From the Lawrence Daily World for Dec. 14, 1910:

• “Since the stone walls of old North College first dimmed the horizon on the crest of Mt. Oread, debating has held a place among the various activities of school life at the University of Kansas…. The art of argument held its place and remained a ‘manly’ art, too, until 1910. The present year, however, witnesses the shattering of tradition, and to Miss Maybelle Stuart, a freshman in the college of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is due the credit of being the first ‘co-ed’ ever to win a place on a debating team at the university.”
• “Nineteen years ago tonight the editor of the World arrived in Lawrence, having driven down from St. Joe with a horse and phaeton…. It was a time of mud streets, of old shed awnings, wooden sidewalks, torch lamps in front of the stores, old fashioned storefronts, merchants’ displays on the sidewalks, and a time when all there was to the university was a steadfast purpose, Fraser hall, Snow hall, North College and the tiny physics building, now used as a part of the medical school. Since that time the town has almost been rebuilt. More than thirty miles of brick paving has been laid. Sewers have been extended to all parts of town. From the darkest town in Kansas it has become the one most brilliantly lighted. Old buildings and old store fronts have been replaced with new, modern methods have displaced the old, and Lawrence today is one of the best towns in Kansas.”