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that will most quickly and easily develop physical strength, endurance,
agility, ete., and among those we are trying to push are the general
physical education work, handball, wrestling, boxing, and swimming, and
football to some extent, We are also trying to encourage general use of
the trampoline, which gives a surprisingly good workout and which we have
found is the most popular piece of apparatus in our gymnasium.

In answer to your inquiry concerning compulsory physical education,
will say that I doubt very much if the University of Nebraska widl go in

to this inasmuch as ow present Chancellor is quite opposed to compulsory
physical education, but he does seem to be in sympathy with the pushing of
our program and the encouragement of the optional work to the greatest
possible degree. He would not oppose compulsory physical training for

the duration, I kmow, if the request for the same came from the students,
but I am positive he would oppose it otherwise. As you are doubtless
aware, we have never had compulsory (required) physical education for men
with the exception of the one year required of freshmen in the Agricultural
College, which, by the way, was put in at the request of the Agricultural
College students. It is true further, however, that all men excused from
Military Science because of physical disability are required to substitute
an equal number of credit hours (four) in lieu of the military drill. We
have always had what I have felt was quite a satisfactory voluntary regis~
tration in our practical work, but, of course, this has been helped somewhat
by the fact that we grant regular academic credit for this work on the same
basis as any other laboratory work in the University. This academic credit
program has been in force here for over forty years and I think has been a
great help.

I think you have one of owr catalogs which shows the rather wide
variety of optional practical courses we offer to our students. Of course,
this is a time when we can stress, too, our four-year major program
inasmuch as we already have a shortage in well-trained physical directors
end athletic coaches and there is -—- and of course will continue to be --
a demand for such training in the Army and Navy.

I would suggest that you might get copies of the material which
Metcalf has put out at Chicago as these may offer you quite a good many
suggestions as to what they are doing there on this emergency program.

If there is other information you wish, do not hesitate to call
upon me, With kindest regards, I am

Very sincerely yours,

(Signed) R. G. CLAPP, M.D.
Professor and Chairman,
Physical Education for Men.