Students enjoyed a morning of playing the then-new game of American football. "Not football but hand-ball," Horatio C. King (Class of 1858) commented in his journal. "Quite an exciting game. Hurts a fellows hand considerable."
A number of students, among them Edward B. Newman (Class of 1858), Francis Asbury Awl (Class of 1858, non-graduate), Thomas C. Hughey (Class of 1859, non-graduate), and Horatio Collins King (Class of 1858), formed a vocal group. "We practiced some this afternoon and our voices accorded very well," wrote King. "I fancy we will be able, in a short time to regale our friends with good singing."
With a day's holiday, Horatio C. King (Class of 1858), Lewis Griffith (Class of 1855), and John Tucker went "gunning" for birds.
At 12:00am, a group of students consisting of James Douglas Wade (Class of 1855), James Hervey Barton (Class of 1855), William H. Newell (Class of 1858, non-graduate), and Horatio Collins King (Class of 1858) "went out serenading," singing and playing between them two flutes and a melodeon. The students performed at several professors' houses, as well as the houses of friends living around Carlisle.
Dickinson students caused some mischief the night before "Hallo eve" by taking furniture from the college and placing it around campus. Horatio C. King, Class of 1858, related the incident the next day in his journal: "A number of the students collected intent upon doing some mischief. In the basement of E.C. [East College] is a room in which is kept furniture &c for sale to the students. They took this furniture and strewed it over the Campus and hung some up in the trees.
Two students at the College, Dave Martinin and Mike Morrison, bought the Cork and Kettle, a restaurant located on Pitt Street in Carlisle. They planned to make it a popular student hang out.
The spring semester's Parent's Weekend included scientific and sociological symposia, sports, and dramatic productions. The weekend started off with the Father's Golf Tournament at the Cumberland Golf Course. The Mermaid Players presented Rule a Wife and Have a Wife in Mathers Theatre on Friday and Saturday. The Mary Dickinson Club held refreshments in the Social Hall on Saturday, and the parents were free to mingle with the faculty. The lacrosse team played against Wilkes.
This year, sixteen women entered Sigma Alpha Epsilon's year-old program for women social members. As social members, these women had access to the facilities of the SAE house and were invited to five informal gatherings. This event marks serious steps forward in the integration of the sexes in the quadrangle.
The Student Senate officially approved two new organizations at Dickinson. The first of these was a Rugby Football team which was scheduled to play no less than four games. The second was the Carlisle Consumer Protections Agency. The agency would serve as a center for Carlisle consumers to register complaints about faculty merchandise or poor service.
Senior Mary Mackie and Lieutenant Smith of the Army Air Corps Cadets created a Conferences and Appointments Bureau, otherwise known as the Date Bureau, which set up cadets and female Dickinson students on dates. The bureau was created sometime in late March 1943.
A group of students gathered in order to revive the College Minstrels, a dramatic club which disbanded several years earlier. The group held elections and began to plan their first show, which would be held in early 1906.
After years of government solely by Student Senate, the College fraternities attempted the creation of a new Interfraternity Council to improve fraternity life and inter-fraternity relations. Stokes L. Sharp was elected president of the council at its first meeting in the MacCauley Room on Tuesday evening. Each fraternity was to have two representatives but one vote.
The traditional sophomore invasion of Conway Hall, the freshman men's dormitory, occurred at 11:30pm on Tuesday, October 20, 1942. Upperclassmen declared the scrap a draw and rewarded the freshmen by suspending the regulation requiring them to wear white socks and garters.
The libraries of the Belles Lettres and Union Philosophical Literary Societies received several fine new chairs due to the efforts of President George Edward Reed. The halls were excellently furnished, as well as spacious and pleasing.
Fall Parents' Day activities included the Annual Parents' Convocation, a panel discussion, Buffet Luncheon, and football game against Georgetown. Entertainment provided by students included the final performance of the Mermaid Player's The Imaginary Invalid and the Annual Glee Club Concert and ODK Songfest.
The annual Mid-Winter Ball of 1941 was met with significant snow that made the orchestra an hour late to the dance. The Mid-Winter Ball Queen, Marion VanAuken, was crowned in her room at the Carlisle Hospital, illness preventing her from attending the affair. The theme was "Pan-American"; the gymnasium was decorated with palms, cycads, and flags.
This year's Homecoming program included a concert featuring the bands Seatrain and Grin, a Clambake and Chicken Barbeque, various lunches and dinners, the crowning of the Homecoming Queen, a football game against Franklin and Marshall, and the return of the Mermaid, which was kidnapped by a group of freshmen shortly after they arrived on campus.
A few hours prior to the flag scrap on Wednesday, November 20, 1940, two freshmen sawed the flag pole nearly in half to make it easier to pull over. Shortly after the scrap started, the pole began to crack, and the contest was called off in order to save the pole. The Tribunal retaliated by declaring that freshman rules would remain in effect for the entirety of the academic year.
President Fred Corson held a reception for students' parents in Memorial Hall on the morning of Saturday, October 18th, 1940, as part of Parents' Day festivities.
The seniors of the class of '71 opted at their meeting on April 6 to forgo the traditional Senior Dinner and to instead donate the dinner funds to a trust fund for the library for use in purchasing books.
As punishment for breaking the Freshmen Rules, the Senate had freshmen offenders joust with scrambled eggs, to the entertainment of the entire campus. When that got old, the hazing committee decided that it needed target practice, using the freshmen as targets and eggs as ammunition.
The Dickinson branch of Boosting Alcohol Consciousness Among College and University Students (BACCHUS), an organization dedicated to alcohol education and preventing drunk driving, staged a mock accident on College Street during lunch hours. The event caused confusion and controversy for some students.
Night Owl, a nighttime telephone service for members of the Dickinson community in need of a listening ear or advice, began running on November 1, 1970. The college counselor, Dr. Howard Figler, trained the Dickinson students who answered the calls.
At its meeting on May 18, 1933, the International Relations Club unanimously voted to dissolve itself due to lack of interest.
The Dickinson chapter of Phi Delta Theta hired Mrs. Mary Eisenberg to be the first fraternity house mother ever to be employed at Dickinson. Mrs. Eisenberg lived in the Phi Delta Theta house and served as "a social and fiscal asset". She arrived on campus on Sunday, April 23, 1933.