From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Sept. 13, 1915:

• “School bells tolled the knell of vacation in Lawrence at an early hour this morning. It was the first day of the session of the city high school and grade schools. The proverbial reluctance of the youngster to go to school found no expression in Lawrence today, for there was never a more eager lot than the youngsters who trooped to the school buildings to begin their year’s struggle with learning…. High school students were warned at the chapel this morning by Principal F. H. Olney that they were not wanted in the high school if they were unwilling to do the work assigned by the teachers. Mr. Olney assigned as the reasons for his attitude that it was a waste of time for the students, a waste of money by the parents, a waste of nervous tissues by the teachers. ‘Do you know,’ said Mr. Olney, in speaking to the students, ‘it costs the city from $35 to $40 each year for your tuition, and your parents about $300. Figuring the records of some of our former students who were in the school three years and only did one-half year’s work during the entire time, there was a waste of close to $800.'”
• “Enrollment at the University of Kansas had passed the 1,000 mark at 3 o’clock this afternoon and long lines of students were waiting to pay their fees. The prediction of Registrar Foster that the attendance would pass 3,000 this year appeared today to have been a good one. Prosperous times over Kansas were indicated in the appearance and number of students who climbed Mount Oread this morning.”
• “Big sisters among the upperclasswomen at the University are meeting all incoming trains and assisting incoming women to find rooms and get settled at the school. They wear badges to identify them and have been a great deal of help to the new girl students. One young woman, who came in from the University of California this morning, said that this was the first school where she had ever seen an idea of this kind carried out and that she had been greatly helped by the girls who met her.”
• “The barns at Woodland Park began to fill up yesterday with the entries in the racing events in the county fair. Some of the horse owners have decided not to enter in the Topeka fair and have sent their horses direct to Lawrence…. Woodland park will be a busy place this week as there will be workouts of all the horses that are quartered there.”
• “The Kappa Sigma fraternity house at Baldwin caught fire from an unknown cause at 3 o’clock this afternoon and was burned to the ground…. A message from City Attorney Tom Harley, who was spending the afternoon in Baldwin, reached the city hall at 3:45 o’clock. Mr. Harley asked that the fire equipment be sent to Baldwin at once. Chief Reinisch and Assistant Chief Lawrence left at once for Baldwin with the chemical car to give what assistance they could. The Kappa Sigma house was the old Nicholson home of Baldwin, one of the fine residences of the town. It was valued at $25,000. It was reported that most of the contents of the house were destroyed with it.”