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November 19, 1945
Dear Mother and Daddy,
This is to let you know that I will be home next Wednesday night. I'm coming on the Daylight; so I will be arriving at the Glendale station at a quarter of six. I don't know whether I should take Wednesday off from my classes, but I want to see Marlborough's senoir night and I don't want to come home on the coach by myself. Anyway I got three of the four tests I took last week back. I got an A on my German quiz. I missed one thing; and an A in my Spanish test in which I also missed just one thing; and in my Paleontology test I got 92. I don't know just what that is, but I imagine it is a
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B. But after what I expected to get in the test, I practically jumped for joy when I saw it. I still don't understand quite how that came to be, for I was sure I'd gotten everything wrong. I was so pleased when I found out, and I guess I can afford to miss a day.
Last Week-end was just perfect and the reason was that Stanford played her first football team. It played the Stockton Pre-Flight and the score was 19-13 in favor of pre-flight. In spite of the fact that we didn't win, it was a wonderful game; undoubtedly the game of the year. It was very exciting and our team did wonderfully well seeing that it was the first game they had played this fall and that none of the boys on
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the first team had ever played college football. Besides the Stockton team had a player who had been on Dart mouth varsity three years and All-American two. Every one was highly pleased and next year when we start to play regularly again, we'll have a really wonderful team. We are going to play another game on December 1st, and this time I know that we'll win. After the game three houses on the row had open houses and I went to dinner with Bob and Kay and Bill. That night we went to the "Gaities" which is the regular review that they have every year. It was absolutely wonderful. The play, all the songs, and dances
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were written by Stanford students. It was like a musical comedy and to me it seemed almost professional.
Anyway it was extremely entertaining and it certainly didn't drag like most student shows do. I'm certainly lucky to be going to such a wonder ful school, instead of some dump like U.C.L.A.
I must go and practice now. I shall be seeing you on Wednesday.
Love to all, Mary
