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Wednesday, August 16, 1995
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
...and the
University now
On Sept. 12, 1866, The University of Kansas opened its door there was only one building in the school's beginning-for the first time.
Tuition for preparatory classes was $10 a session, tuition for college classes was $30 a year and clergymen's children were admitted into the school at half price.
Lawrence was expanding quickly toward the west, symbolic of the
United State's movement West at that same time period. The town still was recovering from Quantrill's 1863 raid of death and destruction at the end of the Civil War.
Three years later, many townspeople pushed the Kansas Legislature to establish Lawrence as the first university town in Kansas.
The first permanent building erected on the Hill was University Hall. It rose from the grounds in
front of where Fraser Hall now stands. More buildings were added as funding permitted.
Top: This aerial view displays Jayhawk Boulevard as it leads toward the east from the Chi Omega fountain on the left of the picture. The view also shows Budig Hall under construction in the middle of the photograph.
The result of these early settlers' efforts now sits overlooking all of Lawrence and beyond. Since then, Lawrence and KU have ballooned across the pastures were farms once stood.
Many of the old buildings have been razed, but the founder's legacy lives on.
Don Whipple / CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Right: This picture of Mount Oread 128 years ago is barren of any University buildings. The photograph of Oread's western slope looking south was probably taken from a point that would be just east of Memorial Stadium and close to Mississippi Street. The Campanile now sits on the Hill above the right end of the fence in the foreground.
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