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Thursday, July 1, 1976
University Daily Kansan
1876: Bad times.
By SUE WILSON
Staff Writer
Mount Oread hasn't always been the landmark, doubled woods it is today.
A century ago, in the year of the nation's Centennial, the ridge between the valleys carved by the Wakaraus and Kaw rivers was windswept and treeless. Grasshoppers plagued the crops in the valleys while stray cattle munched on the hill's prairie grasses.
The hill rose from encircling farm lands and peered in the city of Lawrence almost a mile.
A PROFESSOR'S turnip patch on the eastern slope of Mount Oread had survived grasshoppers and stray cows only to be vandalized by pranksters in the spring. The student newspaper was sure the culprits were diffuse riffles and not University students.
In 1876, the University of Kansas was 10 years old. Atop Mount Oread two buildings, called simply the Old Building and the New Building, housed classrooms and laboratories for the 300 students who paid $10 to $20 tuition.
Three years earlier, in 1873, when the University graduated its first four students, Chancellor John Fraser delivered his commencement address from Mount Oured and praised its "tranquil and diversified" pastoral beauty.
THE WISCONSIN professor hired to replace Fraser arrived in Lawrence on a hot summer day in 1874. He took one look at the University, perched on a bleak, treeless hill shaded only by clouds of grasshoppers, moving him to his home by cool. Wisconsin lakes.
His successors were less romantic.
The next replacement, Chancellor James Morris, arrived in the fall of 1874. By then, he was a minister to King George IV.
Barry Shalinsky, Lawrence PBC representative, said the commission didn't sponsor any organized activities in this area recommencing the nation's 200th Birthday.
Group to honor Fourth of July without festivity
The Kansas People's Bicentennial
Celebration will celebrate the
Bicentennial by not celebrating
them.
He said the PBC was opposed to the many commercial activities linked to the bicentennial. Instead, he said, the PBC studies American history on a broader scale than most of our present-day problems and to try to solve community "headaches."
"We don't have anything planned," he said. "I think that everything is on a local basis, whatever the local groups in the other towns want to do."
On a national level, the PBC is trying to mobilize people in Washington, D.C., and across the country.
The PBC is based on community groups focusing on local problems. A group in Emporia and a group from the Johnson County National Convention in August as a nonviolent "creative presence." The Emporia group wants to protest the planned building of a nuclear power plant near Burington. The group's members are sounded by the Johnson County PBC.
John Schleerman, another member of the local PBC, said the Lawrence organization was idle now that students had left for the summer.
He said the local PBC would have a hard time competing with the many other activities in Lawrence celebrating the four-day bicentennial weekend.
"It's probably more fun to party than to protest," he said.
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cumbered to cooler weather. The cattle, however, were settling in to their winter
"The new University grounds, beautifully located and an extent in lie exposed as common pasture for stray cattle," Miller told the state legislature.
encing out wandering cows had to be delayed for three years, however. The immediate problem was finding shelter for 300 students.
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The townpeople, faculty and the Board of Regents began a two-year search for funds at a time when drought and grasshopper storms powered state resources. Money was scarce.
In 1876, the search ensured. The last appropriated $1,000 to finish the New Building.
Ice
the rooms were not plastered, and a number of windows were boarded up.
BUT THE hardships of the preceding years were not forgotten. Instead, they became a reality, and it is with them that we reflect.
By December of that year, the Kansas
University RU$ student newspaper,
reported that 38% of its readers were
kansasians.
"Wherene we (Kansans) do not outstrip the world in crops of corn, wheat, and the blessings of life, we do in grasshoppers, drotches and the curses of life," the Collegiate said. "In a word, we are bound to be preeminent in one line or another."
Kanass Centennial display had "excellled all others of like nature," the newspaper said.
cows hit the Hill
In the years that followed 1876, Mount Oread began to yield its rugged bleakness.
Settlers got a bang from Fourth
By CORA MARQUIS
Early Kansas Fourth of July celebrations
were little in number with our present-day
memorials.
"We fired a swivel at sunrise in honour of the day," he wrote, "and continued our voyage," which was up the Missouri River toward what is now Aitchison.
The first Fourth of July in what is now Kansas occurred in 1848. Earlier travelers and settlers often hung up many times Spaniards, and had little interest in an American celebration of independence. Others in the area were more aware that they took small notice of the event.
Clark wrote that they dined on corn and named two creeks in honor of the day:
Patrick Gass, of the Lewis and Clark exploring party, wrote about the day in his diary, part of which was reprinted in a 1939 Kangas 'Historical Quarterly.
In 1804 the United States had begun exploration of the recently acquired land, now Kansas, which was part of the Louisiana Purchase, William Clark and Meriwether Lewis, early explorers of the region, and John Day in July near present-day Aichion that year.
Independence Creek and Fourth of July, 1804, Creek, now called White Clay Creek.
That night they camped in a deserted Indian village, they closed the day with another discharge from their weapons and "an extra gill of whiskey," wrote John Ordway, another member of the Lewis and Clark party.
Travelers in the region followed this first observance and sometimes kept the anniversary by firing salutes, raising the flag, feasting on buffalo and allowing themselves an extra shot of whiskey. For those not inclined to drink, there was an occasional meal about the discovery of America. Sometimes there was a special prayer service.
One unusual Fourth of July celebration occurred at Fort Leavenworth in 1855. A visiting Englishman, the honorable Charles Ponsonby, served as the gun salute and a feast with Mádera wine and champagne. But when 150 Pawne Indians arrived at the fort and 12-14 chicks joined the gentlemen in after-dinner wine jugs, the Englishman was taken back
After feasting, the soldiers sang and invited the Indians to join. The Indians rose together and let forth a shrill cry that roars "in full chorus of mingled yell and how!"
At twilight the Englishman jumped on his horse to "gallop off the effects of wine, too."
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