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that is valuable; Dr Tisza agrees. I see the effects upon some as Harry of unchastity involving much loss of faith in life (in my recent date with Nappy I felt a [[strikethrough]] great [[/strikethrough]] new ability to control as contrasted with the date before Christmas (which surprised him), but I see too that a certain amount of sexual activity (petting) is quite normal. You find it hard to realize the status of respectibility in the college community. There is not the small-town collective interest at all; which makes for [[strikethrough]] fearsome [[/strikethrough]] individualism which has always made me feel small & lost; which you cannot realize the extent of. Getting through college without being much moulded by this emphasis is not possible.  [[strikethrough]] When I am able to sit down & plan my life 1, 2, 3 I shall be doing better than most people. [[/strikethrough]]  I have talked particularly with a very fine girl, Alice Dash, who has just completed successfully a course of psychiatric treatment; she advises me to it, [[strikethrough]] but [[/strikethrough]] as my sessions were scarcely a scratch: but I [[strikethrough]] shall [[/strikethrough]] believe in waiting first a while for adjustment which progresses. If I can get into Everett (the coop) house (where Alice [[strikethrough]] was [[/strikethrough]] is) next year I think the thing will be finally ironed out -- the spirit there is most wonderful as contrasted with much bad in dorm life.

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Dr. Tisza, per correspondence in previous projects