Dickinsonian, April 5, 1911

Combined musical clubs, including Glee Club, Mandolin Club, complete a tour giving performances throughout Central Pennsylvania. Roy M. Dunkleberger, class of 1906, marries in India while serving as a Missionary. Alumni Gatherings to take place in New York City and Bloomsburg, PA. President Reed and Mrs. Reed host evening gathering of the senior class. Old-time fair held in the Gymnasium for the benefit of the Athletic Assiciation. Comul Club dance rescheduled in observance of Lent.

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Dickinsonian, February 15, 1911

Y.W.C.A. organizes one acts as entertainment to large audience. Various fraternities hold functions. Dramatization of the novel "If I Were King" in Bosler Hall. Article about Horatio Collins King published in the Brooklyn Citizen. Several alumni hold graduate fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania.  Alumni Associations called upon to reorganize.  Dr. Filler holds lectures on Roman life and customs.  The death of Old "Colonel" Agy, an African American janitor, is recognized.

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Dickinsonian, June 1883

Chi Phi Fraternity forms a lawn tennis club.  A pickup game of baseball is played between Dickinsonians and residents of Carlisle, with the college students winning 25 to 1.  The faculty holds a stag dance at the house of Professor Little.  The baseball team loses to Franklin and Marshall 14 to 11, wins against Harrisburg's professional team 18 to 9, loses to Chambersburg 18 to 5, and then loses to Harrisburg 12 to 1.  The Belles Lettres Society holds their Sophomore Contest. 

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Dickinsonian, May 1883

Students are criticized for cutting recitations and chapel.  Tensions rise when a student is dismissed from the college, prompting an investigation and almost pushing the class year of which the student was a part to withdraw from the college.  The Belles Lettres Sophomore Contest is to be held.  The Union Philosophical Society decides not to have a sophomore contest this year.  The senior class holds Class Day, a

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Dickinsonian, October 1882

Over summer break, improvements are made to student residences.  A porch on the north side of East College is also removed.  Robert Emory Pattison, the Democratic candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, visits Dickinson.  Fraternity rush is in full swing at Dickinson.  The college baseball team plays the freshman, winning 7 to 3.

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Dickinsonian, June 10, 1913

The Student Senate passes new legislation abolishing hazing and recommending faculty supervision of college publications and the combined Musical Clubs. The junior class elects its class officers. The baseball team loses to Gettysburg. S.W. Harrington of the University of Pennsylvania is chosen as next year’s football coach. The track team is featured. Dr. Super retires. The graduating senior class is also featured.

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Dickinsonian, May 28, 1913

The Dickinson baseball team defeats Gettysburg. The Musical Clubs held a concert at Boiling Springs. The Scientific Club holds a club banquet. The student body elects its Senators. The officers of the Politics Club are announced. The Skull and Key Junior Society holds a dance. The Commencement Program is given, outlining all of the events for Commencement Week.

 

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Dickinsonian, May 21, 1913

The baseball team defeats St. John’s, and loses to Lafayette. By a margin of only one vote, the Honor System is voted down at the College Assembly. The seniors go on the annual Senior Picnic. The Union Philosophical Society, College Band, and Class of 1916 chose their class officers.

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Dickinsonian, May 14, 1913

The Student Senate votes to incorporate the Honor System. Dickinson beats Villanova in baseball. The track teams beats Gettysburg. J.H. Baker, of the class of 1893, wins honor for his work as the President of Baltimore’s Board of Liquor License Commissioners. The Student Senate makes several changes to the annual events calendar. Phi Kappa Sigma wins the first game of the Inter-fraternity baseball series.

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Dickinsonian, May 7, 1913

The baseball team loses to Villanova. Nisbet Day is celebrated on campus. Students are encouraged to attend the Y.M.C.A Summer Conference. The Freshman win the annual Cap Scrap, allowing them to do away with their flashy green caps and replace them with understated gray ones. The tennis and track teams both lose to the Navy athletes. The new staff of the Dickinsonian puts out its first issue. The Glee and Mandolin Clubs have a successful concert.

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Dickinsonian, April 30, 1913

The baseball team defeats Johns Hopkins 7 to 1. Dickinson places third in the Penn Relays. The Inter-fraternity baseball series is announced to begin during the next week. The Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity held their annual dance in the armory. An essay talks about the merits of fraternity life, and another argues against the use of tobacco.

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Dickinsonian, February 26, 1913

The Annual College Banquet was held in the gymnasium on the anniversary of George Washington’s birthday. The sophomore class continues to win every game in the Inter-class series. The Dramatic Club is to perform “The Comedy of Errors” by Shakespeare during Commencement week. The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity held its annual Founder’s Day dance in Mentzer Hall. Paul G. Smith will be the new baseball coach for the upcoming season.

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Dickinsonian, June 1, 1916

The track team defeats Muhlenberg 73-53, and the baseball team loses to Ursinus at home, 4-3. The tennis team loses to Franklin & Marshall. Sports players from the different teams are profiled, including George C. Moose and Kenneth Bruce Vaughn. The track team is reviewed by their coach. Performances of the Glee Club and the Dramatic Club are scheduled. Kenneth Vaughn is also placed in the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame. Members of the sophomore class are initiated into the Skitch-A-Genee Sophomore Society.

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Dickinsonian, May 18, 1916

Dickinson beats Lebanon Valley at baseball.  The track team has a meet and the tennis team wins a match against Franklin & Marshall.  A professor’s Ford automobile is stolen and driven through Bosler Hall.  The Freshman Oratorical Contest is held.  Phi Delta Theta holds a smoker.  Sigma Chi holds a dance.  Union Philosophical Society holds elections.

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Dickinsonian, April 27, 1916

Heads for the YMCA program are chosen.  Nisbet Day is planned for May 1.  An annual tug-of-war between freshmen and sophomores is to be held on May 3.  The track and tennis seasons are underway.  The baseball team loses against Syracuse and Franklin & Marshall.  Interest in participation in summer military camps grows on campus, as a program of the Military Training Camps Association of the United States.

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Dickinsonian, May 27, 1914

The Dickinson baseball team defeats Gettysburg, but loses to Lehigh. The Dickinson Players are to present Euripides’ Iphigenia in Tauris as the Commencement play. The senior class held their annual Senior Day in Holly. The class Senators were elected for the coming year. The Skitch-a-genee Society also elected its new successors. The Commencement Program is announced.

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