1921

The College of Agriculture, later renamed in honor of George H. Cook, opens.

1922

The traditional rivalry between the freshman and sophomore classes gets out of hand when, at the Cross Keys Inn in Rahway, the sophomores try to crash the freshman banquet by battering the doors down with a six-foot-long cypress timber. They are repulsed by jets from the fire department's hoses, but townies help mount a new attack by pelting snowballs molded around railroad ballast through the windows. By the end of the night, the sophs have demolished the inn, snake-danced their way through a show at the town's theatre, made off with equipment, uniforms, and hats of the police and firemen, and torn apart the Rahway rail station. The next day, the freshman and sophomore classes contribute $5 a head to pay damages and offer their apologies to the citizenry of Rahway.

1923

The Campus News reports that the holes in the bedroom doors at the new women's college are there so the matron can make sure the girls keep "on the straight and narrow."

1924

Rutgers College officially becomes Rutgers University.

1928

The Holland Society of New York presents Rutgers with the statue of William the Silent that stands in Voorhees Mall. Contrary to campus myth, Willy's purpose is to symbolize the University's ties to the Dutch Reformed Church, not to whistle at passing virgins.