August 2, 1941.

Mr. Robert Lloyd,

Princeton, Kansas.

Dear Robert: a

_ your baseball ability and he stated that he was going to endeavor

_ to get you to matriculate at the University of Kansas. Of course,
we would be happy to have you here and I am sure that you realize
that the great opportunity would come to you in getting an education.

We pay 35/ an hour for work and it is always possible
for all students to work two hours e day and carry a full academics
load. But if a student works three hours a dey then the deans curtail
the number of hours to 12. A full load is 15 hours. Personally, I
think that a boy makes a mistake to work too many hours end thereby

‘loses the opportumity to carry a full course.

. The Big Six rules state that an athlete mst have
passing work in 27 hours the two preceding semesters. If a boy :
carries 15 hours a semester his total acowmletion would be 30 hours,
and if a boy should have a little bad luck and fail a course, which
I hope you won't do, then he would fall below the 27 hours required
for him to participate in athletics, _ |

Now you will understand, Robert, that while I have
‘mentioned the required number of hours for athletic competition, I
do not believe that athletics are the most important pert of your
school life. In fact, it is the most wnimportent part. In ten or
_ twenty years you men who graduate from the University will be running
this state. I say that with no flattery intended because I can re~
member when I was in college with Alf Lendon, Roy Roberts of the
Kensas City Star, Tom Grant of the Busines: Men's Assurance of Kansas
‘City, Meurice Breidenthal, president of the. Security National Bank,
Tom Sweeney, president of the Peoples State Bank, Walter Thiele,
associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Judge Hugh Means, and so many
others too numerous to mention. These men then were just youncsters
like you and Dean Vartin. But before long shaps got into
- pleees of trust end the old-timers went the of all life. It was
then that these fellows took over and they in very important and
responsible positions,

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