University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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BOARD OF REGEXTS. CHANCELLOR FRANK STRONG Lawrence Ex Ofilcio. Hox. THOMAS M. POTTER Peabody Term expires, 1905 Hox. ALEXANDER C. MITCHELL Lawrence Term expires, 1905 Hox. CHARLES N. CONVERSE Burlington . . . .Term expires, 1905 Hox. SCOTT HOPKINS Horton Term expires, 1907 Hox. FRANK C. CROWELL Atchison Term expires, 1907 Hox. THOMAS W. BUTCHER Wellington Term expires, 1907 OFFICERS OF THE BOARD. CHAXCELLOR FRANK STRONG President, Ex Ofiicio THOMAS M. POTTER V ice-President FRANK G. CROWELL Secretary ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS. THE UNIVERSITY. FRAXK STROXG, PH.D., Chancellor. WILLIAM H. CARRUTH, PH.D., Vice- President of the Faculty. WILLIS K. FOLKS, Secretary and Purchasing Agent. GEORGE O. FOSTER, A.B., Registrar. EDWARD E. BROWX, Stenographer and Clerk. WILLIAM H. JOHXSOX. A.M., High School Visitor. EBEX F. CROCKER, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds. THE SCHOOL. FRAXK W. BLACKMAR, PH.D., Dean of the Graduate School. EPHRAIM MILLER, PH.D., Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. FRAXK O. MARVIN. A.M., Dean of the School of Engineering. TAMES W. GREEX. A.M., Dean of the School of Law. CHARLES S. SKILTOX, A.B., Dean of the School of Fine Arts. Lucius E. SAYRE, B.S., PH.M., Dean of the School of Pharmacy. CLAREXCE E. McCLUXG. PH.D.. Acting Dean of the School of Medicine. WILLIAM H. CARRUTH. PH.D., Director of the Summer Session. THE LIBRARY. CARRIE M. WATSON, A.B., Librarian.

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HE Class of Nineteen-Four has completed its course. In a few days the places that knew it before shall know it again no more forever. Its members may occasionally return, but they will do so only to wander like forsaken spirits through memory-haunted halls. Its mantle is about to fall upon younger shoulders, and it remains for other hands to carry to completion the work it has begun. The class has witnessed the entrance of the University upon a period of remarkable progress, and has always tried to play well its part in Uni- versity affairs. In passing, the ' 04 JAYHAWKER is left behind to be added to the annuals of other years as a record of its attempt to do something worthy of remembrance. The Annual Board has done its best. The book is yours, gentle reader, with greeting and best wishes from the Class of Nineteen Hundred Four.

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History of the University of Kansas. By Dr. F. H. Snow. [HE founders of the commonwealth of Kansas made provision in the Constitution for a State University which should be the crown of the free public school system and should open its doors to properly qualified students, without discrimination of race, politics, sex, or religion. The public school system of Kansas begins with the pri- mary grades of the towns and cities and the district schools of the rural sections and proceeds in orderly sequence through the grammar grades and the high school grades to the State University. The official beginning of the University of Kansas must be considered as having occurred on the ist day of March, 1864, when the legislative act of organ- ization, having been approved and signed by Governor Carney, was made a law by its official publication. THE FIRST BUILDING. The first university building, called the North College, was erected at a cost of about $20,000. It was brought to completion early in September, 1866, the carpenters putting the finishing touches to the stairway on the morning of the opening of the University, on September 12. At the dedication, Judge Solon O. Thacher delivered the principal address, and formally dedicated the building to the use of impartial, patriotic, and Christian education.