University of Florida - Tower / Seminole Yearbook (Gainesville, FL)

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Photo: Jane Photo: Jane All freshmen and sophomores are required to take seven comprehensive courses covering social sciences. physical sciences, coolish math, humanities and upon completion, an Associates Arts onferred on the student. 1930 Football The 22,000-seat is named Florida Field and is dedicated to alumni killed in WW I. Unforunately, Florida loses its first game against the University of Alabama, 20-0. students the armed forced and do not return to UF the ' Christmas More than 10.000 alumni in World War II.

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Photo: Jane Klitnenko Photo Courtesy of: Sesquicentennial Committee 1918 World War I The university serves as a base for 400 soldiers. The students are displaced to local sentries guard the gates and dormitories on campus. October. an epidemic of Spanish influenza strikes the soldiers and students. One-third of the students get ill and several die. 1925 First Woman Enrolls The Legislature rules that women of mature be allowed to enroll during regular in UF programs that are unavailable at Florida State College for Women. The first woman to enroll is Lesley Goodbread-B lack in the College of Agriculture. 1928 President Tigert John J. Tigert ' s begins in the midst of economic crisis that continues the Great State funds are unavailable during his 20-year ten- ure. The quality of increases as entrance requirements are

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During Reitz time as president, is spent on campus construction. of that money goes to the Health Science C enter and teaching hospital (now Shands),which admitted its first tient ill 1958. built to to honor, and killed in World War I and II. The that minutes Was coin in 1979. Photo:Diana world war l War II at the of Florida. The GI Bill that applies to woolen education. By Are are women . •