The 1910s
1910
- Stout enrollment is 406.
- Poor health keeps Stout from running for re-election to the State Senate.
- The manual training boys, "believing that the larger number of
domestic science girls needed more of the social side of life," organize
the Stout Dancing Club.
- Mark Twain dies.
- Halley's comet observed.
- Father's Day first celebrated.
1911
- Stout Institute becomes a state institution.
- The 18-member Stout Orchestra, composed of "people of the three
schools," plays at several social gatherings.
- The original manual training building is moved to Dunn County School
of Agricultural and Domestic Economy site for use as a shop and dairy
building.
- The Menomin Club is formed to "promote a better school spirit along
scholastic and athletic lines."
- Roald Amundsen reaches the South Pole.
1912
- Trades building (Ray Hall) constructed.
- The Students' Band is a "decided hit" in its first appearance,
a basketball game.
- Daisy Kugel gives a lecture to domestic science girls on how much hair
to have and how to wear it.
- "Titanic" sinks on maiden voyage.
- Arizona and New Mexico become states.
1913
- Students of the manual training department organize The Gaveleers to
polish public speaking and parliamentary practice skills.
- Woodrow Wilson inaugurated president.
- Henry Ford pioneers assembly line.
1914
- Stout Institute gymnasium classes present a public Gymnastics Exhibition
and Kirmess featuring tumbling, wrestling, boxing, gymnastics exercises,
flag and barbell drills, and folk dances.
- World War I begins.
- Panama Canal opens.
- Paul Bunyan popularized in lumber company pamphlet.
1915
- "The Weekly News," later named the Stoutonia, first published
in March.
- Summer session picnic features nail driving and button sewing contests.
- Albert Einstein postulates General Theory of Relativity.
- First transcontinental telephone call.
- Babe Ruth hits his first career home run.
1916
- Helen Keller addresses Stout students in what the Stoutonia terms "perhaps
the most unusual and interesting lecture ever heard."
- After two years, the student council organized by manual training students
to oversee school activities disbands.
- Jazz sweeps the country.
- National Park Service established.
- Montana sends Jeannette Rankin to the U.S. Senate while most states
still deny women the vote.
1917
- Open house and dedication ceremonies held for Home Economics building
(now Harvey Hall).
- New Lynwood Hall rules limit girls to attend one dance at Rusk per evening,
lights out at 9 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.
- Sufferage Movement started at Stout.
- World War I -- Czar abdicates after February Revolution in Russia.
- Senate rejects suffrage bill.
1918
- Stout Institute offers first four-year programs -- bachelor's degrees
in Home Economics Education, and Industrial Arts.
- $100 tuition for Wisconsin residents is dropped.
- A unit of the Student Army Training Corps established on campus.
- World War I -- Armistice signed. War leaves 8.5 million killed, 21 million
wounded, 7.5 million prisoners and missing.
1919
- Freshmen men choose brown corduroy trousers as a distinguishing mark.
- Iowa students form the "Hawkeye" club.
- Minnesota students start the "Pep" (later Minnesota) Club.
- President Woodrow Wilson receives Nobel Peace Prize.
- "Black Sox" bribery scandal rocks baseball.
