| 1916 |
Carleton celebrates its semicentennial
anniversary. |
| 1916 |
Dedication of Skinner memorial Chapel |
| 1916 |
Development of Lyman
Lakes begins.
|
| 1917 |
As America goes to war, Carleton agrees
to host for the duration a unit of the Student Army Training Corps,
which permits students to finish college while receiving military
training. |
| 1917 |
Completion of a new dormitory for women.
It will be named Nourse Hall in 1923. |
| 1918-19 |
As WW1 ends, influenza epidemic claimed
20 million lives, 5000,00 in the United States. Among its victims
is popular Carleton professor of Biblical literature Fred B. Hill. |
| 1919 |
Dancing is permitted on campus for the first time.
|
| 1919 |
College enrollment exceeds 500. |
| 1919 |
Ambrose White Vernon establishes at
Carleton the nation's first Department of Biography. |
| 1919 |
Founding of the Institute of International
Education, which assists in identifying and bringing foreign students
to Carleton. |
| 1920 |
Leighton Hall of Chemistry erected. |
| 1922 |
Carleton-in-China program begins; most
years until 1949 a junior "rep" is sent to the mission
school in Fenchow to teach English for two years. |
| 1922 |
Carleton becomes one of the first colleges
to adopt an honors program. |
| 1923 |
Creation of Allen Memorial Hospital, named for a Carleton student
killed in WW1
|
| 1923 |
Student automobiles banned on campus.
|
| 1923 |
New men's dormitory completed. First
called South Hall, it is named Davis Hall in 1926. |
| 1924 |
Nutting Memorial Drive created to commemorate
local trailblazing pioneers. |
| 1927 |
Minnie M. Dilley '98 is first woman
to serve on the board of trustees. |
| 1927 |
Introduction of the proctor system -
precursor to current resident assistants - to West Side (male) dormitory
life. |
| 1927 |
Prof. Harvey Stork pushes for development
of a Carleton arboretum.
Planting directed by Store and Superintendent of Grounds D. Blake
Stewart begins in the spring. |
| 1927 |
Completion of Laird Stadium. |
| 1927 |
Completion of Margaret J. Evans Hall. |
| 1928 |
Dedication of Severance Hall. |
| 1928 |
Creation of the Faculty Club. |
| 1928-1934 |
Carleton basketball teams undefeated
in conference play. |
| 1930 |
Carleton Trustee Frank B. Kellogg awarded
the 1929 Nobel Peace Prize. |
| 1930 |
Creation of the Carleton
Student Association (CSA). F. Atherton Bean '3` is elected its
first president. (A precursor student council, the Alma Mater Association,
had been founded in 1920.) |
| 1930 |
Bell Field named for Trustee Frederic
S. Bell. |
| 1932 |
Dedication of Nourse Little Theater. |
| 1933 |
College purchases Schmidt House for
use as a men's dormitory. |
| 1933 |
Alumni Fund Association established. |
| 1935 |
Carleton granted chapter of Sigma
Xi. |
| 1935 |
The Voice
first appears. (Earlier alumni publications date from 1910, but
none since Depression year 1932.) |
| 1936 |
Majority of Carleton students no longer
from Minnesota. |
| 1937 |
Pres. Roosevelt's "court packing"
scheme aimed at conservative judicial opponents of the New Deal
- including Pierce
Butler 1887, appointed to the Supreme Court in 1922. |
| 1937 |
Frank B. Kellogg donated $500,000 to
support the establishment of a Department of International Relations
and to fund scholarships for foreign students to attend Carleton. |
| 1937 |
"Carleton-in-China" school
flees south as Japanese armies invade Shansi province. |
| 1939 |
Schmidt House destroyed by fire. |
| 1939 |
Construction of the Women's League Cabin. |
| 1940 |
Creation of the Student Social Cooperative
(co-op) to provide "a wider social program for a greater number
of students at a lower cost." |
