Professor Hamilton's Diary: Nov. 8, 1935

He does academic stuff; Evangelist Billy Sunday is mourned

Professor Hamilton spent today teaching, meeting with students to plan the International Relations Club’s radio broadcast the following week, preparing an exam and making the stencil to run off copies. Remember those exams? That horrible purple ink that smelled so bad?

Back in Washington after a long visit to his Hyde Park, N.Y. home, President Roosevelt opened his press conference by declaring “There is literally and absolutely no news at all.” However, he had written a note of condolence to the widow of the evangelist Billy Sunday, who had died suddenly.

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The photo of the athletic Mr. Sunday is from the collection of the Library of Congress, accessed via Wikimedia Commons.