1932

President Waugh becomes involved in the Athletic Association's attempts to establish a new constitution. Microcosm will hold beauty contest for 5 best looking girls. Dickinson students will go to Bucknell to attend the Regional Conference of International Relations Clubs. Annual Doll Show will be held in new gym. More than 200 students attended the Christmas party held at the Allison Memorial Church. Plans have not yet started for the Sesquicentennial Ball. Awaiting student ratification of the Athletic Association's new constitution.

Approximately 40 sentences were given out to Freshmen by the Men's Student Tribunal for various infractions. Board of Trustees decides to offer 5 scholarships (full tuition for the students' first year) to those students with the best essays about John Dickinson. Article recounting the Phi Delta Theta convention at Dickinson, held the previous weekend. The first issue of the new literary magazine came out with much success. The Athletic Association has a new constitution proposed--article includes the proposal.

The chapter of Phi Delta Theta will host a convention on December 2 and 3 for several chapters of the fraternity. Discussion over the college's short wave radio broadcasting station and the messages it is able to send out and receive. Ping Pong becomes popular on campus. The very successful coach of Colgate's football team graduated from Dickinson. Holiday dance o be held December 16th. Summary of football season.

Men's Senate talks about ways to improve school spirit at sporting events. The new literary magazine finally gets name, "Hornbook." Former exchange student from Germany writes letter about hitch-hiking experience. The Alumni Council meets again to discussion moving John Dickinson's body closer to the school. Dickinson lost Homecoming football game. Women's Glee Club performed at the buffet supper hosted by the Women's Student Government Association. Men's soccer coach complains about lack of support for the successful team this season.

Homecoming Weekend. Freshmen before Tribunal to be punished. Dramatic Club begins working on mystery play to be performed in December. Professor Prince wins seat in State Senate once again. Janitor of Dickinson Law, William Davidson,dies.

The annual spoof issue, The Drinkinsonian, tackles various aspects of college life in a satirical manner.

Plans for Homecoming, which will be November 11 and 12, appear. Hoover wins student presidential poll. Freshmen punished by Tribunal. Endowments to be used to fund the education of underprivileged students given to Dickinson.

Herbert Hoover leads the student straw poll on the presidential election. Sophomores keep their flag in the annual Flag Scrap. Mob of Carlisle residents and students threatens a Football official, Earle Killinger, after the game against Muhlenberg. The Dickinson Alumnus suggests moving John Dickinson's body to a burial spot closer to campus.

Presidential candidate, William D. Upshaw, speaks to student body in Bosler Hall. The Debate Team, to begin try-outs shortly, has gotten the topics to be debated this season from Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Debating Association. The Board approved the purchase of the Mooreland Estate. The English Department has decided to support the publication of a student literary magazine. Governor Gifford Pinchot decides to celebrate the 200th anniversary of John Dickinson's birth on November 8th.

Professor of History, Leon C. Prince, seeks re-election to state senate. Rushing continues for potential new fraternity pledges, while sorority rushing ends. Dickinsonian celebrates 60th anniversary. Dickinson Law School has 54 new men enrolled. The Football team is to open the season with a game against Ursinus . Dickinsonian to conduct straw vote for US Presidential Election.

Dickinson changes policy to an absence based policy from a demerit system. The size of the campus is enlarged after the college buys the Mooreland Estate and deer park. The Football team has high hopes for their season and appear to be in a good position to win games this season. The rush activities begin for the fraternities on campus. The college is to celebrate its sesquicentennial in the coming year. A German exchange student's perspective of life at Dickinson is offered. Tribunal on "erring freshmen" held.

Professor Russell I. Thompson to receive PhD from Yale due to thesis focusing on Carlisle public schools. Class Day held for seniors. President Karl Tinsley Waugh inaugurated. Profile of Karl Tinsley Waugh. The Dickinsonian places ninth in the nation at collegiate newspaper competition. Summary of 1931 football season. General Alumni association holds elections to its board. John Wesley Oler is highest academic achiever of class of 1932, receives James Fowler Rushing prize. Davis Roland Hobbs is second-highest academic achiever of class of 1932, receives John Patton memorial prize.

