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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Jan. 20, 1953
Smell Agitated 'Shack' Construction
By SHIBLEY PIATT
BY SIMONE HAYT A smell agitated the construction of the old journalism "shack" back in 1884.
Students complained about terrible odors from the chemistry department which caused Fraser, or University hall, to reek. There was an additional problem of limited space, and University officials realized the necessity of moving the department of chemistry from the building.
The 70-year-old building has been used by the Schools of Pharmacy, Medicine, and Journalism. The chemistry department moved in, in January 1884, after the board of reents and the Legislature gave the University $12,000 with which to build and equip a new chemistry building.
Dr. E.H.S. Bailey, former chemistry professor, complained that when the building was completed, all the money had been spent and there was nothing left for equipment. Desks and other apparatus were brought from the old rooms in Fraser hall and used until the Legislature met and appropriated
funds to equip the building.
In 1885 the basement of the chemistry building was excavated. Rooms were finished and used for laboratories and lecture rooms by the School of Pharmacy, organized that year at the University.
Some prominent scientists who received their early chemistry training in the building were Dr. E. C. Franklin, professor of chemistry at Stanford university and president of the American Chemical society; W. S. Franklin, professor of physics at Rollins college, Winter Park, Fla., and V. L. Kellogg, zoologist.
Before 1900 the chemistry department had become so large that the building was inadequate. The lecture room was overcrowded and the laboratory classes had to be divided and worked in short periods. Classes in chemistry had to be distributed among Fraser, Snow, and Blake halls.
A new building was completed in 1900, and both the School of Pharmacy and the chemistry department moved from the "shack" to their present building. The old chemistry building was then used for laboratories of histology and human anatomy. It was called medical hall.
In 1911 the journalism department was organized and given the southeast room in the basement of Fraser hall. It was not until 1923 that the last medical class moved out and the journalism department had complete control of the building. The name then was changed to the Journalism building.
Two frame additions soon were erected on the west side of the building to accommodate the growing journalism department. Even the additions could not fill the need for space as the department expanded and became a school.
First KU Theater Institute To Be Conducted March 6,7
Last year the School of Journalism moved into the. remodeled Eowler shops. Since then the old journalism "shack" has been used for extension classes. Keith Lawton, administrative assistant to the chancellor, said there are no definite plans for future use of the building.
Buildings and Grounds men are in the process of removing the wooden sections of the shack, which were declared a fire hazard.
Plans are now underway for a community theater institute, the first of its kind to be held at the University, which will be conducted here March 6 and 7, Dr. John Newfield, director of University Theater, said today.
Sponsored by University Theater and the department of speech and drama, the institute will commemorate International Theater month. This is the fourth year this event has been observed in the U.S.
One prohibitive factor in the formation of community theaters has been the expense of getting a professional director, Dr. Newfield, director of the University Theater, said. He is formulating plans whereby drama graduate students would be sent out on field trips to assist in play productions.
"The theater in the United States is at the moment in a very definite process of decentralization." Dr. Newfield said. He pointed out that the country is too large for a single theater, so there must be regional projects.
He stressed that the institute will be of an extremely practical nature. The role of University Theater in
the development of community theater, Dr. Newfield said, will be:
1. Stimulating interest in the formation of new community theaters;
2. Being the "guiding spirit" in the artistic and literary level of those programs;
3. Being a place where these community theater groups can turn to for help.
A dinner in the English room of the Union building, March 6, will feature Henry J. Haskell Jr., foreign editor of the Kansas City Star, talking on "Curtain Going Up." Afterwards the group will attend a performance of "An Inspector Calls" which the University Theater will then be presenting.
On Saturday, March 7, members of the institute will visit an exhibition on the international theater in Watkins library.
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