Pi Beta Phi

Annual Tug-o'-War between Freshmen and Sophomores. The War Department requests that the college form a rifle club. The Greek Club will perform in Old West. Officers for all women organizations are chosen. Preparations for Alumni Day. Preparation for commencement activities. Dickinsonian Managerial Board elections. Belles Lettres Society and Law Club debate postponed. Professor Prince speaks at the Harrisburg Teachers' Association. Proposed Budget System was approved by student senate. John Hays will give a radio concert. Obituary for Miss Mary Dillon. Sophomore Oratorical Contest.

Creation of the National Student Committee for the Limitation of Armament. The College Social Committee's plans for an all school event. Colonel Stanley Dunbar Embick addresses the college. Annual doll show. Article on Antonio Andrea Arrighi. Phi Delta Theta has an informal. Professor Baumgartner gives a health talk. French Club meeting. Chi Omega entertained Pi Beta Phi and Phi Mu. Formation of women's honorary society, Theta Omicron.

Anniversary of the signing of the Armistice. Speaker Colbert N. Kurokawa visits. Resignation of Miss Hartman from women's athletic. Stuckenrath and Weist prizes are awarded. Article on the Women's Athletic Association organized hiking. Collegiate Disarmament Conference in Chicago. Raven's Claw meeting in the Phi Psi house. Press Club smoker in the Theta Chi house. Phi Mu and Pi Beta Phi violated rules.

Freshmen win button game.  Professor Landis is knighted by king of Italy.  Pi Beta Phi initiates new members.  Baseball season begins.  Arthur J. Latham '10 is appointed graduate manager of athletics.  YMCA elects officers.  Eta Pi initiates new members.  Philomel Club performs. 

Alumnus James E. Skillington is appointed pastor of the college church.  Gettysburg defeats baseball.  Pi Beta Phi holds annual Founders' Day dance. 

Annual Indoor Meet is held.  Sigma Alpha Epsilon holds annual Founders' Day dance.  Metzger Glee Club performs.  Pi Beta Phi initiates new members. 

Dr. Prettyman ‘72 gives speech to YMCA on freedom at college. Pi Beta Phi pledges new members. College band elects officers; Frank Adams '18 is president. Kappa Sigma receives Wiener trophy for tennis. Alpha Chi Rho receives Kappa Sigma cup for track. Interfraternity council revises rushing rules.

Sushi bar to be opened in the HUB. Student employee awards. Pi Beta Phi hosts Children's Miracle Network Carnival. All-Campus Senior Research Symposium is held.

Summary of Relay for Life event. Announcement of new, online room selection system. Department of Theater and Dance and Mermaid Players production. Central Pennsylvania Consortium Africana Studies Conference is held. Trip to the Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington D. C.. Happyfunsmile performs in the HUB. Pi Beta Phi hosts a Volleyball Tournament. Large Spring Speech Contest is held.

Glee and Mandolin Club's annual spring tour. Belles Lettres Society and Union Philosophical Society election results. Union Philosophical Society wins the debate against the Belles Lettres Society. Dr. Prettyman lectures the Shakespeare Club. Belles Lettres Society anniversary. Sigma Alpha Epsilon dance. Phi Kappa Psi reception. Minstrel show will be given. Pi Beta Phi entertains in the Assembly Hall. Dr. Abbee address in Chapel Hall. Dickinson loses to Swarthmore in an oratorical contest. Summary of James N. Brown's address to the college.

Navy Beats Dickinson 15-0.  Mary Hoover is awarded Pi Beta Phi scholarship to Columbia University for Post-Grad studies. Epworth League holds a reception at Allison Church

Elocution instructor Lucretia McAnney recites a lecture on Shakespeare in Bosler Hall.  The college YMCA and Glee Club offer a concert.  Judge E.W. Biddle gives an instructive lecture on "Carlisle old and new."  The Pennsylvania Gamma Chapter of the Pi Beta Phi fraternity gives a Valentine's reception and dance in Assembly Hall.

