{Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Canada
Rev. J. Reble, President
104 Hughson St. Hamilton, Ont.
Rev. J. Maurer, D. D., Vice-President
49 Irvin St. Kitchener, Ont.
Rev. H. Schorten, German Secretary
70 Albert Street, Waterloo Ont.
Rev. C. H. Little, D. D. English Secretary
Waterloo, Ont.
Rev. E. Holm, Treasurer
Conostogo, Ont.}
Waterloo, Ont.,
October 21, 1928
Dear Mother:
As I am at home to-day and not overly rushed with work, I will give you a few moments of my time this afternoon. We had rain nearly every day last week, but to-day is bright and clear. I was down at Church this morning for the first time in quite a while – about the 3rd time this year I think. I will probably get down again next Sunday morning, but will miss the joint Reformation service there in the evening, as I am to preach a Reformation sermon in Brantford that night. I am still taking my daily swim, but since the water has got pretty cold I no longer swim across the dam, but cut it short when I have cooled off sufficiently. Dr. Schorten got back from Erie on Tuesday and relieved me of my Housefather job. He reported a nice convention, but said it was a rather slow-moving body which did not accomplish as much as it might. The convention did one good thing: it kept the “Institutional Supervisor” from nosing around our institution. I understand,
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however, that he is going to show up this week. We got along very nicely during his absence and would be quite well-satisfied if he continued it indefinitely. Prof. Neudoerffer is still away on his canvassing trip. We have not heard from him since he left a month ago. He is over in the States somewhere. I hope he is making a success of his canvass, as very much depends upon his work. It will be hard enough even then to get what we want as Dr. Willison is determined to keep the various departments together, so that he can head the whole thing. I suppose you saw his account in The Lutheran Convention number. On Friday of last week Dean Froats, Prof. S.W. Hirtle and I together with a representative from the Student body of the College, attended the big celebration of the 50th anniversary of the University and the inauguration of the new President, Dr. Fox. We left here by car at 7 o’clock Friday morning and didn’t get back till after 2 o’clock Saturday morning. But we had a very fine time – feasts intellectual and stomachical. It was a great gathering of notables representatives from about 75 institution being present. The most brilliant speaker among them was a man by the name of Little – Clarence Cook Little, S. D. LL.D., President of the University of Michigan. He is a comparatively young man, under 40 and probably nearer 35, very tall – about 6 ft. 4 or 5 in., I should judge, of dark complexion, hand-
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some face and of well-proportioned physique. He is a native of Boston and before going to the University of Michigan had been president of the University of Maine. I introduced myself to him and had some conversation with him. He expressed himself as quite pleased to have met me. Another Little was on the programme – Hon. Arthur T. Little, President of the Board of Governors of Western University, Canadian Senator and resident of London. So the Littles were very much in evidence on the programme and in the processions and at the banquets, where I also shined. I also met and had a conversation with Dr. MacLean, Editor of Maclean’s Magazine, who is one of the best informed men and the most widely travelled man in this part of the world. He is an extremely interesting conversationalist. I met also Dr. Saunders, representative from Johns Hopkins University and sat beside his wife at the banquet in the evening. The proceedings were still going on when we left at 11:15 p.m. We didn’t stay for the eats but shook hands with Dr. and Mrs. Fox and let it go at that. The weather was wet, so the outside processions had to be omitted, but the long corridors afforded ample room for the display of academical feathers. They said the procession was the longest ever seen at Western. Best wishes. Sincerely yours,
[signed] Carroll H. Little.
