From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Feb. 29, 1916:

• “Seumas MacManus, the noted Irish author who lectured at the University of Kansas yesterday afternoon, introduced University faculty men to the ‘results method’ of paying teachers when he spoke at the University club last night. This method was one in force in the Irish schools until about eight years ago, Mr. MacManus said. At intervals the examiner would visit the schools and quiz the pupils. The pay of the teacher varied according to whether the pupils passed a good, a fair, or a poor examination. ‘A bright boy could earn as much as ten shillings a year for the teacher,’ said the author. ‘The method was discontinued some years ago because it considered not the best basis on which to pay the teacher. I have often thought it was a pretty good method. The fault that was charged against it, that it led to cramming rather than to solid instruction, seems to me to have been less than I have noticed since in some of the large schools of the cities.’ Sentiment for the introduction of such a method at the University of Kansas did not seem to be strong among the faculty members last night.”
• “J. D. Bowersock made a visit to Topeka Saturday and while there called on Governor Capper and Charles Sessions. To Secretary Sessions, Mr. Bowersock told how hard it was for him to live anywhere but in Lawrence. Years ago, he explained, he and Mrs. Bowersock set up housekeeping in a quiet way at Lawrence. Children came and the house was enlarged again and again to take care of them. It came to be a really big house, Bowersock admitted. Then the children began to get married and finally there was just himself and his wife left again. The house seemed too big with all the children gone. So last fall Mr. Bowersock persuaded Mrs. Bowersock to give up housekeeping, and they took an apartment in Kansas City. Since then, he admitted confidentially, it has been a constant struggle to retain Mrs. Bowersock from taking him back to Lawrence and starting housekeeping all over again. So far the master of the house has won, but he fears it is becoming a losing battle. ‘You can’t break up that housekeeping habit,’ the ex-congressman told Sessions, ‘especially in a woman. So I suppose pretty soon we will have a home of our own again.’ And he didn’t seem much disappointed.”
• “The show windows along Massachusetts street will blossom out next week with baby carriages, bottles, baby clothes, and other goods which are used for the very young in honor of the observance of baby week throughout the nation. Recognizing the importance of the occasion the merchants voted in the noon meeting today, not only to decorate the stores during ‘baby week’ but to display baby goods in the windows as a means of keeping the occasion in the public mind.”