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During the early years of Basketball at Springfield College, interschool leagues were formed. The teams gave themselves colorful names, such as flappers, cowboys, otters, or, as is shown in this postcard, farmers and mermaids.

Photo is from the KU University Archives, Naismith Biographical file, and is undated.

Blanche K. Bruce is recognized as the first African American to graduate from the University of Kansas. In 1885 he earned his A.B. and was a candidate for an A.M. in 1891 from KU. Bruce was appointed principle of Sumner School in Leavenworth in 1885,…

Coals From Newcastle. Near the end of the 18th century the English replaced the French in Peterborough as the ethnic group to imitate. The English were fewer than the Germans and French and they were almost non-existent in the provinces, that is to…