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Yale University
Yale students invented the Frisbee, tossing pie plates from the Frisbee Pie Company to teach each other and calling "Frisbee!" to warn passerby. The spelling was changed when Wham-O began mass-producing saucers. -
Harvard University
Gradate School of education at Harvard -
Harvard University
Harvard School of Public Health -
Yale University
Yale School of Nursing is founded, succeeding the fifty-year-old Connecticut Training School. It was the first nursing school to have autonomy within a university standards and influence rather than under hospital control. -
Bowdoin College
The first issue of the Bowdoin Alumnus marks the new importance of the alumni body in the College’s governance and fundraising -
Rice University
Rice awarded a Phi Beta Kappa Chapter. -
Princeton University
Princeton University Chapel dedicated. -
Harvard University
Lightweight rower Robert Livermore, Jr. '32 trades in his oar for ski poles and enters the Dartmouth Carnival. His victory in the slalom gives birth to the Harvard skiing program and the team receives offical status in 1934. -
Harvard University
Under the direction of former team captain John F. Carr '28, Harvard enjoys its first undefeated men's soccer season by going 8-0-1. Andrew "Poley" Guyda becomes the junior varsity and freshman coach, serving until his untimely death in 1956. -
Bowdoin College
Although most students leave campus for the armed services, World War II brings a Navy radar school and an Army-Air Force weather unit to Bowdoin. -
Yale University
The Yale campus is transformed into a military training center, and laboratories are used to conduct research in support of the war effort. Captain Glenn Miller and his band's weekly broadcasts from Woolsey Hall are heard by citizens and troops around the world. -
Rice University
Rice Stadium opened. -
Penn State
Erie Hall, the first building in the history of Penn State to be constructed with private funds, completed. -
Stanford University
Stanford physics Professor Felix Bloch becomes the school’s first Nobel laureate. -
Bowdoin College
Bowdoin joins three other "Little Ivies" in forming the New England Small College Athletic Conference, later joined by seven other institutions. The conference’s goal is to maintain the proper balance between sports and academics. -
Harvard University
Helen Keller is the first woman to receive Harvard honorary degree. -
Harvard University
Memorial Hall tower burns down. -
Harvard University
The first issue of News & Views, the Harvard Varsity Club's newsletter on Crimson athletics, is published. Football coach John Yovicsin and team captain Robert T. Shaunessy '59 are pictured on the cover. -
Rice University
Rice opens nation's first department of Space Physics. -
Stanford University
Saul Rosenberg establishes one of the first U.S. academic oncology programs in the Department of Medicine -
Bowdoin College
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. visits the Bowdoin College Museum of Art to see its groundbreaking exhibition on African Americans in art and speaks at First Parish Church. -
Rice University
University-led lawsuit to modify Institute charter is successful, permitting Rice to charge tuition and admit non-Caucasians. -
Yale University
Yale College admits women for the first time. Women have attended other schools at Yale since 1869, when the first women enrolled in the School of Fine Arts. -
Stanford University
Immunologist Hugh McDevitt discovers new class of regulatory genes that controls the immune response to foreign substances -
Harvard University
Former women's swimming captain Sharon Beckman '80 becomes the first New England woman to conquer the English Channel. She crosses from the White Cliffs of Dover, England to Cap Gris Nez, France in 9 hours, 16 minutes. -
Harvard University
Harvard celebrates its 350th anniversary. -
Stanford University
First successful bone marrow transplant completed by Karl Blume -
Princeton University
250th anniversary celebrated. Princeton's informal motto expanded by President Shapiro to "In the Nation's Service and in the Service of All Nations." -
Penn State
Almy Hall, residence hall, opens. -
Princeton University
First major steps undertaken to overhaul financial aid policies, making Princeton more affordable. -
MIT
Building 20 demolition
Building 20 is demolished to make room for construction of the new Ray and Maria Stata Center. -
Yale University
Kurt Schmoke, BA 1971, appointed to the Yale Corporation in 1989, became first African-American Senior Fellow of the Yale Corporation. -
MIT
9/11 day of remembrance
Thousands of MIT community members gather on Killian Court for a day of remembrance and reflection, following the September 11 terrorist attacks. -
Yale University
Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies announced. -
Rice University
Rice Owls baseball team defeats Stanford, winning the College World Series, the 1 st National Championship in a team sport for Rice. -
Yale University
Art Gallery renovation began. -
Harvard University
Harvard defeated Yale for the fifth straight year by rallying from a 21-3 second-half deficit to prevail, 30-24, in three overtimes at the Yale Bowl. It marked the first triple-overtime game in Ivy League history and the first Harvard-Yale game to go to extra periods. -
Penn State
In June, the long-awaited Bayfront Connector opens, providing a direct route between Penn State Behrend and downtown Erie. -
Yale University
President Hu Jintao of China visited Yale -
Yale University
Yale's West Campus, located on 136 acres 7 miles west of downtown New Haven, is acquired. The facility includes over 400,000 square feet of research/lab space and includes office and warehouse space, in addition to a full-service child care center and central utilities plant. -
Penn State
Enrollment in the college now stands at 4,633 students, a nearly 5 percent increase over 2007 figures. -
Yale University
Yale announced the decision to create School of Engineering and Applied Science. -
Stanford University
Stanford holds first symposium on Bedside Medicine -
Penn State
The college confers a record-breaking 650 degrees at its spring commencement ceremony. -
MIT
Arthur D. Little Building, E60
A full renovation and restoration of the Arthur D. Little Building (E60) is completed, integrating the building’s landmark historic qualities with sustainable design strategies such as heat recovery, low-energy lighting, and high-performance spray foam insulation. -
Princeton University
A five-year campaign, "Aspire: A Plan for Princeton," concludes under President Shirley M. Tilghman, after raising $1.88 billion. -
Princeton University
Christopher L. Eisgruber becomes Princeton's 20th president. -
Bowdoin College
Clayton S. Rose, Ph.D. elected president of Bowdoin College. The announcement was made Monday, January 26, by Bowdoin Board of Trustees Chair Deborah Jensen Barker '80, P'16 following the unanimous and enthusiastic recommendation by an 18-member Presidential Search Committee and a unanimous vote of approval by Bowdoin's Board of Trustees. -
MIT
Paul Modrich wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Paul Modrich ’68 has been awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on DNA repair mechanisms. -
MIT
President Barack Obama visits MIT, where he delivers an address in Kresge Auditorium on clean energy.
