not only by music but by other university interests as well. This hall
with concert stage should be completely equipped with overhead "grid" for
the handling of operas, operettas, certain road shows and chamber music
attractions for which the large Hoch Auditorium is too large and the other
halls on the campus too small.

On the upper floor ample space should be provided for at least nine
large classrooms and studios for the Department of Design and some eight
studios and classrooms for the Department of Drawing and Painting.

Cost. The estimated cost of a building to serve adequately present
needs and provide for expansions that are sure to come is $300,000 to

$350,000.

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GYMNASIUM

Robinson gymnasium was erected in 1906 when the enrollment at Law-
rence was about 1400. Wo now have on the campus at Lawrence about 4400
students, or more than four times as many as in 1906. And the number of
women students at Lawrence in 1937-'38 exceeded slightly the total enroll-
ment of 1906!

These figures should indicate in a general way the inadequacy of
the present gymnasium plant in providing quarters for physical education
and recreation. The building must accommodate the athletic department, the
physical education staff for men and women, the intramural recreational
quarters, the academic classes in physical education, the varsity and fresh-
man basketball practice, teaching training in physical education and ath-
letics for the Oread Training School and all indoor intramural sports. The
built ing is in use must of the school year from 8:30 in the morning straight
through until nearly midnight, too late for the best considerations of stu-
dent health. But it cannot be otherwise if the present schedule is to con-
tinue. Everyone in the building is crowded--and there is no provision for
faculty use of the facilities.

The remedy to this acute situation--it is estimated that more dif-
ferent students by far are affected by this building through classes and
intramural sports than by any other building--is the construction of a
separate gymnasium for women and minor remodeling of the present gymnasi-
um to adapt it better to needs of the men.

The building proposed would provide adequate classrooms, physical
and corrective exercise rooms, recreational rooms, game courts, three
social meeting quarters, a seventy-five foot swimming pool with standard
equipment, a studio and stage for dancing classes, adequate locker space,
dressing booths, and shower baths, The present gymnasium could be re-
modeled at a cost of only a few thousand dollars to provide fairly ade-
quately facilities for the rooms for classes in physical education, offices
of men's instructional and intramural staffs, exercise and competition
rooms and courts, etc. Intramural recreation and competitive sports could
then be held in the afternoons, when they should be held, instead of late
at night. And there would be some opportunity for faculty to make use of
the facilities.

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