Minnie McIver Brown became the first woman elected to the Board of Trustees.

Helen Guthrie Miller, first vice president of the National American Woman's Suffrage Association, was the first female commencement speaker.

The Curry School graduated its first class.

The General Assembly in Raleigh, North Carolina voted to appropriate to the College $500,000 for improvements and $125,000 annually for maintenance. After President Julius I. Foust returned from Raleigh, students marched to his home to thank him.