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The legislature which meets at Topeka next Wednesday will have to grapple with the two leading questions of prohibition and railroad legislation. Let us hope that the welfare of higher education as represented by the University appropriation bill will not be neglected in the agitation of these matters.
The members of the legislature especially a Kansas legislature—we believe will always look carefully to see that education, the corner stone of a republic, shall be promoted.
--been in existence but two years, and has done an incalculable amount of good among our young men. The work is carried on entirely by the students. A spirit of self help is aroused which brings to each member a sense of his responsibility. More good work is done by thus stirring up the dormant spirit of resolution and action than by almost any amount of passive reception of theological doctrines. The success of the Y. M. C. A. in the University effectually refutes the insinuations of ignorance that State Universities are infidel.
Kansas is preeminently an agricultural state. All citizens are interested in whatever pertains to the development of those studies and sciences which will benefit the farmer, the stock man and those dependent upon them. The natural sciences are practical and useful. They are essentially Kansas sciences. Almost in no institution in this country—and certainly in none so young—has this department of science taken such an advanced position, or done better work than in the State University. It has outgrown the quarters assigned to it, and now appeals to the legislature to provide such accommodations as are suitable for such a department of such a State.
The Young Men's Christian Association is one of the prominent organizations of our University. It has
The University is for the people of the whole state, and in it are found students of nearly all creeds, each pursuing its particular theory or doctrine, and each gaining strength from contact and familiarity with the other. The Y. M. C. A., entirely non-sectarian, unites all in its work, and yet leaves each to its particular church and creed.
History of the State University.
To those unacquainted with the early history and struggles of the State University with its subsequent progress, we give the following condensed details:
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 for 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 should 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 purposes.
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
was located in the city of Lawrence by formal act of the legislature of the State, in 1864. 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 W. 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 accommodation for the same, free of expense to the State. With those above named, J. D. Ligett, 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 FACULTY.
The first Faculty of the University was elected July 19, 1866. Professor Elial J. Rice, A.M., to the Chair of Belles Lettres, Mental and Moral Science; Professor David H. Robinson, A.B., to the Chair of Languages; Professor Frank H. Snow, A.M., to the Chair of Mathematics and Natural Science; and salaries were fixed at $1,600 per annum. Albert Newman, M.D., was appointed Lecturer on Hygiene and Medical Science. Professor Rice was chosen President of this Faculty, December 5, 1866: Chancellor Oliver having formally presided in opening the school, September 12, in the college hall.
Rev. R. W. Oliver resigned the Chancellorship, and was succeeded by Gen. John Fraser, A.M., elected December 4, 1867. The Regents also decided that the "Chancellor is ex officio President of the Faculty," and that the Chair of Philosophy and Belles Lettres should be placed in his care.
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, December 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 first 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 building ... 100,000
but given by the city of Law-
given by the city of LAW
rence ... $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 1876, an appropriation of $5,000 was expended in finishing fourteen additional rooms, and the sum of $10,000 was applied during 1877 in furnishing the audience room and principal corridors of this 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 was moved into its new quarters in January, 1884.
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
BUILDINGS.
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 this building, all designed for the work of instruction. In the north done 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 Regent's 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 the rooms on the main floor are provided with additional light and abundant ventilation by sky-lights. 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 amphitheater 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 intended for students in qualitative analysis, has over 25,000 cubic feet of airspace, and will accommodate fifty-four students, each supplied with cupboards, sets of re-agent bottles and other necessary apparatus.
ENDOWMENT.
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 20 years, conditioned on payment of one-tenth down, and the remainder in nineteen equal 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.
NUMBER OF STUDENTS.
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.
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