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Rear portion of Main building completed. [Eighth Biennial Report of the Regents of Education of the State of South Dakota to the Governor for the Biennial Period Ending June 30, 1904, Fiscal Years 1902, 1903. pg. 20]

December - President Slagle resigns, accepts Presidential appointment to the Agricultural College in Brookings. [Ninth Biennial Report of the Regents of Education of the State of South Dakota to the Governor for the Biennial Period Ending June 30, 1906, Fiscal Years 1904, 1905. 1906, pg. 8, 125, 202] (Slagle was also President at USD, his appointment there began in 1914.)

January 1 - Dr. Charles H. Fulton appointed President [Ninth Biennial Report of the Regents of Education of the State of South Dakota to the Governor for the Biennial Period Ending June 30, 1906, Fiscal Years 1904, 1905. 1906, pg. 8, 125, 202]

May - a new fence is constructed around part of the grounds, cost is $275. Work was also done by the students to start lawns. [Ninth Biennial Report of the Regents of Education of the State of South Dakota to the Governor for the Biennial Period Ending June 30, 1906, Fiscal Years 1904, 1905. 1906, pg. 127-128]

April 17-18 - Regents suspend the intercollegiate schedules of the South Dakota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference for the duration of the war. [Twenty-Seventh Biennial Report of the Regents of Education of the State of South Dakota to the Governor for the Biennial Period Ending June 30, 1942, Fiscal Years 1940-41 and 1941-42, Transmitted to the Legislature at the Twenty-Eighth Biennial Session, 1943. pt. 163]

April 1-2 - School to terminate lease of the Mess Hall Building to the United States Geological Survey effective June 30, 1955. [Thirty-Fourth Biennial Report of the Regents of Education of the State of South Dakota to the Governor for the Biennial Period Ending June 30, 1956, Fiscal Years 1954-55 and 1955-56, Transmitted to the Legislature at the Thirty-Fifth Biennial Session, 1957, pg. 113] April 1-2 - President authorized to proceed with college employees to dismantle the old Mess Hall Building as soon as weather will permit without interference with the USGS in their use of leased space prior to June 30, 1955. [Thirty-Fourth Biennial Report of the Regents of Education of the State of South Dakota to the Governor for the Biennial Period Ending June 30, 1956, Fiscal Years 1954-55 and 1955-56, Transmitted to the Legislature at the Thirty-Fifth Biennial Session, 1957, pg. 113]

April - Chemical/Chemical Engineering building ready for occupancy [Stymiest, Ruth Anne. "Centennial: An Illustrated History, 1885-1985". 1985, pg. 103]