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Show 30 Dear 'Q8'S: - Inasmuch as I was not present at the picnic and so forth of this great class I feel a little at a loss to know what is wanted of me. You must know that I spent my summer vacation at home wheie I had not been since beginning my college course. I wonder if you have all grown as much as I have. I know most of you have had more varied experiences, but as I look over the year I can see that I have grown much, in that the many facts and theories I packed away into my head during my three years in collej^e are becoming Scitied and arranged in ord_r. So many things in the way of study, how e v e , h .ve been left undone waiting a more convenient season. My Gieek is a remembrance which I keep p aiming to renew into an everyday associate, but if vou wonder why one doesn't do many things, just work in Le Mars High School three months. But if any of you know the difference between 2x6 and 2i6c in Latin Grammar or the proof for the area of the inscribed and circumscribed polygons of double the number of sides of those given, you may have my place. Yet, there is a life and spirit in all this dry work that makes teaching a veritable passion. I wonder how many of you think of the world as even brighter than it seemed in June, '98. Has the world been good to you? Are you a helper in making it good? Or have you found sharp corners in circumstances and people? As I think over all of you and feel, yes, that I am somewhat ahead of you in experience, I wonder again if you have found everything as pleasant as I have. There have been hard places but they only made the easy ones easier. I only hope another year may go as well, as it |