The two national Jewish fraternities active on campus, Sigma Tau Phi and Phi Epsilon Pi, both applied for admission to the Dickinson Interfraternity Council; their petition was defeated on March 2 by a vote of 3-6 for undisclosed reasons. The fraternities were confident that a second petition would result in admittance.
The YMCA and YWCA jointly hosted the annual Doll Show in the Alumni Gymnasium on December 16, 1932. At the show, the Men's and Women's Glee Clubs performed a short play entitled "Christmas in a District School," gag gifts were given to professors, and Al Hollander and his orchestra furnished music for dancing.
A club formed for the purpose of gathering Jewish students to discuss cultural and timely issues met for the first time in the Phi Epsilon Pi house on Sunday, December 11, 1932. At this first meeting, Professor Cornelius Prettyman (Class of 1891), the club advisor, spoke about the value of culture.
An organization called the Corinthian Club, formed to encourage interest in yachting, met for the first time in Conway Hall.
The McIntire Literary Society held a "depression party" in Old West on November 30, 1932. They played word games, then sang together.
The sophomores won the 1932 flag scrap, held at Biddle Field on October 19. The freshmen succeeded in pulling sophomore Paul Fleischer down from his post guarding the class flag at the top of the pole, but they were unable to ascend the greased pole and capture the flag in the ten minutes allotted for the scrap.
At a pep meeting held in Bosler Hall prior to a football game against Ursinus, presidential candidate on the Prohibition ticket William D. Upshaw gave a witty, non-political speech.
The Class of 1932 observed its Class Day on Thursday, June 2, 1932. At the event, Priscilla Charles, the class historian, read the history of the class. Stephen Teller read the class poem, and Lowell Atkinson and Pauline Klingensmith gave the class prophecy. John Hopkins gave the farewell address. The class sang their class song and were inducted into the Alumni Association.
The annual Senior Class Picnic was held at Williams' Grove on Tuesday, May 17, 1932. Canoeing, swimming, sports, and races were followed by a supper of potato salad, sandwiches, ice cream. The evening ended with dancing to music by the Dickinson College Dance Orchestra in its first public performance.
A Mothers' Day banquet luncheon was held at the Argonne Hotel for female Dickinson students and their mothers. Dean Josephine B. Meredith and Frances Yard gave speeches; Mary Grove was toastmistress.
Representatives from the YMCAs of Gettysburg College, Franklin & Marshall, and Dickinson met for a retreat in the McCaulay room of Old West. The representatives discussed the role of YMCAs on college campuses, how to get faculty involved in YMCA programming, plans for the coming year, and progress of the current year.
The Miami Triad Dance of 1932, hosted by Beta Theta Pi, Phi Delta Theta, and Sigma Chi, was held in the American Legion Hall on March 5, 1932. Interior decorator O. W. Plack decorated the hall in blue, pink, and the fraternity banners. Doc Payton's orchestra, well-known radio entertainers, performed. Approximately 150 couples attended.
A Ford coupe that belonged J. Carlton Godlove of Hagerstown, Maryland, was found on its side, tires deflated, inside the Bosler Hall library. The Alpha Chi Rho fraternity was blamed for the prank.
Seventy-five couples attended the annual sophomore class dance held in the armory on February 13, 1932. The event was marked by the performance of Joe Haynes and his Missourians, who had never before performed at a Dickinson function. The hall was decorated with hearts and cupids.
The freshman class held a dance in the Carlisle armory on Saturday, February 6, 1932. They decorated the armory in red, white and blue and with silhouettes of Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
An International Relations Club held its first meeting on January 14, 1932. The purpose of the club was to study world politics, the League of Nations, and other problems of international scope. The Carnegie Foundation helped create the club.
Students took buses to Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania, for the annual college picnic, which featured a spelling game for the female students, a pie-eating contest, a student-faculty baseball game, and dancing. Dinner consisted of ham, potato chips, beans, pickles, milk, rolls, and pie a la mode.
The freshmen won the annual freshman-sophomore flag scrap, succeeding in removing the sophomore class flag from atop its pole. Few members of the sophomore class participated in the scrap, which was a short affair.
The annual senior picnic was held at Williams' Grove on Monday, May 18th. It featured boating, golfing, skee-balling, dancing, swinging, baseball, and a dinner of baked ham, baked beans, cheese, pickles, preserves, potato chips, rolls, coffee, and homemade cake and ice cream.
The YWCA hosted a May Day breakfast of ham and eggs in the Old Gymnasium to kick off Founders' Day celebrations. Each female guest was given a corsage; male guests were given daisies for their buttonholes.
In their last social event as a class before graduation, approximately 100 seniors and their guests attended the annual senior ball, which was held in the American Legion hall. The main event of the evening was a lengthy promenade.
The Commons Club and Beta Psi formally ratified their merger. The two organizations had the same goal, and faced with the prospect of decreased male enrollment in the coming year, deemed it best to become one organization. They retained the name "Commons Club" because it was chartered and incorporated in the state of Pennsylvania.
The Men's Tribunal, citing lack of accusations of rulebreaking and mindful of changes in the rules for the upcoming year, suspended the freshman class rules for the remainder of the 1930-1931 school year, a month earlier than any other Tribunal in Dickinson history.
The sophomores won by 21-17 the annual Button Game, a basketball game between the sophomores and first years that determines whether the first years must continue to wear their identifying buttons. Harry Kane, Milt Davidson, and Joe Lipinski were the outstanding players for the sophomores.
The junior promenade of the class of 1932 was held in the American Legion Hall. Leather cases including mirrors and coin purses were provided as favors. The decorating committee created a jail for the dance chaperones.