University of Wyoming - WYO Yearbook (Laramie, WY)

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Ivinson was bought and kept to be the presidentys home. That house now holds the Farmhouse fraternity and the president has moved down the street about six blocks. In 1910 a Normal School CEducationQ building was completed. The Wyo, UW,s annual, came out first in 1909. In 1913 the Agricultural Hall was finished. In 1917 the tower was removed from Old Main, declared unsafe. The first high school basketball tournament was held in 1918 with twelve teams coming to campus. The campus situation during the first world war was described by W.O. Clough in this way, 4' Men marched to and fro in uniform over the campus, stood at attention in classes, saluted, jumped at barking orders or with distorted and strange sounds, thrust bayonets at dummy Germans. Military discipline was the watchwordg almost a thing of the .hiditorium in Old Nia

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the Alma Mater. Seventy years later girls and basketball are seldom associated and few students have even heard the Alma Mater. The fraternity system began around 1904 with a group called Tau Kappa Delta. The first sorority was Delta Sigma. Soon there were quite a few fraternities and sororities and slowly they either disbanded or Went national. The oldest national sorority here is Pi Beta Phi, the oldest fraternity is Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Today we have twelve fraternities and seven sororities. Approximately an eighth of the students belong to one or the other. Greek - Non- Creek usually constitutes a considerable distinction. The first summer school appeared in 1905 although no credit was given for work done. The first women's dormitory was built in 1907. In 1909 a house at 715 The library in old Main

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past were the carefree students, the fraternity and the social life. Even dances, for which cadets were marched in ranks to dormitory doors, and girls marched out and paired off with the next in line, were checked by the influenza epidemic. H During the war German had been dropped from the curriculum. Today, Chinese is not taught but Russian is. German has survived another world war. In 1920 the Law School opened. By 1922 the Potter Law Club was active. In 1921 the University was admitted to the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. By 1921 freshmen were white-washing the on w-hill and chaulking the football field before each game. Today the University belongs to the Western Athletic Conference, but freshmen still white-wash the although new houses extend to its very edge. In 1923 the library Qnow the Aven Nelson Buildingl was completed. Also in 1923 public smoking by women was first observed. The student newspaper, formerly called the Student, changed its name to the Branding Iron. Names submitted for student votei were Chaps and Spurs, Wrangler, Rustler, Cayuse, and Cactus. The paper's banner sported three men branding a calf. The Half-Acre was finished in 1925, the first basketball game in the new gym being won by Wyoming over Utah. By 1925 tuition and fees had risen to 854, with average yearly expenses around 33400. In 1927 the Engineering Building was completed. The Menis Residence Hall was opened the following year. So the University grew. 5 U U 'U The information about the early University comes from A History of the University of Wyoming, 1887- 1937 by Wilson O. Clough.