Dickinsonian, December 1886

Phi Beta Kappa is granted a charter for Dickinson College.  The football program comes under scrutiny after the death of E. Herbert Garrison the previous month.  Rumors fly around the school regarding the admittance of a "colored boy" in the Preparatory School, as well as the hazing of a Freshman student the previous month as a punishment for honorable conduct.

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Dickinsonian, November 1886

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.

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