Summary of the college treasurer's report for 1914. Freshmen defeat sophomores in inter-class basketball. Belles Lettres celebrates its 129th anniversary. The library acquires and displays prints of famous paintings. Highlights of Student Senate meeting.
New Books arrive in Library. George Hanning '11, mistakenly takes arsenic.
Freshmen of the class of 1911 place posters over town, and get into a fight with the Sophomore class. A large shipment of new books arrive in the library. Memorial tablet to Dr. James Curran placed in Tome.
Dr. Fred P. Corson is elected President of the Association of College Presidents of Pennsylvania. Marion Van Auken is selected as the Queen of the Mid-Winter Ball. The new James W. Bosler Library nears completion. The Basketball Team beats Drexel. Alum of the Carlisle Indian School and former Olympian, Jim Thorpe will speak at the college next week.
Fraternity initiates are not permitted to pledge until the end of the Fall term in order to assure passing grades. Colonel Frank R. Keefer, class of 1885, has been appointed by President Coolidge Brigadier-General and Assistant Surgeon-General of the U.S. Army. M. Grace Betchel donates $1,000 to the College. Discussion of upcoming Phi Beta Kappa Sesqui-Centennial at the College of William and Mary. Article on the benefits of businessmen knowing multiple languages.
Students parade in midnight march after football victory over Penn State; police resort to tear gas. Annual college picnic is held. German club plans activities, including hike modeled after German youth movement. Tribunal convicts two freshmen of breaking freshman rules, gives punishments. Carnegie Corporation endows Bosler library.
Doll Show is successful. Boy Scout Leaders' Training Course to be held at Dickinson. Linoleum is laid down on the library floor.
The Belles Lettres Society draws up a new constitution and plans to elect new officers. Twelve students from Dickinson and Gettysburg came together for a luncheon, at which they discussed the relationship between the two rival schools. The Dickinsonian elects its officers for the coming year. At the University of Utah, one young lady kissed a glass slide and placed it under a microscope. Glancing into the microscope, she was made aware of all the germs on her lips, and subsequently started a kissing strike among the women, much to the anger of the university’s male population.
Professors Flaherty and Mercer to address the International Relations Club. Phi Delta Theta wins the Display Contest at Homecoming. Charles Tharp is the new cataloging librarian. World famous blind pianist, Alec Templeton to play recital in December. Colonel Rachal praises the new ROTC program. The Dickinsonian celebrates its eightieth anniversary. Profile on Swim Coach John Steckbeck. Kappa Sigma wins the Inter-Fraternity Football League.
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.
Rev. Dr. Henry Smith Leiper, leader in the world movement for peace and Christian unity , speaks on "Germany's New Religion" at a meeting of the Young People's Fellowship. Bill Nickels speaks about the trips taken by the Social Survey Committee. Fraternities Beta Theta Pi, Phi Delta Theta, and Sigma Chi hold a dance entitled the "Miami Triad," with music from Don Peepbles. Donations from James W.
Dr. Philip S. Bernstein, leading spokesman for the American Jewish Faith, spoke in chapel. Dr. Fred B. Rogers to speak on nosography at the Spahr Lecture. Fraternity house renovations. Plans discussed for Religion-In-Life Week during the week November 17 to 21. Rev. Roy Joseph Hendricks, pastor of the First Methodist Church in Montclair, New Jersey, will be the featured Protestant speaker for Religion-In-Life Week. Robert A.
The psychology department is conducting experiments regarding motivation in rats. Dickinson is one of the only schools in the country to be doing this, making them a pioneer in the field. The Student-Faculty Curriculum Committee determined that the Graduate Record Examination will not be required for Dickinson graduates to take. The committee is looking into the Area Studies Test instead. An exhibit on Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass is now on display in the library. Senior Howard Davis receives a Falk Fellowship to attend Yale Graduate School for political science.
Outstanding visiting preachers will be visiting the chapel for worship services. Dickinson is holding a tax workshop to give business executives, bank representatives and other interested people a chance to familiarize themselves with new tax laws. These tax revisions are the greatest revisions in the history of federal taxation. The Mermaid Players will be performing "Lo and Behold" on Parents' Weekend (October 14-16) in Bosler Hall. Beginning October 6, music programs will be taking place daily in the Sharp Room in the library. This week there will be a piano quintet and a symphony.
