Kenneth recalls and reads from his early letters to Margaret from Princeton. He talks about his classes at Hebrews, his address, and life in Princeton.
Das Machen invited the Checkers Club to his room at 8:30. Some twenty of them packed in the room and enjoyed the food he had put out for them. They played checkers and chess.
Kenneth attended the annual banquet although he was sick. He attended his classes as usual, went to the banquet and ate, sang, and felt better. Princeton didn't have Greek societies but eating clubs with very real social function.
Kenneth recalls being called by "Dick" to parse a whole chapter of Hebrew in the Old Testament, unprepared. One day Dick invited him to tea at 10 o'clock at his home. He would work until 2:00 a.m. helping Dick in his work, and tea would come only at…
Kenneth recalls Robert Dick Wilson as a man in his 80's who had laid his life in sequences of 15 years each (teach, research, writing). He was about Kenneth's size and was very active.
Kenneth recalls Dick Wilson's work on the Old Testament, his reputation worldwide in philology, and how he felt he would be ready to die after he had finished an article he was writing: his work would have been done.
While at Princeton Kenneth received the visit of his father, Brad, and the two traveled to visit Brad's brother, Ed. He was a bachelor living in the old house, and Brad would do anything he asked, at Kenneth's amazement.
Bernie Green was a very old man on faculty at Princeton. Students would imitate his voice and Kenneth learned about it and repeated it while the campus gathered for a photograph with Bernie Green right next to him--Kenneth hadn't met him yet, and so…
Kenneth moved back to campus after studying all summer in preparation for the coming year. He roomed with Billy Irwin, who had a family and a house in town and so wouldn't use his campus room much.
Kenneth worked as an usher at football games and sold tickets in his first two years at Princeton. He remembers a Harvard fan who once found himself on the wrong side of the stadium and would cheer for Harvard from the midst of a crowd that was…
Kenneth explains his approach to taking tests. For example he took a three-hour exam in 45 minutes, to his professor's astonishment, by outlining what he was learning in a way that made it easy for him to memorize and remember it quickly during the…
Kenneth recalls riding the train with his mother and feasting on the railroad dining car. They had had vacation in Gull Lake, to which they had invited Margaret. They were coming back to Chicago.
After spending all summer studying and working, Kenneth returned to campus and roomed with Bill Irwin. He talks about his book business and how he earned a percentage of the sale for himself.
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 Ann Wilson meeting him after class, and she gave him a note. She confided in him about her problems with a man she had met and the family troubles she had.
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 continues on his parents' visit. They were planning to travel further East, and Kenneth wasn't sure they would come back his way, so he took them on another visit to the house of Billy Irwin, Kenneth's roomate.
Kenneth recalls being told by the doctor that he had low blood pressure because of hard work. He laughed at the doctor's comment that Kenneth had the sickness but lacked the symptoms.
Kenneth recalls his mother's visit while he was in Princeton. He tells about their visit to his church and time together around the time and their trip to New York. From there she was to catch a train back home.