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Nile C. Kinnick [April 16, 1940] Iowa City, Iowa Tuesday 4 -15 [?] Dear Family: I am going to be speaking in Soo City on April 25th which is a Thurs. Either that nite or the next morning 1 shall drive down to Omaha and then on to Adel Fri. nite or Sat. morning there being some business 1 should attend to in Des Moines on Sat. You will probably hear from me again before I go to S City but in any event don't expect me until I arrive. Mother, I had already written Joe Weaver when your letter arrived and while everything you said about the situation was quite true I think nothing was wrong in writing him. I just saud that my interest seemed to have waned with respect to going to law school and remembered what he had once said to me and wondered if he stilll felt the same way and if so I would like to drop out some weekedn and have a talk with him. Thus far I haven't heard any more from Baum. I really felt quite strongly about what I wrote you a week or so ago andyet today I find myself wondering again and feeling that I would really enjoy going to law school. Ina close analysis I think here is probably the real situation-----I have all the football I want and don't want to even play in the All-Star game unless I have to. Secondly, I am awfully tire of going to school and being so daggone busy all the time thiat I don't have a real chance to master what I am taking--and this has been very definitely true ever since I have been down here with p0ssibly the exception of my first year-- despite good grades to the contrary. What I would really like to do, I think, at least it so unds like a pretty good idea to me is to stay out a year if I can hook on with some pretty good outfit and get some business experience plus enough money which added to the 1500I should have on hand at the end of this year would see me through law school without working at all and wou1d even leave the summers free for supplementary study if I wanted to. There are two objections to this --one if the difficulty of hooking up with any outfit in a position to get any experience and sti11 make some money and the other is that this way I wouldn't have anything on hand when I graduated. Now coaching as I go along would leave me a nice little sum on hand when I graduated but coaching would keep me on the go all the time and of which I am getting mighty tired but still wouldn't mind if I thoght I could really do a good job on my studies. In other words if I go into professional school I want to really bear down if am capable of doing that. In my mind it is high time that I devote my restless energy to something a little more worthwhile than athletics. I am thankful for the opportunity of coaching or of pro ball if either of these seem to be the thing to do but if a year at somthing else is best I would prefer it. A year with Baum would be fine experience and would be ok even if I didn't "clean up" as he suggests. Or maybe I don't even want to go to law school. I am going to drop over and visit some classes one of these days and perhaps have a talk or two with some good lawyers and see if 1 can get any light on whetehr I would really like law . It is a rather tough decision for me to amke. Yours, Nile
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Nile C. Kinnick [April 16, 1940] Iowa City, Iowa Tuesday 4 -15 [?] Dear Family: I am going to be speaking in Soo City on April 25th which is a Thurs. Either that nite or the next morning 1 shall drive down to Omaha and then on to Adel Fri. nite or Sat. morning there being some business 1 should attend to in Des Moines on Sat. You will probably hear from me again before I go to S City but in any event don't expect me until I arrive. Mother, I had already written Joe Weaver when your letter arrived and while everything you said about the situation was quite true I think nothing was wrong in writing him. I just saud that my interest seemed to have waned with respect to going to law school and remembered what he had once said to me and wondered if he stilll felt the same way and if so I would like to drop out some weekedn and have a talk with him. Thus far I haven't heard any more from Baum. I really felt quite strongly about what I wrote you a week or so ago andyet today I find myself wondering again and feeling that I would really enjoy going to law school. Ina close analysis I think here is probably the real situation-----I have all the football I want and don't want to even play in the All-Star game unless I have to. Secondly, I am awfully tire of going to school and being so daggone busy all the time thiat I don't have a real chance to master what I am taking--and this has been very definitely true ever since I have been down here with p0ssibly the exception of my first year-- despite good grades to the contrary. What I would really like to do, I think, at least it so unds like a pretty good idea to me is to stay out a year if I can hook on with some pretty good outfit and get some business experience plus enough money which added to the 1500I should have on hand at the end of this year would see me through law school without working at all and wou1d even leave the summers free for supplementary study if I wanted to. There are two objections to this --one if the difficulty of hooking up with any outfit in a position to get any experience and sti11 make some money and the other is that this way I wouldn't have anything on hand when I graduated. Now coaching as I go along would leave me a nice little sum on hand when I graduated but coaching would keep me on the go all the time and of which I am getting mighty tired but still wouldn't mind if I thoght I could really do a good job on my studies. In other words if I go into professional school I want to really bear down if am capable of doing that. In my mind it is high time that I devote my restless energy to something a little more worthwhile than athletics. I am thankful for the opportunity of coaching or of pro ball if either of these seem to be the thing to do but if a year at somthing else is best I would prefer it. A year with Baum would be fine experience and would be ok even if I didn't "clean up" as he suggests. Or maybe I don't even want to go to law school. I am going to drop over and visit some classes one of these days and perhaps have a talk or two with some good lawyers and see if 1 can get any light on whetehr I would really like law . It is a rather tough decision for me to amke. Yours, Nile
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