Dickinson beats Albright 58 to 0 setting the highest score for the eastern colleges.  Sigma Chi gets a new house.  The football team gains a law student, Charles A. Cortelyou. Pi Beta Phi had their annual convention.

Dickinson defeats Swarthmore in debate, the Carlisle Indian School Band is a great success at the Opera House, and Pi Beta Phi is officially established at Dickinson with 15 members.

President George Reed encourages Methodists to donate money to existing Methodist colleges instead of starting new colleges. Pi Beta Phi enters Dickinson. Reports come in from Heib '95 and Pemberton '03 about their mission work in Ceylon & India. Request from the editors for alumni to submit any old copies of the Dickinsonian they may have so that "a complete file of these volumes may be bound and preserved for reference in the future." William A. DeGroot '97 elected as a member of the General Assembly of New York.

Dickinson takes a 7 - 0 victory over Franklin and Marshall and Robert Books is elected team captain. Paul Vernon and His cleveland Symphonic Quintet will give a concert in the Chapel. Presidents of the Men's and Women's Senates and Editor of the Dickinsonian will attend a District Council through the Council of Christian Associations to debate the entrance of the United States into the World Court. Zeta Tau Alpha sorority receives the Scholarship Cup given by Pi Beta Phi for scholastic achievement. The YWCA holds a service of recognition for all the new women of the college.

Men’s Senate reduces number of class officers. Omicron Delta Kappa sponsors Sub-Freshman Day. President Morgan issues ultimatum to Eastern Pennsylvania Football Conference. Jewish students present their faith to a meeting of the Young People’s Fellowship. Christina B. Meredith receives Pi Beta Phi fellowship.

The All-College Social Committee announces plans for the Founders' Day celebration, to include two athletic events and a play produced by the Greek Club, among other things. Pi Beta Phi, as a part of the Pan Hellenic Council's lecture series, hosts a lecture on health featuring Dr. E H Matzke, a female doctor from Philadelphia. Five junior students will take part in an oratorical contest for the Pierson Prize. The YWCA elects a new cabinet. Twelve students will attend the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to be held in Springfield, MA.

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.

Pi Beta Phi plans to move their house from Louther Street to 157 West High Street. The Kittochtiny Players, a local drama troupe of which seven Dickinsonians are members, performs Helen Jerome's adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice." The ten students receiving flight training from the Civil Aeronautics Authority take to the skies for the first time.

A new defense course will be taught at Dickinson. Article on the history of the library. Article about students that left to help with forest fires, but they never found the fires. Article on a historian's opinion on American and war throughout history. Students involved with the Dickinson chapter of the American Red Cross knit afghans and mufflers for soldiers. Article about the movies on Saturday afternoons.

Dean Vuilleumier discusses the plan for the first ever summer semester to take place this summer. Girls prepare to escort men in the coming days as Pan-Hell Week begins. List of all Dickinson alumni that has been living in Hawaii. President Corson returns from month-long vacation in the South. A graduate from 1934 has just qualified as a sharpshooter in the US Marine Corps. Article on criticism the Navy has received due to its potential plan to engender hate for the peoples of enemy country in its pilots. Dickinson begins to require physical education as a graduation requirement for men.

A joint-committee is created to organize and coordinate extra-curricular activities to to help with defense service or preparation. The most recent Student Opinion Surveys of America poll has revealed that students believe that war increases opportunities. The Red Cross to create a unit on Dickinson's campus which will be affiliated with the Carlisle branch. Plans are starting to be made in case of attack, specifically a mock air raid will be staged on Sunday (directions for the air raid are included in this issue). Metzger Hall held an open house for faculty last week.

Three students, Edward E. Knauss, Leon M. Robinson, and Robert H.

Rushing activities for women's fraternities end as freshman girls and fraternities hand in pledges to Pan-Hellenic Council.  Belles Lettres Society begins its 152nd year of existence at Dickinson with October meeting.  John Burton Nicholson, Jr., accepts position as assistant librarian.  Mathematics Professor Frank Ayres, Jr., obtains a Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago.  Howard A.