Garfield University Re-Opens

Later reorganization was announced as Edgar Harding of Boston assumed the debt. Known as Garfield Central Memorial University, the school began again in March 1892, and operated until November 1893, when Mr. Harding became owner of the building and grounds. The promoters of Wichita early determined that the city should be the gate-way to all the Southwest. Many of them looked at the proposition from a cold-blooded business standpoint only. But while Wichita was building railroads, factories and office blocks, some asked why it should not be equally practicable to make the “Peerless Princess of the Plains” the educational as well as commercial center.