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Women's gymnastics class in Robinson gym.

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

L-R standing: J. Bassett, Hattie Ayres, May Gardner, Genevieve Howland Chalkley, Grace Colwell, Jeannette Wheeler; seated: Madge Bullene, Anna Drake, Edith Snow, Louise Towne, Grace Poff.

Spooner reading room, north wall.

Snow Hall of Natural History opened in 1886 and was named even before its completion for Francis H. Snow. In addition to a lecture hall and laboratories the building housed four museums for geology, zoology, entomology and anatomy. After it was no…

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…

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…

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…