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Stanford University
March 16, 1924.
Dear Parents,
I am sincerely sorry that I caused you to think I had
lost ten ponds in weight. I infer from my mother's last letter that
I must have absent mindedly, written down my weight as 132 rather
than 142, which it was then and is now.My reference to a loss of
weight meant only two or three pounds and no more.

All classes are over for this quarter now, and final
examinations will consume our time this next week. I have already
received my grade, "B", in English Composition. Friday, I visited
my faculty advisor, Professor Cottrell and signed up for my next
quarter program. At eight o' clock on M.W.F. , I will take an ad-
vanced Economics course in banking ( that is if i can get in it ) .
At nine on M.W.F. I am taking a course in Essay Reading from a
lady professor, who is reported to invite her classes to have tea
with her once a week. At ten I will continue my present interesting
course in American History and at eleven I will take my first
Law Course , called an introduction to the study of law.

I am getting better grades than ever before this quarter
and hope to make a plus 15.

You remember I told you the two best speakers in each
section of my Extemporaneous Speaking class were to be selected
this week. I eulogized Eugene V. Debs in my talk and as a result,
was not one of the lucky ones.

This week and I am writing a 2000 word report on my study
of mental telepathy this quarter. I know father is interested in
this, so I will typewrite an extra duplicate and send it to him.

I wonder if you have ever heard of Dr. Bitting, the well
known Baptist minister of St. Louis. He has been preaching here
recently and I had lunch with him at the Union this week. He is
extremely modernistic and very hard to join to anything except a be-
lief in a deity. Men like him are the greatest enemies to Agnosticism
as they come so near to being reasonable without really being so
in one or two fundamentals , such as belief in a deity . I have on
my desk now a book called "Outspoken Essays " by W.R. Inge , the famous "gloomy" Dean of St.Paul's Cathedral, London, which I hope to read this vacation.

I also have on my desk a copy of a new magazine "The Am-
erican Mercury", edited by H.L. Mencken, the critic and George
Jean Nathan. It contains some very clever satires.

I attended my first college assembly this year when I
heard that a socialist was to speak. Paul Blanchard, who won every