This Week In KU History

February 10, 1899: Jayhawks beat the Topeka YMCA basketball team 31-6 in KU's first home game, which also ranks as the squad's first winning game and second game in its history.

February 15, 1934: A KU committee begins finding part-time jobs paying between $10 to $20 per month for 350 Depression-era students under the College Students Employment Project (CSEP) of the Federal Relief Administration

February 19, 1857: Kansas Territorial Governor John W. Geary signs a bill passed by the Territorial Legislature that calls for the establishment of Kansas Territorial University in Kickapoo, Leavenworth County, not Lawrence.

February 19, 1917: KU mourns the death of soldier-adventurer Frederick Funston, whose failure to graduate did not prevent him from achieving widespread - albeit fleeting - fame.
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February 19, 1962: KU Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe announces plans to raze the original Fraser Hall, then the University's oldest building.

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