Professor Katharine A. Bonney becomes Dean of Women. Campus Chest Drive is most successful yet. Library adopts new system for checking-out books. Gettysburg defeats men's lacrosse.
A short history of the traditional Doll Show and dance appears in anticipation of the year's event. The Upsilon Circle of the Omicron Delta Kappa society taps a total of 8 men, 6 seniors and 2 juniors. Dickinson's women plan a party for the underprivileged children of Carlisle. Dickinson holds a small display of Cervantes works in the library. A new system is introduced for managerial awards and honors for college sports.
Professors Peter J. Lardner and Marvin Meyer will run an "Upward Bound-type program" that introduces children in the Carlisle community to nature, in a program called "Adventures in the World of Plants and Animals". President Rubendall announces four changes in administration personnel. The NCAA awarded Jerry Weiner a $1,000 scholarship for his proficiency in the Discus throw. The Dickinson Fund exceeded expectations in the amount of money it raised during the school year.
Spahr Library opens for the first time after book walk. Dickinson gears up for approaching parents' weekend. Yom Kippur services are announced, with a schedule of services and an explanation of Yom Kippur included. Vienna Symphony concert series set to begin Friday, October 13th, at Carlisle Senior High School as part of the Dickinson College Greatest Artist Series. International Studies program in Bologna grows in popularity as it continues to evolve. ODK Conference was reviewed as successful in stimulating discussion but not necessarily in generating conclusions.
The Impressions and Drifters highlight IFC Weekend. Sigma Alpha Epsilon's honor system experiment discussed. Ford Foundation Challenge Program chairman James Shepley announces $200,000 gift from the Sumner Drayer (Class of '02) estate. Prof. George Allan scrutinizes Jan Plan. Newly-opened Malcolm Hall experiences flaws as its residents experience frustration. Librarian Yates Forbis plans student-faculty "book walk" to stock new library shelves. Prof. Donald Marleski and Jon Sholle produce "Ojancau" film which will premier next Thursday. Economics Prof. William Cage gives resignation.
The Belles Lettres Society will present a week of student produced cultural events. The senate adopts an enforcement code for the new Social Rules and gains final student acceptance, yet still awaits agreement by the Dean of Students. Enrollment for the fall reaches a new high. A synopsis of the previous week's debates on the situation in Vietnam is given by key speaker John Garrett. A week long reading period is required for freshman before classes begin and is optional for upperclassmen.
Student Senate election campaigns under way with Larry Bayley, Paul Burtner and Angelo Romeo running for president. Tighter security introduced in the library as a checkpoint is set up. Bo Didley to perform for Valentine's Day. Lewis Fulton, national field director for Young Americans for Freedom, to appear on campus to discuss the merits of "Operation Abolition" at Public Affairs Symposium. Transfer students comment on transition to life at Dickinson. New sabbatical guidelines for professors to make personal research easier.
Senate led library sit in succeeds in demonstrating the need for extended hours. Chaplain Joseph Washington addresses the reason for compulsory chapel. Germain Bree delivers lecture on French trends in modern literature. Mermaid Players to soon sell tickets to The Courageous One. Photo essay of Carlisle life. Crossroads program seeks students desiring to go to Africa. Swiss student Herb Cerutti finds friendly atmosphere. Fraternity quadrangle to be completed before the 1964 academic year. The german department to increase programming for the coming year.
Parents' day to follow the day after the Military ball. Freshman form committee to investigate possibility of college honor code. The new college development program to seeks to strengthen academic plans. Portuguese ambassador to the US Luis Nevaga supports policies in African Portuguese colonies. Jesse Judell assumes vacant Senate Vice presidency. Student Democrats club to inform students about the party platform before the election. Library thefts require book checker to join staff. Extension of library hours considered.
In this issue of the Dickinsonian the Student Senate demands a revision of library hours. UPS to attend State ICG convention for revision of state Constitution. Reasonable Social rules for college established. Highwaymen and Alan Lomax perform folk songs. Duke Ellington and Josh White to perform during Spring Weekend. Acuacade to present "Kaleidoscope in Color". Seniors receive honorable mention in the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship competition. Old West to become a registered national landmark on Founders' Day. Foreign Students Programs to be re-examined.