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We are visualizing the time when you will all be coming back, and what a. sight
it will be for sore eyes! Today is a real spring day on Jit. Oread. The temperature
is between 60 and 65. A torrential dcempour tvo days ago has greened things until.
the buds are bursting, we feel, prematurely. The co-eds 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 Navy uniforms, with
enly a few 4-Fers, 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 minor-

ity. :

Outdoor track is in full swing. The indoor track. team was not as successful
as last year due to the fact that Couch Ray Kunehl did not have the material this
year that he possessed lust 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. 7 Oe ’

In a letter this morning from Chancellor Deane Wi. Malott to heads of departments
concerning the budget, the Chancellor says, "The University faces another year of un-
certainty. Enrollment will depend somewhat on the progress of the war. We have no
assurance of any military program after this semester, and it seoms inevitable under |
present Selective Service policies that civilian student population will continue to
decline. These facts should guide you in formulating the requests for your depart-
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 mde of the Navy V-12 program and whether we have an opportunity
to obtain a Naval R.0.T.C. for the University.

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

jarold A. Burt, formerly of Eureka, and captain of tho varsity football team |
back in 1924, writes from Shreveport, La., that his son, Duke, is planning. to come
to K.U. next fall. Duke is a fine football player and an excellent student. . He
has pleyed football at Sewanee for the past two years. Harold and Mrs. Burt ond
their family were on the campus a year ogo, ond what 4 delight it was to see him
with tw fine sons and a lovely wife. So the old Jayhawkers 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 well-
rounded life. oo ee

Kansas 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. ie was in 4-F duc to a bad shoulder, but the Army
doctors 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 jnnual Interscholastic Moet will be held in Stadium Field on April 21.
Henry Shenk, Ray Kenehl, Elmer Schaake and the rest of the coaches are planning on a
little smoker and bullfest the night before the Meet in Robinson Gymnasium. Boxing,
cider and doughnuts, chocolate freezos on a- stick, amd go forth, will bo served to
the coaches and their friends. Just another offort to have the visitors know that
we appreciate their coming.