July 19, 1941.

Chancellor Deane W, Malott,
University of Kansas.

Dear Chancellor Melott:

Thank you for your letter of the 16th instant
replying to my query regarding the large appropriation for
the grading of the intramral field. Would it be unfair,
Mr. Chencellor, to ask if we got anything at all?

For your information, I might say that student
money graded the east end of the field. ‘Thero was a twenty-
five foot drop in the terrain from end to end of the field,
‘and scores of boys have been seriously injured there. Ur.
Bayles came to me and said, “If you will get $500.00 from
.the student activity fund, we will use WPA labor, put in
sod end grade that field.”

: _ Of course you know the thing is not to make a
lovely place for the boys to play, but to cut down on the
number of serious injuries which are still very moh in
evidence when the students use the west end of that field
in intramural games, ‘There are big rute, it is dowahill,
end there is still a very bad condition where the sewer
runs. If we could have that graded then we would reduse
etudents' injuries, which are a matter of great concern.
It is not just to get something done or to beautify the
landscape, but to make a place safe for the boys.

This field is not large enough to take care
of half of the boys who desire to play every afternoon on :
this fine intramural program. We had planned last year not ©
to remove the sod until after the intramural season, -
then we wanted to move it over on the unsodded east side,
and it was at this junction thet Mr. Bayles talked to me.

| I wish now to refer to a matter thet would be
especially helpful to our summer recreative program. The
area bounded by the east end of the Quadrangle, just across
from the Anatomy Building, between the Chemistry Building :
and Fowler Shops would make a lovely setting for lawn bowls.
If we could have that area slightly leveled off and move