From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Oct. 3, 1915:

• “They went on show today, those diminutive superstructures which University custom has designated as proper to be laid on the foundation of freshman craniums. Custom has fixed the day of the first football game as the time when all freshmen must appear in caps. Hundreds of freshmen, obedient to the student council rule, appeared wearing caps at the ball game today. They and their caps will be inseparable from now until cold weather. Upperclassmen at the University adopt a policy of ‘frightfulness’ toward freshmen who disregard the rule. The policy is carried out with long, pliable paddles.”
• “Tools and loose equipment were stolen from the motor cars belonging to F. A. Skofstad and Dr. H. Reding last night while the machines were standing near Plymouth Congregational church. Tools and tubes and an automobile suit were taken from the Skofstad car and a small kit of tools was removed from Dr. Reding’s car. The Skofstad car was standing in front of the church where there was a strong light all the evening, but no one saw the thief at work. The Reding car was standing in the vacant lot south of the church where the thief worked with less danger of interruption, yet a number of articles of value in the car were untouched.”
• “If you lack proof that there are numerous children insufficiently clad for school, either clad to look respectable or clad to resist cold, ask Dr. McConnell, or the Funks, in charge of Friendship Club House, or anybody else who is striving to advance the interests of that institution. Don’t protect any instinctive selfishness or self-righteousness by insisting upon something that you know nothing about when you say there are no such needy, or that all the poor are so because they are shiftless and are undeserving. There are a considerable number of needy little children, and needy children of school age, and it is a community disgrace that they are not clad for the winter. Come through. Ask the same question of the Social Service League Hall and of the Salvation Army, and then come through.”
• “A 75 per cent solution of the roads problem will be a compound that, when poured upon an ordinary dirt road after it is shaped and rolled and dry, will petrify it to a depth that will forestall cracking from the effect of heavy loads and changes in temperature. The party to invent this compound will be certain of unlimited millions of money and undying fame, and it might just as well be a Lawrence man as anybody else.”