From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Oct. 27, 1914:

• “Upon the request of the Lawrence Street Railway and Light company this morning the city commissioners gave the company permission to try out the proposition of running all of the street cars on the University loop one way instead of alternating. This will only be a temporary arrangement unless it proves to be more satisfactory than the present method. The commissioners gave permission for a trial of the new system lasting three weeks…. By the old alternate method there have been four cars an hour on the loop or two each way each hour, but by the new method it is the plan of the company to run a car every 12 minutes. This will make five cars an hour where there have been but four. It will simply mean that there will be a quicker service but the people will have to spend more time on the cars.”
• “The City Commissioners in their meeting this morning instructed the Commissioner of Public Utilities to proceed immediately with the construction of a sidewalk crossing across the Union Pacific tracks in North Lawrence on Fourth Street between Elm and Maple streets, the railroad company having refused to construct the crossing upon the request of the city commission. This is the only crossing on the tracks as an approach to the school and the commissioners consider that it is necessary to have the crossing constructed…. The matter of the request of the Socialists for a room in the city hall in which to hold their meetings on Sunday afternoons was taken up and the Mayor was given instruction to find out the kind of meeting the Socialists intended to hold.”
• “The case of student government vs. mob rule was tried in chapel at 10 o’clock this morning. Student government won. Last Friday morning practically every man in the University participated in a spontaneous football rally. Several cases of recklessness and ungentlemanly conduct have been reported and this fact, together with the fact that the Student Council had not authorized the meeting, led the council to consider the matter of disciplining the offenders…. The proposition was put before the students this morning. Fraser chapel was filled and students were standing in the doors and aisles. Victor Bottomly, president of the council, made his plea for the continuation of self-government. ‘The right to hold rallies,’ he said, ‘is turned over to the Student Council exclusively. We will call rallies and professors will dismiss their classes. Last Friday the students took it upon themselves to start a rally. That was a healthy exhibition of school spirit and if it had gone no farther, probably nothing would have been said about it. But the boys went too far. They broke into class rooms and demanded that professors dismiss their classes. That was certainly the wrong thing to do. Students had no authority to tell any professor to excuse his class.'”