Iowa State University - Bomb Yearbook (Ames, IA)

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Building and expansion were important facets of the early 18805 as halls and housing units were constructed to accommodate rising enrollments and growing departments. In 1884 electric lights were first installed on the campus in the Main Building. Compulsory student manual labor, in effect since the beginning of the college, was discontinued in the same year. Student activities came to the fore in the 18901s through publications, literary societies and athletics. The College Clipper, forerunner of the Iowa State Daily began publication on June 18, 1890; the first Bomb was published in 1892; the YMCA and YWCA were organized in 1890. Popular activities were the literary societies to which almost all students belonged. Designed to bring social and intellectual im- Benjamin F. Cue, a joint sponsor of the provement to the students, the first society, him which created the college was We Philematheans, was organized in 1868 and 1113111011115; tr$teeftSWh?irgtelpiingrlg: continued to be active until the 192015. Rugby football with Dr. Ira C. Brownlee coaching, had its beginning in 1892. e w-4 wain-u : ......., w; mvr 4 W5. m:nwitv' - rm Days of progress under William Beardshear A vs... A practical, energetic man who would assure the college of leadership and progress was William M. Beardshear who became president in 1891. In the first year of his administration fraternities and sororities headed to a slow death following riots between fraternity and nonfraternity students which resulted in no student being allowed to join a secret college fraternity. The ban remained in effect until 1904. College colors, silver for engineering; yellow for agriculture; and black for veterinary medicine, were chosen. Physical education for men took preliminary form through the Field Days program started in 1891. And 2 years later 13 acres west of Morrill Hall were set aside for an athletic fleld. Glen llPop Warner who developed the double wing back coached the football team for a few weeks each year from 1895-1899. Influential in the early organization of the college was Peter Melendy, a mem- ber of the hrst board of trustees and the man who selected the acres of land to be used as the site for the college.

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I. C. Sororsis, organized in 1877, was the first . . national social sorority on campus. The group L, 1882 The Trlple Alllance between 1879 Edison invents the incan- descent electric lamp. Ibsents play 8A Dolls House gives impetus to the feminist movement. 1880 William Booth organizes the Salvation Army in England. adopted the Greek letters Pi Beta Phi in 1888. ' Germany and Austria-Hun0ry 3', n b ' 1s completed. 1884 Rayon is invented. 1886 Hertz demonstrates existence of electromagnetic waves. Higher education was generally appeal- ing and from the beginning capacity enrollment of boarding students was met. Although tuition and rooms were free, books and board were at cost, and rail- road fares were reduced, early students were workers. Rising at 5:30 a.m., the students worked in the fields, tended the grounds, prepared meals and built new buildings as well as attended Classes. Money for the next term was earned dur- ing the winter vacation when students turned to school teaching. As the college expanded to include more physical structures, telephones were installed between Offices in 1878. The same year the Ladies Military Company was organized, a voluntary group headed by Carrie Chapman Catt. 1879 marked a significant first in educa- tion with the organization of the School of Veterinary Science, hrst in the United States and presently one of the five college foeducation? Classes like, this bOtanY ecture sectlon, were typlcal at Iowa diViSionS- State, the flrst land-grant college to be coeducational from the beginning. Large classes Were common, even in the 189015.

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pv TVomen students participated in military life on the campus from 1878 to 1897 as members of Ladies Military Company G organized by Carrie Chapman Catt, 180. In drill sessions the tttroops assem- bled in front of Main Building, predecessor to Beardshear Hall. The official seal with the inscription: HThe Iowa State College Of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts 1 Science with Prac- tice, was adopted in 1898. Excursion Day, a special day of enter- tainment, open houses and instruction, began in 1898. With special rates offered by the railroads, more than 6,000 attended the first show; 12,000 came in 1905, date of the last festival. The bells of Iowa State rang out for the first time in 1899 when the Campanile was erected at a cost of $5,885. A carillon 0f 10 bells manufactured in England was installed in the tower. 1890 The Pan American Union is organized. 1895 The first book dealing with psychoanalysis is published by Sigmund Freud. 1896 Marconi obtains the first patent for wireless telegraphy. 1897 Electrons are discovered. Diesel engine is invented. 1898 The Curies discover radium. l3