THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS

COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS

AND SCIENCES
OFFICE OF THE DEAN LAWRENCE

February 18, 1942

Dr. Forrest C. Allen
Department of Physical Education
University of Kansas

My dear Dr. Allen:

Evidently I did a bum job in expressing myself as I did about the
matter of auditing physical activity classes. I really did not
mean: to blame the department for anything, for if blame is to be
assessed, this office is more blameworthy than your department for
we were the ones who passed out the auditor's cards without which
you would not have had the auditors.

The facts are that for sometime my conscience has been bothering

me about the way we were handling the matter; hence my letter
suggesting that students should regularly enroll in these classes,
either for credit or without credit. Evidently both Miss Hoover

and Miss Stapleton have felt that enrollment as auditors was not
satisfactory and prefer what we are now suggesting. I think, there-
fore, that we are all agreed that requiring enrollment with or with-
out credit is the best way to handle the matter. Will you be kind
enough to let the members of your staff read this letter, which I
trust ‘will explain things to their satisfaction.

Sincerely yours, ;

OS OG!

Paul B. Lawson, Dean
PBL:js

PS. I am glad to see by the morning paper that you are to have a
select bodyguard down at Norman on the 27th. However, the need for
such a bodyguard is a commentary of some sort or other upon the sport-
menship of the institution which feels that it should furnish it. T
may be living in a fool's paradise, but I can not imagine such a thing
being done on this campus.