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Show -42- they played tennis under the lights of two courts that were built over a city reservoir near the university. They were married six weeks from the day they had first gone out together? He was twenty-six, and she, twenty-four. They decided one night while sitting on some temporary bleachers? where a tennis match had been held that afternoon. Both knew that if they told their parents they would be urged to wait? and the boy's father had made him promise (one time when several of his friends, including the medical student, had run away to get married) that he vrould not marry without letting his father and mother know. They decided that night that each would write a letter announcing their intentions and mail it the next morning? They would say they were being married on Saturday at two o'clock, that their parents were welcome, if they wished to come.1 They would, then, be married at twelve o'clock? and meet their parents at two? The future professor and his bride took a streetcar from the university section of the city to City Hall, were married by the City Clerk? When they arrived at the hotel where the young man had reserved a room for one night only, both sets of parents were waiting in the lobby? The girl's mother said: |