strengthen her position after I had left; that is,
further to justify her engineering my dismissal. I
am told that she was.not treated sympathetically

in respect to this  pSeRt( by some, so I conjecture
that she had a desire to justify herself. I shall
spare you the details of her personal hostility to
me while I was under her direction =- the distress
that was occasioned because I gave a "C" on a theme
to a girl who was the ward of a close friend of hers
and who “had never had less than a A in high school".
It is all very petty, I should say, as you can judge
from the one incident.

As to what may have been back of everything,
I cannot say. Before I wrote to you I had written to
another person in Lawrence,who, I believe, usually
knows as much about what is, and has been, said around
the University as anyone, and that person could give
me no information. I am naturally not inclined to
be any more “public™ than is absolutely necessary
about so disagrezable and dangerous a subject. This
brings me to express my regret that there may have
been something unfortunate in the tone of my letter
of December 16; but if you will consider the serious
result to me of the matter (as asserted by the woman
of whom I have written) after four years of strenuous |
service at the particular place, you can understand,
I knowe

Thank you very much for you offer to be
of assistance to me on occasion. And I may say that a

if at any time you see occasion for assisting me, I fr -

Should appreciate anything you doe Se ee
I was here last year also. Eugene is a

Quiet, rather uninspiring place, oe the campus

is- attractive. You may have been here. Last year

the enrollment was so nearly exclusively feminine

that it seemed like a girls' college, but this year

there are a few more young men and various returned

service men. (I am forgetting the fact that for much

of last year we had army men here.)- I believe that

there is a rather good basketball ine at least'we'
have won games lately.

With best regards, I am
Yours most Sincerely,
A asaniie ees

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