February 11, 1920. 
Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: 
I shall answer your telegram as soon as I go to MaiN. That is an intelligent thing to tell you by letter. I don't know what you mean about the Washington celebration. There is no such thing that I know of. 
I shall go to New York Friday this week. If it is too hard on me I will not try it again. 
You can get all the dope about grades from the back of the enclosed report card, Pete. Also, please send the translation of L'Aiglon. That is what I read, and our English class decided to study it before Second Hall, so the book will come in very handy. Also send the "Oxford Book of English Verse" if we have it. Of all awful things, our class want to take up contemporary English poetry. I'm afraid Miss Buck picked out my wants wrong when she put me into that class. 
I like having Latin in the morning much better, of course. The class is very stupid, however. Miss Bourne tried to be quite friendly. I was reading your telegram when she had been discussing marks with me the other night, and I had mentioned that I had gotten a three page letter from my Father congratulating me on having gotten only one A (in connection with the insignificance of marks, and she had thought it a great joke). So this morning she said, "Is that another message of congratulation from you father?" 
I don't like the dirtiness of the solid geometries at the book exchange, so I shall order one from Brentanno's and have it charged to you, Mother. 
I am now in the midst of drying, or rather, letting my hair dry. With Junior Prom on Friday, there is no use in trying to get an appointment with Jane Wilson. Speaking of Prom, Lcuy[sic] told me last night that she had saved a dance in the main prom, that is, Saturday night, that I would be allowed to dance in the vestibule (off from the main hall)! Some few Freshmen are lucky. 
I am having the -----of a time with drawing figures in Sol Geometry. It took me ten minutes at the board this morning to make anything like a decent figure. Miss Wells was very much amused. I asked her after class how to learn. She told me to build figures with anything I had in my room, toothbrushes, per anything. 
I have not gotten started on my history topic yet. 
Love,