In fall 1961 UT first charged students to register their cars to park in campus parking lots. The fee was $5 for a full year (September 1–August 31). Fees for portions of the year (January 1–August 31: $4; March 1 to August 31: $3; and June 1–August 31: $2) were also assessed. Also in fall … Continued
Parking stickers were first issued in 1944.
In July 1967 Dr. Herman Spivey announced that juniors and seniors in the College of Liberal Arts (now Arts and Sciences) with at least 96 hours and a 3.0 overall average during each of the final six quarters at UT could take a course for elective credit on a pass or fail basis beginning in … Continued
The first UT athletic event to be broadcast on a pay-for-view basis was the October 15, 1983, football game against Alabama.
In 1875–76 two rooms in the Janney Building were made into an infirmary, and in 1878 the trustees authorized the employment of the institution’s first physician.
A pipe organ was installed in the “chapel” of Science Hall in 1892, but in February 1895, it was “returned in installments” because it had never worked properly. The pipes were retained, and a cabinet organ was used.
In 1890 head of the Botany Department and newly appointed head of the Agricultural Experiment Station Frank Lamson-Scribner published Fungus Diseases of the Grape and Other Plants and Their Treatment, the first book on the subject of plant diseases published in the United States.
The first play in the Clarence Brown Theatre, which opened in 1970, was Look Homeward Angel.
Markus Woelfel was one of the three recipients of the Portz Scholars Award in 1997 for his senior honors project “The War of Ink and the Internet: The Zapista Rebels in Mexico and the Electronic Revolution.” Three Portz Scholars are annually named by the National Collegiate Honors Council from among all United States undergraduate honors … Continued
In 1931 the Vols were passed over for a Rose Bowl invitation following the invitation committee’s attendance at the Tennessee vs. Kentucky game that ended in a tie. The Vols did accept a postseason invitation to play New York University in Yankee Stadium on December 5. The game was arranged by the Knoxville Community Chest … Continued