From the Lawrence Daily World for Jan. 25, 1911:

• “[President] Taft is simply Big, Fat and Lazy,’ said Norman Hapgood, editor of Collier’s magazine in his after dinner remarks at the Eldridge hotel this afternoon, [when] he had been drinking nothing stronger than water. This was not the only remark made which shows that he looks at the world and conditions through the eyes of Collier’s magazine. Hapgood is a clever, interesting young man, who throws off all formality and speaks his mind without restraint or judgment. Because Taft has refused to adopt the Roosevelt policy of trying to run everything from the English language to the nursery, and does not throw his personality into every proposition that confronts the people, in Hapgood’s mind he is ‘Fat and Lazy.'”
• “Tommy Johnson will play no more basketball for the Jayhawkers this season. Johnson’s class work is in a precarious condition, and to save the deans from the necessity of filing an ineligibility report with the Athletic board, Johnson has withdrawn from further participation in University athletics. Johnson’s form on the basket ball court this season has been little short of phenomenal and his absence from the squad will materially weaken the Jayhawker five. It is regrettable that Johnson should discontinue his athletic career directly on the eve of the Missouri games this week.”