From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Oct. 31, 1913:

• “The Kansas University football machine will be placed aboard a Santa Fe Pullman this evening and started on its journey to the camp of the Oklahoma Sooners. The two teams will meet tomorrow afternoon on the Norman, Oklahoma football lot. There is a feeling of confidence in the Kansas camp this week, perhaps brought on by the victory over Manhattan this week…. Owing to the distance there will be very few Jayhawker rooters on the sidelines tomorrow afternoon at Norman. The team and coaches and management will compose the Kansas party. The returns of the game will be received by the Journal-World via a special wire from Norman and the Thundering Thousand is invited to come down and occupy the ‘bleachers’ in front of the office where the bulletins will be received and read. Those who can’t afford to join the crowd are urged to use the phones as much as they care to…. The Jayhawker football team will leave with the echoes of the cheers of the ‘Thundering Thousand’ at their backs. Cheer Leader Morris has issued a call for an impromptu mass meeting to be held tonight at 6:30 o’clock at Central park. The band will be there and the students will march to the depot to give the team a resounding farewell.”
• “Did the late Governor Charles Robinson have in mind the building of a great medical school at the University of Kansas when he bequeathed to the State University the valuable estate north of Lawrence? The recent question as to what disposition should be made of the bequest has led to a rumor which may lead to the solution of the matter in an entirely different manner than may have been anticipated. The rumor is that Governor Robinson had in mind a medical building on the hill to be a memorial to his name. This rumor comes from a most reliable source and further investigation may disclose the Governor’s wish and lead to the realization of a hope of many years — an individual medical building on Mount Oread…. By way of confirmation it is pointed out that Governor Robinson was himself a practicing physician for many years, he was deeply interested in the calling, and also being as much interested in the University and in education as he was it seems quite logical that he should make a gift for the purpose of the advancement of the medical profession…. The discovery of this information may lead to a discontinuation of the efforts of the Board of Administration to use the money for the general expenses of the school. The board has asked the advice of Attorney General Dawson in this case. By the tone of the letter to the attorney general it seems that the board desired to divert the income from the property into the general funds of the University to be used in meeting current expenses. Considerable criticism of this plan has been heard since the appearance of the letters by the board. It has been urged that this would seem an undignified method to pursue in the disposition of such a gift as Governor Robinson made the University. It has been suggested that the money be used in the construction of a building which would be a permanent memorial.”