From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Feb. 24, 1914:

• “Seven hundred dollars a year to go through college! That is what it costs in the east, according to answers the New York Sun obtained to the question ‘How Much?’ asked of the heads of several eastern schools. And now comes George Foster, registrar of the University of Kansas, with the statement that seven hundred dollars would be too much for a two-year course in this state. Three hundred dollars a year is about right, he said…. ‘The average necessary expenditure per student here is certainly less than $300 a year,’ declared Registrar Foster, ‘and in Lawrence, there isn’t much else to spend money on. No students own automobiles, and I don’t believe there’s a private steam yacht on the whole Kaw river. About the only regular sources of entertainment that are open here are the nickel shows…. It is safe to say that a student can get through K. U., and do it comfortably, on $300 a year. Many would be glad to start on $200.'”
• “Kansas was storm bound last night with details in most cases unobtainable on account of wire trouble. The loss will run into hundreds of thousands, it is estimated, and may not be fully known before the end of the week. Trains are lost, in some cases service annulled, fifteen hundred telephone and telegraph poles are down, roads are drifted full of snow and stock is suffering as the cold which came with Sunday’s storm continues…. In scores of rural communities the schools yesterday were not open, neither pupils or teachers being able to get to the school houses on account of the storm. In Atchison the city schools were closed as a result of the cold and poor gas pressure.
• “The thermometers of Lawrence this morning dropped down to a point only 5 1/2 degrees above the zero mark. The official thermometer on the hill showed this figure. But from then on the climb was rapid and the sun soon started a melting process that will soon stop sleighing. The air was clear and a trifle crisp this morning but later on the sun warmed things up and the storm of the day before is rapidly passing away.”