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Robert Morriss Browning correspondence to Mabel C. Williams, January-July 1919

1919-02-19 Robert M. Browning to Dr. Mabel C. Williams Page 1

M.T.I. Cambridge, Mass
2/19/19
Dear Miss Williams, -
I have a strong hunch that I wrote the last letter but am going to be unconventional, anyway as I am wondering about "the family". What's on foot? Is anybody worrying over the advertiser's dope sheet? Is anybody correlating the psychological ratings of the S.G.T.C. men with their class records? Does anybody know how to measure the ambition, will, determination, or essential energy of a man's make-up in terms of horsepower or any other standard? We ought to get at that, don't you think? It looks hard but it will be done some time this century. Eventually, why not now?
Please tell me all about things at Iowa, won't you.
I'm at the Mass. Inst. of Tech. with the Provost Guard, two companies of the 36th attached to Hq. N.E. Dept. The other two companies of our battalion are coming down Saturday, in time to share in whatever demonstration is made in honor of the first President to return from foreign soil.
Monday we took part in a little ceremony on the Common at which Maj. Gen. Edwards presented a Congressional Medal of Honor and two Distinguished Service crosses. A fat little Greek got the medal of honor for

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M.T.I. Cambridge, Mass 2/19/19 Dear Miss Williams, - I have a strong hunch that I wrote the last letter but am going to be unconventional, anyway as I am wondering about "the family". What's on foot? Is anybody worrying over the advertiser's dope sheet? Is anybody correlating the psychological ratings of the S.G.T.C. men with their class records? Does anybody know how to measure the ambition, will, determination, or essential energy of a man's make-up in terms of horsepower or any other standard? We ought to get at that, don't you think? It looks hard but it will be done some time this century. Eventually, why not now? Please tell me all about things at Iowa, won't you. I'm at the Mass. Inst. of Tech. with the Provost Guard, two companies of the 36th attached to Hq. N.E. Dept. The other two companies of our battalion are coming down Saturday, in time to share in whatever demonstration is made in honor of the first President to return from foreign soil. Monday we took part in a little ceremony on the Common at which Maj. Gen. Edwards presented a Congressional Medal of Honor and two Distinguished Service crosses. A fat little Greek got the medal of honor for