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April 13, 1896
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VC 1897
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vassar:24561,,Box 21,VCL_Letters_Mansfield_Adelaide_1897_066
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Vassar College. April 13. 1896.
My dear Mother, —
I am writing this time on Monday morning before breakfast, because last evening, which I intended to spend in writing, I spent over at the Windsor. You know the Sunday evening prayer-meetings over there are led by some girl from the Junior or Senior Class here, who takes along two other girls to take part and help the meeting along.
So last night I was asked to go along. The Sunday Evening prayer-meetings over there are very small, because, to begin with, there are only fifty girls left over there now, and then since they are
My dear Mother, —
I am writing this time on Monday morning before breakfast, because last evening, which I intended to spend in writing, I spent over at the Windsor. You know the Sunday evening prayer-meetings over there are led by some girl from the Junior or Senior Class here, who takes along two other girls to take part and help the meeting along.
So last night I was asked to go along. The Sunday Evening prayer-meetings over there are very small, because, to begin with, there are only fifty girls left over there now, and then since they are
: VCLLettersMansfieldAdelaide1897066002
so near town, a good many of them go to church in the evening, and then, too, a
smaller proportion to the whole number stay there than here, anyway. The Freshmen over there are quite a problem not only to the Christian Association, but also to the Self-government Committee. You see, without any upper-classmen to influence them, they are just like boarding-school girls, who try to break all the rules they can and make all the noise they can. And that won't do under Self-government. The Students' Association expects to have a time with them next year when they get over to the main building. For these reasons it is very unfortunate for the college to have to have girls over at the Windsor. They say that one hundred and seventy girls have already paid...
[Adelaide Claflin,]
smaller proportion to the whole number stay there than here, anyway. The Freshmen over there are quite a problem not only to the Christian Association, but also to the Self-government Committee. You see, without any upper-classmen to influence them, they are just like boarding-school girls, who try to break all the rules they can and make all the noise they can. And that won't do under Self-government. The Students' Association expects to have a time with them next year when they get over to the main building. For these reasons it is very unfortunate for the college to have to have girls over at the Windsor. They say that one hundred and seventy girls have already paid...
[Adelaide Claflin,]
