From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 27, 1915:

• “Registrar George O. Foster will not leave the University of Kansas. He made this announcement in a statement which he issued this morning. The statement is as followed: ‘A man should do his work where he can be happiest. It is only under such conditions that he can render his best service. Salary is not all that enters into a man’s relation to an institution. There are other compensations. There are problems to be worked out at the University of Kansas that bring their own reward. Our $50,000 aid fund for students, for example, if brought to a successful conclusion, will bring with it an immense satisfaction. I should be disappointed not to have a part in it…. Aside from this are the ties of friendships formed through association with the good people of Lawrence during a residence of twenty-five years, and with 30,000 students who have passed through the halls of old K. U. since my work began as registrar, that cannot be laid aside lightly and for the sake of mere dollars. And last, but not least, the many kindnesses of Chancellor Strong and the board of administration, take away my last reason for leaving Kansas. After due deliberation, therefore, I have concluded it is at Kansas I shall be happiest, and the latch string to my office will continue to hang out for everybody.'”
• “Students of Haskell Institute who have completed the winter term’s work are leaving for their homes in large numbers now. Yesterday a large number went north on the Santa Fe to their homes in the Dakotas, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Most of the students come from Oklahoma and many of them will be here all summer. The institute runs the year round but the work is so arranged that some of the students are able to leave during the hot months…. A display of the work of the mechanics in the woodworking and other departments was sent to the San Francisco fair and will be displayed in the building provided by the Department of the Interior for that purpose. The work done by the students was displayed during the commencement week celebrations at the Institute week before last and caused a great deal of favorable comment.”
• “The number of catalpa trees in Douglas county seems to be unusually small compared to most of the counties of the state. Only three acres have been reported and in many sections of Kansas the acreage runs into the hundreds. Speciosa catalpa, as the botanists call it, yields the best known fence posts and in many places groves of them are set out with the express purpose of raising posts. The crop matures rapidly and the posts bring good money.”