March 12 - 1926, Friday On Wednesday evening I gave the last lecture and yesterday at 2 P.M. one had the final exam. I began with a class of at least 40 of whom most were ill visitors. Then we settled down to 30 men and finally 12 came today; the rest in course towards a degree. Of these 6 are family made up B or mac, One had C and another D. About 6 of the men have promise of making oil geologists since none have any other ambition! At noon I handed in my merits and report and so the contract is closed for which I am to get $1800. A news note which comes to us from a professor of Geology down at the state University states that the earth is 1,500,000,000 years old; and report in the papers a few weeks ago quoted a Yale professor as being able to prove that the earth is 371,000,000 years old. We don't believe either report. The earth is today exactly 9,925 years, one month and 11 days old; but if the Bible didn't tell us that, we wouldn't believe it. In fact, when we observe how some East Texans have abused the earth by letting its virgin soil wash away and the precious fields get all gulleyed-up, we doubt whether it was here when Washington was whipping the British. Any man's earth in the whole universe would have been a blown-up sucker ages and aeons ago had it been subjected to the abuses we East Texans have perpetrated upon ours—We'd better get to terracing and draining, or our Earth will be a blown-up sucker, and we will be too.