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