1916

Special Christmas issue.  Belles Lettres elects officers; Henry Rasmussen '17 is president.  Doll Show is held at Metzger.

Summary of football season and team.  YMCA holds weekly prayer meetings in dormitories.  Athletic association elects officers; John F. Walters '18 is president.

Maurice Palm '18 elected football captain.  YWCA to hold annual doll show.  Plans for an interfraternity basketball competition are begun.  Union Philosophical Society and Belles Lettres Society hold first rounds of tryouts.  Union Philosophical Society elects officers.

Dramatic Club holds tryouts.

Special issue about the Dickinson in China program and the Dickinson Fund.

Eben Swift '73 succeeds John J. Pershing as brigadier general.  Dickinson Alumnae Club of New york City holds banquet.  Carlisle holds a vigil as the results of the national presidential election come in.  Dickinson Fund for West China Union University drive begins.

 Football captain Robert Myers urges students to allow his players to get adequate rest.  Phi Delta Theta holds formal dance.  Beta Theta Pi holds annual pledge dance.

Football defeats Franklin and Marshall.  Dickinson loses the Guy Carleton Lee tennis trophy to a student at the Carlisle Indian School. 

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.

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.

Football defeats Navy in an unofficial game. Phi Kappa Sigma holds a reception for Professor W. H. Norcross. Freshman women hold reception for freshman men at Metzger Hall. List of incoming students.

The new academic year opens with a ceremony; Professor Leon C. Prince gives matriculation sermon. Wilbur H. Norcross ’07 and G. Lafayette Cram join faculty. Miss Helen Burns ’12 becomes college librarian. Sophomores win annual flag scrap. YMCA holds annual reception for new students. Metzger Hall is renovated and fitted with electric lights; has highest occupancy yet. The deceased Professor William Lambert Gooding is remembered. Conway Hall, South College, and Biddle Field are renovated.

Dickinsonian's annual Commencement issue. Highlights Commencement Week events and speakers.

The track team defeats Muhlenberg 73-53, and the baseball team loses to Ursinus at home, 4-3. The tennis team loses to Franklin & Marshall. Sports players from the different teams are profiled, including George C. Moose and Kenneth Bruce Vaughn. The track team is reviewed by their coach. Performances of the Glee Club and the Dramatic Club are scheduled. Kenneth Vaughn is also placed in the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame. Members of the sophomore class are initiated into the Skitch-A-Genee Sophomore Society.

Details of the 1917 Microcosm are published. Track team wins triangular meet against Bucknell and F&M.

Dickinson beats Lebanon Valley at baseball.  The track team has a meet and the tennis team wins a match against Franklin & Marshall.  A professor’s Ford automobile is stolen and driven through Bosler Hall.  The Freshman Oratorical Contest is held.  Phi Delta Theta holds a smoker.  Sigma Chi holds a dance.  Union Philosophical Society holds elections.

Track team defeats Lehigh in first meet of the season. Annual May Day Fete is hosted by women of the College.

Dr. Sargis, an Armenian fugitive from Turkey tells of experiences in war zone. Prof. M.P. Sellers' Nisbet Day address is printed.

Heads for the YMCA program are chosen.  Nisbet Day is planned for May 1.  An annual tug-of-war between freshmen and sophomores is to be held on May 3.  The track and tennis seasons are underway.  The baseball team loses against Syracuse and Franklin & Marshall.  Interest in participation in summer military camps grows on campus, as a program of the Military Training Camps Association of the United States.

Northwestern University professor speaks to assembly on "The Power of Youth." Dickinson participates in Penn Relays.

Baseball team defeats Bucknell. Chilean educator addresses College assembly on his missionary work in South America.

A chapter of the Theta Chi fraternity installed at the College. New rules concerning the enforcement of the Freshman Rules adopted by Senate.

Underclassmen banquets held. Results of Intercollegiate Debates published.

Belles Lettres Society wins Inter-society debate against the Union Philosophical Society. Capt. James Gordon Steese (Class of 1902) spoke to Dickinson students about his experiences during the construction of the Panama Canal. Judge Charles Boone Staples (Class of 1874) also delivered a lecture in which he argued that women should have the right to vote.