From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for May 9, 1915:

• “A $50,000 student loan fund for students at the University of Kansas is the hope of Registrar George O. Foster, who is chairman of a committee appointed to raise that sum for a fund of that nature to be established at the University next September. Registrar Foster and other members of the faculty have been working for several months on the plan of establishing a fund from which needy students could borrow money at a low rate of interest, to help defray a portion of their expense through the University. The board of administration, at a recent meeting, endorsed the idea, and plans a student loan fund for each of the institutions under its care…. The first efforts of the committee will begin next week when subscription papers will be passed in all University classes and students will be asked to contribute sums of 50 cents or more. The campaign will be carried to all parts of the state, all alumni and public spirited citizens being asked to contribute to the fund…. Forty-six students are known to have left the University so far this year on account of a failure of money supply or employment. If such a student fund as is planned, had been available, these students could have borrowed enough money at a low rate of interest from the University to carry them through the University, after which the money could have been repaid when the students were able…. The limited scope of the local banks is not sufficient to provide for all the students who really need help. With a $50,000 student loan fund, however, devoted to that purpose exclusively, the money could be loaned so as to serve almost an unlimited number of students.”
• “Mary Brownfield, commonly known as ‘Cocaine Mary,’ who was arrested Wednesday night for drunkenness, will be turned over to the county officials today and they will look into her case. Last fall the officials were planning to take the case up and Mary left town and went to Ottawa where she served a sentence in the city jail. She has recently been released and returned to Lawrence to be taken again by the officials. Chief of Police C. M. Fisher filed a statement with the Probate Judge last fall that Mary Brownfield was a habitual user of intoxicants and drugs and that she was unfit to manage her own affairs. The matter will be taken up in the Probate Court. The officials have considered the idea of keeping her in the county home where she would be unable to secure intoxicating liquor.”