University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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O A BAQCKWARD GLANCE. Kansas University is one of the youngest of the greater col- leges, but it' looked at from the standpoint of those plans from which her organization has been evolved, she is much older than history would make her. For Kansas University is the outgrowth of hopes and plans that existed years before there was any possibility of their realization. Long before Kansas became a State, there was inaugurated a movement of which our liniversity was the ultimate result. The people who set- tled Lawrence were very far from being established in their homes when they began to turn their attention to the question olf education. At that tiiiie,jn,,tl,Le-iiew' and wild, 1uie1ilti3ga,Led levi-itory ot Kansas, they had no means for the supp 5-hools, and no lmxsdgovernmgfeducatlmm llitlflllfi But in the East there were many pecgle who were interested in the 5 brave struggle ol' the new Territory, and among these were some whose attention became engaged in the question of schools. solution of the problem. He was a Boston gentleman ot' means and high culture. In 1856 he made a gift of notes, amounting to twelve thousandfsix hundred and ninety-six doll s Egiigrant Aid Society, the income of which was to be used for educational 1Dll It was his wish that a Free State Col- lege should be founded, and he even designated the situation of this College. According to his suggestion, the work of lay- ing a foundation for a school-building was begun on the north- fl+ ern part of Mount Oread, but owing to the difliculties apd dangers, strugflesa ' ' indu Y ' ' sin those days, the work was abandoned. After this, attempts were made by three different Churches to carry on the work according to Mr. Lawrenceis plans, and in one ease, the 'Fer- ritorial Legislature granted a charter to Lawrence University, a board of trustees was appointed, several chairs were estab- lished, and a preparatory sehool was opened, but even then the project failed. This was in 1859, under u1Lll1flI1EtQ0lll0l1t4Qf mos A. Lawrence, one of the founders of the New Eng- the Presbyterian Chureh. Latgqg, the Congregational Church land Emigrant Aid Iimeidtw, and ajpersonal fiend of manv of took the matter up, but their plans ehanoi 0- tlnw first. settlers in ' their efforts was the establishing of Washburn College, at