100 years ago: Jayhawk caught smoking severely disciplined
From the Lawrence Daily World for Oct. 6, 1910:
“JAYHAWKER CAUGHT SMOKING YESTERDAY – Member of Team Found Breaking Training Rules – WAS SEVERELY DISCIPLINED – Sent From Field When He Appeared For Practice. – Any member of Coach Kennedy’s Jayhawker squad who is caught smoking or breaking the training rules in any way, will be dismissed summarily from the team. The warning came as a result of an infringement of the rules by ‘Pete’ Heil, who was sent from the field and will have to make his peace with the coach if he expects to practice with the squad again…. The county commissioners handed down a decision yesterday which established a precedent in Douglas county school matters. Its text is that no white children shall be forced to attend an exclusively colored school. The question was raised in Bloomington district, a colored school taught by a negro teacher. D. C. Farmer is the only white man living in the district having children of school age, and he asked to have his little ones admitted to Clinton school, the adjacent district. This was granted by the school authorities…. There is no good reason for disbelieving that the earth is a ‘chip off the old block’ and that we are now living on a discarded portion of the Old Sol. The theory that the mother earth and the other planets were once part of the Sun and later were thrown off into space is not all ‘bosh,’ according to Martin E. Rice, professor of physics and electrical engineering at the University of Kansas.”

