Students travel in the best of Rigs, and they get them of TOOTHAKER.
The State University.
We below republish a portion of the history of the K. S. U., which appeared in our columns some weeks since, adding considerable more information as to its regulations, etc. We desire that all be thoroughly posted on its management and general welfare.
In 1859, April 11, an institution of learning, bearing the name "THE UNIVERSITY OF LAWRENCE," was opened in the city of Lawrence, under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church. Rev. William Bishop, A.M., was president; C. L. Edwards, principal of Academic and Normal departments; Rev. Charles Reynolds, associate instructor. The Presbyterian Board of Education contributed $2,000 toward the erection of a college building. Contributions from citizens enabled the trustees to lay the foundation of the building on Mt. Oread now known as North College. Financial embarrassment compelled the suspension of work on the building, and led to a new organization under the control of the Protestant Episcopal church. A new charter was approved by the legislature for "Lawrence University of Kansas." January 9, 1861. Amos A. Lawrence, of Boston, had placed $10,000 at the disposal of the city, toward "the endowment of a school of high grade," on condition that a like amount be secured from other donations. Contributions from various sources enabled the new trustees to prosecute the building enterprise, so as to inclose an edifice fifty feet square, three stories high and containing eleven rooms, well adapted for school perposes.
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
was located in the city of Lawrence by formal act of the legislature of the State, in 1863. It was endowed in part by Congress, in the setting apart and reserving for its use, of seventy-two sections of the public land. The city of Lawrence also secured to the State forty acres of land for a campus, and all rights and interests in Lawrence University. Thus THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS has an intimate historical association with the University of Lawrence, one of the earliest, if not the earliest educational enterprise in the State.
The first meeting of the board of regents, fourteen in number, as constituted under the legislative act of March 1, 1864, was held in the city council rooms at Lawrence, March 21, 1865. Members present: Solon O. Thacher, Charles Robinson, James S. Emery, George Paddock, Daniel P. Mitchell, Isaac T. Goodnow and R. A. Barker. Rev. R. W. Oliver was appointed chancellor, and arrangements were made for the opening of a preparatory school, as soon as the citizens of Lawrence should provide suitable rooms for the same free of expense to the State. With those above named, J. D. Liggett, C. B. Lines, C. K. Holliday, E. M. Bartholow, T. C. Sears, W. A. Starrett and Joseph L. Wever, constituted the first board of regents.
FIRST STUDENTS
From the report of the first session, it appears that full tuition was $10 per term; that $331 was received from 39 students; and that a number not named in report were admitted free, under the law providing for "the orphans of deceased soldiers, and
those made so by the Quantrell raid." The total number on catalogue for the school year 1866-7 was 55, viz: 26 males, 29 females—all in the preparatory department.
NEW BUILDING.
The question of a new building had been agitated by the board of regents, and several plans proposed, both for procuring means and for architectural construction. The chancellor's report, Dec. 7, 1870, brought this subject very prominently before the public, and on February 3, 1871, the citizens of Lawrence "voted with great unanimity" $100,000, to be appropriated toward the construction of a new University building. The regent's report for 1872 credits the city of Lawrence:
Estimated value of building and site ... $30,000
Estimated value of site for second building 40,000
Amos Lawrence fund transferred ... 10,000
Amount voted by the city for a new build-
Total given by the city of Lawrence ... $180,000
The legislature of 1872 appropriated $50,000 towards the completion of the new building. With this sum all of the halls and rooms were plastered, and those in the north wing on first and second floors were finished. Apparatus for heating the whole building by steam was also put in place, and the new apartments were occupied in the fall of 1872. During the fall of 1877, an appropriation of $5,000 was expended in finishing fourteen additional rooms, and the sum of $10,000 was applied during 1877 in finishing the audience room and principal corridors of the building. University hall was formally opened on the 22d of November, 1877.
The legislature of the State, at its session of 1883, authorized the board of regents to make use of a surplus ($8,000) of interest remaining in the State treasury, to the credit of the University, in the construction of a building for the use of the department of chemistry, and in addition made an appropriation of $4,000 to complete its outfit. This work was accomplished during the summer and autumn of 1883, and the department of chemistry moved into its new quarters in January, 1884.
BUILDINGS.
All of the University buildings are constructed of native limestone, quarried in the immediate vicinity. North College is fifty feet square, three stories high, contains eleven lecture rooms, and stands near the center of a lot of ten acres within the city limits. The main building is 246 feet in extreme length, 98 feet wide in center, wings 62 feet each, main audience room 94 feet long, 56 feet wide. There are 54 rooms in the building, all designed for the work of instruction. In the north dome may be found a complete outfit of apparatus in constant use for taking weather observations. In the natural history rooms of the south wing are the cabinets of geology and mineralogy, and more than 100,000 specimens of beasts, birds, insects and plants, largely representing the animal and vegetable life of the great Mississippi valley. The south rooms of the basement and of the first floor are devoted to the department of physics.
The library occupies the west room of the south wing on the first floor; and near it, on the same floor, are the departments of English and of history and political science. The north
wing is given to languages and the mathematics. The center is occupied by the regents' room, office, cloak rooms, and University hall.
The new chemistry building stands at a short distance southwest from the main building. It is constructed upon the most approved plans, and furnished with all needful appliances for instruction. It is in the form of a T; the main building, extending east and west, being eighty by thirty-five feet, and the L north of this forty square. The main laboratory and lecture room are finished to the rafters, and all rooms on the main floor are provided with additional light and abundant ventilation by skylights. The ground floor rooms are twelve feet in the clear, and well lighted. These are occupied by an assay room, with crucible and muffle furnaces, and complete apparatus for the fire assay of ores; and also by laboratories for blow-pipe work.
