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[typed] tonight we four played again. Friday something funny happened.
For the first time this term I went to football with a man -
Tom McGrew(?), when whom should I see but Howard Veeder. Wasn't it
queer! He came up and chatted till Tom asked if he could walk
back with me. Wednesday and Thursday I believe were uneventful-
oh! no,- Thursday we got our French Revolution papers back and I
got "90 - excellent" and Wednesday we got our French exam. back
and I got "very good" !!!

Tuesday was Theodora's birthday and we had such fun, if only
you had been here - your dear package came Monday and I hid it
around till the first thing Tuesday morning when Theodora woke
up-that and a glass of apricot jam Mrs. Fork sent about two weeks
ago were the only things the dear child had. I hadn't gotten
anything for her, because we have the money together and she keeps
account, so I couldn't get anything without her knowing it, be-
sides I knew she could spend her own money more to her/satisfaction
that I so I contented myself with getting violets and autumn lea-
ves and a birthday cake. Gertrude came down in the afternoon with
a shopping bag all finished for her. We hung it on the bureau in
plain sight and I had such a laugh when Ora couldn't see it. No
doubt Theodora told it all to you, how the girls came in after din-
ner and later how it turned out to be Helen Younger's 20th birth-
day and we made a coconut cake out of pasteboard with 20 lighted
candles and a mock bouquet with a pampas grass center piece and
took up to her. Ora, shared her violets and hickory nuts with
her. I looked at points for the neck in the city for Ora but could-
n't find any half as pretty as the ones you got so gave it up.
The hickory nuts were such a treat to so many people - we finished
them to-night. Monday I had an awfully hard examination in Anglo-