Dickinsonian

Spring Sports event is held.  The Dickinsonian publishes its annual business report.  Dramatic Club holds its annual reception.

Football team refuses to play against Carlisle Indian School because the latter will not agree to shortened halves.  Dr. Hutchins replaces Ralph Hutchinson in department of Physiology and Hygiene and Physical Culture.  Office of The Dickinsonian moves from South College to the former Book Room of East College.  J. A.

Inauguration of President Noble is planned. Professor George A. Crider leaves Dickinson to become a pastor. Summary of track and baseball seasons. Dickinson performs poorly in fifth annual intercollegiate track meet. Harry McKeown wins gold medal and Wesley P. Griffiths wins silver medal in Pierson oratorical contest. Theodore Bunger receives fellowship to American School at Athens, Greece. List of members of Class of 1912. Financial report of the Dickinsonian for the 1911-1912 year.

The Dickinsonian initiates a Dickinsonian Song Contest. The Dramatic Club reforms and elects officers. Press Club assumes control of Trophy Room and plans to open it to the student body.

Women try out for places on Dickinsonian staff for the first time. Washington's Birthday celebration, "Doings of Dickinson", proves to be most successful yet. Student Senate prepares budget plan for presentation to student body. Greek Department plans elaborate display on Greek culture. Professor Vuilleumier of the Chemistry Department presents paper at 42nd Annual General Meeting of the American Electrochemical Society, held in Montreal.

According to research of Vassar professor, Benjamin Rush was forerunner to French in system of autosuggestion. Basketball team defeats Penn, breaking their six game winning streak. Extension Board to run annual campaign for funds to support continuing work in China. Thieves rob Theta Chi fraternity over winter holiday. Dramatic Club performs first of a series of programs planned for the remainder of the year. Spotlight on Raymond R. Brewer, representative of the College in China. Major changes to occur in the provisions governing the Dickinsonian.

The Belles Lettres Society adds books to its library and elects new officers.  The editors look back on the first year of the weekly Dickinsonian.  Dr. M. W. Prince gives a very well received lecture to a large crowd at the Opera House.  The fraternity banquets to be held during Commencement are announced.  The Dickinson Law Society elects new officers.  New Phi Beta Kappa members are announced.  The new society halls in Denny Hall have been furnished, and the programme for Denny Hall's dedication is announced.

Professors Morris W. Prince and John F. Mohler join the faculty. The YWCA and YMCA hold a reception to welcome the new students. Separate Weekly Dickinsonian and monthly Dickinsonian publications planned for the year. New Bible study courses announced. The freshmen elect officers, adopt a constitution, and chose their colors. From The Indian Helper comes news of $2,000 worth of damage from a recent storm and the results of a recent census of students at the Carlisle Indian School.

Graduation date set and plans begun. The 1944 financial statement for the Dickinsonian is printed. Pan-Hellenic Council organizes Song Fest. Senior Hall of Fame.

Wheel and Chain inducts new members. New editors chosen for the Dickinsonian. The Microcosm yearbook is completed.

Dickinsonian is reorganized to reflect war-time conditions. Low attendance rate at Sharp Room leads to concerns about future of the library. Dr. Wing explains the Army Air Force Program which Dickinson is contributing to.

Dickinsonian get new staff. Staff open for 1947 Microcosm. Honors program opened to students. The Raven's Claw, the Senior honorary society of Dickinson, celebrates its 50th anniversary.

Belles Lettres Literary Society is reactivated. Dickinsonian reorganizes staff. Dickinson's search for a college president reaches year and half mark with still no success. College life finally seems to have returned to normal.

American Association of University Women hold a reception for senior girls. Pan-Hellenic Council to hold annual formal dance. The Dickinsonian loses its office and is relegated to the library.

The Dickinsonian resumes publication as a newsletter aimed at conveying the details of life at Dickinson to the Dickinsonians in military service. Army flight cadets attend Dickinson.

Theodore Strouse, Kathleen Briner, Nathaniel Yingling, Donald Ketels, Robert Curry, Clarence Nixon, James Tisdel, William Gale, Edith Ann Lingle, Robert Crist, and Charles Pratt, Jr. join Dickinsonian leadership. Dean E. A. Vuilleumier attends War Department's civilian protection school for training in gas protection. Skull and Key tapping ceremony.

Dickinsonian representatives attend Intercollegiate Newspaper Association of the Middle Atlantic States convention. College applies for another month of CWA funds; student jobs under this program are described. W3YC's new radiotelephone transmitter functions. Katharine Loder receives scholarship to University of Toulouse. List of most popular books circulated in library for pleasure reading.

Dickinsonian elects J. Lawrence Jackson editor-in-chief, Robert Wayne business manager, and Robert J. Trace managing editor. Committee does not unanimously accept Dean Josephine B. Meredith's proposed changes to Metzger Council constitution aimed at elimating fraternity politics in student government. Edward First is elected president of Athletic Association. Dean of Women Josephine B. Meredith and YWCA president Elizabeth Hess choose committtee of students to promote fellowship among the Metzger girls.

Gilbert Malcolm becomes president's assistant. American Association of University Women plans to create Mary Curran Morgan Memorial Fellowship for women graduate students. Members of sophomore class instigate fight with members of freshman class. Herschel E. Shortlidge, Jr. becomes managerial editor of Dickinsonian.

The track team wins the Central Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Conference meet at Island Park in Harrisburg. The men's senate announces that the budget for student activities will be increased by $500 for the following year. An itinerary for commencement appears. The Dickinsonian is readmitted to the Intercollegiate Newspaper Association after an absence of two years. Four members of the senior class are graduated with highest honors, seven others are graduated with secondary honors. The non-fraternity women of the college found their own social association, known as the D.A.

The Dickinsonian holds an exam to select new editorial staff members for the following academic year. Plans for the senior party and a picnic are laid out, as well as a tentative date for Class Day. Twenty-seven members of Dickinson's chapter of the Pi Beta Phi sorority are hosted at a reception in the White House by First Lady Grace Coolidge, herself a Pi Phi. The Women's Student Senate sentences eight freshman girls to clean classrooms in Denny as punishment for rules violations.

Plans for a combined Doll Show and bazaar in December are announced. Soccer and volleyball are added to the college's sports program. Red identification tags are introduced to provide students admission to sports games. The dramatic club performs a one-act play as a part of its opening meeting. The honor court begins to devise a permanent honor system. President James Morgan announces that men living in fraternity houses may deduct the cost of renting a dorm room from their bill. Four new members are added to the Dickinsonian's editorial staff.

The Dickinsonian is ranked the second oldest college newspaper in the state. Dickinson offers a summer engineering course for recent high school graduates not entering college this fall. This is part of the federal government’s defense training plan. The points and hours system for extra-curricular activities, as well as the required activities and limits on activities for those in good academic standing, are eliminated and Student Senate reorganizes itself to govern under this new system.

George Myers, a junior, receives the 1902 Award as he is determined to be the best all around Dickinsonian. The most recent chapel speaker scolds Dickinson students for their disinterest in national and student affairs. The Dickinsonian changes its way of reporting on fraternity news, requiring that a representative from each organization submit news each week to eliminate error and confusion.

W. Albert Strong and Bernard Gingrich (both '40) are elected to join Phi Beta Kappa, the national honorary fraternity. Mary Lou Kirkpatrick is elected Queen of the Mid-Winter Ball. The College Orchestra's string quartet presents a two-song program at chapel. The Dickinsonian column "Flotsam" appears for the first time.