Dickinson College

Professor Leon C. Prince will speak at the upcoming Homecoming pep rally at Bosler Hall before the football team's game against Gettysburg.  Dickinson alumnus Reverend Edmund Davison Soper, D.D., class of 1898, is elected president of Ohio Wesleyan University.  Pacifist Dr. Frank W. Norwood, minister of the City Temple Church in London, England, to speak at Allison Methodist Episcopal church.  The Scientific Club begins meetings at the Tome Scientific Building with talks by Professor J.D. Hardy.

Dickinson College is to be represented in the American Association of University Women's Founders' Book.  The Union Philosophical Society and Belles Lettres Society continue their  "stunt" of selective rushing.  Professor Benjamin Wilbur Folsom takes charge of the Dickinson Debate Council.  Studies on student ill-adjustment to higher education are made by the Joint Committee of the Association of Pennsylvania Presidents, the Pennsylvania State Department of Public Instruction, and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.  The student body enjoys their ninth annual picnic in

The All-College Social committee has changed the date of the college picnic, much to the chagrin of the students.  The Senior Blazer committee calls upon seniors to be measured for their jackets.  New rules lightening the strict regulations regarding social privileges and required classes for coeds at Metzger Hall are proposed by Dean Josephine B. Meredith and enacted by a 75% vote.  The Union Philosophical Society will select its candidates from among the new freshmen class.

Professor E.A. Vuilleumier, head of the Chemistry Department, speaks on his goal to invent an air dehumifidication machine that will induce silence among a garrulous student body.  The "Romance and Adventure" of Cave Hill is advertised.  Former professor Hazel Jane Bullock writes of her travels in Paris and Madrid.

The Dickinsonian begins its 56th year of publication, noting its roots as a literary magazine under the Belles Lettres and Union Philosophical Literary societies.  Mervin Grant Filler is elected 18th president of the college, filling the vacancy of the newly resigned Dr. James Henry Morgan, while Professor Montgomery Porter Sellers takes deanship.  William Trickett, who served as Dean of the Law School for 38 years, dies of influenza.  Metzger Hall is modernized, both inside and out.  The football team prepares to start their season with scrimmages on Biddle Field.

Filmmaker Spike Lee speaks at Bucknell University to an audience of close to 1000 people including 15 from the College. The Kinks perform on campus. Police shut down Greek Week event due to the unregistered presence of alcohol. A campus wheelchair experiment finds that much of the campus is inaccessible to handicapped students.

In the last Dickinsonian of the academic year, eighty-five seniors graduate with eight elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society.  The Belles Lettres Exhibit of Historic Dickinson and other exhibits are reopened in Bosler Hall for returning alumni. Furthermore, under the direction of librarian May Morris, over 700 books were added to the library and more than 2400 volumes relocated from the inaccessible old sections to the new through the previous year.  Dickinson is called upon to finish its new gymnasium.

Three new professors are added to the faculty: Russel I. Thompson, Education and Psychology; Walter Thomas, German; and Mary B. Taintor, French.  Dr. J.F.

Seniors H.G. Stutzman and Betsy Ann Cloud take the lead roles in the Commencement play "Honor Bright".  Donald Smith is elected leader of the college band. Phi Psi wins the inter-fraternity track event for the second year in a row.  The orchestra announces a surprise symphony by Haydn on May 16th in the chapel.  Rabbi S.S. Wise of the New York Free Synagogue gives a rousing liberal speech questioning the purpose and legitimacy of American colleges.

Professor J.F. Mohler leads the Scientific Club in studying the heavens via powerful telescopes.  Professor Leon C. Prince thanks the school band for their assistance in a campaign visit to Duncannon.  Senior William R. Smith and his Sigma Chi fraternity brothers direct traffic and return a deer to Mooreland Park after a blizzard on the previous Friday, April 27th.