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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1951
Thought for the Day
If we don't stand for something, we'll fall for anything.
—John E. Allen.
The Editorial Page-
For Want Of A Building
University equipment is rusting and deteriorating on the Brown estate about two miles southwest of the campus because of faulty storage and lack of adequate University storage space.
The equipment is stored in two brown-stone buildings that were constructed in 1870 and are now falling apart. University officials say they are making every effort to move the material to a protected enclosure. Much of it was acquired in lots as surplus war equipment. In the rotting old dairy barn, four huge electric motors, two air compressors, a multilith address-o-graph machine, and hundreds of chairs have been abandoned without proper care or precaution against thievery.
against the uneven. One end of the roof of this building has collapsed. The second-level floor has partly given away and about one-fifth of the south wall has crumbled to the ground exposing stacks of chairs to wind and rain. The entire building appears ready to collapse into a pile of rubble.
The nearby old grist mill is in better condition. However, in two rooms with no doors on them, more than twenty large spotlights and loudspeakers, beds and other assorted equipment are stored. Since there are no doors, and there is no one guarding the ground, thieves would have no difficulty in carting away whatever they wanted. The buildings and grounds department officials replied "no comment," when asked for an explanation of these conditions.
J. J. Wilson, business manager, said that while the equipment stored in the old barn is of questionable value there is some valuable equipment stored in the grist mill.
"As I recall," Mr. Wilson said, "we inspected the property before Christmas and at that time the doors were in good condition. Much of this equipment was purchased in surplus lots and we didn't have space to store it elsewhere. The old barn will be torn down as quickly as we get to it."
Now that Old Fowler Shops is being remodeled into a new home for the journalism school much storage space has been lost. These conditions point out the need for a large storage building in which adequate care and protection can be given to University equipment when it is not in use.-E. J. C.
The number of patrons of the Union cafeteria has fallen off and some persons think it's because of the drop in enrollment.
What with the protective railing around the huge excavation south of the Union, a sign "No Virginia, there is no railing," would be appropriate.
Rodney Nipnap wonders if the University will claim reparations for the crater next to the Union building.
We wonder if the University campanile will be extended to the sky after the next war.
West Germany feels like an undernourished girl trying to train a huge bear.
"Say Coach, I unnerstan' yer lookin' for a tall center for basketball team."
Old Brown Barn Will Be Razed Historic Old Landmark Was Never Part Of Underground
By MARVIN ARTH
The old buttressed barn, historic landmark about two miles southwest of the campus, is crumbling to the ground. The stone barn, which was built in 1870 at the same time Fraser hall was constructed, is condemned and unfit for use.
University officials made several studies to determine if it could be restored and made safe for use, but found that the cost would be prohibitive.
The barn was originally part of the William Brown estate, which was composed of a sixty-acre tract southwest of the University. This estate was purchased by the University Endowment association in April, 1946.
William Brown was one of the early settlers of Lawrence. He bought the farm southwest of the University in 1860 from the original settler. The buttressed barn was built in 1870 as a dairy barn from rock quarried on the farm. Sometimes after the barn was built the buttresses were added to keep the wall from sagging. It was the first buttressed barn in the neighborhood and farmers came from miles around to see the unusual structure.
From the Oct. 5, 1914 issue of the UDK)
Yesteryears
Common Colds
"Colds are not due to high collars," said Dr. Lice L. Geetz, physical director of women, commenting on the present epidemic of colds and sore throats. "On the contrary, the present low collar worn by women is a cold preventative. It makes women breathe deeply, and the cold air striking the chests brings the blood to the surface, thus stimulating circulation. For my part I hope the women will never go back to the tight high collar threatened by the present trend in fashion."
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Music Examinations Will Be Saturday
The barn was originally 100 feet by 16 feet. The hole which was left when the stone was removed was filled with dirt and the first winter after the barn was completed, the dirt began to shove the barn downhill, so Brown had five buttresses built on the outside and three on the south wall. Later 16 feet were added to the length of the barn.
Music examinations for credit will be Saturday and students who have not yet signed for a time appointment should do so now in the fine arts office. These examinations apply to all new music majors, all new applicants for advanced standing and all new applicants for credit in the College.
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Detroit (U.P.)—Sign at a gas station above a stack of second-hand casings: "Experienced Tires." At a station across the street, another sign: "Unemployed tires. $2 puts them to work."
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Several years ago a windstorm destroyed the northeast and southwest corners of the building, and at the present time it is in very bad shape with most of the roof gone and the walls crumbling. University authorities want to raze the structure because of its present dangerous condition, not necessarily to obtain stone, although if any of the stone is in good condition it will be used.
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Willard Brown, who lives at Illinois and is a son of William Brown, said that a steam engine was installed in the mill as power to grind corn, but the machinery wasn't powerful enough.
Countless stories surround the old buttressed Brown barn, but Sam Eliott, University custodian, said it was never used for anything other than a dairy barn and storage place. He said the barn wasn't built until four years after the Civil War and so the stories about it being used in the underground during the Civil War can't be true.
The old stone building now is being used for storage by the University said Raymond Nichols, executive secretary to the chancellor.
The stone building north of the barn was built later as a grist mill.
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