From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Sept. 15, 1914:

• “The social season has opened at the university with ‘Rushing parties,’ and for a week the boys and girls, whose fond parents have tried to give them a summer’s rest to put them in good condition for the school year, will be up until the small hours of the morning. A week from now the fraternity men and sorority girls of the university will be more tired from their week’s exertions than they would be from a month’s hard study and they will actually begin the work of the school fagged out and with little interest for their lessons. If it is the sole purpose of the university to show the boys and girls of the state a good time, then all well and good. Let the parties keep up until two and three o’clock in the morning and do nothing to check the wild pace that means run down nerves and worn out bodies before the students are ready to enter the duties of life which follow the completion of their educations. The proper authorities at the university should act at once and see that all social functions, in which the students are invited to take part, close at midnight…. The taxpayers of Kansas maintain the state university to improve themselves by securing a higher education and not that a large part of them may wear themselves out in social life and late hours.”
• “Douglas County has a come-back against the city as usual when they try to get anything from them. This time it is the matter of collecting rent for the old jail which has been used by the Social Service League for the past few years. This comes from the fact that the city is trying to collect taxes that have never been turned over to them. The county maintains that there was a lease secured by the city from the county in 1910 for this property. The city officials say that they can find to record on the city books where there was ever a lease authorized for this property. The county commissioners say that the lease is in the hands of the County Attorney…. It provides that the city is to pay the county $1,500 for the use of this property. It has never been used by the city in that time, but permission was given the Social Service League by the city to use the building as the council thought that the property was owned by the city. It seems that no one knows anything of the lease being drawn up. Some of the councilmen that were serving at the time the lease was made say they do not remember that any authority was given anyone to draw up such a document. They do remember the discussion of the subject that took place in the Council Chamber. As yet the city officials have found nothing on the city books that authorize anyone to lease this property from the county.”
• “Prof. W. M. Twenhofel, who has been doing geological work in Russia, is safe on his way home. He sailed from Liverpool, England, Friday and is expected to land in New York next Friday…. After finishing his work in Russia, Professor Twenhofel went to Sweden where he was arrested as a spy several times. Other than that he was in no danger during his trip.”
• “Professor and Mrs. Sayre returned to Lawrence yesterday, taking, en route from Douglas, Michigan, an investigation of the Battle Creek Sanitarium. Dr. Kellogg of that institution invited Professor Sayre to make an investigation of the institution and its products for example the substitutes of coffee and tea.”
• “Mr. H. B. Bullene has returned from an Eastern trip for the purpose of purchasing goods for the Innes Store. He said this morning that the market conditions in New York were remarkably good with the exception of foreign imported goods and the stocks of this class of goods are rapidly becoming depleted because the source of supply is being cut off. He further said: ‘As yet the Eastern markets have not felt the effects of the war, but the manufacturers are anticipating trouble in the lack of dye stuffs to produce spring goods as this commodity must come from Europe. And if the condition of the country continues, next spring will be a black and white season.’… He was pleased in the fact that money conditions in the east were surprisingly good. He said that in New York everyone, except the brokers, seemed to have money and were spending it as New Yorkers always do.”
• “Rooming house keepers have complained to Mrs. Eustace Brown, dean of women at the University, because of the non-observance of the 10:30 date rule which is in vogue at the school by the young men who come to call on the young women at the women’s houses. They say that they feel that the young men should be gentlemen enough to go when the limit is reached, and call attention to the rule in eastern universities where the men are made to leave at 10 o’clock.”