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vanced golf courses. Golf is a sport that can be played
with proficiency by both sexes, and from the ages of 10
@ 70. In this respect it probably is one of the widest
and longest lasting ficlds of play of any athletic game.
In addition, it has the longest carry-over of any game.
Personally, I think the game ef golf should be given more
emphasis at the University of Kansas, much as it has been
in some of the other leading universities of the nation.

Well, Glenn, I find myself going along with you one hundred
percent 80 fiir as your and my desire is concerned with
regard to golf participation here at the University. But
the peculiar topography of Mount Oread does not lend to an
enlargement of our golf course, even to nine holes. But
I will let you in on a little secret. For years now I
have been dreaming. about an eighteen-hole golf course for
the University but it cannot be on the campus. I envisage
@ University of Kansas golf course with play fields for
tennis and gtr eports with a club house similar to the
Country Club. This may be five miles from Lawrence, but
the time is coming when such a play field and golf course
will be a part of the University. There are many people
who believe that it is just as intelligent to endow such
a play field for the students of the University of Kansas
as it is to give a much-needed building. And I am working
very definitely on that project. In your lifetime and mine
we will see such a thing come to pass. The students will
leave the campus and go out to this play field to re-
create themselves physically, just as they train their minds
under their instructors here on the campus. This will be
an integral part of their education,

Well, I am certainly glad to learn that, Doc. And that
plan has already been carried out at Iowa State College.
But of course they have ample acres adjacent to the college
campus which has made it possible. At present they have
one of the finest ecighteen-hole courses in Iowa. It was
laid out by Perry Maxwell, the same golf architect who laid
eut the new 18-hole course at the Lawrence Country Club.
Next year's Big Six golf championship will be decided on
that course. Getting back to the benefits from golf to

the average student, I would like to make this observation,
Since I am a booster for golf--that golf's emphasis on
grace, coordination, headwork and self-contrel, rather

than on speed, power and wéight, fit it properly into a
broad and helpful educational program.

I also heartily agree with that, Glenn, that point is what
we brought out in the early part of our discussion regard-
ing your handicap of under-poundage, which ordinarily

would render you less liable to make a varsity letter in
the sports of football or basketball, but which did not
handicap you when it came to this grand old Sco#eh game

of golf. And golf is on the increase everywhere. It is

& pleasurable activity in which gentility and sportsmanship -
can reach their highést peak. Where father, mother, sister,
and brother can improve their health, happiness, longevity
and appetite in a congenial foursome in God's great out of