From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for May 8, 1916:

• “The petition filed with Chancellor Frank Strong last week by the Men’s Student Council urging the establishment of military training courses in the University will be given careful attention, according to a statement from the chancellor this morning…. Further than that the matter would be given worthy consideration the chancellor would not commit himself. Until he had made further investigation of the council’s proposal he did not care to express an opinion as to whether he would be for or against the proposition. ‘Personally, I am decidedly against compulsory military training in universities and colleges,’ said he. ‘I am opposed to war and will not sanction the action of any institution of learning that fosters military training courses in its curriculum. To force conscription on college students seems to be unjust…. Regarding the council’s proposal for elective courses here, I have not yet given the matter sufficient consideration to state definitely what my attitude will be.'”
• “The high school students believe it pays to advertise, and carrying out this belief sprung a novel surprise on the citizens of Lawrence Saturday night who called central to find out where the fire was. After first making arrangements with the city authorities, the High school bell was rung violently. When people called central to find out what was afire they were informed that the bell was ringing because the high school wanted a new auditorium.”
• “Orion W. R. Benson, enroute from Kansas City, Kans., to San Francisco, passed through Lawrence today. Mr. Benson’s trip to San Francisco is out of the ordinary because he is walking, and is not walking on a wager. Benson doesn’t care, he says, when he gets to San Francisco, just so he gets there. He will earn his way by selling small specialties. A pedometer which Benson carries registered over sixty miles when he reached Lawrence. He said the extra distance was made going up and down hill.”
• “A two day conference of the deans of women of Kansas colleges is in session at the University today under the supervision of Mrs. Eustace Brown, adviser of women at K. U. This convention will be an annual event hereafter. The program today has been given over to a discussion of the problems connected with the housing of women students, student government, and the social life of the student. Tomorrow the subject of competitive athletics among college women will be taken up and the latter part of the meeting thrown open to miscellaneous discussion.”
• “The only thing that has disturbed the calm of the police station for several days was the arrest of a man Saturday night for being drunk. As he was a first offender the costs were remitted and he was released with a $1 fine. Chief Boyd says that Lawrence has been a law-abiding town ever since Billy Sunday came.”