The most popular sport on campus is baseball.

Students are required to wear a coat and tie between 7 a.m. and 1 p.m.

H.L. Smith and G.C. Crawford are Tech's first graduates. Smith wins a coin toss to determine who has the honor of receiving the first degree.
The first student publication, the Technologian, is published. A subscription to the eight-page monthly costs $1 a year.
Tech fields its first football team, which suffers a 12-0 defeat at the hands of Mercer University in Macon, Ga.

Ernest E. West, adjunct professor of physics, is named football coach on a part-time basis.

Woodshop foreman John Henry "Uncle Heinie" Henika arrives at Tech to teach for one year. He returns in 1901 to teach for 44 more years. He dies in 1951 at age 95.

Fire destroys the Shop Building and its equipment, except for three boxes of tools rescued by students. A more modest replacement, sans tower, is constructed the following year.
In Athens, Tech’s football team plays the University of Georgia for the first time on Nov. 4 and emerges a 28-6 winner. Leonard Wood, later governor-general of Cuba, a general in the U.S. Army and a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, enrolls at Tech just in time to play in the game, and leaves Tech later in the month. He is credited with scoring the first-ever Tech touchdown. After the game, UGA partisans pelt the visitors with rocks and chase them back to their train. The Georgia Tech replaces the Technologian as the main campus publication. For the next 14 years, The Georgia Tech serves as a combination student newspaper and yearbook.
Faced with concerns over low enrollment, faculty morale and student discipline, President Hopkins struggles to keep the school afloat. The shop's financial drain plus a legislature unable or unwilling to increase its support places the beleaguered Hopkins in an untenable position. After eight years, he resigns to become pastor of the First Methodist Church of Atlanta. He is succeeded by mathematics professor Lyman Hall.

The commercial shop system is a failure. It does not break even, much less subsidize growth for Tech. Plus, area craftsmen have always opposed the state-supported competition. The commercial shop is dropped, and while the instructional shop continues to be an important part of the curriculum, Tech’s identity and mission is clearly changing from trade school to university.

The first on-campus housing is a pair of frame buildings called “the shacks” by students. Designed to house 30 students, the buildings do not have running water, electricity or kitchen facilities.

Attendance at daily chapel service in the Administration Building is compulsory. Room inspections are conducted every evening at 10:30 and on Saturdays by President Hall himself.

The Schools of Civil Engineering and Electrical Engineering are established.
Knowles Dormitory opens. It is named for the Fulton County legislator who was instrumental in securing funds for its construction. Building costs on the $13,000 dorm went over budget -- by $14. It contains 36 rooms, a gym and dining facilities in the basement, where students are served by waiters. The structure is demolished in 1992 to make way for the Student Success Center.
The A. French Textile School is established and the A. French Building constructed. They are named for the Pittsburgh millionaire that President Hall met while on vacation at a North Carolina resort. His relationship with French established a model for future fund-raising from private, outside sources to fulfill Hall’s expansion and curricular diversification plans.