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CAMPUS EVENTS: 1910 - 1902
 
1910
  • Intermission period between classes changed from five to ten minutes.
  • Cosmopolitan Club house damaged by fire.
  • Argos Club became chapter of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity.
  • Aztec Club re-organized as Psi Upsilon fraternity.
  • Baseball team took Western Conference championship, having won all of its fourteen intercollegiate games.
  • Mary E. Fawcett appointed Acting Dean of Women.
  • Class of 1910 donated terra cotta container–known as Celebration Urn–which was installed on Illinois Field
  • First Homecoming on UI campus occurred. Illinois football team defeated Chicago by a score of 3-0.
 
1909
  • Illini Club of Chicago formed with 290 members.
  • Scabbard and Blade, a military social fraternity, organized.
  • Intending to “promote Illinois spirit by all possible means,” the Illinois Union organized with 500 members.
  • The nine Chinese students at the University gave an entertainment in Morrow Hall.
  • Under the direction of the Illinois Union, three thousand students held a “spring celebration.”
  • Trustees approved granting of J.D. degree.
  • Streetcar tracks taken up from Green Street.
  • Rule 41 took effect, forbidding from graduation those students whose grades in 25 percent of their classes were below 75 percent.
  • The Illinois revived as Illinois Magazine.
  • Physics Laboratory (now Materials Science and Engineering Building) completed.
  • Class of 1909 donated drinking fountain to University. Though no longer used for drinking, the fountain still stands in front of Kenney Gym.
 
1908
  • Re-organized Graduate School formally opened.
  • State Board of Health ordered vaccination of students because of smallpox outbreak in Champaign-Urbana.
  • YMCA building completed.
  • Jewish student society Ivrim organized.
  • Committee on Student Organizations created.
  • Phi Kappa Psi launched a new fraternity district south of John Street when they built a house at 911 S. Fourth Street. Before this, most fraternity houses were on Green Street.
  • Council of Administration requested that all student gatherings end by midnight.
  • Daily Illini expanded to eight pages, five columns.
  • Women’s basketball team received sweaters from the senior class.
  • Push ball contest took place of color rush.
 
1907
  • Students’ cooperative association disbanded.
  • Diphtheria outbreak killed one student.
  • First electrical engineering show held. This event would evolve into the Engineering Open House.
  • Illini student Ben Tomlinson won Rhodes scholarship.
  • Last saloon in Champaign-Urbana closed.
  • A two-story brick structure on northwest corner of Wright and Green streets was the first building for commercial purposes to be constructed near campus.
  • First issue of Alumni Quarterly published.
  • Name of Illini changed to Daily Illini and size expanded from four pages, five columns, to eight pages, four columns.
  • Lily Kollack appointed Dean of Women.
  • Auditorium dedicated.
  • Gamma chapter of Phi Beta Kappa installed.
  • First public presentation of football ‘I’s’ occurred.
  • Delta Tau Delta house damaged by fire.
  • Class of 1907 gave to University bust of Longfellow, sculpted by Lorado Taft.
 
1906
  • Illinois basketball team defeated Indiana 27-24 in first game played by the Illini men.
  • Chapters of Sigma Kappa, Delta Rho Sigma and Acacia formed.
  • Ionian and Athenian literary societies organized.
  • First junior smoker held.
  • First interscholastic circus occurred.
  • Council of Administration allowed men to visit Woman’s Building from 8:00 to 9:30 a.m. if they applied to the head of the Woman’s Hall.
  • Phenix–a new senior society– created.
  • Class of 1901 formed first permanent class organization among alumni.
  • Comprehensive alumni directory published.
  • Presbyterian synod established campus ministry.
  • Room in Burnham Hospital set aside as a student ward.
  • Cosmopolitan Club and Scribblers’ Club formed.
  • Mechanical Engineering Laboratory completed.
  • Maudelle Tanner Brown Bousfield became first African-American woman graduate of UI.
  • Class of 1906 donated sun dial to University. Originally situated on Green Street, the sun dial now rests in the rose garden on the grounds of the President’s House.
 
1905
  • Captain of UI baseball team killed, several other students injured in train wreck.
  • Rule promulgated forbidding all absences.
  • Woman’s Building (now known as the English Building) dedicated.
  • Responsibilities of Dean of Women divided between Eunice Daniels and Martha Kyle.
  • Western Intercollegiate Basketball League organized.
  • Delta Upsilon chapter formed.
  • Class of 1905 donated lantern decorating north entrance of Library (Altgeld Hall).
 
1904
  • Illiola literary society founded.
  • President Draper resigned. Edmund Janes James chosen as Draper’s successor.
  • Chapters of Sigma Xi, Phi Alpha Delta, and Phi Kappa Psi organized.
  • Beta Theta Pi house quarantined because of scarlet fever outbreak.
  • Eta Kappa Nu–an electrical engineering society– founded.
  • Six men suspended for hazing.
  • Dean of Women Viola Jayne resigned.
  • University of Illinois day held at St. Louis Exposition.
  • Western Conference rule barred freshmen from athletic teams.
  • Students’ cooperative association organized.
  • Class of 1904 donated flagstaff base to University. Bearing inscription ‘Class of 1904,’ this class memorial now anchors the flagpole in front of Kenney Gym Annex.
 
1903
  • Former regent Selim Peabody died.
  • Outbreak of hazing made night “time of terror” for freshmen. Six students suspended for hazing.
  • Chemistry Laboratory (now Noyes Lab) completed.
 
1902
  • Philomathean and Adelphic societies convened their first joint meeting.
  • First concert of University orchestra held.
  • President Draper’s leg amputated after he was thrown from carriage.
  • Class of 1902 decided to leave memorial fountain. Originally situated north of University Hall, the fountain now sits between Altgeld Hall and the Henry Administration Building.
  • Rule promulgated decreeing the expulsion of students for visiting saloons and becoming intoxicated.
  • Council of Administration canceled freshman social.
  • Some 150 sophomores signed pledge to give up hazing.
  • Illini published five days a week.
  • Gamma Nu chapter of Sigma Nu installed.
  • First issue of The Illinois (later Illinois Magazine) appeared.
  • Alpha Delta Gamma and Theta Kappa Nu organized.
  • Rho chapter of Phi Kappa Sigma founded.
  • Men’s Gymnasium (now Kenney Gym) completed.

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