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November 5, 1905: KU formally dedicates the original Green Hall as home of the School of Law. Learn more.

November 6, 1909: Quarterback Tommy Johnson runs his way into Jayhawk immortality with a 70-yard punt return for the only score in a KU gridiron victory over Nebraska. Learn more.

November 7, 1891: US Cavalry horse Comanche dies. Once considered the sole American survivor of the Battle of Little Big Horn, the preserved remains are now on display at the KU Natural History Museum in Dyche Hall. Learn more.

November 7, 1969: In what will be the final crowning of a Homecoming Queen, KU awards the tiara to Janet Merrick, a senior from Shawnee Mission. Learn more.

November 8, 1909: Carnegie Foundation researcher Abraham Flexner visits the KU School of Medicine, compiling data and making observations for his influential exposé titled Medical Education in the United States and Canada. Learn more.

November 14, 1896: With less than a minute to go in a football game at McCook Field between Nebraska’s Doane College and the University of Kansas, Bert Serf, a member of the visiting team, suffers a fatal injury while making a touchdown-saving tackle. Learn more.

November 15, 1946: Male students begin moving into makeshift quarters underneath the east-wing stands of Memorial Stadium, an emergency post-World War II housing arrangement known as McCook Hall. Learn more.

November 18, 1968: KU head football coach Pepper Rodgers announces via telephone to a crowd of 1,000 students gathered in front of Strong Hall that the Jayhawks are bound for their second Orange Bowl appearance. Learn more.

November 18, 1971: Responding to campus radicalism and slashed state education budgets, a KU group called Students Concerned About Higher Education in Kansas publishes a bold advertisement that asks “WOULD YOU VOTE TO ABOLISH THE UNIVERSITY?” Learn more.

November 20, 1967: KU unveils preliminary architectural plans for its new humanities building, later named Wescoe Hall, a 25-story skyscraper that would be the tallest building in Kansas. Learn more.

November 21, 1914: Lawrence widow Lenora Ricker Hollingberry dies, leaving a last will and testment that calls for the establishment of a low-cost residence for women that will become an ad-hoc addition to KU's student housing stock for more than two decades. Learn more.

November 22, 1939: The University Daily Kansan records the passing of Hobo Day, an often rowdy “annual festival of rags” in which KU students dressed in hobo costumes to show school spirit and cause “a great deal of unnecessary trouble.” Learn more.

November 30, 1893: KU’s football squad squares off against its bitter rivals from the University of Missouri in the first Thanksgiving Day game between the two schools, inaugurating an 18-year tradition in which the Jayhawkers would dominate the Tigers. Learn more.

November 30, 1932: The state architect declares Dyche Hall structurally unsound, resulting in the closure of KU’s Natural History Museum for nine years. Learn more.

Compiled by Henry Fortunato
University of Kansas

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