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90 Francois -- What kind of pie this evening, Mary? Mary -- Apple, cream, berry and mince. Francois -- Is there good brandy in the mince pie? Mary (shocked) -- Hey! Francois -- Hay! Hay! I don't want any hay pie. (Everyone nearly passes out at this.) Francois -- I'd rather have jam pie, Mary. The kind where the upper crust is jammed down against the lower. (At this time, everyone does pass out, just recovering in time to hear -- ) WIND PUDDING!! [[underline]] To Willie, October 8, 1925: [[/underline]] This assignment I have means studying and working outside quite a bit too if one is to get the most out of it, so lots of my evenings now are spent here in a technical book about synchronous motors and generators. There are several points yet, I don't get quite clearly. (Here's where I get back at you again for your fifty-four letter chemical terms.) I don't quite understand, for instance, why the synchronous impedance ampere-turns equals the armature reaction ampere-turns plus the open-circuit no-load air-gap ampere-turns times the reactive drop in the armature as a percent of the rated phase voltage. There are a few little items like that that need clearing up. [[underline]] To Willie, October 9, 1925: [[/underline]] I am not entirely unfamiliar with the game of instructing freshmen, as I was one of the assistant instructors in mechanical drawing at Syracuse for a year, my junior year. But it only amounted to an aggregate of eight hours a week. However we used to have some grand times up there in the little office answering questions and marking papers. It is fun to study people. I remember too that as a rule, the best in the class were the neatest. Of course, in drawing, that has a more direct bearing on the quality of the work than in chemistry, but there is a connection between neatness and accuracy and all around quality of work. ...... Again the time has come for all the little crystal radio sets to be smuggled into the offices and surreptitiously hooked in between a wire hanging out the window, and the steam pipe. News of the World Series comes from the aerial of WGY directly across the avenue, so you can easily imagine that it doesn't take much of a set to receive it. There's a little set hidden away in the drafting room somewhere but I don't know exactly where. I only know I saw a tiny wire wind out from beneath a lot of blueprint file cases and run up to a steam pipe. That's enough. Somebody's enjoying the Series. ...... I shall be glad to have had test for it teaches one to have confidence in one's self when handling such stuff. The latter, they say, is the greatest benefit to be derived from the test course. That is, it means that it gives one assurance when one waltzes up to a 50,000 KW turbine-generator set worth
