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Joseph E. Evans letters, 1935-1954
1940-04-11 Joseph Evans to John & Mary Evans Page 2
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2 continue to do so, I hope, and if I don't have a graduate assistantship a year from now, I shall truly be discouraged with myself and with the academic life. And I am still going to try to get some sort of reading job for the summer - that is, unless you think I should give up this pursuit of education and try to make a living some other way. I hope to McGalliard today about studying Dante with him, and he said that his course in Medieval Literature he devotes the last two months of the year to the Divine Comedy, so the obvious thing for me to do is either take the course or sit in on those particular lectures next year - if I am here. I am afraid I shall need money directly - I can just about hold out till Monday, I think, but not any longer than that. I swim au naturel, hence have no need for trunks, but you might sometimes send the tennis shors. I think that actually it is just about as cheap and certainly less burdensome for you, if I continue
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2 continue to do so, I hope, and if I don't have a graduate assistantship a year from now, I shall truly be discouraged with myself and with the academic life. And I am still going to try to get some sort of reading job for the summer - that is, unless you think I should give up this pursuit of education and try to make a living some other way. I hope to McGalliard today about studying Dante with him, and he said that his course in Medieval Literature he devotes the last two months of the year to the Divine Comedy, so the obvious thing for me to do is either take the course or sit in on those particular lectures next year - if I am here. I am afraid I shall need money directly - I can just about hold out till Monday, I think, but not any longer than that. I swim au naturel, hence have no need for trunks, but you might sometimes send the tennis shors. I think that actually it is just about as cheap and certainly less burdensome for you, if I continue
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