New classes offered at the beginning of the 1901-1902 term included shorthand, typewriting, penmanship, and physical culture for women.

President Young announced a new wartime major, Reconstruction, that combined history, sociology, political science, psychology and language courses with the hope of preparing students for the problems they might face at the end of the global conflict. Other new courses included War Issues and Post War Problems.

Lloyd Silas Cressman was inaugurated as president of Friends University on October 17, 1952 in Alumni Auditorium. Retiring president Watson gave an encouraging charge to Cressman as the pastor of University Friends Church gave a dedicatory prayer. Cressman, an Ontario, Canada native, had been a member of the faculty and..Read More

Plans for the construction of three new buildings (library, science-mathematics, and gymnasium) were approved. The library was projected to cost $780,000 and would be able to seat 475 people, housing 100,000 volumes of books. The three-story science building was expected to cost $880,000 and would include an observatory. The two-story..Read More

Dr. Richard Felix was inaugurated as the next president of Friends University on October 6, 1979. In his inaugural address he said: “We who stand here today in 1979 can insist no less on quality and excellence for this university…We are the vessels today that must pour out our lives..Read More

With the Davis Building was showing its age, President Green and the Board of Trustees decided to restore the building so it could continue to serve as an historical landmark. As a result, the front steps were redone, the exterior walls were tuck-pointed, eroded mortar was restored, hundreds of bricks..Read More

The Athletic Department establishes a partnership with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, hiring an FCA staff member to mentor students. Through the FCA internship program, students could receive scholarships.

“Upon a sunny Kansas plain, our college towers rise high.” The Friends University Hymn by Dean and Mrs. O. B. Baldwin made its debut appearance on page 7 of the Talisman. Upon a sunny Kansas plain, Our college towers rise high, Her massive walls, her lofty heights Stand etched against..Read More

Friday, August 13 at 10:30 a.m., The Explosion! A buildup of heat under the old hot water boiler in the Davis Building, generated growing pressure that spewed the top of the boiler off. The result was a large hole in the library stack room, shaking the sub floor under the..Read More