Golden, Colorado
November 15, 1914

Dear Dad,

I thought I'd write.

We must take a geology trip to North Table Mountain, and it will cost $10 for carfare, etc.

I found out today that I must have a cubic centimeter for chemistry, and I had better get a good one and have it over with.

One will cost $15, but I can get two for $25, so I better get two as I might break one.

My supply of milli-microns is running low, but I can wait with them till next month.

Imagine my surprise when I found out that my overcoat was dried up, but the fellows told me that the dry climate was the cause of it.  The people out here wear special dry-climate clothes, so I'll have to do the same. I can get a good overcoat for $40.

And then I have to pay my Y.M.C.A. dues this month. They will be $10, but it is worth it as it is quite an honor to belong here.  They are already talking of making me president in my Senior year.  Next month I am to be initiated into the I Delta Thighs, and that will cost something, but I can't find out how much until the time comes.

I read in the papers that it costs $3,000 to send a student to a large Eastern college, but you are lucky for having sent me here, as I figure you'll save $1,350 unless the Chemistry Department holds me up on my ticket.

Your son,

Oswald


From the Denver Post Society Pages: March 27, 1915

WANT AD FIRST AIR TO BASHFUL

Joke of Classmates Brings 30 Proposals to Timid Student at Mines

Golden, Colorado, March 27 -- Wanted--A girl to accompany handsome young man to Mines junior prom and house party. Send photo, if possible. Matrimony. Address P.O. Box 711, Golden, Colorado.

Box 711, Golden is that of Charles N. Beryle of Los Angeles, a sophomore at the School of Mines.

The above want ad was placed in the Denver daily several days ago by friends of Beryle, with the idea of having a little diversion from their hard grind beneath the midnight incandescent. To date Beryle has received thirty acceptances from girls in all parts of the West.

Beryle is all that the ad claims for him. Six feet three inches tall, he stands out pre-eminently in any gathering. He was a member of the Mines championship football team of last fall and is said to have set the hearts of many fair gridiron fans fluttering.

In spite of his qualifications as a society lion, Beryle is said to have an aversion to members of the opposite sex. It is a trait which caused his friends to plan this joke on Beryle.

The following day after the ad appeared, Beryle received seven letters in various tinted envelopes and bearing feminine handwriting. The inserters of the want ad were on hand to witness his consternation.

Realizing that all was not as it should be, Beryle took the letters to his room to open them and barred all intruders except his roommate. Then, one by one, he opened the letters and received the seven successive surprises of his life.

To make matters worse, Beryle's roommate, who was in on the joke, passed the letters over the transom to his confederates as fast as Beryle finished reading them.