Iowa State University - Bomb Yearbook (Ames, IA)

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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

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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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1899 The First International Peace Conference is called at the Hague, the Netherlands. 1903 Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first successful flight in an heavier-than-air machine. 1904-1905 Japan establishes herself as a major power following the Russo- Japanese War. 1905 Einstein publishes his formula for conversion of mass into energy. 1906 Invention of the vacuum rectifier makes it possible for the human voice to be sent uover the air11 for the first time. 1907 France, Russia and Great Britain enter the Triple Entente. 1908 Boy scout movement begins. In 1891 the Dinkey steam motor line came into existence marking the end of the horse- drawn accomodation bus. After 16 years the Dinkey line was discontinued in 1907. Classes in domestic economy began in 1872 under the direction of Mrs. Mary B. Welch. With 9modern convenience? of 1904, students above prepared a recipe of riced potatoes.