefs for the Homecoming buffet in fall 1951.
The crowd at Biddle field watches as the ROTC band prepares for a performance during the Homecoming game against Johns Hopkins in November 1951.
View as a crowd eats a meal inside the Alumni Gymnasium during Homecoming weekend in fall 1951.
Kappa Sigma brothers and other students with the President's boat during the Homecoming football game in fall 1951. The caption on the photograph reads "President's boat stolen by Kappa Sigma."
A team spirit display created by the Kappa Sigma fraternity for the Homecoming game against Johns Hopkins on November 10, 1951. The display depicts a man in an academic robe holding the college mace chasing a football player with an "H" on the front of his uniform. The caption for the display reads "We're not standing on ceremony this time."
The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity creates this team spirit display for the Homecoming game against Johns Hopkins on November 10, 1951. The display depicts the Johns Hopkins mascot, a blue jay, caught in the middle of a maze. The title for the display is "Trapped by Dickinson's Maze!" There is also a story to the left of the title banner which ends with "And her Victory will be won."
Two women stand on either side of a banner welcoming alumni to Homecoming on November 10, 1951.
The banner reads: "Four seasons are past and gone, And Homecoming is here. We welcome back to Dickinson Alums from far and near."