Tuesday, March 16, 1920

Cloudy mild wet with some rain. Arose 7:30 A.M. To college 9-12:20 M. Home. Studied all afternoon. to Public Library. Supper. Down town. To Mission Study Class at college, also psychology lecture. Down to church to Kappa Sigma Pi, Phi Beta Pi meeting. Good time. Took D.S.R. to her aunt's. Stayed a while. >< To bed 1:45 A.M.

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Stanford has more to say these days, and his time records are becoming more precise.

Monday, March 15, 1920

Beautiful bright warm day. To college 8-9 A.M. 11 A.M. to 12:40 M. 1:30 to 3 P.M. Studied between classes. Fooled around and studied in P.M. Took nap. Attended Ichabod Spencer psychology lecture by Prof. Palmer of Harvard University. Very good. Home. Talked. To bed 10 P.M. Thankful for health, friends, education, good parents etc. etc.

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The Ichabod Spencer lectures were in honor of Rev. Ichabod Spencer. Here is some information, taken from PsycNet about those lectures that were compiled into a book, described in the abstract, below:

Chapters from modern psychology.

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Angell, James Rowland

New York, NY, US: Longmans, Green and Co

The present volume contains the first series of lectures delivered upon the Ichabod Spencer Foundation at Union College, during the early part of the year 1911. It was the desire of the founder, Mrs. William Leavitt, to do honor to the memory of her father, the Rev. Ichabod Spencer, D.D., of the class of 1822 at Union College. She wished also to encourage the study of a branch of knowledge in which he was deeply interested and well skilled. It was specified, therefore, that the lectures should deal primarily with psychological subjects. It seemed to the author, who was honored by selection for this agreeable task, that the opening course might properly deal in an introductory manner with the main characteristics of the contemporary situation in psychology, leaving to subsequent lecturers the more intensive consideration of one or another of the problems now engaging the attention of specialists. He has carried out this plan as completely as he could within the limits of the eight lectures of the series. The material was arranged for presentation to a general college audience, and has, therefore, been freed as far as possible from the technicalities of scientific terminology. The attempt has been made to convey a just and comprehensive impression of the principal features of the psychology of to-day; but much selection among topics has been necessary, and this has been guided by a purpose to avoid the more abstruse aspects of the subject which are somewhat remote from the usual interests of the layman. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)

I was not able to pinpoint who Professor Palmer of Harvard was. 

Sunday, March 14, 1920

Cold. Windy blustery day. Roads drifted shut. Arose 10:30 A.M. To S.S. Small attendance. Took 1:04 P.M. car for TROY. Union College gospel team held meetings in P.M. & Evening at F.M.E. Church, Lansingburgh. Union of 3 churches. Good meetings. Supper with Maxson's So. Weomer 4th Ave. 16th St. To bed 12 P.M.

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Stanford is well traveled among the area churches and church groups!

Saturday, March 13, 1920

SNOW AT NIGHT. Overcast cool wet day with rain and few inches of snow. Arose 7:30 A.M. To college 9-12:15 M. Home. Studied etc. Took nap in P.M. Read. Played piano. Over to church at night. DeJeu Magician. Very good. Bowled at Star. Home. Dressed. Russell, Marion & Merlin here. Talked. To bed 12:30 P.M.

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DeJeu was a popular magician in the 1919-1920. I was unable to obtain more information than that about the person.  I guess they had the man performing at the church, which is kind of interesting.

Friday, March 12, 1920

Cloudy mild wet with rain at intervals. Arose 6 A.M. To college 8-9. to library. Got haircut etc. To Chapel. To college 1:30 to 2:30. Home. Shovelled & Studied. To surprise party on Dot Gallup at nite. About 50 present. Fair time. Played wink etc.  [Here there are 6 (>< >< >< >< >< >< etc.) kiss symbols squeezed in between the lines] Walked home with Dorothy Reynolds >< at 215 Parkwood Blv'd. To bed 2:30 A.M.

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Wink is apparently a kissing/flirting game, which would explain the number of kisses Stanford got. Here is a website that explains the game in detail: Wink.

Thursday, March 11, 1920

Both tracks for first time. Overcast mild with rain at intervals. Very nasty underfoot. Arose 7:45 A.M. To college 9-12:15. Home. Talked. To college on errand. Down town. Bowled at Morse etc. To Phi Nu Theta meeting. NSNC top floor. Talked and read. To bed 10:45 P.M.

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The only article I found about Phi Nu Theta was a fraternity that was established and continues at Wesleyan University. I suppose that is sort of connected to the Methodists. It's not a national fraternity, so I'm puzzled as to why there would be a chapter at Union. Hmmm . . .

NSNC must have been a building, but I can't tell anything else about it. It was listed next to student's name and hometown in the Bulletin for Union College of 1919-1920, but I have no clue what it means.

Wednesday, March 10, 1920

Overcast mild spring day. Cars running on one track to Carrie St. Arose 7:20 A.M. To college 8-9 A.M. Home. Fooled around. To college Union. Shot pool. To chapel. Took nap win P.M. Studied. Talked etc. To bed 10 P.M. Thankful.

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