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Creator: Aaron, Lester
Date: 1920-12-11
Text: 14 Story Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 11, 1920. Dear Mother, Father, and Fan: I haven't much to tell you this evening; so I shall not write at great length. Your address of November 28, Father, was a peach; I enjoyed it a lot. My decision to go to the Wasserman affair, Mother, was reached after due consideration. As I wrote to you yesterday, I don't like the idea of missing three days at home; perhaps I used a good deal of sophistry in justifying it. I don't know...
Show more14 Story Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 11, 1920. Dear Mother, Father, and Fan: I haven't much to tell you this evening; so I shall not write at great length. Your address of November 28, Father, was a peach; I enjoyed it a lot. My decision to go to the Wasserman affair, Mother, was reached after due consideration. As I wrote to you yesterday, I don't like the idea of missing three days at home; perhaps I used a good deal of sophistry in justifying it. I don't know whether I did what you wanted me to do or not. There was certainly nothing formal either in Margaret's urging or in Bill's. From what Margaret said, I gathered that she had made up the list for the affair; in fact, I am pretty sure she did. When is this dance coming off to which you invited Al Goorin, Fan? If you haven't accepted his invitation for the other, you are quite free to shift the burden for refusing on a previous arrangement with me; as I said last evening without knowing all the dope, that would suit me very well indeed. However, use your own judgment and don't worry about me. Bill asked me whether I had met some one, who, he said, was "an old flame" of Margaret's, but the flame was all on his side. Perhaps there is a resemblance in Al's case. Love, [Lester]
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Creator: Aaron, Lester
Date: 1920-12-04
Text: 14 Story Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 4, 1920. Dear Mother, Father, and Fan: The first invitation of the 1920 winter season arrived this morning. I don't think you would guess right off the bat where it came from. If I wanted to arouse the "curiosity that killed a cat", I would wait until tomorrow to give you a chance to guess. It was from Mr. & Mrs. Wasserman, Miss Margaret Wasserman and Mr. William Wasserman for a "Twelfth Night Party" on December...
Show more14 Story Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 4, 1920. Dear Mother, Father, and Fan: The first invitation of the 1920 winter season arrived this morning. I don't think you would guess right off the bat where it came from. If I wanted to arouse the "curiosity that killed a cat", I would wait until tomorrow to give you a chance to guess. It was from Mr. & Mrs. Wasserman, Miss Margaret Wasserman and Mr. William Wasserman for a "Twelfth Night Party" on December 24. If I were going to be East at that time, I should be very strongly tempted to accept it; as it is, I don't see how I can. I wish I knew whether Bill was coming to Pittsburgh. How long do you expect to be in Atlantic? The invitation amused me, in a way, after the last conversation we had on the general subject of parties last Sunday night. I expressed my abhorrence of that sort of vacation; Margaret dlivered a concurring opinion. Today: the invitation! The other R. S. V. P. in the morning mail was from you, Mother, about my teeth. I don't know whether there is any trouble for Doctor Cuden or not. They have not been perfectly comfortable at all times; but on other occasions when that was the case, he said they were all right. I don't see why you should be so much worried about Chem, Fan. I think it is one of the simplest subjects I ever studied. In physics there are a lot of more or less difficult principles to dope out and a lot of complet mathematics to juggle with; but chem is about as simple and straight forward as anything could be. Are you sure that you aren't imagining things and introducing difficulties? It seems to me that I left some important questions over last evening for discussion this evening. Whatever they were, they slipped my mind. Love, [Lester]Symphony Hall-Rakhmaninov For the first time int he current musical year, Mr. Rakhmaninov, the illustrious Russian composer and pianist, will play in Boston tomorrow afternoon at 3.30 in Symphony Hall. There is barely need to recall to the many frequenting his concerts his remote and impressive presence his ability and resource as a technician the felicities of his touch and tone, his large understanding of the chosen music and his self-subordination to it. His programme more interesting than some he has previously proffered is: Sonnata, No. 9..........................Mozart Songs Without Words (Nos. 32, 3, 47, 37, 17)........................Mendelssohn Ballad-Waltz in E-flat - Barcarolle - Waltz in G-flat.................Chopin Two Etudes-Tableaux (Martial; As a Funeral March)-Barcarolle..Rakhmaninov Spanish Rhapsody.........................LisztTea, Mufins and Jam ___ [From the Worcester Telegram] So Harvard is now serving