1930 - 1939
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Women's basketball became increasingly popular in the 1930s. Members of the Glee Club participate in their annual statewide tour. Here two members goof off at the train station. |
The 1930s
Among the new campus "laws," freshmen girls must wear green armbands and green ribbon, at least half an inch wide, around their heads, and they cannot wear makeup on Mondays.
With the laying of the cornerstones for the engineering and agriculture buildings, the University inaugurates its 100-Year Plan, which includes a campus that will eventually serve 8,000 students. (The latest plan calls for 20,000 students by 2004.)
Four members of the Olympic-bound UA varsity track squad are seriously injured in the collapse of "Schmidts Barn," the men's gym.
U of A's old gym, affectionately called Schmidt's Barn, is replaced with a modern facility.
The UA Student Senate refuses to grant UA President Futrall leave to attend, as guest of honor, a White House dinner with President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.