Monday, May 28, 2012

November 25, 1956

Dear Thom,

I did fairly well in my midterms except for math which as you know, has plagued me from the beginning.  My midterm average is only 80, but that is not too bad for a first year, midterm average at Notre Dame.  Out of 450 freshmen Commerce students, 400 are flunking one subject and 350 are flunking two subjects.  It is still up in the air whether or not I will receive a pink flunking slip in math for the half.  The slips come out tomorrow and I soon will know.

You're getting horny?  I've reached the gnawing-on-the-woodwork stage.

I did get home for Thanksgiving Day itself, but that was all.

I suppose the glaciers have moved in up there by now.  There are a few inches of snow on the ground down here.

I'm not surprised that you left G. by the wayside.  You know my opinion of her.  My high opinion of high school fuzz still remains the same, however.  Who needs intellectual stimulation?

As for our football team, we are clearly victims of circumstances.  At least we are not a "football factory" as Dartmouth appears to be.  You certainly had your nerve, humbling poor Princeton 19 to 0.  That's not cricket, you know.  Of course not, it's football, but I still wager that Princeton men will not speak to Dartmouth men for seven generations  - - at least .  Marriages will be
broken up, civil wars will devastate the land - - brothers against sisters (heh, heh), etc.

I trust you had fun traveling in the historic footsteps of Ethan Allen and his Green Mt. Boys.  Find any redcoats, eh?

I will anxiously await your next letter.  We are getting out for Christmas after classes on the 19th of December.

Your truly,

Bob

KB to GN3

ha, ha, and ho









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