Ellis B. Stouffer, widely acclaimed dean of the Kansas University graduate school from 1922 to 1946, died at the age of 74. Stouffer Place apartments bear his name.

Members of the Kansas Board of Regents vowed to line up solidly behind Kansas Chancellor Clarke Wescoe in his bid to get the governor’s budget officials to restore the legislature’s $2.7 million appropriation for the first phase of construction of the Humanities Building. State budget director James Bibb had cut the request back to $1.8 million in hopes KU could get the rest from the federal government.