This Week In KU History

January 1, 1948: The football Jayhawks (then known as the Jayhawkers), become the first college team from the state of Kansas to play in a bowl game, squaring off against Georgia Tech in the Orange Bowl, and losing in a 20-14 heartbreaker.
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January 4, 1932: Watkins Memorial Hospital is officially opened in what is now present-day Twente Hall.
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January 6, 1981: In the opening moments of a home game against Stephen F. Austin University, KU Women’s Basketball phenom Lynette Woodard sinks a shot from the top of the key that gives her total of 3,206 career points and moves her into sole possession of the AIAW career scoring record.
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January 7, 2002: Kansas Alumni marks the 100th anniversary of KU alumni journals, an enterprise that began with the 1902 appearance of the Graduate Magazine and, in total, represents the University’s longest-running continuous publication.
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January 13, 1916: As World War I rages in Europe, KU Chancellor Frank Strong publicly opposes the idea, championed by former US Army General Leonard Wood, of instituting compulsory military training in American universities.
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January 13, 1925: In his first official act, newly inaugurated Kansas Governor Ben Paulen directs the State Board of Administration to reinstate KU Chancellor Ernest H. Lindley, who had been removed from office three weeks earlier by outgoing state Governor Jonathan M. Davis.
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January 16, 1912: The University Daily Kansan becomes the first college daily newspaper in the Sunflower State.
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January 19, 1910: KU hosts the first National Conference of Schools of Journalism, featuring a keynote address by Arthur Brisbane, chief editorial writer for the Hearst newspaper chain.
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January 24, 1942: The KU Endowment Association announces acquisition of the house that will become Jolliffe Hall, a building that will serve variously as a residence hall for undergraduate men and women, and be slathered in lime green paint for much of its existence.
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January 28, 1910: J.W. Glead, a member of the Kansas Board of Regents, sparks a campus wide debate when he proposes abolishing KU’s participation in intercollegiate football until agreement is reached to play the game under “civilized rules.”
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January 30, 1894: KU Chancellor Francis Huntington Snow announces that he will give a series of University Extension lectures on evolution, a move that provokes much criticism from local religious leaders.
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January 31, 1916: KU Senior Kenneth Pringle returns to Lawrence from his trip to Europe aboard Henry Ford’s “Peace Shop,” an idealistic but ultimately preposterous attempt to end World War I.
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Compiled by H.J. Fortunato
University of Kansas

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