Dickinson fraternities change the way rushing works. Dickinson College President William G. Durden '71 announces plans to retire. Grassfed beef enters the Dining Hall. Event Advisory Board organizes Club 40.
Students vote on new Senate. Harrisburg Mayor Paul Dougtrich speaks at the College. Anne Abrams, Director of the Holland Union Building, resigns. Student Affairs Committee offers rush and pledge program insight. Social Violations Hearing Board rules on fraternity vandalism cases. Details on the Spring Festival events. Departing faculty offer insights - Professor George Ellard, Professor Frederick Ferre, Professor Richard Pfau. and Barbara Spear. Golf Team ends season strongly as they place third in the Middle Atlantic Conference Championships.
Football loses to Gettysburg. Student Friendship Fund holds convention at Dickinson. Rushing season ends and bids are released.
Phi Beta Kappa initiates Chief Justice Robert von Moschzisker at Dickinson. Rushing season begins. Press Club publishes articles advertising Dickinson. YWCA installs new members. Phi Kappa Sigma holds founders’ day dance.
Guth takes panoramic photo of the college community. Rushing season ends. Summary of rushing activities. Skitch-a-Genee sophomore honorary society elects new members.
President Morgan spearheads campaign to increase endowment. Rushing season continues.
List of men from class of 1917 and current undergraduate body serving in military. Rushing season begins. Class of 1900 completes gate replacing famed old iron gate. Class elections are held. Athletic Association elects officers; H.K. Robinson '18 is president.
List of fraternity pledges. Phi Kappa Sigma holds annual Founders' Day ride. Alpha Chi Rho holds annual straw ride.
Fraternity rushing ends. Hon. Richmond Pearson Hobson speaks at Dickinson. Students campaign for the national presidential election.
Football season opens. Largest freshman class yet enters College. Interfraternity Conference discusses rushing rules.
Interfraternity Council creates rushing rules. Quadrangular Tennis Tournament to be held at Dickinson. Freshman class elects officers for coming year.
Plans for the all-college picnic in Boiling Springs are announced. The Interfraternity Council determines the rushing periods for the 1923 fall semester and institutes the payment of yearly dues by each member fraternity. Dickinson opens their football preseason with "the strongest team in the country to date on paper." Plans to establish a college sports news service are laid. A piece on the Christianization and Americanization of Hawiian islanders appears.
The football team loses to Albright. The Sophomore Vigilance Committee, with a new chairman, will be in charge of enforcing the freshmen rules. The schedule for the Homecoming program is announced. The Dramatic Club announces that its first production of the year will be Death Takes a Holiday. At the end of the rushing season, the fraternities pledge a total of seventy-six men. The soccer team loses to West Chester.
New system and rules for fraternity rushing described. The Dickinson Players presented the annual Commencement Play, performing "Are You a Mason?" Opening of the new Beta Theta Pi fraternity house. Miss Edna E. White presented to the College a large Galilean reflecting telescope. S. Marsh Johnson resigns from his post as the Varsity Coach, and Robert H. Duffy is elected to replace him. The Carnegie Corporation of New York has awarded an art collection to the College of "considerable value." An article outlines the events of Alumni Day.
Fred E. Sweeley chosen as the football team's new captain. Religion questionnaire for students included. Deferred rushing and pledging is extensively discussed at the National Inter-fraternity Conference. Article on the variation of Freshman rules amongst colleges and universities statewide. Description of education provided by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University in New York City.
Men's Senate appoints a committee to revise system regarding Freshmen and fraternity rushing. The Inter-Fraternity Scholarship Cup was presented to the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. The Women's Glee Club plans to give performances outside of Carlisle - a new innovation.
Students describe time spent studying in Germany. Sorority rushing.
Dickinsonian to hold annual banquet. Sigma Chi wins Interfraternity cup in intramural basketball. A portrait of James Wilson to be purchased for the college under the leadership of Boyd Lee Spahr, Esq. Debate team defeats Penn State. Men's basketball finishes its season with a second defeat of Gettysburg. Interfraternity Council reforms rushing rules.
La Verne Casner elected as most outstanding member of junior class. Men's Student Senate passes a bill, at the suggestion of Omicron Delta Kappa, creating a committee to audit the books of student organizations not financially supported by the college. Interfraternity Council drafts new rushing regulations.
The Literary Societies plan their rushing program. C. Lincoln Brown is elected vice president of Student Senate.
Daily chapel services abolished; services will only be held on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. George Robert Stephens, Horace A. Rogers, Elmer Charles Herber and E. Winifred Chapman join the faculty. Renovations of Old West are completed. Lovers' Lane is removed. Freshman girls are each assigned five big sisters, one from each sorority and one independent, to introduce them to the college and win their loyalty.
Dickinson College is to be represented in the American Association of University Women's Founders' Book. The Union Philosophical Society and Belles Lettres Society continue their "stunt" of selective rushing. Professor Benjamin Wilbur Folsom takes charge of the Dickinson Debate Council. Studies on student ill-adjustment to higher education are made by the Joint Committee of the Association of Pennsylvania Presidents, the Pennsylvania State Department of Public Instruction, and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The student body enjoys thei
Commencement Issue. Seven men to receive honorary degrees - Five of whom are Dickinsonians. Commencement brings to a close the first year of the Men's Glee Club. The Dickinson College Chapter of the American Association of University Professors celebrates its Fifth Anniversary. The Theta Chi fraternity returns the Dickinson Mermaid. New rules regarding Freshman hazing are announced. Article reflecting on the first year of the Dickinson ROTC Program. New Rushing regulations announced. Review of Dickinson athletic teams.
The 70th Anniversary issue. Article about the history of the Dickinsonian. Fire at Phi Psi House, only minor injuries. Student Opinion Surveys of America found in a poll that the favorite movie of 1941 among college students was "Sergeant York." Twelve semester hour summer session is being planned for the upcoming summer. The college decides to allow subfreshmen to be admitted for the second semester to follow one of two course types--rushing guidelines for these students are included in the article. New officers elected for the Dickinsonian.
Dickinson College Band to play open-air concert; community sing to be part of concert. High School seniors to compete for Trustee Scholarships. Student musicians Robert Johannes and Joseph Rosenthal present concert in Bosler Hall. Pi Beta Phi wins Songfest competition. New plans for rushing have been presented to the faculty. Student Senate proposes fraternity-based scholarship plan to help foreign students study in the US. Little Theater's Othello opens. Concerns and complaints about Carlisle are addressed by student William Jordan.