The Yellow Jacket Club, forerunner of the Ramblin' Reck Club, is founded to promote school spirit. The group also enforces RAT rules.

The Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics is established with a $300,000 grant from the Guggenheim Foundation. Tech is the only Southern school to receive a Guggenheim grant and one of the only seven recipients in the nation. President Brittain would later rate the aeronautics school as his proudest accomplishment.

Bobby Jones, ME 22, wins all four tournaments of the Grand Slam: the U.S. and British Amateur championships and the U.S. and British opens. He also plays on the U.S. team that wins the Walker Cup. Regarded as the greatest golfer in history, Jones later retires from golf to pursue a law practice in Atlanta. He dies in 1971.

Coach Alexander hires a backfield coach named Bobby Dodd.
The Georgia General Assembly creates the University System of Georgia. The Board of Regents transfers control of the Evening School of Commerce to the University of Georgia and moves the civil and electrical engineering courses at UGA to Tech.
Dean Floyd Field leads the first Ramblin' Wreck parade.

The Georgia Tech Alumni Foundation is established to help Tech withstand financial pressures brought about by the Depression.

George C. Griffin, CE 22, creates the Tech placement center to help unemployed alumni weather the Depression.

Winston Churchill addresses students and faculty at Grant Field and stresses the importance of military preparedness.

The Board of Regents of the University System assumes control of all state public schools, including Tech.
The Depression curtails Tech's enrollment, which drops to 2,126 from a high of 3,700 three years earlier.
The Alumni Distinguished Service Award is created. The first recipient is Lawrence W. "Chip" Robert Jr., 08.

The department of management is established.

The Engineering Experiment Station began engineering research projects.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Techwood housing project during Homecoming weekend. He later addresses a capacity crowd at Grant Field and stays to watch the football game.

The Navy Armory is built.
The chemical engineering building is completed.
The Industrial Development Council (forerunner of the Georgia Tech Research Corporation) is created to be the contractual agency for the Engineering Experiment Station.
The civil engineering building is completed.

Tech observes its 50th anniversary during Homecoming, Oct. 7-8. The weekend is marked by speakers, a free buffet dinner at the dining hall for all alumni, and an exhibition golf match by Bobby Jones.

The auditorium-gymnasium (Old Gym) opens.

In-state tuition is $50 per semester; RAT caps cost $1 at the Robbery.
The School of Physics is established.