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OFFICE OF THE DEAN

THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS

COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS
AND SCIENCES

LAWRENCE

‘April 25, 1938

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

My dear Doctor Allen:

In reply to your letter of April 15 in which you suggested
making one day a week essentially a period of Health
Instruction in both freshmen and sophomore gym, I feel I
should say that in my opinion this would not be advisable
at the present time.

At its last meeting our Faculty voted to put freshmen gym
on the same basis as sophomore gym, intending, I am sure,
this would mean that each year's work would consist of
three hours a week of exercise.

In addition, I believe it is going to take a little while
for all of the departments which are interested in the
general matter of personal and community health to get
together in order to organize a mutually satisfactory
program. The departments especially interested at the
present time, in addition to your own, in such a program
are the Student Health Service and the Departments of
Physiology and Bacteriology, as well as the.School of Edu-=
cation. It occurs to me that perhaps the best solution

of the problem would be to have a cooperative course, but
whatever our final decision, it would be well to spend
most of the time between now and next spring in getting
together on the whole matter and in making a real effort to
get a program which would be satisfactory to all concerned,
After thinking the matter over, I believe we can call a
conference of interested departments next fall to work the
matter out.

Sincerely yours,

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Lawson, Dean

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