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CAMPUS EVENTS: 1920 - 1911
1920
Women’s Club damaged by fire.
First all-University mixer held.
David Kinley assumed the UI presidency from the retiring Edmund James.
Library (Altgeld Hall) chimes dedicated to the University as gifts from the classes 1914-1921.
Chapters of Phi Epsilon Pi and Alpha Epsilon Phi established.
Alpha Alpha Alpha organized.
First Dad’s Day held.
Smith Memorial Music Hall and Education Building (now University High School) completed.
1919
Alumni Association released
University of Illinois in Action
, a film showing University life.
David Kinley appointed acting president.
Women’s Residence Hall opened to students.
Victory Homecoming attracted large crowds, including many Illini veterans.
Wartime restrictions on student dances abolished.
Chapter of Jewish fraternity Phi Epsilon Pi installed.
The University closed early for the winter holidays because of a coal shortage.
Football team shared national championship title with Harvard and Notre Dame.
1918
University service flag raised with 2,960 stars–one for each Illini in the service.
Daily Illini
published semi-centennial edition.
Gamma Epsilon Pi established.
Dean of Women Fanny Gates resigned. She was succeeded by Ruby Mason.
Some 3,000 students enrolled in Student Army Training Corps (SATC).
Woman’s Residence Hall (Busey Hall) completed. (This was the first residence hall built by the University.)
Phi Delta Psi became national ‘Mortarboard.’
Matrix re-organized as Theta Sigma Chi.
Chapter of Jewish sorority Delta Alpha Omega installed.
Homecoming canceled because of war.
Influenza pandemic struck campus. About 300 students were afflicted, with roughly ten deaths.
Classes canceled in celebration of end of World War I.
1917
William B. McKinley gave $100,000 for construction of University hospital.
On April 21st, 136 students withdrew for military and farm work. This figure grew to 1,000 by May 5th.
Military instruction began
YMCA and new Women’s Residence Hall used as barracks.
Daily Illini
launched “smokes and chocolates” fund for Illini overseas.
Fall enrollment was twenty percent below previous year’s number.
Panhellenic Council abolished dances for the year.
1916
Fire destroyed the Co-op Bookstore. The new building constructed in its place will ultimately house Follett’s bookstore.
Long-time professor and former acting regent Thomas Burrill died.
Fanny Cook Gates appointed Dean of Women.
Movie “Pro Patria” filmed on campus.
Lorado Taft, ’79, and Roland Conklin, ’91, announced gift of bronze Alma Mater statue.
1915
Lambda Chi Alpha established.
Louise Freer appointed director of physical training for women.
Council of Administration declared end to class scrap.
Armory completed.
West wing of Commerce (now Administration) Building completed.
1914
All athletic and social events called off because of scarlet fever.
First African-American sorority–Alpha Kappa Alpha–on campus was organized.
Chapter of Alpha Rho Chi established.
First annual freshmen cap burning held on Illinois Field.
First campus sing held.
Martha Kyle appointed Acting Dean of Women.
University boasted largest fall enrollment up to that point: 3,906.
Fifteen thousand people attended Armory dedication.
President James’s wife died.
Kappa Alpha Theta house damaged by fire.
Stock Pavilion completed.
Football team shared national championship title with Army.
1913
First issue of
Fortnightly Notes
, supplement to the
Alumni Quarterly
, published.
Lincoln Hall dedicated.
Kappa Alpha Nu, first African-American fraternity on campus, was organized. Group’s name was later changed to Kappa Alpha Psi.
Ex-President Draper died.
Phi Beta sorority became Gamma Phi Beta.
Trustees approved system of freshmen advisers.
All classes adopted class hats.
Sack rush replaced pushball contest.
East wing of Commerce (now Administration) Building completed.
Council of Administration banned popular dances from University functions.
Lincoln Hall gateway was gift of Class of 1913.
1912
Champaign voted to go alcohol-free.
Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt visited Champaign.
Council of Administration ruled that students may not join fraternities until they have completed eleven hours of study.
First annual mass meeting for women held.
Pan-Hellenic Council voted against hazing.
Colleges of Literature and Arts and of Science combined.
Student votes defeated petition to open theaters on Sundays.
Chapter of Jewish fraternity Zeta Beta Tau established.
Robert Zuppke appointed football coach.
Transportation Building completed.
Class of 1912 donated “Eternal Flame” bench.
1911
The University of Illinois Alumni Association of India became the first overseas Illini club.
Control of Daily Illini invested in a board of six trustees–three faculty members and three undergraduates.
President William Howard Taft visited the University.
Publication of
Facts for Freshmen
authorized.
First
Siren
published.
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