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THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY TIMELINE 1900 TO 1949 |
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| 1900 | Grandstand for athletics is authorized | |
| 1902 | Trustees name new law building in honor of Henry F. Page who bequeathed to OSU his estate of more than $200,000 | |
| 1904 | Edward Orton Jr. donates professional library of former
president Edward Orton, his father "Carmen Ohio" was first sung in public by the University Glee Club |
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| 1905 | Enrollment passes 2000 for the first time Dedication of the Sun Dial on the Oval, a gift of the class of 1905 A.B. Graham, founder of 4-H, becomes superintendent of Agricultural Extension at OSU |
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| 1907 | College of Education is created Sphinx, the senior honorary fraternity, begins |
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| 1908 | Alonzo J. Bowling became the first known African-American to
receive an M.A. from OSU Dedication of Ohio Field at North High St. and West Woodruff Ave. : the predecessor of Ohio Stadium |
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| 1909 | Student Union completed, the first at a public university.
It became Enarson Hall in 1986 and is listed on the National
Register of Historic Places Oxley Hall was dedicated as the first women's dormitory at OSU OSU Alumni Association begins publication of what would become Ohio State University Magazine |
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| 1910 | First
printed reference to "Oval" as a distinctive place on campus Student enrollment reached 3,439 |
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| 1912 | Graduate School begins Dr. Caroline Breyfogle became first dean of women at OSU |
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| 1913 | Main
Library opens, the first building on campus to be built
exclusively as a library (the previous ones being in
University Hall and Orton Hall) Engineering Experiment Station begins |
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| 1914 | Starling-Ohio Medical College joins OSU as its College of
Medicine Mortarboard, women's student honorary society begins |
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| 1915 | Chimes are dedicated in Orton Hall, a gift of the classes of 1906 through 1914. | |
| 1916 | College of Commerce and Journalism established (predecessor of College of Business) | |
| 1917 | More than 400 students officially withdraw from studies to volunteer for military service in World War I | |
| 1918 | Chimes, Junior women's honorary, begins | |
| 1920 | Celebration of Fiftieth Anniversary of OSU Enrollment is at 8,313 |
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| 1922 | Four
Quarter Plan begins Dedication of Ohio Stadium |
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| 1923 | Sullivant Medal, OSU's highest award, is presented to Benjamin Garver Lamme, distinguished engineer | |
| 1924 | Alma W. Paterson became first woman trustee of OSU | |
| 1925 | Trustee Julius F. Stone donates Gilbraltar Island as a home for the Center for Lake Erie Area Research | |
| 1926 | George Washington Rightmire becomes sixth president of OSU "Maudine Ormsby," a Holstein cow, elected queen of Homecoming Dedication of Browning Amphitheatre |
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| 1927 | Women's Building, completed in 1922, is re-named Pomerene
Hall First Dean of Men is appointed Freshman Week begins as the first formal orientation of new students to OSU |
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| 1930 | Enrollment is 15,126 | |
| 1931 | Budget sharply curtailed because of Great Depression and faculty salaries reduced | |
| 1932 | Klein
Committee reduces the number of courses taught to cope with
financial difficulty of Great Depression Salaries reduced because of budgetary crisis |
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| 1934 | Stadium dormitory opens OSU Research Foundation begins as an effort to find sponsors for faculty research projects |
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| 1935 | Arthur Meier Schlesinger, historian, received the Sullivant
Medal Ohio Staters, Inc. begins as a student service society |
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| 1936 | First
Script Ohio formation by OSU Marching Band Office of Student Financial Aid is established to coordinate financial support for students during the Great Depression. |
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| 1938 | "Discipline in Civitatem" (education for citizenship)
becomes part of the University's coat-of-arms Development Fund is organized to raise money privately to make up for reductions in state support Block "O" begins, under the leadership of Clancy Isaacs. |
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| 1940 | Howard Landis Bevis became seventh president of OSU Baker Hall is named in honor of Newton D. Baker, distinguished statesman and trustee of OSU Enrollment reaches 17,568 |
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| 1942 | Committee on War Activities established to coordinate
programs OSU has war contract to develop ways of recognizing aircraft and surface vessels as enemy or friendly Trustees provide for War Research Laboratory |
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| 1943 | Trustees approve program for Army Specialized Training
Program Trustees name OSU airport in honor of Don Scott, former football star, who died in military service in Great Britain |
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| 1945 | Trailer camp set up to expand facilities for returning veterans | |
| 1946 | First Speaker's Rule in which Trustees forbid the use of university property by candidates for political office | |
| 1948 | Celebration of Seventy-Fifth Anniversary | |