The east wing of the main floor, which is fourteen feet to the eaves, is occupied by a lecture room, seated in amphitheatre style, and capable of accommodating one hundred students. In addition to the usual ventilating apparatus, the plan includes flues in the wall, connected with hoods; and hoods in the center of the main laboratory, which are ventilated by glazed pipes, terminating above the roof.
All the rooms are heated by steam and are supplied with gas, and with running water. The laboratory is for students in qualitative analysis, has over 25,000 cubic feet of air space, and will accommodate fifty-four students, each supplied with cupboards, sets of re-agent bottles and other necessary apparatus.
ENDOWMENT.
Prof. Snow's Collections.
During the past eighteen years annual appropriations have been made by the legislature for instruction and various other expenses of the University. Of the 46,000 acres of land with which the United States had endowed the institution, 29,597 acres had been sold prior to April 1, 1880. At the session of the legislature in 1879, the prices previously fixed upon these lands were reduced 25 per cent., the rate of interest on deferred payments changed from 10 to 7 per cent., and the time extended from 10 to 26 years, conditioned on payment of one-tenth down, and the remainder in nineteen installments with annual interest. These conditions resulted in the immediate sale of by far the larger part remaining of the University lands. The entire principal from the sale of these lands is paid into the State treasury and invested by the State board, interest alone being available for the current expenses of the institution.
Since the first opening of the University as a State institution, 2,937 students have been enrolled. The attendance has included both sexes in very nearly equal numbers, and no difference has been made in the course of study on account of sex.
The cabinet collections in Prof. Snow's natural history department now contains upwards of 100,000 specimens, illustrating chiefly the departments of botany, zoology and geology. These collections have been greatly increased during the past three years by the voluntary contributions of the exploring parties in
NUMBER OF STUDENTS.
western Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico, in charge of the Professor of Natural History. By means of the material thus accumulated, a system of exchange has been established with leading institutions and naturalists in all parts of the United States, so the cabinets contain a very satisfactory representation of the plants, insects, birds, minerals and fossils, not only of the State of Kansas, but also of the whole of North America.
The Herbarium includes upwards of 3,000 species of plants, permanently protected from distruction by vermin, and systematically arranged for convenient examination by students and visitors. The method and arrangement is substantially the same as that adopted by Professor Asa Gray at Harvard University.
The Entomological collection contains more than 10,000 species, representing all the different orders of insects. The instruction in this department has special reference to the discrimination of the beneficial from the injurious species, and the extensive collections are of practical value to the agricultural and horticultural interests of the state, as well as to the students of the University, in the determination of the names and the habits of our insect friends and foes.
The Onithological cabinet comprises upwards of 1,200 specimens of birds, belonging to 500 different species. These specimens are carefully protected in moth-proof cases. A portion of them are unmounted skins, furnishing ample material for laboratory study when fresh specimens cannot readily be obtained.
An alcoholic collection of marine Radiates, Molusks and Articulates from the Atlantic coast affords to the zoological student the means of investigating the anatomical structure of the leading forms in all the great "types" of the animal kingdom.
In the Conchological cabinet [are included nearly 1,000 species of shells from all parts of the world. This cabinet has been enlarged by the receipt of several hundred species from the "John Milton Earle collection," at Worcester, Mass., obtained in exchange for Kansas specimens.
The Mineralogical and Geological cabinets contain upwards of 10.000 specimens, chiefly from Kansas and Colorado. A typical collection of the characteristic rocks and fossils of all the geological formations is constantly accessible to students in this department. Many valuable additions to these cabinets have been received from the Smithsonian Institute.
Patronize those who patronize you.
D.F.BIGELOW
Pure, fresh and reliable, and prices moderate. A fine assortment of Tolsti Articles.
DRUGS.
G, M. FALLEY,
107 Massachusetts Street,
(Successor to Klock & Falley)
Restaurant and Confectionery
Day Board $3.50 per Week,
Palace Skating Rink
Kentucky Street.
F. D. COSLEY, PROPRIETOR
Patronize those who patronize you.
H. W. HAYNE
Watchmaker and Engraver,
63 Massachusetts Street.
J. S. CREW & CO,,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Books and Stationery AND ARTISTS' MATERIALS.
University Students will find a complete stock of
TEXT-BOOKS
And Supplies for School use AT LOWEST PRICES.
135 Mass St., LAWRENCE, KAN.
First-class Work at Moderate Charges.
DR. F. H. WILSON,
DENTIST,
THE STUDENTS' FRIENDS.
BRADLEY & GROSS,
BARBERS,
134 Mass. St.
Go there for Tonsorial work.
The Merchants' Bank,
Cor. Mass. and Warren Sts.
Takes Student's Deposits, will cash Drafts, and does a general banking business.
R G JAMESON Cashier
R. G. JAMESON, Cashier
Dealer in Hard and Soft Coals
At J. M. Wood's Grocery.
Office: 141 Massachusetts St.
MILLARD & COOPER'S
Billiard Parlor
THE ONLY FIRST-CLASS PLACE IN THE CITY.
Fine Imported and Domestic Cigars.
No.60 Mass. St., LAWRENCE, KAN
JAS. W. GREEN.
Attorney at Law.
National Bank Building.
CHEAPEST PLACE
TO BUY
Text Books AND STATIONERY
18 AT
FIELD & CO.'S
University Bookstore
99 Massachusetts St.