THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS
AND SCIENCES

LAWRENCE
OFFICE OF THE DEAN

February 9, 1946

Dr. Fe Ce Allen

Department of Physical Education
University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas

My dear Dr. Allen:

A number of students have told me that the gym classes which
are scheduled for two full hours per week do not actually
hold the students for the full houre Dean Ulmer tells me
that he has been given this same report from a goodly number
of students.

Our faculty has approved Physical Education for credit with
the understanding that the classes meet three hours a week,
and the move of the Department of Physical Education to reduce
certain class meetings to two times a week has not been ap=
proved by our faculty. Since we have been told that students
taking the twice a week program would actually be held longer
each day and so would get in about as much actual time in the
class per week as the classes which meet three times a week,
T had not felt that it would be necessary to get this shift
to twice a week approved by the faculty. Now I am troubled
because several students have told me that, as far as actual
work is concerned, they put in only about thirty minutes per
day in these classes which are supposed to last a full hour.

It is too late to do anything about it now for this Spring
semester except to ask that the students be held in these
twice a week classes to something nearer forty~five to fifty
minutes in the class exercises. As for next year I feel that
all classes should go back to the three times a week program
as far as the College students are concerned, since I am not
at present satisfied with the twice a week arrangement.

Sincerely yours,
Paul B. Lawson, Dean

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