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October - President Taft visits Rapid City, School of Mines students greet him with a "Miner's Yell" [Stymiest, Ruth Anne. "Centennial: An Illustrated History, 1885-1985". 1985, pg. 34]

Guy Ernest March receives Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. [Seventeenth Biennial Report of the Regents of Education of the State of South Dakota to the Governor for the Biennial Period Ending June 30, 1922, Fiscal Years 1920-21, 1921-22, pt. 2, pg. 275]

May - broadcasting license for radio station granted, call letters assigned are: WCAT [Stymiest, Ruth Anne. "Centennial: An Illustrated History, 1885-1985". 1985, pg. 78]

Leighton Homer Surbeck award Bachelor of Science in Metallurgical Engineering. [Eighteenth Biennial Report of the Regents of Education of the State of South Dakota to the Governor for the Biennial Period Ending June 30, 1924, Fiscal Years 1922-23, 1923-24, pt. 2, pgs. 190]

Confirmation is received that Dr. John Hancher , first graduate, would become first 50 year graduate to return to School of Mines. He delivered the Baccalaureate Sermon marking the fiftieth anniversary of his graduation. May, 1968 - President Fraser institutes a new tradition of awarding 50 year certificates, first ones given to the class of 1918 [Stymiest, Ruth Anne. "Centennial: An Illustrated History, 1885-1985". 1985, pg. 120]

June 30 - Regents resolve to remove all High School level courses from Regents institutions and leave the teaching of those course to the High Schools. Regents also resolve that no student shall be admitted to any institution of higher education who has not satisfactorily completed in an accredited high school. Years of completion are Ninth Grade by June 30, 1925, Tenth grade by 1926, Eleventh grade by 1927 and Twelfth grade thereafter. [Eighteenth Biennial Report of the Regents of Education of the State of South Dakota to the Governor for the Biennial Period Ending June 30, 1924, Fiscal Years 1922-23, 1923-24, pt. 2, pgs. 114]

North Central Association of College and Secondary Schools accredits the "Mines" for the first time [Kramer, J. Howard. "Highlights of the History of Public Higher Education in South Dakota". 197?, pg. 234]