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 This
Week In KU History
 June
1, 1894: KU's Lewis Lindsay Dyche leaves New York
for the North Pole as official naturalist on the ill-fated
Cook expedition.
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June 1, 1939: Elizabeth M. Watkins, a former
KU student and generous benefactor to the University,
dies and bequeaths her home to the University for use
as the Chancellor's residence, provides endowments for
Watkins Memorial Hospital, Watkins and Miller Halls,
and donates thousands of acres of Kansas farmland to
KU.
 June
2, 1917: KU gains the William B. Thayer art collection,
valued at $150,000.
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June 3, 1895: Publication of the first issue
of the Kansas University Weekly.
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the full story.
June 4, 1948: In an interview with the Kansas
City Star, University Chancellor Deane W. Malott praises
WWII veterans attending KU on the GI Bill, calling their
campus presence "stimulating" and noting that
they are "purposeful, willing to work, eager to
learn, and patient under the crowded and sometimes ineffectual
facilities of present-day university life."
June 5, 1911: A Commencement regatta and other
aquatic athletic events mark the completion of Potter
Lake.
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June 6, 1872: In a paean to what would become
known as Old Fraser Hall, the Fort Scott Daily Monitor
notes "there is no structure on the American continent,
erected for educational purposes, equal to this in size
or usefulness for the purposes of higher education."
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June 6, 1917: Former US Secretary of State and
perennial Democratic presidential candidate William
Jennings Bryan delivers the KU commencement address.
June 7, 1921: Inauguration of KU Chancellor
Ernest H. Lindley, formerly president of the University
of Idaho and a professor of philosophy and psychology.
June 7, 1927: KU Endowment Association accepts
its second endowed fund, a donation of $3,848.19 memorializing
KU alum and professor William Herbert Carruth that will
fund poetry prizes for KU students.
June 8, 1930: Present-day Snow Hall is dedicated,
replacing the original Snow Hall that had fallen into
disrepair.
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 June
9, 1924: KU unveils a full-length bronze statue
of Law School Dean James W. "Uncle Jimmy"
Green sculpted by Daniel Chester French.
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the full story.
 June
11, 1873: Twenty-three year old Flora Richardson
delivers KU's first valedictory address on her way to
becoming the University's first female graduate.
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the full story.
June 13, 1895: Solomon Miller, editor of the
Kansas Chief and a longtime opponent of KU blasts the
University "assuming the airs of an aristocratic
dictator, independent of the people, above them, aspiring
to rule them."
June 14, 1890: KU Chancellor Francis Snow receives
an honorary degree from Princeton University for his
work in combating insects that plagued Great Plains
farmers, an achievement that makes him "the only
man who ever acquired that degree over the dead body
of chinch bug," according to the Wichita Eagle.
 June
15, 1991: Lightning strikes Hoch Auditorium, causing
a fire that reduces the 64-year-old campus landmark
to ruins in less than four hours.
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the full story.
 June
16, 1875: In his inaugural address as KU Chancellor,
James Marvin urges American universities to chart a
different educational course from their European counterparts.
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Compiled by H.J. Fortunato
Department of History
University of Kansas
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