Vassar College. Jan. ?,0. ,1895,
My dear Mother ,-
Your welcome letter came yesterday. Now that the
Christmas rush is over, not so many letters come to our room.
But I always know 2 shall hear from home regularly, for you are all
so good about writing.
What a terrible storm you had- to judge from the newspaper
account. Some of the snow came here. It is beautiful and sunshiny
out today, though it is pretty cold.
Tonight we are to have a famous speaker at the Y.W.C.A.
prayer meeting, I mean missionary meeting- Lady Henry Somerset.
I believe she has just come over from England, but I am not sure.
Friday night we had a very interesting lecture by Mr. Chas.
Walcott, the head of the U.S. Geological and Coast Survey. He spoke
on the "Work aad Methods of the U.S. Survey - told us how they made
the surveys, in detail, and why they made them and so on. It was all
illustrated by stereopticon maps and views. Mr. Walcott is an old
friend of Prof. Dwight, Prof, of Geology. Miss Salmon made use of
the stereopticon apparatus in the afternoon, to talk to us about
Charlemagne- I mean to our history class. She has promised all the
semester to talk to us some recitation- She is fine and everybody
likes to hear her. We will have her for history next September, if
we elect it, so I want to elect it then. For next semester I elected
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4 hrs. 2 hrs.	2 hrs.
Chemistry. Greek and History of Art- Besides that we have two
hrs, each of Latin and Greek, and three of English required.
I think our Latin will not be so interesting next semester
as this, but our Greek arid English will be more so. We will have
Prof. Leach for the elective Greek.
W e miss Mary very much and wish she could be here, but we
are very fortunate in having Carrie in her place, instead of having a
strange Freshman put in. Mary does not tell much about herself In
her letters. I packed her things in her old trunk Friday, and sent
them to her by express. She had us keep all the things that were
useful or ornamental in the parlor. Carrie was quite tickled to room
us, for she was not very happy with her Freshman, whom she did not
know before-
Examinations begin a week from tomorrow, and oh dear!
They make them hard and long- Then the year will be half over.
Time goes quickly.
Lovingly Adelaide. jClaflin,