Stanford Student Letters and Memoirs

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[typed] tonight we four played again. Friday something funny happened. For the first time this term I went to football with a man - Tom McGrew(?), when whom should I see but Howard Veeder. Wasn't it queer! He came up and chatted till Tom asked if he could walk back with me. Wednesday and Thursday I believe were uneventfuloh! no,- Thursday we got our French Revolution papers back and I got "90 - excellent" and Wednesday we got our French exam. back and I got "very good" !!!

Tuesday was Theodora's birthday and we had such fun, if only you had been here - your dear package came Monday and I hid it around till the first thing Tuesday morning when Theodora woke up-that and a glass of apricot jam Mrs. Fork sent about two weeks ago were the only things the dear child had. I hadn't gotten anything for her, because we have the money together and she keeps account, so I couldn't get anything without her knowing it, besides I knew she could spend her own money more to her/satisfaction that I so I contented myself with getting violets and autumn leaves and a birthday cake. Gertrude came down in the afternoon with a shopping bag all finished for her. We hung it on the bureau in plain sight and I had such a laugh when Ora couldn't see it. No doubt Theodora told it all to you, how the girls came in after dinner and later how it turned out to be Helen Younger's 20th birthday and we made a coconut cake out of pasteboard with 20 lighted candles and a mock bouquet with a pampas grass center piece and took up to her. Ora, shared her violets and hickory nuts with her. I looked at points for the neck in the city for Ora but couldn't find any half as pretty as the ones you got so gave it up. The hickory nuts were such a treat to so many people - we finished them to-night. Monday I had an awfully hard examination in Anglo-