• Irish poet, William Butler Yeats, wins Nobel Prize in Literature. (1923).
• Hitler is sentenced to five years in prison where he writes Mein Kampf; he is released after five months.
• There is widespread Ku Klux Klan violence in the United States.
• One third of Tokyo is destroyed by an earthquake.
• Bessie Smith, known as the Empress of the Blues, makes her first record.
• George Gershwin writes Rhapsody in Blue.

College of Engineering Dean Littie, 1923 (1923 GEMS).
Louis Boas, BS 1924 (junior class photo), d. unknown. (1923 GEMS)

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