Kenneth and his brother caused trouble in the neighborhood, including starting fires and building things in the trees, which caused his family to have to move often. He tells about how he put a girl named Martha's hair in a ink well.
Kenneth recalls his April 5 tryout sermon at the church in Columbus, NJ. He always summarized a sermon in one sentence, and if he couldn't, he would feel he didn't know what he was talking about.
Kenneth recalls dating several girls (Mabel Shirk, Mabel Poppinay, etc.) and how he always had girls. He expresses his disappointment in his early girl selections.
Kenneth told Charles Blanchard he had quit college and Blanchard proposed that he come to Wheaton College. He remembers being mostly unimpressed by Wheaton, but as Margaret walked into the registrar's office where Kenneth and his father were, Kenneth…
Kenneth's tells about his boyhood friends and fighting, how he got beaten up so often, how he developed attack strategies that made it too costly for those who could and wanted to beat him up.
Kenneth dressed up as a girl for a party, went to play baseball with his brother and a friend after the party, still wearing the girl clothes, and was mistaken for a girl by men watching the baseball game
Kenneth once went in a new house on Park Avenue and inadvertently fell headfirst down the chimney. He was wearing a big straw hat which offered some protection to his head, but still he was knocked out for awhile. Once he realized what had happened…
Kenneth talks about finishing his book sale in November 1925. His parents visited him and he took his mother for a tour of campus and to dinner while his father went his own way.
Kenneth talks about his summer after graduation from Wheaton and his beginnings at Princeton. He remembers Eddie Love and Ding Darling, two roommates who shared the room next to his.
Despite his incomplete grade in chemistry from the University of Cincinnati, Kenneth had taken so many classes there that, following his transfer to Wheaton, he was told he would graduate in three years rather than four. This was astonishing to him.
When it came to procuring a marriage license in Wheaton, Kenneth learned it could be done the day of the wedding, and that only one of them needed to appear.
Saturday was pay day and everyone would dress up and go to downtown. Kenneth would watch the men gambling and quickly learned the best way to win. He remembers gambling, playing the role of the banker and winning consistently.
Kenneth reads from his journal that on Oct. 16, 1927 his weight is 138 lbs, and he wrote to Margaret about it, joking that she now could marry him and he would look the best that he ever would.
Kenneth recalls having a hard time getting Margaret Mortenson to go on a date with him because she was the darling of all the football players. Eventually, Margaret named a date when she was free and they had their first date. Kenneth describes it as…
In Columbus, NJ, Kenneth found a room to stay, at the house of Mrs. Townsend. He talks about how he managed to go from a small to a large room in Mrs. Townsend's house.
Kenneth recalls a class fight in which he got at Wheaton. It was the first time in the history of the college that this was happening. Kenneth and his pals "stacked" the rooms of their adversaries, throwing everything on the floor.
Kenneth's first semester at Princeton he studied Hebrew and Greek and worked hard to be part of the top ten who entered professor Robert Wilson's advanced Hebrew class after Christmas time.
Kenneth tended to have little and get rid of things, but Margaret's habit was to collect and keep. This put the young couple on opposite ends as they entered marriage. Margaret was sometimes hurt by Kenneth throwing away things she would like to…
Kenneth graduated from Wheaton in June 1924. His mother was ill and so couldn't come to graduation, but his father did. Kenneth worked during that summer to earn some money.
Kenneth recalls an argument with Mr. Rigg, his head elder, who invited him to attend a church service given specially for the Masonic Lodge. Kenneth refused what was an implicit invitation to join the Lodge, and Rigg didn't like this refusal a bit.
Margaret reads from a letter to her mother telling her about the effective ministry that Kenneth was having. She tells about a sixteen years old boy that Kenneth had led to Christ and how this boy was growing amazingly in his faith.