54 Ibid., p. 29.
55 GFK to JLG, May 13, 1996, JLG Papers; GFK to JKH, February 20, 1921, GFK Papers, 23:10.
56 GFK interview by JEK, pp. 20–21, 27; JKH interview, p. 14.
57 St. John’s Military Academy Yearbook, 1921, courtesy of Gary Richert, Director of Alumni Affairs, St. John’s Northwestern Military Academy. See also KWK interview, p. 7, and GFK interview, December 13, 1987, p. 5.
TWO • PRINCETON: 1921–1925
1 Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, p. 36.
2 Ibid., pp. 53–54; GFK, Memoirs, I, 9.
3 Ibid., pp. 10–11, 13, 15.
4 GFK to JKH, September 28, 1921, GFK Papers, 23:10; GFK, Memoirs, I, 9. For the tutoring schools and the honor code, see Axtell, Making of Princeton University, pp. 113, 181–82, 234.
5 GFK to JKH, October 30, 1921, GFK Papers, 23:10; GFK, Memoirs, I, 17.
6 GFK to JKH, November 24, 1921, GFK Papers, 23:10.
7 Ibid.; GFK interview by JEK, p. 20; GFK interview, August 25, 1982, p. 1; JKH interview, pp. 8–9; GFK, Memoirs, I, 10–11.
8 GFK interview, August 25, 1982, p. 1; JKH interview by JEK, p. 5; GFK interview by JEK; JKH interview, p. 13.
9 GFK to JKH, March 4, 8, and May 3, 1922, GFK Papers, 23:10.
10 GFK to JKH, April 1, May 13 and 20, 1922, ibid.
11 GFK interview by JEK, pp. 13–14; FKW interview, pp. 8–9.
12 GFK interview, December 13, 1987, p. 4; Axtell, Making of Princeton University, pp. 6–11, 115–19.
13 Mary Bundy interview, December 6, 1987, p. 4; GFK interview, August 24, 1982, p. 16. See also GFK interview by JEK, p. 21.
14 GFK to JKH, October 4, 1922 [misdated 1921], GFK Papers, 23:10; Axtell, Making of Princeton University, pp. 359–68.
15 GFK to JKH, November 1, 1922, GFK Papers, 23:10.
16 Quoted in Axtell, Making of Princeton University, p. 309. Axtell discusses the history of the clubs at pp. 291–309.
17 GFK, Memoirs, I, 11; GFK interview, December 13, 1987, p. 6; GFK to JKH, undated but probably April 1923, GFK Papers, 23:10. Key and Seal, long since defunct as a club, is now Adlai Stevenson Hall. While teaching at Princeton in 1987, I took Kennan to dinner there, the first time he had set foot in the place since 1924.
18 GFK to JKH, April 11, 1923, GFK Papers, 23:10; GFK interview, December 13, 1987, p. 6; GFK Diary, July 20 and 21, 1924, JEK Papers.
19 GFK to KKK, October 20, 1924, GFK Papers, 53:7; GFK interview, December 13, 1987, p. 6.
20 GFK, Memoirs, I, 11–12; GFK interview, December 13, 1987, p. 4; GFK to JKH, April 11, 1923, GFK Papers, 23:10.
21 Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, p. 19.
22 GFK to JKH, March 4, 1922, GFK Papers, 23:10; GFK, Memoirs, I, 14; GFK to KKK, May 26, 1922, and JKH, October 4, 1922 [misdated 1921], GFK Papers, 53:5.
23 GFK, Memoirs, I, 15.
24 Ibid., p. 13; GFK interview, August 24, 1982, p. 15; GFK to JKH, October 4, 1922 [misdated 1921], GFK Papers, 23:10; Axtell, Making of Princeton University, p. 223.
25 GFK, Memoirs, I, 16; GFK interview, August 24, 1982, pp. 15–16.
26 GFK Diary, April 30 and May 4, 1924, JEK Papers; GFK, Memoirs, I, 14; GFK interview, September 8, 1983, p. 10.
27 GFK Diary, May 1, 3, 9, 20, 1924, JEK Papers; GFK to KKK, October 8, 1924, GFK Papers, 53:7; GFK to JKH, undated but later marked “1924,” ibid., 23:10; GFK, Memoirs, I, 16. Clio, with Whig, were venerable Princeton debating societies.
28 GFK to JKH, February 28, May 18 and 25, 1923, GFK Papers, 23:10.
29 Ibid.
30 GFK to JKH, November 1, 10, and December 6, 1922, ibid.
31 Ibid.
32 GFK to JKH, May 18, 1923, GFK Papers, 23:10.
33 GFK Diary, May 24, 1924. The passport, dated June 2, 1924, is ibid.
34 GFK, Memoirs, I, 12–13; GFK Diary, May 12, 1924, JEK Papers. The Key and Seal roster for 1925, showing George as an active member and Nick as having left, is in the Princeton Bric- a-Brac for that year, copy courtesy of Tad Bennicoff, Special Collections Assistant, Seeley G. Mudd
