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like nothing else, and enables me to keep awake studying after lunch -- although I don't drink it but a few times a week, and then never in the evening. Though those little demi-tasses of coffee and [[strikethrough]]demm [[/strikethrough]] - the other half tasse cream are delicious -- Miss Gerrish always serves after supper and Sunday dinner. 
  I borrowed Nancy Carroll's Greek plays and have been getting along in "Agamenmmnon" night by night. 
  Have met an awfully nice girl -- Jean Wright -- from a small toon near Minneapolis -- in my History class, though not in the conference -- medium height, blond, also not used to the sort of life led here, very much interested in her Humanities course which I certainly will take next year, loving music and having besides a victrola albums of Grieg, Tchokowsky, Beethoven, and all the others I like. She's rather shy, but looking forward. In stead of studying history and woooying my head off about not being able to expound upon it last night, I went down and we discussed it, which was much more valuable a way to study. Few people around here like to discuss studies, either because they do not have time or do not have patience or interest. 
  Do you suppose I will be able to get these books at the library at home to finish up my history work during the holidays: Hayes, "A Political and Cultural History of ModernEurope"BB vol. 1; Lucas. "Renaissance and Reformation"; and P. Smith, Age of the Reformation"? If so, it will save much labor and worry after Christmas vacation. If I can read Bio an hour a day, History a couple of hours, and devote the rest of my time to turning out a decent English paper, I will have such a head start that exams will be moderately easy -- and will in addition have [[strikethrough]] n [[/strikethrough]] not a single English assignment until the end of the term, only a few Biology, and no History! Will you tell me if you think I can get them? Otherwise I will have to work hard this week taking notes on the reading before I leave. I would also like to read "The Praise of Folly" by Erasmus when I am home. Fourteen days is all too short. 
  Well, I shall have to go off to the scaffold pretty soon. 
  Did Grandma tell you what Mrs. Barry felt it her patriotic duty to do during the coal strike? [[strikethrough]] ,, [[/strikethrough]] buy another ton of coal? 

   Love,
       Doris