From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for May 17, 1911:

• “The Kansas workmen’s compensation law may yet be accepted as a model. It is not what it should be but it is along the right lines. The next legislature will strengthen it. Workmen’s compensation is so new that it is hard to get in shape at the first trial. But it is along fair lines and it will be adopted in every state. Further, old age pensions and sick benefits are coming to be fixed principles of government. We are our brothers’ keepers.”
• “There are 81 Baker students enrolled at the state university. This is worth more than passing notice. It means that students of Kansas educational institutions are coming to the university for their specialty work rather than going east for it.”
• “It is a depressing fact that spring has opened with a diminished water supply. Nothing has suffered as yet but rain is needed all over Kansas.”
• “Coach Sherwin, who will try to develop a winning Jayhawker squad next year, has written the following letter to Kansas: ‘I can say from what I know of athletics at Kansas that I believe that the eastern style of football can be successfully introduced, and that with western spirit of conscientious work, there is no reason why the University should not have a team that would be a credit to any University.'”