This Week in KU History
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Saturday, September 27, 1879
President Rutherford B. Hayes becomes the second sitting US president to visit KU and first to deliver an on-campus address, a rather short one since he was apparently winded by climbing the stairs to see the view from the north cupola of University Hall, the building now remembered as “old” Fraser.
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Sunday, September 27, 1896
The University of Kansas football team dons crimson and blue uniforms for the first time.
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Friday, 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.
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Tuesday, September 28, 1943
Hillcrest House, located less than a block from KU’s campus, formally begins its run as an “organized house” for independent women students.
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Tuesday, September 28, 1993
KU's performance art center, The Lied Center, opens to the public with a six-day run of "The Secret Garden." The $14.3 million center was a gift of the Lied Foundation Trust. It is dedicated to former KU student Ernst Lied's parents Ernst M. and Ida K. Lied.
