University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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Al l S- JAMIE! MARVIN. A. W. OLIVER THE UNIVERSITY. CHANCELLORS OF The first Chancellor of the University of Kansas wa A. W. Oliver, elected in 1863. During his ehancellorship a final decision was niade bythe Legislature fNOVCllllJC1' 2, 18631, as to lhe location of the University at Lawrence. North Col- lege, the lirst college building, was completed by the middle ol' September, 1866. In July ol? the saine year the lirst Faculty was elected, and in the following September the first session opened. Chancellor Oliver resigned in 1867. General John Fraser, President of the Agricultural Col- lege of l'ennsylvania, was elected Chancellor of Kansas Uni- xersitlv and .l'resident ol' the Faculty in 1867. The Main Build- ing, or as it is more recently called, Fraser Hall, was built i 1871. General l raser resigned his position as Chancellor April 15, 187-1. Janies Marvin, of Meadville, Pa., was the third Chancellor of the University. l-le was elected November 19, 1874. ln October of 1878 the liaw School was opened with thirteen stu- dents under J. W. Green, now Dean of the Law School. The Chemistry Building was erected, and the University grounds were graded and planted with young trees. Plans looking to the discontinuance of the l'repa1'ato1'y ill0P2l1'tIl10llt, which had been maintained up to this time, were inaugurated. In 1883 ' ' esigned. A ' . Chance s Rev. n llor Mai vm 1' X LIPPINK' J. 1 . JOTT. JOHN FRASER.

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31-p V Y, ,F-1 V -if ff ff ru. 3... 2, -.:..Ti:f-I. -' ' U f 'M 'J' fl N7 Topeka. In 1861, the Episcopal Church took up the work, the Territorial Legislature cl1a1'tered.a.11m.K institution to be called the Lawrence University of lggsas, but again the at- tempt was a failure. - 'By act of the admission of Kansas into the Union, ap- proved January 27, 1861, the W d11fl0ttC 011 of 1.859 became the Constitution of the new State,gand this provigd for seventy-two sections ef land to be set aside and reserved 'Q-i , I ' - ' id support of a State University. The Governor's ..: W - - M: i -,. -.....- ......,... ...,...-....-.- lature in 1866. l our thousand dollars was set aside for the eompensation of teachers, and three thousand dollars for the purchase of scientific and philosophical apparatus, library and furniture. The first Faculty was elected in July, 1866. Mr. lx lil. J. Rice was instructor in helles-lettres, me11tal and moral science, Mr. D. H. Robinson, professor of languagesg and Mr. F. H. Snow, professor of mathematics and natural seienee. l'rofessor Robinson was President of the Faculty. The first -Chancellor was R. W. Oliver. He was not considered a mem- proelamation declaring the institution permanently located at ' - - 1-9 , SQ . All liawrenee was made November 2, 1863 The Legislature ot .lg K 1 . . . n 6-1 Jassed a law to or fanize the Universit f. The first Board 5 J of lsegents was appointed ,M r h 2 186-1. On September 6. 1865, the City Council of Lawrence granted the grounds on Mount Oread for the site of the University, on condition that the Regents have a building completed and a school organized by January 1, 186 7T Noifth College was built f ber of the board, and his services were given without remuner- ation. Upon his resignation in 1867, the Board of Regents resolved to make the Chancellor President of the Faculty. Tulenty-sixfyoungwonien and twenty-nine young men were Y admitted the first year, and as they were all found inadequately prepared to enter upon a collegiate course. the University re- X329 splved itself for this first year into a preparatory selgggl i thi second year, one hundred and twenty five students WCI' 92-6g 1866, by means gf the collected interest fro 1 Y - . l enrolled, of whom two were in the collegiate course. Lawrence fund, and other money gathered here and there by U , b 1 I ' f , - rom 'us effinninff las 'frown in tlirt'-fivam: my the Regents., At last, on the 12th of September, 1866, the first , , ,t ,tl ,tb D I In , ' I 3 l Maul our . F - 8 , lniv-rsi. ll we H . .- - ' ' .- 'gps i 4,1 - session Opened, and the plan which had b . ., b N 'yi W1 S sown M loo Q, ltd tw J 'l 'g', its dwlnllag 9 . 1 8 . , -iflt l :lt , -8 l fore by Mr. Lawrence was in operation. The first appropria- -U51 mu 'y mombud ii ff, 'tion for the support of the institution was made by the Legis- ' X 0 -- ff 0 Q fd! A: l l l W . l --'-N 'S Q.. 1 -2 f?0 r 5 . e. I s , 4 V' i - J A .1 , . cf.. 4 ,fl J.. ... ,,,...,:. ..... -, i.,....,,.-I ' L- .... ,,. .,....- .... -.-...,... Ar. ,

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1-ffm be . , ' v V 2- X ff! L 0 F6 3 . . '7 5 XV gilt? f fa, J oshua Allan Lippincott, professor of nat lemalfies at Dick- inson College, Pennsylvania, 'was elected Chancellor in 1883. llurine the elianeellorship two 11ew huilclinifs were erected., C za Snow Hall. and a new engine-house. In 1885 the School ol. Pharmacy was opened under Lucius E. Sayre, of 1,llll2ltlCl1lllll1. 'l'Iie llepartinent olf Music and Art was more completely or- ganized. Chancellor Lippincott resigned in 1889! g. ,, Dr lfraneis 1-l. Snow was elected Chancellor in the lpl- lowing year. lluring his aclniinistratiou the University has grown steaclily in all directions. The Faculty has increaserl from thirty-two to seventy-eight members, and the enroll- ment of students has grown from five hundrecl and five to elexgn llllllQl'Cll,QDl-l six 'ive new buil1ling's have been erected, two by the State and three as gills by incli.viCluals. ,ln i891 the School of Ilflngim-ering was organizecl and the Col- legiate llC1l2ll'illll'Illl became known as the School ol' Arts. Dur- ing the same year the l.'reparalory Departlnent was discontin- uefl, and the Departments ol' lllusic and Art were conibinefl to form the School of Fine Arts. The Graduate School was or- ganizecl in 1896, anrl in 1899 the preparatory meclical course, whiz-li haul been oll'ererl in the Uollegiate Department since 1880, was extenflecl into a regular nleclical course, constituting the work of the School of lllerlieine. The institution has become a university in fact as well as in name, and it holcls an enviable positiolipamongv the universities of the country. CHANCELLOR SNOW ,, , --.,,..,.-L 3 1