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Facts about the Decade of 1890s
 

1891 - The memorial window was completed. Chancellor Mayes resigns. 

1892 - Robert B. Fulton was appointed chancellor of University by Board of Trustees. Election of all alumni officers changed to annually.

1893 - Football introduced to the University by Professor Alexander Bondurant. Bondurant is also credited with suggesting the school colors of crimson red of Harvard and Yale blue. The first summer school was instituted.

1895 - The Alumni Scholarship Fund was established.

1896 - The first student yearbook named The Ole Miss published. The Alumni Loan Fund was established.

1898 - Class gift was a roughly hewn block of stone and scroll near the old library.

1899 - Compilation for the fiftieth anniversary was published. Class gift was a stone tablet on the wall of the foyer of the old library with their names inscribed on it. St. Anthony Hall, first fraternity house in Mississippi, built.