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Nile Kinnick's correspondence with his family, January-June 1939

1939-01-20: Page 04

for "merrie" England for two or three years of enjoyable but consientious study of economics, history and literature.  In the summer I will study in France and Germany and learn the language.  I will then return to the U.S. with a wealth of experience and cultural education to my credit.  Soon I shall next take myself to the U of Washington in Seattle and there study law.  At the age of twenty-seven or eight I shall then be ready to venture forth and put my experience and study to practice. Just what form my endeavours shall then take my mirror of the future here becomes nebulous.  A noble thought, don't you think?  And who knows it might come to pass.  In some way my athletic knowledge and coaching ability shall pay for my education in this country - I think.  There is a very excellent possibility that I shall become the steward of this

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for "merrie" England for two or three years of enjoyable but consientious study of economics, history and literature. In the summer I will study in France and Germany and learn the language. I will then return to the U.S. with a wealth of experience and cultural education to my credit. Soon I shall next take myself to the U of Washington in Seattle and there study law. At the age of twenty-seven or eight I shall then be ready to venture forth and put my experience and study to practice. Just what form my endeavours shall then take my mirror of the future here becomes nebulous. A noble thought, don't you think? And who knows it might come to pass. In some way my athletic knowledge and coaching ability shall pay for my education in this country - I think. There is a very excellent possibility that I shall become the steward of this