Then in 1893 Dr. William Jewett Tucker became president and the college's great awakening began.

Imperial became fully independent on 9 July 2007, as part of the celebrations of the college's centenary.

In recent history: In 1994, the college's mascot became the Skyhawks, retaining the blue and gold.

Daggett became the college's president pro tempore in 1766 after the resignation of President Clap.

Ms. Post served as the honorary house mother of the college's first local fraternity, Sigma Beta Epsilon, which became in 1969 the New York Beta chapter of the nation's largest national fraternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

Finally, the plan was completed when Gatehouse Court ( 2003 ) became the college's new front.

Black students were admitted immediately after the college's 1844 founding, and the College became the second school in the nation to grant four-year liberal arts degrees to women.

During her stay at Radcliffe Folger became an active member of the college's Gilbert and Sullivan Players, a musical theatre group.

Upon completion of a new Art block in 2007, the college's specialist status became simply Arts.

But he quickly became interested in the field he called " mental evolution ", the borderland between intelligence and instinct, and in 1901 moved to become the college's first Professor of Psychology and Education.

He excelled in his studies, and upon faculty recommendation, he became a teacher in the college's preparatory division.

It eventually became apparent that opening yet a third campus in close succession to the second would stretch the college's resources too far, however.

Barton Aylesworth became the school's fourth president in 1899, and the combination of his non-confrontational style with the presence of the vocal Colorado Cattle and Horse Growers Association on the governing board allowed ranching and farming interests to take the college's agricultural programs to new heights, greatly influencing the development of the entire school.

A student petition led to the governing-board to change the college's name to more accurately reflect the diversity of its academic programs, and in 1935 the school became the Colorado State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, or Colorado A & M.

John Charles Horobin became the first Principal, and his portrait still hangs in the college's Great Hall.

Gregory H. Adamian, a major driving force in the college's development, became the fourth president in 1970.

At the ceremony, he became the first recipient of the Isaac Shelby Award, named for two-time Kentucky governor Isaac Shelby, who was chair of the college's first board of trustees.

In 1918, he became the college's vice president while maintaining his status as a professor.

Peniston became director of the Lee Chapel at Washington and Lee University, retired again, and subsequently began volunteering in the Special Collections section of the college's Leyburn Library, where he transcribed more than 3, 000 letters from the library's Robert E. Lee collection and Lee-Jackson Foundation Papers.

He became an undergraduate of Oriel College, Oxford in 1596 and was a benefactor in the rebuilding of the college's Front Quad.

In 1906 he enrolled at London's City & Guilds ( Technical ) College where he became one the college's first students to study aeronautical engineering.

Despite opposition – many said she was at HUC-JIR to marry a rabbi and become a rebbetzin rather than to officiate as a rabbi – she became the first woman at Hebrew Union College to make it to ordination, an accomplishment she credits to her parents and to Rabbi Nelson Glueck, the college's president who died a few months before her ordination.

Although his foundation of Lincoln College, Oxford was incomplete at the time of his death, the college's future was eventually secured and Fleming's manuscript books became the core collection of the collegiate library.

In 1972 the college's choir — directed by Richard Harrison Smith and for decades one of the top small-college choirs in the United States — became the first American choir to sing at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France, an honor they repeated four more times during the 1970s and 1980s.

Karen L. Gould, former Provost at California State University, Long Beach became the college's ninth president on August 15, 2009.

It was in order to avoid the stuffy routine of middle class life that Holmes became a detective in the first place.

When this second dilemma first became obvious -- during the mid to late '50's -- the United States appeared to have three choices.

In many cases the revolutionary production has offered no more than sensational effects: the first hearing was fascinating and the second disillusioning as the gap between sound and substance became clearer.

After the first few weeks, it was obvious that rules had to be made, laid down and obeyed -- even if our popularity ratings became subnormal as a result.

( Sanity, solvency and relations with our wine merchant took a beating that first summer as we inadvertently became the neighborhood free-drink stop.

In 1846 Matthew B. Goodwin, jeweler and watchmaker, became the town's first telegrapher in a dwelling he built for himself and his business `` two doors north of the Equinox House '' or `` one door north of the Bank, Manchester, Vermont ''.

Although slab stock appeared first, it soon became apparent that for the production of cushions with irregular shapes, crowned contours, or rounded edges, the cutting of slab stock is a wasteful and uneconomical process.

Radio broadcasts, however -- now that even plain people could afford `` loud speakers '' on their sets -- held old fans to the major-league races and attracted new ones, chiefly women, who through what the philosopher called the ineluctable modality of audition, became first inured, then attracted, then addicted to the long afternoon recitals of the doings in some distant baseball park.

The word amphibian became restricted in the taxonomical sense to what we now use around 1600, with the taxon " Amphibia " first published in scientific classification circa 1819.

* In 1870 the small City of Ragusa ( Dubrovnik ) became the first small Lifeboat to cross the Atlantic from Cork to Boston with two men crew, John Charles Buckley and Nikola Primorac ( di Costa ), only.

* In 1896 Frank Samuelsen and George Harbo from Norway became the first people to ever row across the Atlantic Ocean.

* In 1919, the American NC-4 became the first seaplane to cross the Atlantic ( though it made a couple of landings on islands and the sea along the way, and taxied several hundred miles ).

* In 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first female to make a solo flight across the Atlantic

* In 1999, after rowing for 81 days and 4, 767 kilometres ( 2, 962 mi ), Tori Murden became the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by rowboat alone when she reached Guadeloupe from the Canary Islands.

The Greek alphabet thus became the world's first " true " alphabet.

Van Vogt was always interested in the idea of all-encompassing systems of knowledge ( akin to modern meta-systems ) -- the characters in his very first story used a system called ' Nexialism ' to analyze the alien's behaviour, and he became interested in the General Semantics of Alfred Korzybski.

Argon became the first member of the noble gases to be discovered.

A collection of short stories for children Gallery of Children, and other stories that became part of the Winnie-the-Pooh books, were first published in 1925.

With Robert Morison ’ s 1672 Plantarum umbelilliferarum distribution nova it became the first group of plants for which a systematic study was published.

Aramaic gradually became the lingua franca throughout the Middle East, with the script at first complementing and then displacing Assyrian cuneiform as the predominant writing system.

During this period winter sports were slowly introduced: in 1882 the first figure skating championship was held in St. Moritz, and downhill skiing became a trendy sport with English visitors early in the 20th century, as the first ski-lift was installed in 1908 above Grindelwald.

Her first appearance was in a short story published in The Sketch magazine in 1926, " The Tuesday Night Club ", which later became the first chapter of The Thirteen Problems ( 1932 ).

* 1995 – U. S. President Bill Clinton became the first President to visit Northern Ireland.