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Stanford, Dec 10, 1899.

My dear Mother:

I have been extremely busy last week and look forward to an incessant grind all this week. This making up back-work, keeping up with present work and at the same time preparing a thesis upon an abstract problem in Economics, is not the most enjoyable occupation under the sun; but, I presume, must be endured in the cause of "Education". If I make up all my work this semester I shall probably graduate all right in May; if I do not, then my graduation may be postponed until Sept. 1900 or even Dec. 1900. One of my professors said to me at the supper table the other evening - "You can't expect to graduate, can you? - coming in so late in the semester?" I assured him that it was the easiest thing in the world. If I myself