1942:
[124] Had to go down to Dundas St. to collect my glasses, then Conservatory, then Music Library, picking up Byrd, then Convocation: an unqualified disaster which it bores me to write about. Helen down with a cold, as I said before.
[Note that the Conservatory building was the original home of McMaster University, pictured above in a vintage postcard.]
The saga of poor Professor Frye’s broken glasses make me very grateful for plastic lenses, or I would have shared his experience too many times to count!