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1911-02-07T00:00:01Z-1911-02-07T23:59:59Z
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: VCL_Letters_Eldridge-Muriel-Tilden_1911-01_1911-05_049_003_001
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
[Feb. 7, 1911]
Dear Mother -
Of course, I arrived all right - came up with Edith Taft - sat with her all the way up. Imagine the anti-climax when I landed in the Observatory and was greeted with the intelligence that I hadn’t satisfactorily passed the exam. in Solid Geometry. I hadn’t any idea that I hadn’t passed the exam. and couldn’t hardly believe it until I had interviewed my instructor Miss Richardson. She said that my class-work had led her to believe that I knew the subject and that consequently she was very much surprised at the showing I made on the written. I told her that never before in my life had I flunked anything, and that this simply discouraged me, but in our talk I found the reason for my fiasco. We were given in every instance the choice between an original and a
[Feb. 7, 1911]
Dear Mother -
Of course, I arrived all right - came up with Edith Taft - sat with her all the way up. Imagine the anti-climax when I landed in the Observatory and was greeted with the intelligence that I hadn’t satisfactorily passed the exam. in Solid Geometry. I hadn’t any idea that I hadn’t passed the exam. and couldn’t hardly believe it until I had interviewed my instructor Miss Richardson. She said that my class-work had led her to believe that I knew the subject and that consequently she was very much surprised at the showing I made on the written. I told her that never before in my life had I flunked anything, and that this simply discouraged me, but in our talk I found the reason for my fiasco. We were given in every instance the choice between an original and a
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Book-theorem, and in several cases I had chosen the original and failed to prove it adequately. Miss R. thought that I had chosen the originals because I couldn’t do those we had worked on, when really it was exactly opposite reasoning for my choice. The long and short of it is, anyway, that I am to have a re-exam in it within the next two or three weeks, instead of waiting until the regular re-exam. time in April. I hated to tell you about it, but I know you’d rather have me, thatn feel that I was keeping it to myself. I was very much pleased to have my French teacher, Miss Courow, tell me that I had given her a very good paper - that somewhat made up for the chagrin and shame that I can’t help feeling over the mathematics.
I have been over to Music Hall today and gotten information on that. The tuition fee for the lessons goes thru the office, but a deposit of $5. Is required to cover the expenses of sheet-music, etc. As to lessons, every Monday at 3 I have a less with Miss Williamson, every other Thursday at 3:30 I have a lesson with Miss Chittendon
Book-theorem, and in several cases I had chosen the original and failed to prove it adequately. Miss R. thought that I had chosen the originals because I couldn’t do those we had worked on, when really it was exactly opposite reasoning for my choice. The long and short of it is, anyway, that I am to have a re-exam in it within the next two or three weeks, instead of waiting until the regular re-exam. time in April. I hated to tell you about it, but I know you’d rather have me, thatn feel that I was keeping it to myself. I was very much pleased to have my French teacher, Miss Courow, tell me that I had given her a very good paper - that somewhat made up for the chagrin and shame that I can’t help feeling over the mathematics.
I have been over to Music Hall today and gotten information on that. The tuition fee for the lessons goes thru the office, but a deposit of $5. Is required to cover the expenses of sheet-music, etc. As to lessons, every Monday at 3 I have a less with Miss Williamson, every other Thursday at 3:30 I have a lesson with Miss Chittendon
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And on the odd weeks, that is the weeks where I do not have a lesson with Miss Chittendon, I have a class-lesson (whatever that may be) at 5:00. An hour’s practice per day has been arranged for, sometimes in the morning and sometimes in the afternoon. I have also arranged to give a piano-lesson every Tuesday evening in the club-house - if those little card-board arrangements like Margery’s giving the notes on the piano and on the staff, can be bought without the instruction booklet, will you see
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if you can get one for me, if I find that my pupil has no knowledge of reading music?
The second payment of tuition is due the first of March and not now, at the beginning of the second semester.
We have had a regular blizzard ever since we came back - a fall of some 10 or 12 inches. Everything looks beautiful, but oh! the walking!
The girls all like my skirt and as many as have seen my stock of shoes like them, too, how could they help it?
The second payment of tuition is due the first of March and not now, at the beginning of the second semester.
We have had a regular blizzard ever since we came back - a fall of some 10 or 12 inches. Everything looks beautiful, but oh! the walking!
The girls all like my skirt and as many as have seen my stock of shoes like them, too, how could they help it?
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We’re having a most heated discussion over our English exam. First at present. Our lady-teacher is much peeved over the papers we handing in and is going for us whole-sale hammer and tongs. I only hope mine was o.k. She’s hasn’t pitched in on me very particularly just yet, but - you never can tell.
Must pay attention now, so bye-bye. Sorry I had to tell you such awful news, but it won’t ever happen again, that’s sure.
Love to all,
Muriel.
Must pay attention now, so bye-bye. Sorry I had to tell you such awful news, but it won’t ever happen again, that’s sure.
Love to all,
Muriel.
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POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y.
6-30 PM
FEB 7-11
Mrs. B.O. Tilden
291 Westminster Road,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
6-30 PM
FEB 7-11
Mrs. B.O. Tilden
291 Westminster Road,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
