From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Feb. 17, 1916:

• “To decide the sentiment of the students of the University of Kansas in regard to the present military questions before the public, the International Polity club on the hill is conducting a straw vote which will be concluded Tuesday. The students are asked to answer whether they favor compulsory military training in American schools, courses of instruction in military science, compulsory training in schools below the University, a substantial increase in armament for the United States, the administration’s program for increasing the army and navy.”
• “The catalogue of the school of engineering at the University is being translated into Spanish according to an announcement made by Dean Walker. This is being done because of the demands for technical education by Spanish speaking men in Central and South America. Along with the translation, the Engineering School faculty at its next meeting will consider changes in the course of study which can be made for the foreign students who are expected to enroll in the University soon.”
• “At a meeting of the Lawrence bankers yesterday it was decided that all the banks of the city will remain closed all day next Tuesday, Washington’s birthday.”
• “In following out a policy of enforcing ‘to the letter’ the new regulations concerning University of Kansas student social activities, Mrs. Eustace Brown, adviser of women, has indicated that hereafter there may be stricter ‘regulation’ of the manner in which the students dance. A section of the new social rules approved by the joint committee on students interests of the University provides that, ‘To relieve the chaperone of the disagreeable character of certain responsibilities which may fall to her in case of any discourteous or questionable conduct on the part of those present, a floor committee should always be appointed to cooperate with the chaperone.’… While she does not condemn the conduct of K. U. students attending dances this year, Mrs. Brown feels that dances which are not tolerated by the Kansas City welfare officers, should also be on the taboo list here. Yet ‘hop’ programs of student affairs include some of the objectionable variety of steps.”
• “F. A. Gillespie, father of Lester and Bernard Gillespie who played on the University football team last fall, is realizing an income of approximately $10,000 daily as the result of his half ownership of an oil well near Cushing, Okla., which produces 12,000 barrels a day. The following dispatch in the Daily Oklahoman of Oklahoma City tells of Mr. Gillespie’s good fortune: ‘The big well of the Gypsy Oil company, No. 11 on the Jackson Barnett farm is producing 12,000 barrels of oil a day from the Tucker sand and is easily the sensation of the year. For a few hours the well flowed more than 800 barrels per hour.’… Mr. Gillespie’s sons withdrew from school at Christmas and are now helping their father with his oil interests. The Gillespie home is in Tulsa.”