The financing of the renovations placed Tiger Inn on the firm financial footing it would need to survive the Great Depression.

Funded entirely by the club's alumni, the expanded facilities include a new dining hall and improvements to the spaces normally reserved for social events.

[12] Tiger Inn is a selective club, meaning membership is awarded after successful completion of a process called bicker.

Tiger Inn's membership was once described by F. Scott Fitzgerald in This Side of Paradise (1920) as "broad-shouldered and athletic, vitalized by an honest elaboration of prep-school standards."

In a 1927 essay on Princeton for the magazine College Humor, Fitzgerald elaborated: "Tiger Inn cultivates a bluff simplicity.

"[14] Fitzgerald's comments were written during his time at Princeton University, when the membership of each of the Eating Clubs was male only.

While Cottage chose to coeducate during the intervening years, Ivy Club and Tiger Inn were forced to become co-ed organizations in 1991, after their appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court regarding Frank's lawsuit was denied.

[15][16] The New Jersey Supreme Court had ruled in Frank v. Ivy Club that the failure to open membership to women violated the state's anti-discrimination statute.

[22] The full membership of the club, including all living alumni, have met four times to commemorate anniversaries of Tiger Inn.

The centennial celebrations were concluded by the subsequent publication of the second club history entitled The Tiger Inn of Princeton, New Jersey, 1890–1997.

In February, 2016 The Tiger Inn marked its 125th anniversary with a dinner held at the Westin in Princeton, followed by continued celebrations at the clubhouse.

The three TI members were Robert Garrett, Herb Jamison and Frank Lane; they were joined by Princetonian Al Tyler, who also medalled.

John DeWitt competed in the 1904 St. Louis games; he was joined there by A. M. Woods, who earned a silver medal.

TI members who served as Princeton Football Head Coach include Garrett Cochran, Arthur Hillebrand and Robert Casciola.

TI Members have also served as Head Coaches of Football at Annapolis, Berkeley, Bowdoin, Georgetown, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, among other colleges.

Charlie Gogolak and Cosmo Iacavazzi are two prominent TI members who became professional football players.

Through the club's history Tiger Inn members have also featured prominently in other collegiate sports in which Princeton competes.

In 2012 the Princeton men's squash team won the National Collegiate Championship powered by the performances of three Tiger Inn members.

During his illustrious career Spence has served as dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business[26] and is presently chairman of the Commission for Growth and Development.

Tiger Inn alumni have served many universities, including Princeton, as faculty members and as non-faculty instructors and administrators.

[30] Will Garwood continues to serve Princeton as vice chairman of advisory board to the James Madison Program [31] On June 12, 2012, Robert J Hugin was elected a Charter Trustee of Princeton University [32] Tiger Inn's members have been active in literature and the arts.

Classics Professor John Fine wrote several books, including The Ancient Greeks: A Critical History.

[33] H K Twichell wrote Regeneration in the Ruhr: The Unknown Story of a Decisive Answer to Communism in Postwar Europe.

[34] Henry Owsley is co-author of the leading book in his field, Distressed Investment Banking: To the Abyss and Back.

Several members of the Tiger Inn have served the United States as uniformed officers of its Armed Forces.

Senator John Danforth ranks as the senior-most elected politician as an Active Member of the club while a Princeton undergraduate.

He served the GHW Bush administration on the PCEQ (presidential commission on environmental quality) and on the advisory board to the US Trade Representative.