UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.
Lawrence

November 9, 1939

TO CHAIRMEN AND HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS:

In planning the class schedule for your department for
the spring semester you are requested to schedule at least one-third
of your regular lecture and recitation classes for afternoon hours.
You will recall that the Senate has adopted a recommendation to this
effect.

During the current semester the congestion during the
morning hours is doubtless the worst on record. This request is
made in an effort to relieve that condition. Every available three-
hour classroom is now in use at 9330 and 10:30. Only a few second
or third choice rooms are free at 8:30, 11:30, or 1:30. At 2:30,
however, most rooms are not in use, and at 3:30 they are generally
free.

Some fear may be felt that 2:30 and 3:30 classes will not
fill. It is suggested that this problem will not materialize if re-
quired junior~senior courses are scheduled more generally in the
afternoon. Several departments have tried this with satisfactory
results.

Cooperation of all departments on this important problem
is earnestly requested. I feel that the scheduling of more afternoon
classes will give much needed relief from the present overcrowding
of morning hours and, in addition, will offer some possibility of
assignment of ndditional office space.

Sincerely yours,

RAYMOND NICHOLS,
Chairman, Committee on
Assignment of Quarters.