February 15, 1946,

Mr, Paul B, Lawson, Dean,
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
University of Kansas, :

Dear Dean Lawson;

In reply to your letter concerning the
physical education classes meeting two periods a week,
it seems hardly fair to condemn faculty members or a
department upon the report of students, without giving
that department a right to an explanation first, Some
students consider only that they take physical education
twice a week and do not think of the longer period,

I have this to report about the two period
@ week physical education classes, I shall use the
' 10:30 Tuesday-Thursday class as an example, This class
reported dressed for work at 10330 and was dismissed at
11:20 when the whistle blew, This constituted two work-
ing periods of 50 minutes each or a total of 100 working
minutes, The 10:50 Monday-Wednesday-Friday class report~
ed dressed for work at 10:37 and was dismissed at 11:10,
This constituted a working period of 33 minutes or a
weekly total of 99 minutes,

Some students did have a class immediately
following their physical education class, Otherwise their
schedule could not be arranged to take the activity which
they wanted, We discouraged this, but if their mxt class
was in a building close by and they prefered to rush for
that class they were allowed to contime in the physical
education class, They were not allowed to cut the physical
edueation period short. |

gy hope this will help clear up our position on
the matter, and if you have specific cases to the contrary,
I would be glad to check them with you, |

Sincerely,

Ruth I, Hoover —

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