From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 3, 1916:

“Engineers who graduate from the University of Kansas this year are rejoicing in the great activity in their profession which enables them to find positions with comparative ease and begin earning a livelihood at once. There was a time in the University careers of present graduates when the prospect was not at all rosy. The outbreak of the great war in 1914 paralyzed for a time many industries in this country needing the services of engineers. The fall of that year witnessed many a graduate engineer stopping in Lawrence to secure assistance from faculty members to reach the part of the country where the home folks lived, to remain there until situations were again open. It was rather a gloomy time for the youngsters at the University who were spending large sums to fit themselves for engineering positions. There was no telling how long conditions would remain bad. But with all the optimism of youth the boys kept plugging away in the engineering building, and following the commencement exercises next week most of them will step into lucrative positions. For the industrial situation has recovered, and all over the country there is a demand for engineers. Students of mining engineering find a particularly strong demand for their services. Most of the students of the department, including undergraduates, will take positions for the summer, and several of them started for the field of their summer work today.”

“The Bowersock theater presented a beautiful picture last night when the curtain rose on a stage filled with the members of the Senior class of the high school. It was the forty-second annual commencement of the Lawrence High School — in which a class of eighty-five girls and thirty-five boys was graduated. Of this number thirteen were honor students. The girls were all dressed in charming dresses of white and carried arm bouquets of roses…. A large audience of the parents, friends and pupils was present and enjoyed the program which was especially well-balanced and well given. For the first time the commencement exercises were free to the public. The members of the senior class paid for the exercises with the profits of the senior plays…. Arthur Patty in his talk on the ‘Three Needs of the High School,’ gave as the three needs: First, an Auditorium; second, a library and a librarian; third, a high school student loan fund.”

“Lawrence E. Cole, who has completed the work for a degree in the University school of engineering, will leave tomorrow for Butte, Mont., where he has taken a position with the Butte & Superior Copper company. Mr. Cole will not be able to receive his sheepskin with the other members of his class next Wednesday as his employers needed his services immediately. As ‘Slats’ Cole, the Lawrence boy has figured prominently in University athletics. He was captain of the University basketball team this year. Local printers will remember him as one of the slugging members of the printers’ team in the local twilight league a few years back.”

“The eastbound interurban cars this afternoon were crowded with passengers bound for Kansas City.”