Majority of senior class plans to become teachers. Instructor Albert H. Gerberich to receive philosophy doctorate from Johns Hopkins. Senior Picnic is held. Men's Senate elections.

Microcosm is published. Professor G. H. Patterson returns from leave of absence. YWCA holds May Day breakfast. College radio plans to broadcast vocally; prospective radio operators build vocal broadcasting devices. Professor E. A. Vuilleumier is published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry. Senior picnic is planned. Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference meets at Dickinson. Mothers' Day service held.

Mothers' Day and joint Founders' Day-May Day programs are planned. Dickinson to host Eastern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Men's Senate votes to add a thirteenth member to its body, then rescinds this vote. Tribunal punishes freshmen for failing to wear dinks. Sigma Chi wins intramural volleyball tournament.

Student referendum vetoes proposed changes to Athletic Association constitution; student-drafted alternative is advocated. Women's Student Government Association presents petition for changes to chapel services. Seniors to take third set of Carnegie Foundation experimental tests. Altoona Dickinson Alumni Club is formed.

Men's Senate revises freshman rules and stresses the importance of the four (named) all-college rules. Sigma Chis win intramural boxing. William M. Gilbert, '32, wins German scholarship prize and German travel scholarship. Athletic Association proposes changs to its constitution. Class of 1912 plans to donate four lighting standards to be placed outside Alumni Gymnasium. Annual YMCA Tri-College Retreat held at Dickinson.

"D" Banquet held; new rules of football league are presented. Men's Senate resolves to increase freshman rules. Annual prayer week begins. President Karl T. Waugh creates teacher placement bureau to assist Dickinson alumni and undergraduates in finding teaching positions.

Helen Dickey is elected president of Women's Student Government Association, and Francis Yard is elected YWCA president, both unanimously. Cheerleader E. Huber Jessop is held up. Tribunal finds twelve men guilty of not moving bleachers. William M. Gilbert and Elwood J. Disque receive fellowships from German department for graduate study in Germany. Junior Cyril Hetsko and alumnus Wendel Morgenthaler are appointed as Pennsylvania representatives to the Young Democratic Clubs of America. Joseph Lipinski elected basketball captain.

Richard Wolfrom receives outstanding Sophomore award from Omicron Delta Kappa. Intercollegiate Disarmament Council distributes petition around campus concerning Sino-Japanese affair. German club sponsors Max Montor to present Goethe's poetic works. Class deans explain demerit system in response to student agitation; students are further agitated by the knowledge. President Karl T. Waugh creates faculty committee to propose new demerit system. College shortwave broadcasting system W3YC makes contact with foreign radio stations. E.

Worst men's basketball season in history ends with a defeat over Gettysburg. Grippe epidemic. Faculty obliges Women's Student Government Association's petition for explanation of demerit system. Men's Senate creates resolutions concerning the demerit system.

Alpha Chi Rho places automobile in Bosler hall. Tribunal punishes five freshmen. Annual Dickinsonian banquet is held. Women's Student Government Association petitions President Waugh to explain ambiguous demerit system to student body. Sigma Chi wins intramural basketball championship.

Inauguration of President Karl T. Waugh planned. Greek club presents Heracles play. Dickinsonian to hold annual banquet. Seminar on inter-religious harmony held.

Tribunal punishes two freshmen. Miami Triad dance planned. Classes are cancelled in honor of George Washington's 200th birthday. Joseph F. Lipinski receives Class of 1902 Award. James H. Morgan completes history of college.

Freshmen kidnap sophomore president; sophomores rescue him and kidnap freshman president. International Relations Club holds second meeting on Japanese activities in Manchuria. Tribunal punishes three freshmen. Annual freshman dance held.