The first annual meeting of the reorganized National Alumni Association is held, with W.H. Glenn elected its first president.

The National Alumni Association convened its first meeting as a Homecoming game and dinner.

Tech hired its first female faculty member, Annie Wise.

George C. Griffin begins his long career at Tech, first as a undergraduate student.
Student enrollment reaches 2,579 and Tech's annual budget tops $350,000.

Tech becomes a charter member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association.

The department of physics includes six faculty and staff members and six courses. The lecture room
Professor Floyd Field becomes Tech's first dean of men. His 1914 Ford is considered the first, albeit unofficial, "Ramblin' Wreck."

"Alma Mater," with lyrics by I.M. Granath and music by Frank Roman, is performed in public for the first time.

Marion Luther Brittain becomes Tech's fourth president on Aug. 1, following Matheson's resignation which had been announced the previous year.

Enrollment is 2,579, including the night and summer school students. The faculty number is 195.
Clark Howell presents a radio station to Tech. The school receives an FCC license the following year to operate station WBBF. The call letters are changed to WGST (Georgia School of Technology) in 1925.

The physics building, later renamed for Professor D. M. Smith, is constructed.

The first issue of the Georgia Tech Alumnus, now the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine, is published. The cover features a photo of the physics building then under construction.

The Alumni Association begins a placement service for alumni.

The Robbery opens. Officially "The Georgia Tech College Inn," this combination drug store, book store and soda fountain is meant to protect students from the "enticing temptations" of certain unnamed establishments on Cherry Street.

Tech was elected to the Southern Association of Colleges and Universities.
Tech resumes athletic relations with the University of Georgia.

The School of Ceramics was established and Tech becomes the first school in the South to have both a School of Ceramics and a ceramics building.

Tech receives an FCC license to operate radio station WGST.
The honor system is abandoned in the face of growing student apathy and weakening of Tech's ties to the military tradition.

Tech awards its first master of science degrees.
Tech establishes a Navy ROTC unit, one of six in the United States.

The department of naval science was established.
Charles Lindbergh speaks to a capacity crowd at Grant Field in November, just six months after his trans-Atlantic solo flight.

George P. Burdell, Tech's long-lived mythical student, begins attending classes. He graduates in 1930 and later attends Harvard before joining the 8th Air Force during World War II. In 1969, Burdell enrolls in every course offered at Tech -- more than 3,000 credit hours. Ever thirsty for knowledge, he replicated the feat in 1975 and 1980.
Brittain Dining Hall opens. Architecture professor Harold Bush-Brown designed the collegiate gothic building; the ceramic department made the tiles for the floor; the textile department made curtains and tapestries for the walls; the School of Mechanical Engineering made wrought iron for the light fixtures. Sculptor Julian Harris, Arch '28, designed the large stained-glass window as a memorial to the classes of 1928-1932.

Former student Frank Gordy opens a restaurant called the Yellow Jacket near the Tech campus. The name is soon changed to The Varsity.
Tech defeats California in the Rose Bowl 8-7. The game becomes famous for the misdirected run of California's Roy "Wrong Way" Riegels all the way to his own team's one-yard line. Tech scored a safety on the subsequent punt attempted by California, providing the slim margin of victory.

"Stumpy's bear" appears on campus. The cub, originally given to alumnus Chip Robert at the Rose Bowl by Tech supporters living in California, becomes the pet of football player Stumpy Thomason and is a familiar sight on campus for several years. The bear is later given to a zoo in Canada.

The Rose Bowl Field is constructed with revenues from the Rose Bowl game.