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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…

The 1893 football team with the first African American player Edward Harvey. An all-around athlete, he also played on the 1890 and 1891 baseball team.Edward had two brothers, Frederick Douglas Grant, and Sherman Alan, who were also athletes at the…

Group portrait of the faculty for the 1890 school year.

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…

Portrait of Flora Richardson from around the time of her graduation from KU.

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.

Two short-lived traditions at the University were festivities centered on May Day. According to Robert Taft in his book The Years on Mount Oread, the Maypole scrap between freshman and sophomores first occurred May 1, 1891. This riotous and often…

Professor Snow, far right, is shown in this photograph with his students in July 1889 on one of his many collecting expeditions in Estes Park, Colorado. In that class were William Allen White (far left) and Frederick Funston (framed in doorway).…