The 1920s
1920
- Stout enrollment 436.
- Despite a 23-0 football loss to the sophomores, the freshmen were able
to defend their "colors" with a few cases of eggs.
- League of Nations formed.
- Amendments put prohibition and nationwide women's vote into effect.
- First airmail flight from New York to San Francisco.
1921
- Football team wins northern division championship.
- Electrical department installs a "wireless" and by April is
receiving musical programs from Pittsburgh.
- Warren Harding inaugurated president.
- Sacco and Vanzetti found guilty of murder.
- First radio broadcast of a baseball game.
1922
- First Stout homecoming held in conjunction with a football game.
- Lorenzo Dow Harvey dies unexpectedly in the midst of preparations for
commencement.
- Ku Klux Klan gains political power.
- Soviet states form the U.S.S.R.
- Insulin first administered to diabetic patients.
1923
- Burton Nelson assumes Stout presidency and forms the Stout Student Association
to create a feeling of unity on the part of the student body in the support
of school activities.
- Special train carries the basketball team accompanied by the band, faculty
and fans to River Falls for a game.
- President W.G. Harding dies, succeeded by Calvin Coolidge.
- Col. Jacob Schick patents electric razor.
1924
- Calvin Coolidge elected president.
- J. Edgar Hoover appointed director of Bureau of Investigation.
- Career of comedian Will Rogers peaks.
- First Winter Olympics held at Chamonix.
1925
- Ludington Guard Band concert in the Stout Auditorium is broadcast over
WGBQ, built by members of the radio department at Stout -- station heard
320 miles away.
- Students change homecoming plans upon the death of President Nelson's
wife Mae.
- Hitler publishes vol. 1 of "Mein Kampf."
- Schoolteacher John Scopes tried for teaching the theory of evolution
-- convicted, then acquitted on a technicality.
1926
- Stout wins Normal School League basketball championship.
- A.A. Milne writes "Winnie the Pooh."
- Robert Goddard fires first liquid fuel rocket.
- Permanent wave invented by Antonio Buzzacchino.
1927
- "The 7:30 rule," requiring students to be in their rooms by
7:30 p.m. on Sunday through Thursday -- unless they were at church --
is dropped.
- Stout Institute inaugurates a Scoutmaster Training Course conducted
by Ray Kranzusch.
- President Nelson's engagement to Mrs. Joan F. Bryan announced in the
Stoutonia.
- Charles A. Lindbergh flies "Spirit of St. Louis" non-stop
from New York to Paris.
1928
- Stout accredited by North Central Association and the American Council
on Education.
- Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse makes film debut.
- Al Jolson's song "Sonny Boy" sells 12 million records in four
weeks.
- Americans view first scheduled television broadcasts.
- First color motion pictures exhibited by George Eastman.
1929
- The Stout Student Band debuts the "Stoutonia March," written
by director Charles Ingraham.
- Herbert Hoover inaugurated president.
- U.S. Stock Exchange collapses on "Black Friday" and world
economic crisis begins.
- Construction begins on Empire State Building.
- Six notorious Chicago gangsters machine-gunned down by a rival gang
in St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
