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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…

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…

By the turn of the century students were well on their way to following traditions and consecrating ceremonies set down in the early years of the institution. Nola's scrapbook encapsulates four years of student life between its covers. Nola was a…

The Observer of Nature was the first of many student publications. Even though it originated from the Natural History Society it "claimed in no way to be strictly scientific." Prof. Snow served as the corresponding secretary.

First sorority established at the University of Kansas.

First established fraternity at the University of Kansas.