This Week In KU History

August 8, 1938: Under pressure from civil rights leaders and Kansas Governor Walter Huxman, the Kansas Board of Regents votes to prohibit the de facto practices that had prevented African American students from completing their medical education at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. Read the full story.

August 12, 1924: With no other candidates willing to take the job, Dr. Harry R. Wahl, professor and department chairman of pathology, is named acting dean of the KU School of Medicine, inaugurating a 24-year period that will become known as "The Wahl Years." Read the full story.

August 13, 1959: The University of Kansas announces that demolition of Locksley Hall, one of the most unusual living arrangements on the KU campus, will be completed by September 1, 1959. Read the full story.

August 14, 1950: The University of Kansas purchases the residence located at 1043 Indiana Street, which will become known as "Varsity House" and serve as a dormitory principally for KU football players during the 1950s. Read the full story.

August 16, 1946: KU formally announces that the Kappa Sigma fraternity house will cease its temporary wartime function as a women’s dormitory known as Tipperary Hall.
Read the full story.

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. Read the full story.

August 24, 1894: Dr. Simeon Bishop Bell, a Wyandotte County physician and real estate speculator, offers KU $75,000 in land and money to build a new hospital and medical college in present-day Kansas City, Kansas. Read the full story.

Compiled by Henry Fortunato
University of Kansas

This Week In KU History is a project of the KU Memorial Unions.
Learn more.

© 2006
University of Kansas Memorial Corporation
All Rights Reserved