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We are visualizing the time when you will all be coming back, and wiat a sight

“Gt will be for sore eyes$ Today is a real spring day on Mt, Oread. The temperature |

is between 60 and 65, A torrential downpour two days ago has greened things until

the buds are bursting, we feel, prematurely. The coeeds are realizing that spring

has sprung and they have that wistful look in their eyes. Kansas girls are as

pretty as ever. For the men on the campus, about all we see are Wavy uniforms, with —
only a few 4«Fters, many of whom are halt or lame, The faculty has been boiled down

to the bare bone, And occasionally now and then you can see one of the men who has

made a romance of study weaving his way across the campus, but they are in the. minoritys

Outdoor track is in full ovines The indoor track team was not as successful
as last year due to the fact that Coach Ray Kanehl did not have the material this
year that he possessed last season, Henry Shenk and Elmer Schaake start spring
football practice Monday, ‘They are not at all sure as to the available material
that may report, but they are going to find out. |

In a letter this morning from Chancellor Deane W, Malott)to heads of departments
concerning the budget, the Chancellor says, "The University faces another year of une
certainty, Enrollment will depend somewhat on the progress of the war, We have no
assurance of any military program after this semester, and it seems inevitable under
present Selective Service policies that civilian student population will continue to
decline, These facts should guide you in formulating the rayeeese for your —
ment for the year 1945=46,"

So you see we are in a dilemma, In another two weeks we may know what dis-
position will be made of the Navy Vel2 program and whether we have an opportunity
to obtain a Naval R.O.TeC,. for the University.

Athleties are as uncertain as all other activities on Mt, Oread, but we will
carry on and will keep things going a you get back. And when you get back
things will boil

Harold As Burt, formerly of Bureka, and captain of the varsity football team
back in 1924, writes from Shreveport, La,, that his son, Duke, is planning to come
to KeU, next fall. Duke is a fine football player and an excellent student. He
has played football at Sewanee for the past two years. Harold and Mrs. Burt and
their family were on the campus a year ago, and what'a delight it was.to see him
with two fine sons and a lovely wife, So the old Jayhawhers are sending their
fledglings back to the campus. Harold has ambitions for Duke to get an Engineer-
ing education, but of course he wants him to play football as a part of a welle
rounded lifes

Kanens. apparently will have no baseball team this year because the boys are
getting mighty scarce. Norman "Whitey" Carlson, a dandy baseball prospect, who was
a member of the varsity basketball team, went over to Leavenworth two weeks ago,
and he is an A No. 1 soldier now, He was in 4=F due to a bad shoulder, but the Army
doetors put their hands on him and he was warm, and they said, Brother, you are in,.
so he is on his way back home to New Jersey. He will be called from there,

Our 41st Annual Interscholastic Meet will be held in-Stadium Field on April 21.
Henry Shenk, Ray Kanehl, Elmer Schaake and the rest of the coaches are planning on a
little smoker and bublfest the night before the Meet in Robinsoa Gymnasium. Boxing,
cider and doughnuts, chocolate freezes on a stick, and so forth, will be served to
the coaches and their friends. Just amother effort to have the visitors know that
we appreciate their coming.