From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Oct. 8, 1911:

“Over across the University of Kansas campus this morning there came the college band, dressed in uniform and playing the college songs. Back of them as far as the eye could see between Robinson Gymnasium and Fraser hall there was one long procession of girls. These were for the most part dressed all in white and formed by counties. Every county in the state was represented by a colored banner. Was it an inspiring sight? Wouldn’t almost 800 girls make an inspiring sight anywhere, and when they are leagued together for a common cause, there certainly cannot be any any lacking of inspiration…. This morning marked an epoch at the University…. For an hour before the Woman’s Day meeting was to open, the cars to the University were full of women going up hill…. The big auditorium was decorated in the crimson and the blue…. Over the platform were the words done in the colors, ‘Girls Dormitory.’ Not a man was allowed on the lower floor except a very few distinguished guests of honor…. All along the route of the procession this morning the men students of the University were lined up and there was much ‘jollying’ and teasing about suffragettes. But as soon as the doors were thrown open the boys climbed to the gallery. By the time the meeting began there wasn’t an empty seat, either upstairs or down. And did the boys support the meeting? Down from the gallery there came the rising sounds of the ‘Rock Chalk,’ a pretty tribute to their college sisters.”