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

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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. ,