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Portrait of the Class of 1895 taken on the steps of Old Snow Hall.

With a sweep of the pen the University of Kansas came into being at the first meeting of the Kansas Board of Regents on March 21, 1865. Members present were S.O. Thacher, Charles Robinson, J.S. Emery, G.W. Paddock, D.P. Mitchell, I.T. Goodnow, State…

Address of the Honorable S. O. Thacher at the dedication of the State University, Lawrence, September 12, 1866. Solon Thatcher, a lawyer from Lawrence, was a member of the first Kansas Board of Regents that signed the University into being on March…