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1906-1930
1906
The School of Education is founded.
1906
One hundred spectators are injured and one is killed when bleachers collapse during a Syracuse-Colgate football game at New Star Park, the team's temporary home.
-John D. Archbold and the stadium
that bore his name
1907
The 25,000-seat Archbold Stadium opens. It is named after philanthropist John D. Archbold, whose many donations also help build Archbold Gymnasium and Sims Hall and eliminate the University's $60,000 deficit in 1910.
1909
The Senior Council forbids undergraduate men from accompanying women to any intercollegiate athletic contest. Separate seating lasts 40 years at SU sporting events.
1906
Traditional Moving-Up Day exercises-during which graduating seniors are excused from mandatory chapel attendance, juniors take their empty seats, and each class subsequently "moves up"-are temporarily abolished after celebrating freshmen paint Sims Hall, streetcars, and campus monuments.
1910
The Daily Orange holds a three-day editorial campaign to promote campus friendliness.
1911
The Graduate School is founded.
1911
The New York State Senate approves a bill appropriating $55,000 for the creation of a School of Forestry at SU.
-The Kissing Bench
1912
The senior class donates a stone bench to the University, which places it on the west lawn of the Hall of Languages. It later becomes known as the Kissing Bench. Tradition holds that if a couple kisses while sitting on this bench, they will eventually marry.
1912
Junior Elizabeth Reed, unhappy with the quality of dining hall food, is expelled after organizing a food strike.
1914
The School of Information Studies is founded.
1918
Twelve students die, emergency hospitals are erected in dormitories, and the campus is quarantined for more than two-and-a-half October weeks because of a Spanish Flu epidemic.
1918
Enrollment declines by more than 30 percent after more than 1,000 students are drafted during World War I.
1918
The College for Human Development is founded.
1919
The School of Management is founded.
1920
SU loosens its ties with the Methodist Episcopal Church with a change to its charter, which now defines the institution as "nonsectarian."
1921
J. Herman Wharton, dean of the College of Business Administration (forerunner to the School of Management), is shot nine times and killed by Professor Holmes Beckwith, whom Wharton recently fired. Beckwith subsequently kills himself.
-J. Herman Wharton
1921
Under financial duress, the University solicits students for donations totaling $60,000. The drive raises $36,243.
1921
Dancing is banned for the final two weeks of the spring semester by Chancellor Day, who says, "We are close upon examinations and have no time to dance."
1922
Charles Wesley Flint, former president of Cornell College in Iowa, becomes SU's fifth chancellor.
1924
The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs is founded.
1930
A Daily Orange story declares college is a waste of time for women: "For an average girl who intends to make marriage her chief business, to waste four precious years that ought to be devoted to romantic adventure seems tragic."