From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Oct. 20, 1915:

• “In the most scathing arraignment ever heard at the University, Harry L. Heinzman, international Y. M. C. A. worker and a frequent visitor at the University, yesterday afternoon told more than 150 College women, members of the University Y. W. C. A., that they were selfish and that their supposed altruism was merely a sham behind which they tried to hide their many faults. ‘The American college woman has not yet been brought to self-realization,’ Mr. Heinzman declared, ‘and she gives, not with the spirit of the true giver, but with an eye to the effect for her own good which the giving is going to bring. The American woman can learn much from her sisters over the ocean, who, in this time of war, are proving that they are really capable of sacrifice and service.'”
• “If the question, ‘What class of people in Lawrence are the most absent minded?’ were propounded to members of the Lawrence police force, they would answer unhesitatingly, ‘The owners of bicycles.’ Nearly every night the officers pick up wheels that have been left on the streets by their owners. The wheels are taken to the police station and generally are called for within a day or two…. Not all the activity of the police is caused by absentmindedness of owners, however. Wheels that are left standing on the owners’ premises near the street offer a temptation to boys who have none of their own. Frequently the wheels are taken without permission for a ride around town and are left on the street when the unauthorized borrowers get through with them.”
• “Fifteen members of the Lawrence Country Club are wearing lame backs and sore ligaments as a badge of honor today, for it was they who toiled in the hot sun and the merciless eye of W. E. Spalding yesterday afternoon putting the grounds of the Country Club into shape. They have cause to be well pleased with their work for the Country Club today is a much better looking place as a result of their labors. Much of the work was put in on the driveway leading to the club house…. The approach to the hole on the golf course known as the ‘dog leg’ was much improved by clearing away a quantity of brush and making it possible to approach the hole more directly. Other improvements and slight alterations of certain holes are planned for next spring.”