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Robert Morriss Browning correspondence to Mabel C. Williams, January-March 1918

1918-02-05 Robert M. Browning to Dr. Mabel C. Williams Page 2

There's a new rumor that we are to go to Waco, Texas, soon.  That is the wrong direction, I'm afraid, but if we get where there are more troops we may have a better chance to get shipped away with them than if we stay here all alone and sort of independent life.  I'm almost ready to write to the Adjunct (?) General and ask for duty at the front, but feel that it may not be a manly thing to do, and if my request would bring only a rebuke and ridicule it would not be a pleasant start for a young mealteen (?).
Our offices' school is lightening a little. We now have only nine or ten hours of prescribed classes a week and the preparations are not so long as they were.  Company instruction goes on all the time, however, and my "hotel" does not quite run itself.
I have found time for a little diversion at that. I have been in Minneapolis homes for dinner a couple of times, have taken a couple of girls to theater, went to a Kappa dance at the U. of M., had half a dozen friends - including the Kappa - out here to dinner and one of our port (?) hops, all mine (?) I came back from my Christmas leave.  Isn't that a giddy whirl? And tomorrow I'm to dive with the Whitneys and on Thursday I hope to hear Faust.
Yov,e heard of the superior qualities of the army brany of red tape. In our class Administration we learn how to tie things up in it as they can't come loose. I learned a little about it by painful experience through tying a few things so that the knots didn't hold. I may have to give Uncle Same several days' pay for the things that got snarled. Property responsibility is an ornery thing.
Others learned in the class less painfully. In making out a service record as a class exercise only one officer in the regiment failed to make at least one error and others varied

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There's a new rumor that we are to go to Waco, Texas, soon. That is the wrong direction, I'm afraid, but if we get where there are more troops we may have a better chance to get shipped away with them than if we stay here all alone and sort of independent life. I'm almost ready to write to the Adjunct (?) General and ask for duty at the front, but feel that it may not be a manly thing to do, and if my request would bring only a rebuke and ridicule it would not be a pleasant start for a young mealteen (?). Our offices' school is lightening a little. We now have only nine or ten hours of prescribed classes a week and the preparations are not so long as they were. Company instruction goes on all the time, however, and my "hotel" does not quite run itself. I have found time for a little diversion at that. I have been in Minneapolis homes for dinner a couple of times, have taken a couple of girls to theater, went to a Kappa dance at the U. of M., had half a dozen friends - including the Kappa - out here to dinner and one of our port (?) hops, all mine (?) I came back from my Christmas leave. Isn't that a giddy whirl? And tomorrow I'm to dive with the Whitneys and on Thursday I hope to hear Faust. Yov,e heard of the superior qualities of the army brany of red tape. In our class Administration we learn how to tie things up in it as they can't come loose. I learned a little about it by painful experience through tying a few things so that the knots didn't hold. I may have to give Uncle Same several days' pay for the things that got snarled. Property responsibility is an ornery thing. Others learned in the class less painfully. In making out a service record as a class exercise only one officer in the regiment failed to make at least one error and others varied