afternoon tea "with muffins and strawberry jam! Old grads who have stood up bravely under the strain of the demise of Mory's at New Haven, the transformaion at Zinkey's at Ithaca into an ice-cream parlor and the raiding of Tiger Inn at Princeton on football day will have to swallow hard to down this latest dose. Afternoon tea with muffins and strawberry jam! It suggests a translation from Tom Brown at Oxford to Nancy Brown at Cambridge. It has to be admitted that for the aesophagus and other items of the physiological structure, inevitable even if unknown in undergraduate circles, plunges into Oolong to celebrate victory or drown defeat are assuredly more beneficial than were the plunges of the past into beverages found upon rye, grape and peat reek.The [Hoisn] announced that it would [serve] afternoon [tea] after the fashion of the [Harvard] Club all over [the country]National League of Girls' Clubs Miss Rose L. Dexter has offered the use of her home, 400 Beacon street, for next week's meeting [?on the national discourse?]. The board meets five times a year, usually in New York. Thursday will include two sessions, the morning devoted to business, and one in the afternoon, at which Miss Marion Niles, president of the Massachusetts League of Girls' Clubs, will officially welcome directors and guests. Miss Jean Hamilton, executive secretary of the National League, will give a report of work in Ohio. Miss Dexter will serve luncheon on that day. The meetings on Thursday evening and Friday will be held at the Girls' City Club, 8 Newbury street. The Needham Girls' Club will hold its monthly business meeting at the High School on Monday. Plans for the coming bazaar will be discussed. A brand new club will be inaugurated at a mass meeting in the Town Hall by the girls of Canton on Monday. Any girl of sixteen of over is invited. The Norwood Girls' Club will provide a special entertainment, a pantomime called "Putting One Over on Mother." The following members of the club will take part: The Misses Irene Jones, Emily Johnson, Gladys Faulkins and Ketharine Kellard. Athol will give a dance in Grange Hall Monday, the proceeds to go toward expenses of the club. On Saturday a Christmas sale will take place. The Newton girls' regular business meeting comes Wednesday at eight o'clock, the council session following. Dodgeville has a new club which will have its first dramatic evening on Tuesday by producing two plays, "Pedler's Parade" and "Tickets, Please!" Mrs. Sybil K. Leonard, the secretary, is the coach. Webster Girls' Club will give, in cooperation with the International Correspondence Course, the moving the picture entertainment called "Heads Win" on Monday. The programme will include singing by the Glee Club.
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Creator: Aaron, Lester
Date: 1923-06-02
Text: 4 Story Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 2, 1923. Dear Mother, Father, and Fan: There is very little to tell you this evening. I got up early this morning and worked with Harold Birnbaum on an old Property III exam before going down to Temple for the opening exercises--I mean closing exercises. I had lunch with Dick Mack, went out with him to see August Kohn who is in the Infirmary, and then went out to Brookline and called at Rosenau's, at Harold Birnbaum's relatives',...
Show more4 Story Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 2, 1923. Dear Mother, Father, and Fan: There is very little to tell you this evening. I got up early this morning and worked with Harold Birnbaum on an old Property III exam before going down to Temple for the opening exercises--I mean closing exercises. I had lunch with Dick Mack, went out with him to see August Kohn who is in the Infirmary, and then went out to Brookline and called at Rosenau's, at Harold Birnbaum's relatives', and at Arthur Marget's. I got back here and met Dick Mack by chance as I was getting a bit to eat and had a long bicker with him. Meanwhile the evening is gone, and I have a lot of work to do. I was out at Lew Hitzrot's last evening. He went down to New York this morning to work in a hospital for two months. I am going to work like a fool for the rest of the week; so I probably won't get any letters written. I have spent all the time speaking to people and bickering with them that I can spend; it has to be hard work and lots of it for the rest of my time up here. Since I'll see you at the end of the week, I'll make my correspondence breif. At what time do I have to be Poughkeepsie Saturday? R. S. V. P. Love, [Lester]
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Creator: Aaron, Lester
Date: 1920-05-08
Text: [23 May 1923?] Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I'm sorry I haven't had time to write the last two days, but I have been very busy. I saw Miss Gibson in the libe yesterday, and she told me to include a phase of the subject in my topic that I hadn't, so I had to spend today writing that. I finished it completely, 110 pages. The Table of Contents looks just like a book. It gives me a thrill every time I look at it! I was the first to finish. It breaks my heart to think of not...
