October 12, 1932 - Wednesday

I got up early to study this morning. After my one o’clock I went up to the library and stayed most of the afternoon. George came over in the evening to study but we didn’t get much done.

George's letter home:

Dear Mother,

Me thinks there are some questions that I should answer for your peace of mind. I have received the money, my jacket, and anything else that you may have sent me. Thank you very much for them, Mom, I appreciate them very much.

Now here are two more things that I would like sent to me: my dictionary and my Larson’s History of England and The British Commonwealth. Tom Tongue and I bought a Modern Governments book together for a course we have, but he brought another one down from home last weekend. That means that I owe him for the other half of the book we bought. He is taking the English history course that I took last year and needs that history book. So, He has agreed to let me have the other half of the Modern Governments book if I will get that History book from home and let him use it during this year. That makes a good deal for me, in fact it saves me $1.40. Please send it, Mom.

I tried out for the Varsity Debating Team last evening, and I made it. I am certainly tickled for more than one reason. It will please Dad to know that I am finally going after my speech in real earnest, it is rather difficult to make the debating squad, a fact that encourages me very much, and it will give much experience that I can certainly use. I may be a success one of these days, you can never tell.

Old man cold is practically plowed under the sod now, and don’t think that doesn’t make me happy. It really was a good thing for me that I did stay home last weekend, for that did the trick. I will not be coming home this weekend, either, but I hope that I may come sometime.

Mother, if I sent you some samples of our dishes together with the number of each that we want, do you suppose you could buy them for me? I would rather have them bought at either Meier and Franks or Montgomery Wards and sent down here COD. The pattern will be impossible to match, but just so the dishes are of the same quality. Now don’t be shocked at their price, either, for I warn you that they will cost a lot of money. We are all but eating on the tablecloth, and we must buy some. I have had to buy a terrible amount of things this year; Jean didn’t buy a thing last year. No wonder he made money, he didn’t spend any. Well, I will pull through all right. Please tell me if you could do that.

That is all for now. I am going up to the gym to watch our swimming team swim against the SAE team. I hope we beat them.

Love,  Brother