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Crippen, Ruth H. | [no recipient], Sep. 1900:

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Date
September 1900
Abstract
VC 1904
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vassar:24246,,Box 65,VCL_Letters_Crippen_Ruth-H_1904_001
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1 item
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: VCLLettersCrippenRuthH1904001001
(Sept. 1900 freshman year)

The lessons so far are very nice & comparatively easy & I like everything except the math, but I just grit my teeth & dig in that, so guess I will get through. We have such entertaining lectures in Hygiene which comes once a week.

College is so different from High School. The instructors do not seem to be like teachers who drum things into your

 


: VCLLettersCrippenRuthH1904001002
head but they tell you a thing & there it Is; you can listen or not. it makes you feel so much older.

I am glad you are helping Mary with her ... & hope it will turn out as well as mine, but be careful of... There is a girl here who is very musical & extremely ... of hymns, so this morning after breakfast I got... mandolin & we ten sang hymns for over an hour...

Ruth H. Crippen. '04,
(Omissions are the result of the edge of the page being cut off. It is
a fragment of an unsigned letter.)