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First sorority established at the University of Kansas.

These glass bottles and tubes came from Professor Bailey’s laboratory in Bailey Hall. One has a partial label that reads “Sample of Helium(?) Natural Gass. Analyzed(?) in Kansas. From Iola, Kansas. Bailey and Cady” Cady is professor Hamilton P. Cady…

The first female professor, taught French language and literature.

Edgar H.S. Bailey, professor of the Department of Chemistry, was one of KU's most illustrious scientists. He wrote more than a hundred articles and books during his forty years at KU. He was especially interested in preventing the adulterations of…

Hannah Oliver, a survivor of Quantrill's raid, earned her A.B. in Latine from the University in 1874 and was a faculty member from 1890 until 1931 when she retired at the rank of Associate Professor.

Early in September 1877, twenty year old Lewis Lyndsay Dyche drove a covered wagon with a friend to Lawrence to enroll as a student at the new university. They set up camp near the site where Spencer Art Museum now stands and lived there until the…

Beloved teacher and renowned scientist, Francis H. Snow rose from the ranks of the faculty and was chosen as the fifth chancellor. During his tenure from 1890 to 1901, the University reorganized, the endowment was association was created, the first…

Miles Wilson Sterling was a professor of Greek and a Kansas alumnus of 1880. Included in this small volume are chapters on the history of the University, student life and the reminiscences of David Hamilton Robinson, one of the first three members of…