Novenber 17, 1942. Miss Rlesnor Allen, Sergeant Hall, _ University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. I read with mush interest your letters, which contain much information. I see a continual growth in you and I am very sure that you are happy in ~.. Ihave had a very busy fall which has been fraught with many hyper- tensions, but I em moving along in about the usual fashions Ask Bob to _ det you-see.the letter I have written him.oand it will tell you about the physical conditioning course that we are ummdertaking here at the Univer- sity with a very small personnel. The Kansas City Star rotogravure section of last Sunday had a picture of some of our: toughening courses. I believe Mother said she was sending it to Bob, so ask Bob to let you see it. It has attracted quite a bit of attention which is attested by the Ster's running it. ei ey . om Our basketball team will soon be in competition. We play Missouri on Thanksgiving Day in football, and right after that, on December 1, we play the fresimen in basketball and then on the 5th we play Jack Gardner's Pre-Flight “Clippers”. I am sending you a schedule for the season. I am counting on having tickets for the Williams family in New York and am sorry if Mother does not want to go. She could, of course, if she wanted to, but she feels the financial pinch that is, always present in her rigid economy. Of course she wants to come : é : But unless your graduation is. stepped up a lot I will also be back there, if things go as expected. I am vice president of Rotary, and if the elect the vice she was ; night. We had a fine turkey dimer at the Union Building when the Rotarians entert