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Unprecedented Banquet Welcomes 1902 Chancellor
The eyes of educators from coast to coast turned to Kansas in mid-October 63 years ago for what may have been the most elaborate inaugural in American university history.
In 1902 KU had lured Frank Strong from the presidency of the University of Oregon to succeed retiring Cancellor F. H. Snow.
A three-day inaugural was planned and engraved invitations were sent to educators across the nation. The response surprised even the most hopeful.
Universities and colleges responded by the score, ranging geographically from President Benjamin Ide Wheeler of the University of California to President Arthur Hadley of Yale. All the Ivy League schools but Dartmouth were represented.
OCTOBER 17 WAS the major day of the three-day fete. A special train from Kansas City arrived in mid-morning with a contingent of KU alums and several Kansas City members of the Yale Alumni Association, who acted as a special escort for President Hadley.
"Upon arrival," a Kansas City newspaper reported, "all the visitors entered carriages and were driven at once to Mt. Orcad."
They were greeted at the university by a cheering student body of 1,100. The students formed in procession at Snow Hall and marched to the new natural history building (Dyche Hall), where the inaugural was conducted.
Students had been preparing for the event for months and the interior of the building was ablaze with the colorful emblems, many of them electrical, of the classes, fraternities, and other organizations.
Yale's Hadley presented a major address on the mission of universities. Strong, a Yale alumnus, in the inaugural response, said there "must be one large university in the state adequately equipped and supported to do work that is as advanced and exhaustive as that of any state university in this country."
"THEE MUST BE," the new chancellor continued, "the library and laboratory facilities, the differentiation of departments and the specialization of instruction necessary for the most advanced and specialized courses.
"It is certainly out of the question that this advanced work be not done in a state as important and as desirous of advancement as Kansas," he said.
The next day a lecture, recital, science demonstration, and a concert by the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra in the afternoon preceded a marathon banquet so long it forced some of the scheduled speakers to leave early. Even with the absentees, there were 26 speeches.
season Dean Briggs of Harvard noted that the usual rivalry of the great universities faded into harmony at such events as Chancellor Strong's inaugural.
KU and Yale cheers and toasts were frequent.
AN ORIGINAL sketch by a newspaper cartoonist at the inaugural of KU's Chancellor Frank Strong in October, 1902, depicts Regent Scott Hopkins delivering the charge to Strong in Dyche Museum. At a marathon banquet the following night 26 speakers paraded to the rostrum.
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