1900s

1900

First Black student admitted
1900
 

1901

Card-playing allowed on campus

1902

First fraternities and sororities

1903

President Theodore Roosevelt speaks on campus
1903
 

1904

ASPC organized

1905

Pomona receives the Wash
1905
 

1906

First men's basketball team
1906
 

1907

Pomona's first Rhodes Scholar
1907
 

1908

Myron Hunt creates first campus plan
1908
 

1909

Pomona, Occidental decline proposed merger
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1900

Carrie Nation demolishes saloons

1901

Queen Victoria dies

1902

First college football bowl game

1903

Teddy bear invented

1904

Panama Canal construction begins

1905

Einstein formulated theory of relativity

1906

San Francisco earthquake kills 3,000

1907

Oklahoma becomes 46th state

1908

Ford Co. makes first Model T

1909

U.S. troops leave Cuba