Dickinson College

Reverend Oscar Thomas Olson leads daily prayer at Allison Memorial methodist Episcopal Church for Prayer Week.  Students await a lecture on the subject "Why the Arctic Calls Me" by explorer Dr. Fridtjof Nansen.  Professor C.W. Prettyman addressed the Woman's Club of Carlisle to discuss modern tragedy in theater.

Dr. Maurice Hindus gives a speech in the chapel on modern Russian life, extolling the cordiality of townsfolk and the beauty of Siberia.  Italian lecturer Dr. Giovanni Macerata gives a speech exalting "Il Duce" Benito Mussolini as well as Italy's rich history.  A leather jacket fad grips the student body.  William "Bill" Angle is selected as the football team's captain-elect at the team's banquet in the Molly Pitcher Hotel.

Two stray cats have occupied the dorm rooms of Metzger Hall.  Judge M.W. Jacobs, professor of Equity on the original Law school faculty, passes away.  Dickinson's basketball team loses a close game to Army.

An outbreak of influenza requires that the college open Conway Hall for the treatment of incapacitated students under the guidance of head nurse Catherine Guise.  Former professor Hazel Jane Bullock describes her adventures in Spain, having witnessed Spanish theatre and a bullfight in Madrid.  Thirteen Hundred Fans pack the newly completed Alumni Gymnasium for a basketball game against University of Pennsylvania.  A sign reading "Positively No Smoking" is posted in the coed dorm Old West.

The Alumni Gymnasium plans to open on January 9th for a basketball game against the University of Pennsylvania.  "Brother Bill" Simpson, a lecturer on living a "Christ-like life today", roused the student body with his explanation of the Sermon on the Mount.

The Sigma Tau Phi Jewish fraternity requests recognition by the college as a national fraternity.  Fred A. Lumb, president of the Dramatic Club, predicts "Children of the Moon" Christmas performance to be a great success.  Professor C.W. Prettyman defends new fashions of coeds, remarking "the pendulum of college activity may be swinging back to the Puritanical as far as Dickinsonians are concerned."  Following the resignation of Professor C. Ennis Wass as Glee Club leader, Mooredeen Plough has taken up responsiblities.

The Men's Senate condemns the scheduling of ten games in the upcoming 1929 football season, claiming that games begin prematurely and that they are too condensed.  The Belles Lettres Society hosts an art contest for original pieces with a $10 prize.  Dr. George Kartzke, Minister of Education in Berlin, lectures on the intellectual freedom within the German education system and youth movements.  German World War I Naval Commander Count Felix von Luckner, nicknamed 'Sea Devil', to give lecture.

Dickinson College observes Armistice Day with a program in the Chapel.  Professor Mohler prepares a demonstration of the effects of liquid air on plants and animals.  The Men's Senate requires that all students wishing to attend the upcoming football game take part in the parade to Biddle Field.  The Alumni makes their plans of holding the Homecoming football game and ceremonies in Carlisle in the following year are made known.

Fraternities forbid use of intoxicants and begin to lead weekly YMCA meetings.  The Dickinsonian reports that Professor Leon C. Prince and alum Russel R. Kohr are elected as State Senator and Assemblyman, respectively.  Despite rain, Dickinson College hosts its largest Homecoming yet, with six hundred at the reception.  Alumni, however, ask that the Homecoming contest be held in Carlisle in years to follow, as opposed to Harrisburg.  The Dramatic Club chooses the cast for its December rendition of the melodramatic play "Children of the Moon".

The All-College Social Committee continues its preparations for Homecoming events.  Professor C.R. Walther Thomas takes his German class for a walk.