Dickinsonian, January 1890
Steam heating installed on campus. Belles Lettres Society renovates and refurnishes its room. W. C. Allison pays college's YMCA debt of $300.
Steam heating installed on campus. Belles Lettres Society renovates and refurnishes its room. W. C. Allison pays college's YMCA debt of $300.
Obituaries for William C. Allison and Warren Pierce '94. Alpha Zeta Phi holds its first reception. Beta Theta Pi moves from its rooms on Hanover Street to rooms on High Street recently vacated by Chi Phi. Pennington Club elects officers; William Perry Eveland is president. Belles Lettres Society elects officers; Charles Coover Greer is president. Union Philosophical Society elects officers; Augustus Sayford Fasick is president.
The legal battle between the Faculty and a reprimanded student over the issue of freshman hazing reaches a peak when Judge Sadler issues a mandamus against the Faculty. To this point, a very detailed summary of the case proceedings is presented. Mr. W. C. Allison, a benefactor of the college, visits and pledges more money so that the gymnasium can be supplied with proper equipment. The Belles Lettres Society holds its annual anniversary banquet.
Strong censure is placed on some members of the Freshmen class after they haze a fellow first-year student as punishment for attending recitation on time. A Mr. W. C. Allison of Philadelphia donates funds so that Memorial Hall can be heated in the winter. Dickinson loses a football game to Lehigh 0 to 26, and against Lafayette 24 to 5. E.