Show more[23 May 1923?] Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I'm sorry I haven't had time to write the last two days, but I have been very busy. I saw Miss Gibson in the libe yesterday, and she told me to include a phase of the subject in my topic that I hadn't, so I had to spend today writing that. I finished it completely, 110 pages. The Table of Contents looks just like a book. It gives me a thrill every time I look at it! I was the first to finish. It breaks my heart to think of not having a copy of it, but Millsy keeps them on file, as they are "contributions to economic knowledge" (!), and I simply did not have time to make a copy. And the motto of it is, type accurately so that making carbon copies won't take extra time. The most important communication I have is one which you are on no account to overlook, and that is to deposit some money for me. I paid the semester bill--extras, infirmary charges, etc.--and am most poverty-struck as a consequence. Please don't forget, as I don't want to overdraw my account. Also get them to send my cancelled checks while you're at it. Mother, please keep reminding Father as long as necessary. I started my Tolerance exam-topic today. I'm investigating the "I. W. W." I'm going to base my drama exam either on "Anna Christie" andI answered [I.R. Suttlement] by saying I didn't know my summer plans + - was sorry not to be able to accept; etc. Helen tells me that she heard that 195 were invited to Louise's wedding and 295 are sore that they were not invited, among them--the Edgar Lewins, Carl Kaufmanns, Walter Baer, Ed Benswangers, etc. Ruth Helen Kaufmann was giving a bridge for Louise with Pauline Lewin, and called it off when the invites came out. Haha! Also Jane's friend, A Benjamin, who came all the way here to see her last year and was the cause of her Pittsburgh visit, announced his engagement. Further gossip of interest to you? When Jane told me Leon was coming here, she said "The cream of Pgh."! Give me the scum!I Puritan attack on
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Creator: Aaron, Lester
Date: 1920-11-10
Text: 14 Story Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 10, 1920. Dear Mother, Father, and Fan: After what I said about Herbert AdamsGibbons last evening, I was very much amused when your letter of Monday came this morning, Mother, with the comment that his address was "one of the finest, deepest, and most scholarly talks" that you had ever listened to. I am glad you liked him; I can't hand him too much, but there is no doubt about it that he has a good line and on the Palestinian...
Show more14 Story Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 10, 1920. Dear Mother, Father, and Fan: After what I said about Herbert AdamsGibbons last evening, I was very much amused when your letter of Monday came this morning, Mother, with the comment that his address was "one of the finest, deepest, and most scholarly talks" that you had ever listened to. I am glad you liked him; I can't hand him too much, but there is no doubt about it that he has a good line and on the Palestinian question on that is quite in line with what most of the congregation think on Zionism. I haven't read all his books, but I have read part of "The New Map of Europe" which is quite readable and interesting, though the map that he called new was the map that followed the Balkan wars. The addresses I have heard him deliver were on "The Caillaux Case" in which he didn't prove very much and on the problems that were facing France at the close of the war--a lecture which I thought could have been done very much better. Howsoever, i am glad he made a hit. Evidently from your letter, Mother, you thought I used Sunday to rest up. I have been resting up since then I slept again this afternoon for a couple hours, in spite of hammering outside my window. I am feeling fine and looking forward with keen and eager anticipation to the approaching week-end. Please don't worry about my economizing, Mother; that is the one thing I am worrying about--the speed with which that bank account of mine is being reduced. Which reminds me--My Princeton bank-book is in the left hand drawer, I think, in my bureau--will you please mail it to me right away to Princeton, if you can find it? I don't need it, but I'd like to have it. I am enclosing a latter to the State Board of Law, Examiners. You may have attended to it already--I don't know. Anyhow, if you think it is worth while doing, will you send it in when you get home, Father? I haven't been here long enough to have any idea whether I'll last through the three years or not. I am told that a fee of $25 is to be paid now and another fee of $25 when the exams are taken. It seems to me that that is horribly expensive when there is so very little chance of my ever going into law. If we lived in Ohio, it would be different--it costs 50c to register there. I think it is awfully foolish to blow in $50 just for mental satisfaction; however, perhaps you may feel otherwise, so I am enclosing the dope. All I have to say is that we certainly live in a highly capitalistic commonwealth. Harold sent word that he got seats in the wooden stands. I hope that you haven't told him or you, Fan, Lucy that I am taking Grace to the game. I think he'll probably take a Hebrew fit when he hears that I am taking any one, and I'd like to see the expression on his face when he finds it out--it ought to be something to laugh at for two weeks afterwards. Love, [Lester]TAFT In CHURCH APPEAL ___ He Sounds High Note in $3,000,000 Campaign ___ Unitarian Task is to Reach the Unchurched ___ Reaction from War Makes Religion Essential ___ Former President Obliged to Speak Twice ___ Eloquent was the appeal made by former President William H. Taft at a meeting in the First Church, Berkeley and Marlboro streets, last night in behalf of the great Unitarian movement for the raising of #3,000,000 to extend the work of the Church in the United States. He emphasized the fact that the Unitarians are not to proselyte or to win people from other churches, but to reach those whom other churches may not be able to influence, and at a time when humanity is suffering the reaction of the World War. Mr. Taft's visit to Boston naturally stimulated widespread interest in the First Church meeting. The church was filled long before the meeting started and disappointed persons repaired to the Arlington Street