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RESPECTED SIR, - I promised to keep you posted as to my college work, and therefore write to tell you how much interested I have become in it. The Freshman year is certainly a hard one. I begin to fear that I shall not lead my class, but I hope with constant application to obtain a detur if my health holds out. It gives me great pleasure to inform you that your fears in regard to the depravity of Harvard life were entirely groundless. I have seen nothing of the immorality of which we read in the columns of the Middlebury...
...prayers. Cut Pol. Econ. Sleighing fine. Went speeding on the Brighton Road. Stopped at the Hawthorne and got warm. Have changed my mind, and am only going to see first-class performances at the theatre. So went to the opera. Splendid! Find it improves my style to keep a diary...
...going to keep diary any longer. Is too much bother, and I don't have time...
...course the first thing that you must keep constantly before you is popularity. Without it a fellow of your lineage and social aspirations would be lost at Harvard. Coming as you will from Exeter next autumn, you will find it wisest to stick close by the Exeter men until they have successfully elected officers at the Freshman meeting. Then, if you find they are not likely to be influential any longer, leave them and go over to the Boston set. You may find them exclusive, but never mind. The north pole can never be reached without passing icebergs...
...keep both I must...