Sunday, May 9, 1920

MOTHER'S DAY

Beautiful warm day. Few sprinkles at nite. Arose 9 A.M. Took bath etc. To Broadway M. E. Church in A.M. To S.S. at First M.E.  Dinner. Did dishes. Took walk to Aqueduct with H.H. and Russell. To Epworth League. Rode with D.S.R. to Aunts. At church with gang. To bed 11:30 P.X.

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Mother's Day, but Stanford didn't spend it with his mother, apparently. In fact, there are not many occasions when Stanford spent time with his mother, at least none he mentions in his diaries. Maybe boys didn't do that back then. At least he did the dishes!

Saturday, May 8, 1920

Overcast cool spring day. Arose 7:15 A.M. To library 8-9 and college 9-11 A.M. Lost aff. of debate on 7 yr. Pres. term. Played tennis with H.H. Took nap. Greased car. H.H. and I on 6:30 P.M. to Albany. Took Stella & Agnes Sanborn to Proctors. Talked etc. Walked around town. Took 1:15 A.M. car. To bed 2:30 A.M.

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Twins and twins again! I did see a family tree that had the Sanborn girls and their mother in it. Their mother's name was Susan Eaton and father was Jonathan Sanborn. He died the year they were born, unfortunately. He was born in Vermont in 1853, one of 11 children. So apparently I was wrong about Susan Sanborn having been unmarried when she had her twins.

Friday, May 7, 1920

Intermittent cloudiness and sunshine. Arose 7 A.M. To college 8-9 A.M. and 1:30 to 2:30 P.M. Wrote formal rhetoric essay. Union-Wesleyan Baseball game. Score 1-2. To Reynolds' farm in Kingsbury's Kissel Kar with Dorothea, Mrs. Kingsbury and Chas in evening. Fine time. To bed 1:45 A.M.

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I'd never heard of a Kissel before this, but apparently there were such automobiles in the early part of the 20th century. Read about them in the Wikipedia article: Kissel Motor Car Company.

And here's an ad for one from 1917:

Thursday, May 6, 1920

Most beautiful bright hot day. Arose 7:15 A.M. To college 7:45 A.M. to 12:15 M. Home. Played tennis with H.H. and others. Good burn on. To Phi Nu Theta frat meeting at 7:30 P.M. Initiation of 6 men. Eats. Fine time. To bed 11:30 P.X.

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I didn't know the term "burn on" was around in 1920! Interesting.

Wednesday, May 5, 1920

Most beautiful warm sunny day. Arose 7:15 A.M. to college 7:45 to 9 A.M. Home. Chored around. Played tennis for first time at college with H.H. Bible class 11-12 M. Home. Dinner. Studied. Campus meeting at 7:30 P.M. Good gang out. Lots of pep. Home. Ice cream to eat. Talked. To bed 11 P.X.

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Curiously, Stanford has taken to rendering P.M. as P.X. I've never seen that before so don't know if it was common.

The drawing Stanford made for this day is kind of cute--a girl feeding a . . . dog? horse? A couple of trees and the bright sun. The person in bed (Stanford, presumably) seems to go with the day before.

I don't know what the Greek is; I tried transliterating and then translating and the best I could come up with is "simpleton," although I'm not sure why Stanford would be using that word to go with his picture or if they even are together. Any Grecophones out there?

Tuesday, May 4, 1920

Intermittent rain, cloudiness & sunshine. Arose 7:15 A.M. To college 7:45 A.M. to 12 M. Took nap in p.m. Studied, played piano, talked etc. Helped H.H. and father wash Super Six.  To Classical Club meeting at gym. Refreshments and pool at Union. To bed 12 P.M.

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Since we don't know what year the Super Six was, we'll have to guess it was at least a year old. Here's a picture of a 1917 model of the Hudson Super Six:

Monday, May 3, 1920

Beautiful bright mild spring day. Arose 7:30 A.M. To college 8-9 A.M. Wrote in diary. Studied. Wrote letter. On errands etc. To college 11-12:45 M. No bible class. To Chem. lab. To public library. Shot pool at Morse [with] Chamberlaye [and] Witherhead. Wrote letter to Stella. Studied. To bed 10 P.M.

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I have no idea what Chamberlaye Witherhead means. Maybe it will come clear later. I see Stanford wrote to Stella. That's kind of interesting.

Update: Further research shows Chamberlain and Witherhead were two of Stanford's friends.