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First sorority established at the University of Kansas.

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.

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…