In spring 1957 an annual scholarship of $200 was voted by the All Students’ Council to be given to presidents of the student governing body.

In 1928 Dr. James Porter, dean of the College of Liberal Arts (now Arts and Sciences), gave a telescope for the observatory on the top of the Physics and Geology (now Earth and Planetary Sciences) Building. The telescope had a four-inch mirrored tube and was motor driven, with alternating powers of 40, 60, and 120.

Pictures were incorporated on student identification cards in 1954.

The first televised appearance of the Volunteer football team came during the 1951 national championship season when UT defeated Alabama 27-13 in Birmingham.

On January 16, 1968, the Navy Department announced that former UT Ranger Harry Hodges was killed while on guard duty in a fortified tower in Da Nona, South Vietnam. Hodges, a Seabee, attended UT in 1966. UT’s Rangers met their former comrade at McGhee Tyson Airport and served as pallbearers at his funeral.

UT’s first tennis court was built in 1909 on the Hill behind Old College for use by the newly constituted University Tennis Club.

In 1902 Professor Charles Ferris, chairman of a student aid committee of the faculty, appeared before the board of trustees to urge establishment of a student loan fund. As working capital, the trustees allocated the outstanding notes for student fees and room rent. Ferris and the trustees believed that approximately $500 of this was collectible. … Continued

In the spring of 1915, a UT team played the first varsity tennis match against a team from Georgia Tech.

The University Magazine was a publication of the senior class from 1841 to 1843.

The Tennessee University Student is believed to be the first college publication in the United States to send free copies to reading rooms around the country. It did so in 1888. Yale and Harvard followed this example the next year.