UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE

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DIVISION OF PHYSICAL. EDUCATION AND
INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS August 9th
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Dr. Forrest C. Allen
Haemwold Cottage
Culver, Indiana

Dear Dr. Allen:

We received your letters Saturday
morning and this morning and are glad to know that you are
having such a frivilous time back in little 'ol New York.

If it is cool up where you are you
had better stay there as it is scorching here. All of last
week and beginning with this Monday morning the temperature
has been hovering around the 100 mark and the humidity is
very high, making everyone very uncomfortable and cross.

They have our offices completely
wrecked and we are installed back in the large intramural
office. Mr. Falkenstien and I have put our desks end to end
and a few filing cabinets on the end of them so that every-
one who comes in has to feel his way around.

As far as they have gone with the new
arrangement it looks very well and I believe is going to be
much nicer than we anticipated on first consideration. When
they cut the door from your office into the hall they ran
into a night big water pipe but luckily it was a dead one and
they could just cut out the part that was in the way. The
deor came out nicely that they cut through the stone wall and
the glass partitions are working in nicely into the front.
office. It looks as if someone had just pushed it over to the
other side.

Elwyn N. Dees put out to sea yesterday
on that (we tried to tell him stormy) sea of matrimony. And
as would be the case, I believe it was the hottest and most
perspiring day we have had, but we stuck it out and saw him
safely on his way. It was a lovely wedding regardless of the
weather and Maxine looked very lovely and cool in her new fall
ensemble and orchids-! (I am afraid Elwyn is making a rather
expensive start there don't you think because women have rather
a weakness for such blossoms).

They are motoring up to Canada to visit
Milo Clawson and Ormand Beach and plan to be gone about three