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"When this week's papers informed me that you now were Chancellor of Kansas University, I had a feeling of regret that so good a teacher and so earnest an investigator had been asked to become a manager as well. But when I rememberd that Jordon of…

The diary mainly consists of drafts of a petition dated November 1864 to be sent to Lt. General Harder "in behalf of the federal officers confined in this military prison, hereby respectfully submit in protest against the treatment which we have…

Starting at left are Spooner Library, Dyche Hall and Museum of Natural History, Green Hall, Fraser Hall, Blake Hall, Snow Hall, Bailey Hall and the Fowler Shops.

He was intimately involved with the establishment of the University serving on the first Executive Committee and the first Board of Regents. He had also been the first Governor of Kansas and was elected to the Kansas State Senate.

Small scrapbook with newspaper clippings from the first commencemnt program including valedictory exercises. "At the appointed time the juniors being drawn up in due array, were confronted by Miss Flora Richardson, who discoursed them in a serious…

Ephemera from the commencement including the program for the Grand Concert given by the Full Band of the Fifth U.S. Infantry, a ticket for the Commencement Banquet on June 11, and a ticket for a reserved seat on Class Day June 10, 1873 in the new…

Published by Authority. Lawrence, Kansas: "Kansas State Journal" Steam Press Print, 1863. The act to locate the State University was approved by Governor Thomas Carney on February 20, 1863.

Pictured here in the 1903 Jayhawker yearbook is Lela B. Ford and Inez E. Wood. They are among the earliest African Americans to have their photos in a KU yearbook.

The KWIR BOOK was the annual of the class of '96--"The earth we'll move, The stars we'll fix--Rock Chalk, Jay Hawk! Class of Ninety-Six!" The contents are printed on the title page "A Kwir Book, with a dedication, introduction, preface, and appendix,…

Women were actively involved in sports including tennis, basketball, and swimming and learned to fence under the tutelage of James Naismith.