1887

The Southern Dental College, founded as a department of Atlanta Medical College, was the first of several forerunners of Emory University's Dental School.

1889

President Candler persuaded the state legislature to admit graduates of Emory's law program to the Georgia Bar, and the first bachelor of laws degree was conferred.

1893

The Zodiac, Emory's first yearbook, appeared. It contained a photograph of the Glee Club, the first pictorial record of that group's existence.

1895

About this time Asa G. Candler sent the first keg of Coca-Cola syrup ever seen in Oxford to his son, a student at the College, and to his son's classmates. Ads of the time called the new drink "delicious, refreshing, exhilarating." "May be served hot or cold," they added.

The Emory Alumni Association was incorporated.

1902

This year's graduating class was the first to wear caps and gowns.

After Andrew Sledd, professor of Latin at Emory and son-in-law of Bishop Warren Candler, came by accident upon the immediate aftermath of the torture and lynching of a Negro, he published an article in the Atlantic Monthly condemning the practice that was common in the South. Apparently few Southerners read the article itself, but a subsequent letter about it in the Atlanta Constitution created a storm of protest against the professor and Emory. Sledd resigned his teaching post the same year but later returned to teach at the University in Atlanta.

James Edward Dickey, an Emory-educated Methodist minister and a professor of mental and moral science, became the twelfth president of Emory College.

1905

Wesley Memorial Hospital opened in an Atlanta ante-bellum home, and a training school for nurses was established. This school provided the foundation for Emory University's School of Nursing.

1914

When the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, decided to found a university east of the Mississippi River, Atlanta offered the church $500,000 and the use of Wesley Memorial Church and Wesley Memorial Hospital. As deliberations to choose the site were under way, Asa G. Candler wrote a letter offering the church a million dollars for use in establishing the school. At the meeting where the letter was read Atlanta was chosen as the location, and Bishop Warren Candler was named chancellor.

The School of Theology opened at Wesley Memorial Church in September. In February 1915 it was named the Candler School of Theology in honor of Bishop Candler.

1916

In September the Lamar College of Law, named for alumnus L.Q.C. Lamar, was established. The law college and the Candler School of Theology moved into the first two academic buildings completed on the Druid Hills campus.

1918

This year saw the successful completion of a long campaign led by Bishop Warren Akin Candler and physician James L. Campbell of the medical school to exempt college endowments from taxation by the state. A constitutional amendment to that effect was overwhelmingly approved by the electorate of Georgia.

1919

Freshmen and sophomores were required to participated in Emory's newly organized ROTC.

Emory college joined the law school, the theology school, and the pre-clinical program of the medical school on the Druid Hills campus. The School of Business Administration and the Graduate School were founded.

1922

Wesley Memorial Hospital moved to a new building on the Druid Hills campus. Three years later it was formally transferred to the University, and within a few years its name was changed to Emory University Hospital.

1924

The Emory Alumnus, forerunner of Emory Magazine, was first published.

1926

The Glee Club, whose first trip had been to Newborn, Georgia, and whose subsequent concerts included performances in Cuba and in Washington, D.C., toured England on its first transatlantic trip.

The Asa G. Candler library was dedicated.

1928

Curriculum readjustments led to the creation of Junior and Senior divisions within the College. In the Junior division students acquired a general background in standard fields of knowledge; during their last two years they specialized.

Emory University opened a two-year division in Valdosta.

The University's first drama group, the Emory Players, performed Booth Tarkington's "The Trysting Place."

1930

The ROTC program was discontinued.

Bobby Jones, who had attended Emory's School of Law during 1926 and 1927, became the first golfer to win the game's four most important tournaments: the British Amateur in Scotland, the British Open, the U.S. Open, and the U.S. Amateur.

1932

At a faculty meting President Cox announced the first salary cuts made necessary by the Depression.

1933

Workers paved the last strip of dirt road left on the campus.

A 100,000-gallon water tower was erected at Emory and was to be known as the Bobby Jones Memorial because it looked like a giant golf ball on a tee.

1888

President Hopkins, a strong advocate for technical subjects, resigned to become the first president of the Georgia School of Technology (later renamed the Georgia Institute of Technology).

Warren Akin Candler, an Emory-educated Methodist minister and former assistant editor of the Nashville-based Christian Advocate, became the tenth president of Emory College.

1891

The Emory Board of Trustees passed a resolution against intercollegiate sports "in view of [their] demoralizing influence ... upon the habits of students and the strong tendency to gambling which such games foster."

