Until the 1870 Tennessee Constitution was adopted, the governor did not have veto power over bills passed by the General Assembly. Governor DeWitt Clinton Senter, governor from 1869 to 1871, enacted the first Tennessee gubernatorial veto to preserve the designation of Tennessee’s land-grant university to a single institution—UT. Representatives from Middle and West Tennessee had … Continued

The Landscape Architecture Program, which welcomed its first class in 2008, offers three degrees: the master of landscape architecture professional degree, the master of arts in landscape architecture, and the master of science in landscape architecture. The program is jointly offered by the College of Architecture and Design and the College of Agricultural Sciences and … Continued

In fall quarter 1949, the Romance Languages Department offered its first phonetics laboratory as an aid to pronunciation of words. Records were played giving the correct pronunciation of words, followed by a pause sufficiently long enough for the student to repeat them. The laboratory was available only to students in introductory language courses, each of … Continued

See Blue Pencil Club; Sigma Upsilon.

In November 2005 the Athletics Department honored the LaPorte family of Elizabethton, Tennessee, and Houston, Texas, by naming the stadium at Tom Black Track LaPorte Stadium. The LaPorte family made substantial contributions to the Athletics Department’s Step Up campaign.

The College of Business began requiring its students to purchase a laptop computer in 2001.

The largest football victory margin was the 1905 defeat of American University 104 to 0. In 1912 Tennessee defeated King College 101 to 0; in 1915 the scores against Carson-Newman College and Cumberland College were both 101 to 0. The 1893 70-0 loss to Duke was Tennessee’s worst defeat.

On March 1, 1958, the UT men’s basketball team played its last intercollegiate game in Alumni Memorial Building, falling to Kentucky 77-66. The next year, intercollegiate competition moved to the new Armory-Fieldhouse (expanded into Stokely Athletics Center). The Lady Vols played their last game in Alumni Memorial on January 14, 1977, defeating Western Carolina 82 … Continued

Latin is the language of the motto of the University of Tennessee.

The Latter Day Saints Student Association has its beginnings in spring 1968, when the Deseret Club was formed as a social and cultural organization of students and faculty affiliated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The first Deseret Club was formed in 1931 in Southern California.