From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for July 16, 1915:

• “When several tadpoles which he has been watching for months disappeared yesterday the hopes of Wilbur W. Swingle, a student in the summer session of the University, to get a degree at the end of the second term of the session were gone. Mr. Swingle had been watching the little animals for several months and was preparing his master’s thesis from the results of his observations. Mr. Swingle was washing the tadpoles in a sink when they slipped from his hands.”
• “With the first lap of her summer session nearly over and the second term only three weeks long, K. U. will begin to get ready for the long winter term which begins in the middle of September. During the second part of the summer session much of the big school will be closed to the students while workmen begin overhauling, cleaning, remodeling, and a general preparation for the return of the big student body this fall. The wear and tear on the twenty-odd buildings of the University costs the state of Kansas a small fortune annually and it is only by the most careful attention of the authorities that small needs are located and attended to before they grow into larger ones…. Robinson gymnasium will close next Wednesday for the summer. Even the pool in the basement will be closed and the swimming will have to be done entirely in Potter Lake…. New mountings have been secured for the placing of the telescope at the University under the most favorable conditions and the instrument will be placed somewhere on the campus this fall where all may view the stars. The telescope will enter a period of usefulness after a long rest in the storerooms of the University. The instrument has a diameter of six inches and reveals the planets with great clearness.”
• “About thirty worried north side farmers and gardeners under the supervision of City Engineer Herbert Dunmire worked all forenoon yesterday cutting the dike which was holding the flood water from Mud Creek on their fields and at about 8 o’clock the work was finished and the opening made. This morning the 1,000 acres of land under water last evening had been reduced by several hundred and the Golden Belt road which was a lake for several miles yesterday is nearly all open. Fields of sweet potatoes and some other crops may survive their inundation, but farmers say that the Irish potato crop is ruined…. Yesterday evening the original cut was completed and it was soon seen that the opening would not carry the water off as fast as it was coming in from the north and that the flood was increasing. Seven members of the Pine family, all of them farmers and gardeners in the bottoms, had worked on the cut all afternoon and when they saw that the opening was not going to carry the water off fast enough they went to Mayor W. J. Francisco and City Engineer Dunmire and demanded that the cut be widened. The city officers were afraid to do this for fear the river would rise and make the flood worse than ever. However, after a time the north side men won their point and the cut was widened to about fifty feet, so that it soon washed a big opening and the water poured out rapidly.”
• “Kansas City. – The Missouri river at noon stood at 27 feet. If rains continue – and the official forecast is for unsettled weather – the stream will mount to 30 feet. If there are no further rains 28 feet will be reached. This is one foot above the last rise. The Kansas river here measured 23.6 feet this morning. It will fall tonight, but tomorrow when the tributaries begin to discharge their overflows from rains in northeast Kansas the river again will ascend…. ‘Very uncomfortable’ is the way Observer Connor described the situation here.”
• “‘Many students should never have entered the high school because their mental capacity was filled in the grades,’ said Dr. Frank Justus Miller, professor of Latina and dean of the junior colleges in the University of Chicago and a teacher at the summer session of the University for the past three years, in chapel yesterday morning. ‘The same is true of the college,’ continued Prof. Miller. ‘Many of the students should never have gone beyond the high school. They naturally are failures in the work that they undertake in the college or the university.'”