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University Has67th Birthday!iThe University of Arkansas is 07 yek'rs .old this week.At the beginning of the institutionon .January 22, 1872, the “Arkansas Industrial University, as it was thencalled, experienced some difficulty inbecoming educational, it is recalled by Mrs. Margaret Campbell Martin, who, as the university’s second woman student, entered the preparatory department 57 years ugo. Mrs. Martin still lives in Ftyatteville, withinyuoeatlftw(j 11Vio;tlv|a block of the university campus, and I has vivid recollections of things that happened when the institution opened.Friend of First Woman StudentMrs. Martin’s enrollment as a stu-!s dent came about shortly afl'ter herj^j friend, Anna Putman, had entered,v the university on the opening day.JC( Miss Putmun, later Mrs^ Anna P. King, who died at her home in Fayetteville in December, 1927, found six boys in the school building on the|sduy the first classes were held. Being the only girl student, she returned home discouraged and said toher mother, I’ll never go to that hoys' school afgain!” j \Distressed over her daughter’s ul j i timuturn, Mrs. Putman went to the home of the Campbells nearby and J lt;discussed the matter with her neigh-bor. Mrs. Campbell agreed to let her daughter, Margaret, go to the university with Anna Putman. That saved the day. The two girls went to school together afnd “broke the ice for the other girls that were to comelater.t
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Fayetteville Democrat
Fayetteville, Arkansas, US
Fri, Jan 25, 1929
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