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saw "Stairway to Heaven", a highly imaginative but, we decided, too unrealistic & sadly lacking humor, movie; then a bite to eat in Cambridge.  I don't insist on that; I think he saves his money for it & probably had had little to eat the rest of the day.  I feel ashamed of my attitude--so afraid he wanted to marry me, was scheming away; for he is the most sensible person in the world, would never be foolish enough to do such a thing as marry a green, neurotic freshman.  Self-centeredness is a hard thing to overcome, but it shall be attempted.  He is wonderfully patient.  Said he'd like to help me with my term paper in History, which I'll write on the 17th C. Dutch flowering.  He also said quite frankly that he hadn't gotten over caring for Ina, who is, to my mind, one of the most perfect women you could find.  She's nineteen, having been kept back when she entered this country; has only enough of an accent to be charming; has a marvelous peaches and [[crossedout]] cre [[/crossedout]] snow complexion, blond hair & brown eyes--a very beautiful face, if rather sturdy body.  I told her about Van Dorn, and she wanted to meet him.  She has decided to become a botanist; Dex will be the biologist and also ecologist; they will move to California this summer, where he will have a position in a university (several are open).  Summers they will take trips, putting together both sides to work out the ecology.  She'll finish school there; Dex wants her to get a PhD also.  They are all settled, & Ina is knitting a tremendous quilt of scraps; I got [[crossed out]] sev [[/crossed out]] enough from girls on this floor for about 50" of it.

I can list the other botanists now:  Thimann, Barghoorn, Raup, Wetmore, Johnston & Mangelsdorf.  I suppose Dad knows them all.

English lit. is proving very easy, as are all my subjects, since I like them so.  We read about 30 pages every other night.  In the last few days I have read Smolett's "Humphry Clinker" & half of Fielding's "Joseph Andrews", both of which are about 330 pp long (each, 660 in all), & quite vivid in picturing 18th c. England (early), corresponding