DIVISION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND ATHLETICS LINCOLN PHYSICAL EDUCATION FOR MEN February 27, 1942 Dr. Forrest C. Allen Department of Physical Education University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas My dear Dr. Allen: In reply to your inguiry of the 23rd, will say that we have not as yet—and probably will not—greatly modify our physical education program because of the war. My philosophy of physical education needs has always been that high physical efficiency is very important in ‘peacetime as well as in war and therefore we have not modi- fied our program to conform with the maddiern trends to the same extent that a great many other institutions have and, consequently, our program without modification conforms pretty well to the war emergency demand. To make clear just what I mean, I take the liberty to quote from some material which Nelson Metcalf of the University of Chicago is putting before the students of that institution. He writes: "For twenty years echool and college physical education has been geared for peace. Emphasis has been centered largely upon social outcomes, recreational values, and the developing of interest and skill in leisure time play acti- vities useful throughout life. In time of war physical education, like all education, must change its direction. It must be geared for war." I think Metcalf's statement does indicate pretty well the modern trend in many of our colleges and universities, but I believe, in contrast to the aims he mentions, our pro- gram is pretty well geared for war. We are modifying our program to some extent and we are particularly putting on a pretty vigorous campaign to try to encourage a much larger percent of our students to avail themselves of the oppor- tunities we offer to develop physical fitness, ete, Speci- fically, some of the minor changes we are making in our courses include the stressing of very vigorous calisthenic work and gymnastic apparatus work to try to develop in- creased muscular strengh and agility. In our wrestling,