Robert L. Myers gives a talk on the newly enacted Social Security Act and unemployment in the country. After buying the adjacent properties, Dickinson plans to enlarge Biddle Field. The Debate Team schedule is posted. Fraternities and Sororities induct new members. In an effort to make peace between the two schools, an article suggests that Gettysburg students be allowed to attend Dickinson’s Junior Prom. The French Club holds a Winter Tea Dance. The Social Service Club works on mending books for a Salvation Army library.

Plans for the content of this year’s Microcosm are expanded. The Dramatic Club has started rehearsing for its next production, The Royal Family. The Student Senate discusses ways to create a better relationship between Gettysburg and Dickinson and how to increase scholarship among the freshmen. Plans to convert Moore house into a modern biology lab, to be called the Baird Biology Lab, are finally approved. Dr. Leon Cushing Prince, beloved teacher and scholar, passed away Sunday. The Dickinson Bowling team has won seven games in a row.

The Belles Lettres Society draws up a new constitution and plans to elect new officers. Twelve students from Dickinson and Gettysburg came together for a luncheon, at which they discussed the relationship between the two rival schools. The Dickinsonian elects its officers for the coming year. At the University of Utah, one young lady kissed a glass slide and placed it under a microscope. Glancing into the microscope, she was made aware of all the germs on her lips, and subsequently started a kissing strike among the women, much to the anger of the university’s male population.

The German Club sponsors a movie entirely in German. The Junior Prom Committee is announced. The story is told of former students climbing atop Old West to fill the bell with water so that it froze and could not call them chapel in the morning. A Faculty Committee is appointed to examine the quality of work by the students and to consider a need for a comprehensive test at the end of a college course. There is a call for the community to consider sterilization laws “for human betterment.” Stewart Patterson, Temperance leader, wills the country to bring back Prohibition.

Through the use of questionnaires, the American College Research Bureau outlines what quantities and brands of products students are more likely to buy. The Debate Team prepares for the big debate that will answer the question of whether or not Congress should have the power to set a minimum wage and limit the maximum number of industry hours. Many organizations contribute to the collection of toys to be given to orphanages. The basketball team wins against Moravian.

The Dickinson Women’s Choir gives a performance of Handel’s Messiah at a local church. The Dramatic Club will present A Doll’s House at the end of January. A Professor of Surgery gives a talk on the causes of cancer to the Mohler Scientific Club. The basketball team is the first team to play against Roanoke in any sport. The Dickinson basketball team loses to Princeton.

The Annual Christmas Doll Show will be held on December 18th in the Gymnasium. Its program will include a talent portion, the appearance of Santa Clause, informal dancing, and caroling in the town. Dickinson’s radio station, W3YC, is back on the air. Joann, the college goat, was put to death after escaping from campus and running through the town. The freshmen are required to take two tests; one recognizing ten professors, what they teach, and where their offices are, and a song test, where they must recite all of the school songs.

The Senate’s request for an extended Thanksgiving Break was denied by the Board of Deans. The Greek Club is to present Aristophanes’ The Birds. The College Date Bureau is now available for student use. The men are to submit their height, name, and class, and the women are then allowed to choose a date from the list. The football team loses to Franklin and Marshall, and two of Dickinson’s star players are injured. The soccer team closes its season with a loss to Franklin and Marshall.

In honor of Armistice Day, Gilbert Malcolm gives a talk entitled “Memories of a Soldier,” based on his experiences fighting in World War I. A Peace Panel, held at a local church, discusses whether a pacifistic plan or educating the common man in defensive warfare is a better plan to lead us to world peace. The Senate recommends to the faculty that the students be given a three day Thanksgiving break. A College Date Bureau will be established under the All-College Social Committee.

The newly-formed Theological Society holds their first meeting. The Dramatic Club is to present “A Doll’s House.” The football team beats Haverford.