From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Jan. 9, 1914:

• “Enter the Tango Tea into staid and quiet Lawrence. Announcements of a Tango Tea to be given on the afternoon of Friday, January 16, and Tango Receptions on the afternoons of January 13th, 15th, and 16th were made here today. Lawrence folks today found in their mail the invitations to attend these functions, which are to be given in Ecke’s Ball Room. Some of the invitations were mailed to Kansas University students and it is said that some were even addressed to members of the faculty of the University…. Several weeks ago two Topeka, Kansas, girls came to Lawrence and gave some exhibitions of the Tango. It was rumored that they would start a class and teach the rah-rah boys and the co-eds the new steps. A couple of newspaper correspondents heard the rumors and immediately wired stories to the city papers. There was a great outburst of indignation directed against the pair of correspondents and they were summarily suspended from the University by Chancellor Strong. A hearing was held before the Board of Administration and the young men sentenced to another week of suspension. Following this order came an edict against downtown parties, also an order requiring faculty permission and faculty chaperones at all student parties. Horrors, no, the new dances could not be considered, must not be tolerated under any circumstances…. Now come the professional Tangoists and propose to give exhibitions, to give personal instructions in ‘all the latest terms of the Tango and Hesitation Waltz,’ as their invitations announce. What will be the outcome? Will the students of the University be permitted to even look on?”
• “Three hundred and forty-nine Haskell boys last night signed an anti-tobacco pledge promising to abstain from the use of the weed in any form whatsoever for a period of at least one year. There are a total of 390 boys in the school showing a very large majority of them opposed to the tobacco habit…. The movement against the use of tobacco is one that has started among the boys themselves. They are enthusiastic over the signing of the pledge and it is anticipated that practically all of them will keep it.”
• “There was a return of January weather this morning after two days of June. A brisk wind sprang up over night and influenced the thermometer to make considerable of a drop.”