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

• “Now comes the Men’s Student Council of the University of Kansas with a plan to cut the high cost of dancing for the overburdened student of the Jayhawker school, by staging ‘two bit hops’ in Robinson gymnasium. The governors of the men’s student body met in executive session last Saturday and agreed on the money saving plan…. Eric Owen and Swede Wilson will furnish the music, the gym floor will be specially prepared and every effort will be made to induce the students to come and dance…. There has been a lot of trouble at the University over its dances in past years owing to the expense of attending, it being practically impossible for students who did not have a liberal allowance to dance to any extent.”
• “Of the nearly fifteen thousand students attending the eight institutions under the control of the state, more than half are paying all or a part of their expenses. The men are employed in janitor service, washing dishes at boarding clubs, working laundry routes on a commission, delivering papers, mowing lawns, cleaning off sidewalks and a hundred other like jobs, while the women are employed as stenographers, table waiters, sewing, assisting with housework, etc. Statistics gathered by the board of educational administration of the state show that these students who do work outside of school are among the best in the class work and have more ability in meeting people and taking part in social and religious affairs than others.”
• “The members of the state rifle team of the Kansas National Guard who have been in camp at Six Corners for a week doing target work, will break camp tomorrow forenoon preparatory to leaving for Jacksonville, Fla., where they will take part in the national rifle competition.”
• “J. K. Mills returned today from Ellis county, where he has been for two months or more with a threshing gang. Recent heavy rains in that part of the state have completely suspended threshing operations. Yesterday and last night there were heavy rains all over the western and central parts of Kansas along this parallel.”
• “‘The Society of American Indians has a definite policy and is consistent in its advocacy. That means that by the time its mission is done the Indians will not occupy the present anomalous, absurd and unjust position they have been in every since the organization of the government,’ said Arthur C. Parker, secretary of the Society, in an interview this morning…. ‘We must protest the status of the Indians being different in the different states. For instance, the Indian has no citizenship rights at all in Wyoming. In Oklahoma he is a full citizen. Sherman Coolidge, the president of our Society, is a native of Wyoming, but he had to move to Oklahoma to be a citizen…. It is wholly due to the incredibly stupid jumble of federal legislation, Indian department interpretation of a thousand contradictory treaties, and a racially wrong motive from the beginning…. Today the situation is more absurd and in a worse tangle than divorce legislation, which is a national scandal…. The police of the government has ever been to treat the Indian as a ward, as an irresponsible child. The way to make him or anyone else irresponsible and a child in intellect and will, is to forever treat him as such. Of course there will always be enough exceptions who break through their false environment to demonstrate what they all may be, and all will be, when differently treated.'”
• “When Ross Keeling comes back to school this week and resumes his work in the engineering school and on the varsity football squad, it will only be after seeding down 600 western Kansas acres to wheat. The urgency of this work has been the thing that has kept the tall center away from school so long. It may help him a good deal in charging through the opposing line this winter to reflect that no matter what the outcome of the football season the 600 acres of wheat are safely in the ground.”