1901
Professor of Physics Francis C. Van Dyck (RC 1865) is appointed the first dean.
1903
Fire strikes New Jersey Hall,. Most of the Hall's valuable collection is saved, but the building is damaged and requires restoration.
1906
William H. S. Demarest, the only alumnus to serve as college president, is inaugurated on Commencement Day.
James Neilson (RC 1866) donates land to Rutgers that is now called--perhaps unfairly--Voorhees Mall.
1909
Rutgers sends its first Rhodes scholar to Oxford.
