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Week In KU History
September 1, 1914: Dr. Ralph H. Major joins the KU School of Medicine faculty, becoming both professor and chairman of the department of pathology, and launching a career “that can never be measured in terms any more precise than immense or profound.” Read the full story.
September 5, 1894: Bacteriologist Marshall A. Barber, whose invention of the micropipette will enable him to conclusively prove the germ theory of disease, begins his 17-year teaching career at the University of Kansas and the KU School of Medicine. Read the full story.
September 6, 1905: The new four-year KU School of Medicine begins its first day of classes with a faculty that includes several physician-educators with outstanding reputations. Read the full story
September 7, 1917: Lt. William T. Fitzsimons, a KU alumnus and U.S. Army doctor serving in France, becomes the first American casualty of World War I. Read the full story
September 8, 1880: The first six students enrolled in KU’s one-year “Preparatory Medical Course” begin classes on Mount Oread. Read the full story
September 11, 1924: Watson Library opens for student use. Read the full story.
September 12, 1996: Fifty years after creating the “smiling” Jayhawk image that helped pay for his KU education, Harold “Hal” Sandy is honored by the University with a parade on Jayhawk Boulevard. Read the full story.
September 17, 1904: The Semi-Weekly Kansan, forerunner of today’s University Daily Kansan, makes its debut on campus with the support of faculty, administration and students alike. Read the full story.
September 18, 1950: The Twin Pines Co-op, housing 25 men in a rented Ohio Street home, begins its formal existence in time for the start of the fall 1950 semester. Read the full story.
September 18, 1998: Strong Hall becomes the fourth KU building to merit a listing on the National Register of Historic Places. Read the full story.
September 19, 1941: 1121 Ohio St. becomes the first of four Mount Oread-area men’s housing cooperatives that will bear the name of John Moore. Read the full story.
September 21, 1939: Charter members of the Jayhawk Co-op formally adopt a constitution, establishing their Kentucky Street residence as the first independent cooperative housing arrangement at KU. Read the full story.
September 22, 1938: Genevieve Harman, whose undergraduate efforts on behalf of housing cooperatives will result in a KU women’s co-op residence being named in her honor, albeit with the occasional misspelling, begins her first day of classes. Read the full story.
September 22, 1939: Deane W. Malott, associate professor of business at Harvard, becomes the first native Kansan and KU graduate to be inaugurated as chancellor of the University of Kansas. Read the full story.
September 26, 1949: Following more than two months of heavy labor spent converting a former horse barn into a livable student residence, a dozen KU men move into what will become known as the Hill Co-op. Read the full story.
September 27, 1957: 700 KU students participate in what will be the final Nightshirt Parade, putting to bed a University tradition that stretches back more than half a century. Read the full story.
September 29, 1944: Forty World War II veterans, enrolled as freshmen at KU, refuse to don “freshmen beanies,” thus marking the beginning of the end of this controversial, decades-old tradition. Read the full story.
September 30, 1898: Two-dozen male KU students gather on Mount Oread to form what will become the KU Marching Jayhawks.
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Compiled by Henry Fortunato
University of Kansas
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