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Week In KU History
March 1, 1955: The dedication of KU’s Allen Field House takes place on the night of the basketball Jayhawks’ only home conference victory of the 1954-55 season. Read the full story.
March 8, 1965: The KU Civil Rights Council holds a student sit-in in the office of Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe. Read the full story.
March 11, 1886: Ferdinand Fuller, designer of the first building at KU and a member of the original party sent to Kansas by the Emigrant Aid Society of Massachusetts, dies at his home in Lawrence. Read the full story.
March 11, 1893: The Kansas Legislature authorizes $50,000 for the construction of a new physics and electrical engineering building, a striking structure resembling a French chateau now remembered as “old” Blake Hall. Read the full story.
March 18, 1960: Nearly 4,000 KU students pack Hoch Auditorium to protest the resignation of Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy following a long-simmering conflict with Kansas Governor George Docking. Read the full story.
March 19, 1886: Lewis Lindsay Dyche accepts a KU chair in anatomy, physiology, and taxidermy. Read the full story.
March 20, 1935: The worst “Dust Bowl” dust storm hits Lawrence, shrouding the town and the KU campus in darkness by 2 p.m. Read the full story.
March 25, 1912: The campus power plant steam whistle begins marking the end of each hour’s classes. Read the full story.
March 26, 1952: The University of Kansas men’s basketball team wins its first NCAA national title. Read the full story.
March 29, 1878: Chancellor James Marvin leads the first concerted “campus beautification” campaign at KU, a joint student-faculty effort on Arbor Day that culminates in the planting of more than 300 trees on Mount Oread and sets the stage for the development of present-day Marvin Grove. Read the full story.
March 29, 1972: KU celebrates Carrie Watson Day, honoring the University’s longest-serving professional librarian. Read the full story.
March 30, 1925: First issue of an unofficial, purportedly “radical” student newspaper called The Dove, which would generally be printed on pink paper. Read the full story.
Compiled by H.J. Fortunato
University of Kansas
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