Members of Kappa Alpha obtained permission to build Emory College's first fraternity house.

1898

Charles E. Dowman, an Emory-educated Methodist minister and professor of languages, became the eleventh president of Emory College. He was instrumental in establishing electives as a regular part of the curriculum.

1899

Bishop Warren Candler's brother, Asa Candler, who had purchased the formula for Coca-Cola in 1888 and begun to market the soft drink in 1890, was elected to the Emory Board of Trustees. He became a generous patron of the College and later the University.

In October a curious letter entitled "Reflections of the Skeleton" appeared in the Phoenix. It was written by a skeleton in the science room who bemoaned the fact that his quiet existence among silent pickled frogs and "canned quadrupeds" had been interrupted by "these college boys." While the name Dooley was not mentioned, the letter foreshadowed his emergence ten years later as the spirit of Emory.

1904

Pierce Science Hall was completed at Oxford. It was the first building on campus to have steam, gas, and running water.

1908

A quiet, self-assured freshman named Robert Winship Woodruff attended Emory College but left before his first term was over, complaining to his father that his eyes fairly ached from studying. He would later become Emory University's most generous benefactor.

1915

On January 25 Judge C.S. Reid of the Superior Court of DeKalb County granted a charter to Emory University.

Probably guided by its president, Asa G. Candler, the Druid Hills Company deeded seventy-five rolling, wooded acres known as the Guess Place to Emory University.

The second Atlanta Medical College, a descendant of the original one founded in 1854, became Emory University's School of Medicine.

Emory Academy, a preparatory school, was established at Oxford after plans were made to move the College to the University campus in Atlanta.

Asa Candler was elected the first president of the University Board of Trustees.

1917

When the United States entered World War I, the University organized a medical unit that would be known as Emory Unit, Base Hospital 43. It was composed mainly of medical school faculty and medical alumni and served at Blois, France, from July 1918 to January 1919.

Eleonore Raoul, who enrolled in the College of Law, became the first woman admitted tot he University. Although women had occasionally been allowed to attend Emory College classes at Oxford, no clear-cut policy on their admission was in place at the University. Chancellor Warren Candler, however, was clear on his position: he was vehemently opposed to coeducation, and Raoul is said to have enrolled while he was out of town.

1920

Harvey Warren Cox, a Harvard-educated professor philosophy and former dean of the Teachers' College of the University of Florida, became the thirteenth president of Emory and the first of the new Emory University .

A letter in the Wheel complained that the only pay phone on campus was "continually out of order" and that students who needed to use a phone at night often had to go to Little Five Points, two miles away.

Among the rules for Emory University freshmen were admonitions "to be seen and not heard except in a group of their own men," to "give seats to ladies on streetcars," and to "remember that the dinner bell did not invite them to a swinish festival."

1923

The first freshman- sophomore pushball contest ended in a tie.

1927

The children of Joel Chandler Harris, Atlanta author of the Uncle Remus stories, donated a large collection of his manuscripts to the University library's growing Southern collection.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon began the construction of the first house on fraternity row.

1929

Asa Candler, who had given Emory a total of $8 million, died in March, and his son, Emory alumnus Charles Howard Candler, became president of the Board of Trustees.

Emory authorized a two-year program of college courses at Oxford.

Phi Beta Kappa installed a chapter at Emory.

1931

Glenn Memorial Church was completed and dedicated as a memorial to Wilbur Fisk Glenn, an Emory College alumnus and a prominent Methodist minister.

Edwin R. Embree, president of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, visited Emory and proposed the formation of a university center in the Atlanta area. The idea took hold, and today the University and twelve other institutions of higher learning in the state are linked by an interlibrary-loan system and their students are allowed to register four courses at other member institutions.

Grady Hospital in downtown Atlanta opened its wards housing white patients for medical instruction on a limited basis. Access to Grady greatly expanded the facilities for the clinical training of students in the School of Medicine.

1934

Emory graduate student Nathan Yagol and five other people present at an informal interracial meeting were arrested and charged with inciting insurrection, a capital offense in Georgia. Although the stated purpose of the meeting was simply to discuss the prevention of war, police indicated they believed the participants were Communists. A Wheel editor wrote, however, the Yagol's only crime was indiscretion in attending an interracial meeting. Yagol and the others were held without bail for three weeks, until a grand jury freed them. In response to the incident, President Cox and sixty-nine faculty members issued a statement affirming the University's commitment to democracy, while deploring police methods of "terrorism and suppression."