From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for August 30, 1914:

• “The University Y. W. C. A. is planning on a new system of getting the new girls of the school acquainted and getting them located in rooms. This year there will be a number of the girls come early and prepare lists of rooms so that they can place the girls in suitable rooms. Each girl of the Y. W. C. A. will have certain girls for whom she will be responsible and will see that they get to go to the entertainments provided for the first few days of school and get them acquainted with other girls of the school. The girls that have been here before will be the ‘Big Sisters’ to the new girls…. The big sister will meet the new girl at the train, and will find a suitable room for her if she has not obtained one. She will help the newcomer to enroll, will see that she finds her classes, will take her to church, and will do all in her power to keep her little Freshman sister from being lonely.”
• “Registrar George Foster said today, ‘The water situation and the procuring of imported goods are two big propositions that the University is now facing and both may give us considerable trouble.’… Mr. Foster said that the University had $1,000 worth of laboratory materials purchased and as this is imported there is very little hope, since the troubles abroad, that this material can be obtained. He stated that it may eventually cost the University several thousand dollars to obtain the necessary chemicals and other materials for laboratory use during the coming year. At present the supply on hand is low and it may be found to be exceedingly difficult to make provision for materials needed at the opening of school.”
• “The Kansas City-Denver Red Line route is proving to be the most popular route to the west and almost every day one or more touring cars drive through Lawrence and receive directions concerning the Red Line stating that they have been told that this line is the best possible route to Denver. Only a day or two ago, a very large touring car went through this city bearing a Pennsylvania tag and the parties stated that they were going west and would follow the Red Line…. This line passes through one of the very best farming sections of the state, and leaves Kansas City on the south side of the Kaw river, passing through Eudora, Lawrence, Topeka, Manhattan, Clay Center, Glasco, Simpson, Beloit, Osborne, Plainville, Hoxie, Colby, Goodland and Limon, Colo., to Denver…. It offers long stretches of straightways, the longest being seventy miles across the counties of Rooks, Graham and Sheridan. This stretch is probably unexcelled in the United States and is absolutely free from sand and has proven to be the delight of tourists.”
• “Terrible fighting continues on the Autro-Russian frontier. Both the combined Austrian and German forces and the Russian armies claim the advantage…. News dispatches indicate that the Germans are pressing toward Paris and that one army is within sixty miles of the French capital.”