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Dear Mother and Daddy,

A very wonderful thing happened yesterday. I got my best grade that I've gotten in college and probably the best that I'm ever going to get. It was in English and that was the very class I dreaded most. Perhaps I can do something in there after all. It was on a [precise?] on how to write a good exposition, and it was extremely boring - it was all right just to read, but to spend any time on it, that was awful; consequently, I left it until the last minute to do and just dashed it off and handed it in without even proof reading it. I certainly felt guilty when I handed it in, but the funniest thing was that one of the main points of the exposition was that often you do your best work under pressure - mine was certainly

an example. The professor graded the papers by giving each one a position according to their rank of merit - the best paper getting a 1, the second best getting a 2, and so on. When I got my paper back with the 1 on it you could have knocked me over with a feather.

The rainy season has started here, the first rains coming yesterday, but it's rather nice weather anyway.

I have been kept awfully busy this week because I am now the representative of the Y.M.C.A. from my corridor and I have to get everyone to join it - that isn't so much trouble, it's just getting the money from them. Also we are having a barbecue for Roble girls tonight and I was appointed chairman of the entertainment committee. It certainly is a job. I have to see that a skit is written about the men on campus and that it gets rehearsed. I've got a little song written up by one of the girls to

the tune of the Old Gray Mare and then a poem with a verse about each type of man. I also had to see about getting props for it and I had to get george to get me a Stanford jacket. I also have to see about getting a truth and consequence program for the sponsors with terrible consequences for them. I will certainly be glad when it is over, but it is fun doing it.

My room has become a legend since I've gotten my things in it, everyone has heard about it and has come to see it. I really think that it is one of the cutest rooms too.

I finally found out about the electric cycle, and I am now positive that it is a 60 cycle.

Love to all, Mary

P.S. Mother, now that I've looked my stockings over I find that I am very low, having only one useable pair. I would certainly appreciate it if you could get some for me and send them when you send the black dress and blue jumper.

Love, Mary