Dickinsonian, October 5, 1916
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.
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.