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Week In KU History
August 5, 1997: KU Chancellor Robert Hemenway
adds the final touches to the University's current campus
plan.
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August 19, 1992: The Daily Kansan notes "Nearly
every class that has attended the University of Kansas
since the 1920s will have a different memory of the
Kansas Union. Since its placement at its present site
in 1924, the building has been under constant change
and remodeling."
August 20, 1903: KU establishes its first chair
in journalism.
August 21, 1863: Confederate guerrilla leader
William Clarke Quantrill leads his infamous raid on
Lawrence, sacking the town and leaving its surviving
residents without financial resources to help support
the establishment of KU.
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the full story.
August 2, 1997: The fossils of two spectacularly
preserved 150-million-year-old Camarasaurs, excavated
during a summer-long dig in Wyoming, arrive on a flatbed
truck at the Jayhawk Boulevard entrance to the Natural
History Museum in Dyche Hall.
August 24, 1981: Dr. Gene Budig is inaugurated
as KU's 14th chancellor.
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August 29, 1883: After a series of controversies,
the KU Board of Regents accepts the resignation of Chancellor
James Marvin and elects Joshua A. Lippincott as his
replacement.
August 31, 1895: The Kansas State Accountant
charges that KU faculty salaries are too high and that
the school is trying to compete with Yale and Harvard
even though the financial condition of the state cannot
afford it.
Compiled by H.J. Fortunato
University of Kansas
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