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October 23, 1921
Dear Mother, Father, and Pete:
Today has been rather uneventful. I got up for breakfast, intending to get a lot of work done this morning. I don't know why I was so tired, but my mind refused to function, so at ninethirty I gave up in despaire, lay down, and woke up feeling fine at twelve-thirty. However, I didn't get any work done in my sleep.
Helen Stern whom you met at Lafayette debate, Pete, came over for dinner and after dinner we went to pay a call on her roommate who is in the Infirm, and after that went on a fine long walk out to Kenyon estate. It was a gorgeous day. We got back at a quarter to four and I went to the libe to work on my J topic. My mind never worked quite so well, i think. I just got back and think that if I spend the rest of the evening on it, I will finish it, all except the typing. As a matter of fact, I have to finish it, because it is due without fail Tuesday morning and I am booked for my golf match tomorrow.
The meeting last night was more or less of a fizzle. I thought Mr. Holt spoke rather well. His theme was the possibility of getting somewhere in disarming, and he showed through historical illustration that progress was made more or less in that direction. Then Mr. Gibbons, about whose versatility as a speaker and thinker I had heard a great deal, got up and pulled off a lot of vaudeville stuff, spoke to the audience as though we were all children, threw cold water on all Mr. Holt had said, "thanked God that we did not belong to the League of Nations", and ranted on for about three quarters of an hour. His main idea was that what was feasible on paper was not always feasible in practice. Mr. Holt had difficulty in keeping his seat while all this was going on. He certainly did not show any profound thinking. Helen Gratz, presiding over the meeting as president of the Political League of the college, had a read a telegram from Charles E. Hughes wishing the meeting success, and hoping that they "would arrive at sane conclusions based upon a clear understanding of the pertinent facts". Mr. Gibbons kept constantly referring to that telegram, saying that he could just see Mr. Hughes dictating that telegram to his stenographer, with his beard brushing his shirt, and his cold eyes looking down at the paper while he wrote about the "clear understanding of the pertinent facts", and he seemed to think that those who advocated limitations of armaments could not have the clear understanding of the facts. He certainly represented well those who have no sympathy for the meeting.
Tomorrow is my big day. Wish me good luck. I'd give anything to win!
Love,
Fannie
Dear Mother, Father, and Pete:
Today has been rather uneventful. I got up for breakfast, intending to get a lot of work done this morning. I don't know why I was so tired, but my mind refused to function, so at ninethirty I gave up in despaire, lay down, and woke up feeling fine at twelve-thirty. However, I didn't get any work done in my sleep.
Helen Stern whom you met at Lafayette debate, Pete, came over for dinner and after dinner we went to pay a call on her roommate who is in the Infirm, and after that went on a fine long walk out to Kenyon estate. It was a gorgeous day. We got back at a quarter to four and I went to the libe to work on my J topic. My mind never worked quite so well, i think. I just got back and think that if I spend the rest of the evening on it, I will finish it, all except the typing. As a matter of fact, I have to finish it, because it is due without fail Tuesday morning and I am booked for my golf match tomorrow.
The meeting last night was more or less of a fizzle. I thought Mr. Holt spoke rather well. His theme was the possibility of getting somewhere in disarming, and he showed through historical illustration that progress was made more or less in that direction. Then Mr. Gibbons, about whose versatility as a speaker and thinker I had heard a great deal, got up and pulled off a lot of vaudeville stuff, spoke to the audience as though we were all children, threw cold water on all Mr. Holt had said, "thanked God that we did not belong to the League of Nations", and ranted on for about three quarters of an hour. His main idea was that what was feasible on paper was not always feasible in practice. Mr. Holt had difficulty in keeping his seat while all this was going on. He certainly did not show any profound thinking. Helen Gratz, presiding over the meeting as president of the Political League of the college, had a read a telegram from Charles E. Hughes wishing the meeting success, and hoping that they "would arrive at sane conclusions based upon a clear understanding of the pertinent facts". Mr. Gibbons kept constantly referring to that telegram, saying that he could just see Mr. Hughes dictating that telegram to his stenographer, with his beard brushing his shirt, and his cold eyes looking down at the paper while he wrote about the "clear understanding of the pertinent facts", and he seemed to think that those who advocated limitations of armaments could not have the clear understanding of the facts. He certainly represented well those who have no sympathy for the meeting.
Tomorrow is my big day. Wish me good luck. I'd give anything to win!
Love,
Fannie
