Dickinson College

The seventh annual Guest Day for prospective students gets underway. A group of pranksters locks the only door to Bosler Hall (then under construction) while seven people, including College Dean Ernest Vuilleumier, are inside, forcing them to climb through the rubble in the back of the building. Howard Williams, captain of the basketball team, is awarded the Phi Epsilon Pi Most Valuable Player trophy.

Missionary and author Sherwood Eddy visits campus to lead a Q&A session on the subject of Europe's economic, political, social, and religious situations. Demolition and renovation of Bosler Hall gets underway, the eventual goal being a $125,000 overhaul of the library building. The College Orchestra publishes the six-piece program for its annual spring concert, to be held the following night. The baseball team wins its first game of the season (against Blue Ridge) 9 to 4.

Traveler/self-educated savant/newsboy/bum Samuel H. "King" Cole passes through campus to collect autographs to add to his fifty-volume set of the people he meets, which includes Neville Chamberlain, King George VI, and President F.D. Roosevelt. Colonel Philip Mathews, supervisor of the Works Progress Association, is announced as speaker at the annual Union Philosophical Society banquet. Edgar Washabaugh, one of the ten students training in personal flight with the Civil Aeronautics Authority, is the first of that group to fly solo across the country.

The Drama Club announces that it will present Merton Hodge's "The Wind and The Rain" the following week. Dr. Paul Swain Havens, president of Wilson College, visits campus to give a lecture on John Donne. Pan-Hellenic Week, to be extended by a day for the leap year, will feature Sadie Hawkins-style rules for co-eds to act as gentlemen.

Over 300 people, mostly alumni, attend the Mid-Winter Ball, which ultimately makes a profit of $16.98. Alpha Sigma Gamma, an honorary journalistic society, elects nine Dickinsonians as members. The owner of the horse that was the subject of a student prank some two months earlier demands $200 from the College to account for "loss of value" imposed on the animal.

Omicron Delta Kappa, the national leadership fraternity, taps John F. Campbell and W. Richard Eshelman (both '41) for membership, along with Governor Arthur H. James, who joins as an honorary member. Jack D. Hughes visits chapel via the New York Worlds Fair to demonstrate scientific advances and their applications. Campus receives a healthy 14-inch snowfall.

W. Albert Strong and Bernard Gingrich (both '40) are elected to join Phi Beta Kappa, the national honorary fraternity. Mary Lou Kirkpatrick is elected Queen of the Mid-Winter Ball. The College Orchestra's string quartet presents a two-song program at chapel. The Dickinsonian column "Flotsam" appears for the first time.

Samuel McCartney is tapped to replace Paul Gorsuch as editor-in-chief of the Dickinsonian. The General Alumni Association publishes its annual report, revealing that there are 5,161 living Dickinson graduates--at least one in every U.S. state and 27 foreign countries. A plan for all fraternities to cancel their spring formals and donate all money to be used for them to an all-College inter-fraternity ball is rejected outright.

The Social Committee announces that the Alex Bartha Orchestra will provide entertainment at the second annual Mid-Winter Ball. Belles Lettres and the Union Philosophical Society announce an inter-society debate, with the goal of rejuvenating the societies' age-old rivalry.

Attendance is high at the Alumni Football Banquet. Mrs. Bradford McIntire, one of the original planners of the Doll Show, arrives on campus to fulfill her role as guest of honor at this year's incarnation of that event. John Bunting wins the Belles Lettres essay contest with a piece titled "Public Enigma Number 1." The basketball team wins the first two games of their season, to Blue Ridge and Susquehanna, respectively.