| 1891 |
Basketball is invented by James
A. Naismith. His roommate at YMCA Training College in Springfield,
Mass., is Max Exner, who comes to Carleton the following year, bringing
the game with him. |
| 1891 |
The "preparatory department" is severed
from the College and begins independent existence as the Carleton
Academy. |
| 1891-1893 |
An era of significant events for Carleton
athletics. Included within these years are the formation of officially
sanctioned teams in baseball and football, the hiring of Max Exner
as instructor of "physical culture," including work in fencing and
gymnastics for both men and women, the institution of compulsory exercise
classes for all students, and the first reports of the new game of
basketball being played by women in the Gridley Hall gymnasium. |
| 1893 |
Carleton awards the first of six Ph.D.s (last
in 1909). |
| 1893 |
Exercise classes required of all students. |
| 1896 |
Scoville Memorial Library is built. |
| 1898 |
Freshman Ernest Lundeen, a future U.S. Senator,
is one of 12 Carls to trade school books for Army garb when the
Spanish-American War begins in 1898.
|
| 1898 |
Carleton
family crest becomes an unofficial symbol of the College. |
| 1899 |
Thorstein
Veblen '80 publishes The Theory of the Leisure Class.
|
| 1902 |
Opening of Laird Athletic Field. Its covered
grandstand is a gift of the Class of 1895. |
| 1903 |
Rev. William H. Sallmon, a graduate of Yale and pastor of
the South Congregational Church of Bridgeport, Conn., takes office
in January, following President Strong's retirement after 32 years
as president of the College.
|
| 1903 |
The Carleton Mission Board forms to coordinate and raise funds
for the foreign missionary activities of Carleton students. Its
major task will be support of the mission station established
after 1907 in Fenchow, Shansi province, China. The mission, which
includes a hospital and middle school, is principally the work
of Carleton alums Watts Pye '03, Gertrude Chaney Pye '08, Percy
Watson '03, and Clara French Watson '03.
|
| 1904 |
A semester schedule replaces the original
3-term calendar. |
| 1905 |
The Carleton football team wins the first
of 10 championships in the next 13 seasons. |
| 1905/06 |
Distribution requirements and a system
of majors and minors are introduced. |
| 1906 |
The New Laird Hall of Science is dedicated. |
| 1906 |
Trustees dissolve the Carleton Academy.
|
| 1909 |
Northfield becomes a "dry" town. (Local
prohibition lasts until 1948.) |
| 1909 |
In October Donald J. Cowling, a Yale man who had taught philosophy
at Baker University, is inaugurated as Carleton's third president.
President Sallmon stepped down in 1908 after a five-year tenure
marred by unhappy contention with elements of the old guard displeased
with the new policies. A faculty committee headed by Dean Herbert
C. Wilson ran affairs until Cowling took office. Only 29 years
old, Cowling will define Carleton for the next 36 years.
|
| 1909 |
Construction of Sayles-Hill Gymnasium. Formal
dedication of the new facility is January 26, 1910. |
| 1911 |
Carleton's first student self-government
association founded by the women of Gridley Hall. Originally, known
as the Young Women's Student Government Association, in 1928 it will
be renamed Women's League. Parallel - though generally less effective
- organizations for men are inaugurated in 1916 and again in 1937.
|
| 1911 |
Blue added to maize as school colors. |
| 1912 |
Conservatory of Music is created; it awarded
its own Bachelor of Music degrees for the next 12 years. |
| 1914 |
Carleton forms a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.
|
| 1914 |
Music Hall opens in January. |
| 1914 |
The College
Farm is purchased and dairy operations are begun. |
| 1916 |
A new "Men's Dormitory" is occupied in September.
Known for some years as West Hall, in 1925 it is renamed Burton Hall
in memory of Marion LeRoy Burton '00. |
