'The Devil's Backbone'
KU turns to beauty
By NORMA ROMANO Those who come to KU for the first time will probably be interested in knowing that this campus, regarded as one of the
most beautiful in the Midwest, was, a century ago considered desolate and barren and often referred to as "The Devil's Backbone."
Ten churches band for summer meetings
By ROGER MEZGER
Inter-denominational religious discussions, open to all those in the University community, will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Sundays in the University Lutheran Church at 15th and Iowa streets.
Throughout the summer the general theme adopted by the program is "Individual Responsibility in the Corporate Society." Sunday's initial discussion concerns the role of the little man in society and the moral decisions he must make.
The discussion series got its start as a project of the local chapter of the University Christian Movement, which is currently being organized nationwide.
Robert J. Friauf, professor of physics, and Ross E. McKinney, professor of civil engineering, will be the discussion leaders and will keep the ball rolling.
For the past three or four summers all religious services have taken place in one building, but only because there was ample room. This is actually the first attempt to bring students of all faiths into one distinctive program.
Churches active in the University Christian Movement are: Episcopal, United Church of Christ, Presbyterian, Lutheran Church of America, Missouri-Synod Lutheran, Methodist, Roman Catholic, Quaker, and the Disciples of Christ.
Russian institutes held in Ellsworth, Russia
By PAM WARREN
The Russians have not invaded Ellsworth Hall, it is only the students who are here for the summer program.
Special bell recital set for Monday
Ennis Fruhau of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., will be guest recitalist on the University of Kansas World War II Memorial Carillon Monday at 8 p.m.
Although young, he earned the bachelor of music degree with distinction in organ performance from the University of Michigan this month. Fruhauf already has been a guest recitalist on the bells in Washington, D.C.; Ann Arbor, Mich.; Ames, Iowa; Chicago; and Delft and The Hague in Holland.
He has been a pupil of Percival Price, carillonneur and professor at the University of Michigan.
Fruhau was organist-carillonneur and piano teacher at Culver Military Academy last summer.
After the KU recital, Frauhauf will go to Chicago to play for the regional convention of the American Guild of Organists.
The students receive four hours of instruction daily for ten weeks and speak Russian or Polish in the halls. When they are ready to leave, they should be able to converse with one another in Russian or Polish and also be able to understand the language as it is spoken to them.
Thirty-two students are enrolled in Russian speaking classes with six other students studying Polish.
A summer program, which is held in Leningrad, Russia, is also offered to students who hold twenty completed hours of course work in Russian.
In the Slavic area, students are studying the history of Russia.
The Slavic and Soviet area studies offered at KU include History of Russia, Political Science and Slavic languages—Russian and Polish.
Forty-two students of third, fourth and fifth levels in Russian are enrolled. They left on June 13 and will return to the United States on Sept. 5. During this time the students will study Russian and tour parts of the Soviet Union. On the return trip, students may separate and spend two weeks touring Europe until their departing time for the United States.
KU and Colorado University work together in this program with financial help given to students in need of it through state and federal scholarships.
Ninety years ago a farmer living a mile Southwest of Mount Oread had a vision that now materializes every year into a beautiful display east of new Fraser Hall.
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IN ITS PRIMITIVE state the hill was not a thing of beauty. It provided a viewpoint from which to observe one of the "most charming landscapes in the world," as attested by such an artist and traveler as Bayard Taylor. But the hill itself, was a bleak ridge rising abruptly above the level of the confluence of the Kaw and the Wakarusa.
It was completely free of trees and its barren surface was so desolate that travelers passing it a century ago referred to it using such epithets as the "Devil's Backbone."
During the Civil War, this barren land was selected as the campus for a future university of Kansas. The university opened in September, 1866 with a faculty of three and a student enrollment of forty. There was no landscape architect to embellish the campus. The educational processes of KU continued for 12 years without any attempt to beautify the grounds.
IN THE SPRING of 1878, Joseph Savage took the initiative in beginning a landscaping service which has resulted in the present attractive appearance of the campus.
Savage's only connection with KU was his friendship with Chancellor James Marvin and his daughter, a member of the enrolling class of 1866. Savage was disturbed by the bare aspect of the hill as viewed from his nearby farm. Accordingly, he collected along the Wakarusa and brought in a wagon of small trees.
Later on, Savage had cut and rooted scion of lilac bushes that were growing at his country home. These were planted in a row along the east side of the campus in front of Old Fraser Hall.
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