Mrs. Lloyd Tucker, Ste
| Winfield, “ansas—

- Dre Porrest C. Allen spoke to me the other day during one of our golf

games of the fine musical talent your son Gerald possesses and the
‘gplondia honore thet have come to hin already, May T congratulate you end
-@lso Gerald on the recognition that nae come te him se fer in msic, He

_. 2 @m eriting to say in the most friendly way possible we shall be so
happy to have you both investigate the umsual opportunities and the
gplonéid faculty that ere available bere at the State University for ade
vanced study in wasic, and we hope thet Gerald may be enrelied ‘with us
hfs coming yeors I can say with little fear of contradiction that ve
have here a faculty in music second to nono in the middle west, of highly
peid thorevghly @quipped talented artist teachers for. the mest part that —
‘Will be glad to give Gerald the uost sympathetic attention that is is in
their power to gives ‘Some of us speut many years in Europe, sone twenty-
five or thirty yeare ago, minly with the idea of surrounding ourselves —
with es mich good music and hearing ac meh of the finer things in mesic
as we possibly could, — : )

te The enclosed card will give you just e sample of the large list of
Snterneationally known ertists that are brought bere to the campus every
year, to say nothing of the annusl Busic Festivel, the summer session .
Husic Camp, the many faculty and student recitals, All-Musical Vespers,

and other concerts thet ere evaileble to our students. ‘The ectivity
ticket which Gerald would have, would admit him. to these creat ,
without further cost. I know of no sehool in this section the country —
where thet is possible on the scale that it is cerri | eat the
State University. | |

‘Phe fees are amazingly low, so mch lower in.
of instruction would cost hia in any of the smller s
you will find it worthy of your eareful considerations te its
pays @ lerge portion of the cost of tuition so thet we 4%
wany cases to be a iuct that where some of the smaller schools offered
what they called so«called scholerships, even when a student accepted
this scholarship the fees ran higher than they would here at the State
University without a scholarship. In tact, every Kansas student coming
to the University of Kansas is a recipient in a sense of a scholership
because of the assistance that the state is giving him. |

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