from the K.U. NEWS BUREAU

 

@ KANSAS UNIVERSITY @ LAWRENCE, KANSAS 2 K. W. DAVIDSON, Director

 

 

Lawrence, June —While Forrest C. "Phog" Allen's chief claim to fame,
is the producing of basketball champions—and in the quarter of a century he has
been at the University of Kansas his teams have won or tied for nineteen champion—
ships—~one of his greatest contributions to American education has been the develop—
ment of a recreational program for summer schools that has elicited the commendation
of educators from coast to coast.

And the summer program on lit. Oread has become so well developed and so:
famous that hundreds of students—~a lot of them graduates with families—have en-
rolled at Kansas in order that their youngsters may have the advantage of the fine
facilities that have been provided for the whole family's enjoyment.

Summer school is different this year, There are fewer graduates, and
fewer fine arts students—although the annual summer band camp has the largest
enrollment in its history—and the summer students are younger. lost of them
are of college age, and a great many have just enrolled from this spring's high
school classes eager to complete the University's full curriculum for a degree in
three years, Many of the regular winter collegians are doing the same thing—
gaining a year by the provisions the University has made for speeding up its
curriculum as a war measure,

The classes in mathematics, physics, navigation, meterology, chemistry,
and other courses which train for war production, are crowded, The enrollment this
summer is the largest in ten years on Mt. Oread, And there are still hundreds of
youngsters crowding the playing areas on the summit of the hill. The recreational
program has taken on a new note of seriousness this summer—recreation for physical
fitness to meet the nation's great crisis,

The idea for "Phog's" program was based on the idea of profiding enjoy—
ment and exercise for the whole fealty unit—-and from that idea has been developed
and expanded the fine recreational facilities that have made a vacation ground of

Mt. Oread for hundreds of summer school attendants and their families,