100 years ago: Fate of fraternity members to be discussed

From the Lawrence Daily World for Feb. 15, 1910: The school board will be meeting to discuss the fate of 19 high school lads who have been suspended for belonging to a fraternity. People from the chapters of Delta Omicron Omicron and Phi Sigma Chi are figuring on attending the sessions. The suspended students can be reinstated by signing positive agreements to denounce fraternity membership but the fraternity people say they have the right to operate. . . . William Allen White of Emporia will be one of the featured speakers at the annual banquet of the KU Club in New York. The club has more than 170 members. . . . Local farmers are working to get the traveling agricultural school of the Kansas State Agricultural College at Manhattan to spend a week here working and talking with farmers. Many think this should be an annual event. . . . The latest grades are in at the university and there were only three flunks on the entire football squad. Two of those flunks are conditional and work can be made up. The general grades of the KU athletes were better than the average for the general student body, refuting the charge that all athletes are dumb and unable to make their grades.