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Conger Reynolds correspondence, May-December 1916

1916-10-06 Conger Reynolds to Mr. & Mrs. John Reynolds Page 2

backed out before he got started. We are still on the lookout for a cook. 
I suppose you have heard from Julietta of our visit at her house. We had a fine day there. The new house is beautiful and as comfortable as can be. I should like to have it over here. 
Norris and I both have been working at high pressure since the year began. He is swamped with preparations for the legislative season, and I am overwhelmed with students and publicity work. I have forty-five students this year as compared with twenty-three last year. Every additional student in Journalism means more work to the instructor because the subject can only be taught successfully by giving individual attention to every student. For the practice work in reporting and editing I have under me now a staff larger than that under the managing editor of The Register. I have some very promising youngsters, too,-- a much better lot on the whole than I had last year. 
The inevitable has happened to me: I have had to "lecture" on my trip to Europe. I had resolved to avoid that performance, but when Mrs. Ausley asked me to talk to Unitarian Church Circle I could not well refuse her. I talked to about forty women at Mrs. Currier's home this afternoon. It went off much better than

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backed out before he got started. We are still on the lookout for a cook. I suppose you have heard from Julietta of our visit at her house. We had a fine day there. The new house is beautiful and as comfortable as can be. I should like to have it over here. Norris and I both have been working at high pressure since the year began. He is swamped with preparations for the legislative season, and I am overwhelmed with students and publicity work. I have forty-five students this year as compared with twenty-three last year. Every additional student in Journalism means more work to the instructor because the subject can only be taught successfully by giving individual attention to every student. For the practice work in reporting and editing I have under me now a staff larger than that under the managing editor of The Register. I have some very promising youngsters, too,-- a much better lot on the whole than I had last year. The inevitable has happened to me: I have had to "lecture" on my trip to Europe. I had resolved to avoid that performance, but when Mrs. Ausley asked me to talk to Unitarian Church Circle I could not well refuse her. I talked to about forty women at Mrs. Currier's home this afternoon. It went off much better than