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Week In KU History
September 11, 1924: Watson Library opens for student
use.
September 12, 1866: First day of classes at the University
of Kansas.
September 12, 1996: Fifty years after creating the
"smiling" Jayhawk image that helped pay for his
KU education, Harold "Hal" Sandy is honored by the
University with a parade on Jayhawk Boulevard.
September 14, 1926: Elizabeth M. Watkins begins building
her philanthropic legacy to the University of Kansas with
the opening of Watkins Scholarship Hall, named in honor of
her late husband.
September 15, 1969: Inauguration of E. Laurence Chalmers
as KU chancellor marks first such event that uses the ceremonial
mace and collar.
September 16, 1918: Over 2,500 men line up outside
Green Hall (present-day Lippincott Hall) to register for the
Student Army Training Corps as the University of Kansas attempts
transforming itself into a "war institution."
 September
17, 1904: The Semi-Weekly Kansan, forerunner of today's
University Daily Kansan, makes its campus debut.
September 17, 1951: Franklin D. Murphy, dean of the
KU Medical School, is inaugurated as chancellor of the University
of Kansas.
September 18, 1969: The KU Student Senate meets for
the first time.
September 18, 1998: Strong Hall becomes the fourth
KU building to merit a listing on the National Register of
Historic Places.
September 19, 1960: Dr. W. Clarke Wescoe inaugurated
as KU's 10th Chancellor.
September 22, 1939: Deane W. Malott, associate professor
of business at Harvard, becomes the first native Kansan and
KU graduate to be inaugurated as chancellor of the University
of Kansas.
Compiled by H.J. Fortunato
Department of History
University of Kansas
Photos courtesy University of Kansas Archives
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Week In KU History" is going online Fall 2002.
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