The Wheel and Chain Society tapped seven new members. President Edel has announced upcoming improvements to the College, approved by the Board of Trustees, that will cost as much as $200,000. These improvements will include: Physics Department facilities work, alterations of the library with the ultimate goal of it filling up Bosler Hall entirely, the move of the Music Department to the Psychology Building and of the Psychology Building to the former Church House.

The upcoming "April in Paris" dance will feature the very first crowning of a Spring Formal Queen. The Student Senate will compromise with College President Dr. Edel in order to get the proposed Senate Constitution approved.

Members of the fiftieth class of the Skull and Key Society were tapped. John Scott, contributing editor of TIME magazine, will speak at the Allison Methodist Church-Chapel. The College Social Committee is to present the end of the year formal, themed "April in Paris" and featuring musician Buddy Williams. The Student Center Committee have distributed a questionnaire to aid with the planning of the Center, proposed to begin construction by 1960.

The approaching end of the Pan Hellenic week will feature the annual Doll Dance. A talk open to members of the Mary Dickinson Club and women students will be given by Dorothy Kenyon, speaker for the Mary Dickinson Day Chapel, titled "Women and Outer Space." Following incidents dubbed the "Egg Battle" - during which several men raided rival fraternity houses, threw eggs at the outside of the women's dorm and shouted "uncomplimentary expressions" - eleven men have turned themselves and been penalized by the Senate-Faculty Judiciary Committee.

In April, the Allison Memorial Church will be opened for the use of both the Carlisle community and Dickinson College - about $200,000 of the $850,000 required to build the church came from the College. Student Senate will approve its new budget - including a $10 increase in the student activities fee - amidst charges from an anonymous former senator that the increase in fees is due to mismanagement of Senate funds last semester.

Five Dickinson fraternities participated in the annual Red Cross Drive of Carlisle, collecting money for the organization. The Communications Committee had it first meeting to discuss campus issues including the College's gift to the Allison Methodist Church, the Student Activities Building and accuracy of reports in the Dickinsonian. Following a vote by Student Senate, a committee will be created to be involved in plans for the proposed Student Center.

Many changes in curriculum will take effect in the following year. These include: permitting freshmen and sophomores to declare an interdepartmental minor, new distribution requirements, and required numbers of hours for majors and minors. A formal dinner will be held to honor Sumner M. Drayer for his twenty-fifth year with Dickinson.

Fire in the Pi Mu sorority house. Details regarding the Annual Scholarship Dinner. James Stewart Leslie to discuss the Danforth Experiment in chapel. The Student's Party presents their political platform. The Cultural Affairs Committee presented a lecture by Hanson Baldwin, Military Editor of the New York Times. Dr. Carl Chambers gives a talk on education in chapel. Article on James Buchanan. Dickinson Swimming sets three new records. Profile on student athlete Robert Brasler.

This edition of the paper discusses the upcoming end of Fraternity Rush, particularly the limited nature of women's fraternities on campus. Dr. Edgar M. Finck will be officially installed as the very first Henry Ford Professor of Education. Dr. Ralph Ketcham of the University of Chicago gave a lecture in Memorial Hall on "James Madison and Dickinson College", focusing on the correspondence between the President and his nephew Robert, a Dickinson student.

Dr. William W. Edel will retire by March 1959 after 12 years as Dickinson's president. Similarly, Dr. Frank Ayres, head of the Math Department, announced that he will resign from Dickinson after 30 years of teaching. The Physics Department will receive a new department head, Dr. Henry Lincoln Yeagley, who comes from teaching at Penn State for 37 years. The "New South" snack bar opens in South College, featuring the special "Mermaid's Delight": a sponge cake with ice cream, chocolate sauce, whipped cream and a cherry.