Chaneelior Deane We Mmlott
University of Kansas

Dear Chancellor Malott:

Really this letter is not of much importance, but it is a desire on
my part te explain why there was a slight mix=up prior to Professor Joe Wilkins
Glee Club singing the Star Spangled Banner during the flag-raising at the
_ Kansas-Nebraska Basketball Game.

| When I eame here in 1920, I believed that dramatizing events and —
using spectacular display at our basketball games was about ag important as the
game itself. There is a fifteen minute intermission between halves; and we,

_ vealizing that the public desired fins entertainment, have always utilized this

_ ‘time to the best advantage. Fifteen minutes is a long time to site Some diversion
away from the strenuous game of basketball is always welcome.

The arranging of these entertaiments has always been in my hands.
When I delegated it to others they would just put in a hit and miss affair which
did not satisfy. I realized that perhaps many people come to football and basket-
ball games to enjoy the entertairment as well as the came.

: We have put on a variety of entertainment: sommunity singings exhibi-
tiens by the Women's Physical Edueation Departments Men's Physical Education
display; exhibitions of square dances, with the small village callers girls’
fancy bieycle riding, etee We try to get away from too much of the physical
element of heavy athletic work and display the aesthetic and finer arts of
physical educations

These between-halves exhibitions are something like the Orphewm bills;
Sometimes pretty good and sometimes terrible. But we constantly endeavor to
improve theme I have never seen any of these exhibitions. I am always in the
dressing room with the teame I plan the programa and take the word of the people
who do see theme .

; If Professor Wilkins could have his Glee Club sing at each flage
raising, it would add tremendously. Neturally, I do not know how it impresses
the individual members of the audiences Ever sinee this patriotic demonstration
was inaugurated, this lights-out, spet-light en the flag with the flageraising
and the Star Spangled Banner, it has always put me in my place nationally with
true reverence for the importance of things in the UeSeAs In this panorama
of impressive memory, the game itself takes its true place of secondary importaneée

We have been putting on between=halves entertainment for over twenty
years and we find that the people like it. The first time you saw Professor Joe
Wilkins with his Glee Club at the Missouri game, I asked him to do this, but I
did not want to presume upon his time by asking for a second or a third similar