| Jun 23 1890 | In response to "a widespread sentiment among Yale graduates in favor of some systematic endeavor to increase the resources of the University," the Corporation voted "to establish a fund to be known as an Alumni University Fund." |
| May 25 1891 | Publication of the first number of the Yale Alumni Weekly. |
| Jun 24 1891 | The degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts conferred for the first time. |
| Oct 1891 | The first number of the Yale Law Journal published. |
| 1892 | The Corporation accepted the Act of the General Assembly authorizing the name of Yale University. |
| Mar 3 1892 | The Corporation voted that "beginning in the fall of 1892, the courses of the Graduate Department with the degree of Ph.D. shall be open to candidates without distinction of sex." |
| May 1892 | Publication of the first number of The Yale Review, succeeding the New Englander and Yale Review 1886-1892. George P. Fisher, George B. Adams, Henry W. Farnam, Arthur T. Hadley, and John C. Schwab comprised the editorial board. |
| Apr 21 1893 | The General Assembly passed an act making the Storrs Agricultural College the land grant college of Connecticut. Damages amounting to $154,604.45 were paid to the University and became part of the permanent funds of the Sheffield Scientific School. |
| Nov 13 1894 | The Corporation voted that the Department of Music be ranked as a separate school, the School of Music. On June 27 the degree of Bachelor of Music had been conferred for the first time. |
| Oct 18 1899 | The first non-clerical President, Professor Arthur Twining Hadley, inaugurated. |
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