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Ladies Home Journal. When I was about 9 I read "Camille" and "Quo Vadis" because I saw my mother hiding them back of some books, which only goes to show that if a youngster wants to read there isn't much anyone can do about it. I think that these self constituted censors of books and movies have the wrong slant on the whole thing. Most kids won't see anything wrong until they are told about it, after which they'll re-read it to find out where the high spots are supposed to be. although I hated high-school, I loved the Normal College. In my day it wasn't the "methods" factory that it is now. We had an unusual group of teachers, most of whom went to Columbia and Stanford later on. My favorite teacher was Elvira Cabell, first cousin of James Branch, and I never can forget her. I had a course in Lyric Poetry with her, especially memorable because it has influenced me all my life,