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.
Margaret recalls going to Gull Lake in the summer upon the invitation of Kenneth and his family who spent their vacations at the lake. There was a Bible conference there at a hotel. It was a big, nice lake, not very popuplar at the time.
Margaret describes the wedding ring that Kenneth had sent her in preparation of their marriage. Margaret recalls going to breakfast wearing it (she had forgotten) and she was terrified afterwards that someone might have noticed.
Margaret reads from her journal about Kenneth's wedding clothes. Kenneths comments on an elder professor's remark who thought the wedding clothes Kenneth had chosen would be inappropriate for a young man who had not yet achieved recognition in the…
While at Princeton Seminary Kenneth had trouble with Robert Dick Wilson's daughter, Ann, who kept writing him letters, apparently in need of some type of counseling. Kenneth answered only the first of her letters.
Kenneth and Margaret talk about about their wedding plans. Margaret had hoped that they could go to her parents' cottage at Stony Lake for their honeymoon. They went to Gull Lake instead, where Kenneth's father had rented a cottage. Margaret wanted…
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.
Kenneth tells how on January 6 he went downtown to buy a wedding ring for Margaret. He found the one that looked right for Margaret and sent it to her, asking her to try it and see if she liked it or send it back to him if she didn't.
Kenneth tells about how often Margaret would suggest that they just be friends. He remembers three such occasions, but Kenneth wouldn't settle for this--"Well, you can't do that with me."
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.
In January (six months before their wedding) Kenneth wrote Margaret that their first address was to be 21 Edwards Place, Princeton, NJ. Kenneth was always way ahead of time in his plans.