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Miscellaneous letters to Helen Fox, 1933-1945
1944-05-08 Stephen H. Bush to Helen Fox Page 1
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May 8 1946 Dear Helen - Your letter was a delight. You know how to live in war as in peace. Such letters do me much good in my own private war. I get better but slowly and with set backs as they say always do come. Our vile weather has weighed on me for many days. I often cannot take my hikes down to the front steps. I need sun & warm dry days which just will not come. Your mother surely gave you our bad news the sudden shocking death of Ilse Sanns from cancer. They tried to operate but she died in about a week She was 52. Ilse had developed in a fine way for many years and was an excellent teacher and administrator of all first year Spanish. A good woman like her is not too common. She and I were always friends as well as colleagues. Our university has become a pocket university and that cannot be helped. My chief fear is that after the war it will be a technical and vocational school for a generation or more. We - that is those of us who stood for the education and development of the individual mind and personality as of first importance, with all the rest flowing out of the fully formed man, were not clear even to ourselves
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May 8 1946 Dear Helen - Your letter was a delight. You know how to live in war as in peace. Such letters do me much good in my own private war. I get better but slowly and with set backs as they say always do come. Our vile weather has weighed on me for many days. I often cannot take my hikes down to the front steps. I need sun & warm dry days which just will not come. Your mother surely gave you our bad news the sudden shocking death of Ilse Sanns from cancer. They tried to operate but she died in about a week She was 52. Ilse had developed in a fine way for many years and was an excellent teacher and administrator of all first year Spanish. A good woman like her is not too common. She and I were always friends as well as colleagues. Our university has become a pocket university and that cannot be helped. My chief fear is that after the war it will be a technical and vocational school for a generation or more. We - that is those of us who stood for the education and development of the individual mind and personality as of first importance, with all the rest flowing out of the fully formed man, were not clear even to ourselves
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