Church, where Mr. Taft spoke again. When the former President arrived at the Back Bay station at six o'clocl he was met by Samuel Carr, who took him to the Carr home, 403 Commonwealth avenue, where he was to be a guest for the night, Mrs. Carr being a cousin of Mr. Taft. After a brief rest, Mr. Taft went to the Wendome to dine with 100 or more Unitarians who are active in the plans for raising the #3,000,000 fund. There were remarks by Ernest G. Adams, Richard M. Saltonstall and Mr. Taft. ___ Progress in the Family In the beginning his address at the church, which was entitled "The Great Adventure," Mr. Taft aroused laughter by saying: "I am honored to be allowed to speak to you under these circumstances; I am greatly honored to be in the pulpit of the First Church of Boston. I am going to make an assertion that I hope is true. It would be deadful to make a mistake about it. My father was interested in genealogy and he told me that one of my ancestors was John Wilson, the first minister of The First Church of Boston. He was not a Unitarian (laughter). And if that statement be true, then we have made progress in the family. Continuing, Mr. Taft said: "We unitarians believe that the time has come when our Church should take affirmative and militant methods against the inertia and indifference of irreligion. The breaking away of Channing and the Unitarians who followed him was not a negation of religion, as many people seem to think you don't know. You in New England don't understand the ignorance that there is in parts of the country with reference to Unitarianism. If you want to find it out, run for President. (Laughter.) "Their religion was not and it not atheism or infidelity. No one can read Channing's sermons or the sermons of any other Unitarian who is true to the doctrine of the Church, and say truly that God and Jesus are not fully in the Unitarian faith, and that they are not worshipped with the same reverence and the same love and the same anxiety to conform to the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man as in any Orthodoz communions. The Unitarians schism gre out of a desire and a determination to maintain a religious frame of mind and religious life without the necessity of intellectual acquiescence is a dogma and creed which it was impossible for a Unitarian to square with his reasoning and conviction, and therefore, with his soncscience. Unitarians are Christians. ___ Reaction from the War "The war has left the European countries and this country in a critical situation. We have a frightful lack of seriousness-extravagance, luxury and a turning again to the things of the world in a way that is most discouraging. But it is only temporary, I am convinced. It is only getting over something in a way of the fullness of heart and soul that poor human nature cannot stand too long; there has to be a little reaction from it. But the lessons of the war have not been lost; as is now, when there is danger that they may be lost, that we need this forward march, this movement in the interest of religion, to stir the indifference and the inertia of men who have left the Church on excuse that they do not believe in the creed or dogma, and have given up religion altogether on that account. ___ Now a Militant Religion "Now, that is the reason why the Unitarian Church is moving. That is the reason why the Unitarian Church is changing from its former quiet method of persuing its belief and its worship and its religion-a method that has, in certain respects, been most useful in this sommunity. It has liberalized religion, it has introduced Unitarians into other churches. It has introduced Liberalism into these churches because there are many men and women there who are earnest members of the Church but who are earnest members of the Church but who could not stand a spiritual cross-examination without disclosing that thy are real Uniterians. But now it is necessary for us to do more, it is necessary for us to go forward, and to take our place in the militant religions, and show to the world the faith that is in us by our missionary work in the fields where we ought to succeed. "As we have gone on, we have found that to keep the Church clear and free from fault, as well as to satisfy the spirit of liberty, we must have freedom of religion and each man must be permitted to worship God as he chooses. The Church and the State are separated. No one would have this otherwise, but we must recognize that in this great freedom of religion, made one of the cornerstones of our liberty, is the disadvantage of our not being able, through governmental agencies, to associate the teaching of religion with the primary education of our children. "What I mean is this: That without religion in the schools, the teaching of morality, good, is nevertheless lacking in the fire, it is lacking in the inspiration, and we attempt to subtitute for it Sunday schools and home influence. But the trouble is that for those children that need most religious influence there is no home influence and is no Sunday school influence. Therefore, where freedom of religion prevails, where religion cannot be united by the Government with education, the burden upon the churches to make up for this lack is greater, and the danger from a failure of the churches is more threatening. "General education has stimulated inquiry into the basis of religious belief. It has made them much more sympathetic and much more willing to recognize the usefulness of Unitarian churches, and has unified the effort to spread religion. The incident that was mentioned by the last speaker, Mr. Adams, in which the Inter-church movement is said to have left out the Unitarian Church is one of those awkward incidents-not awkward for us, but awkward for those who found it necessary to make the exclusion. They didn't want to do it, I am sure-the great majority of them didn't, but there they had that creed, and when they go to the stage, when they get to where the cross-examination began, why, then they had to enforce the letter. I presume that was their situation. Therefore, let us sympathize with them; don't let us get angry at them. (Laughter.) Half, more than half, of the people of the country are not in churches, an many of these, though intelligent and educated, become indifferent to religion. "Now it is within the field of missionary work to such 'heathen' as these that the Unitarian Church has, we believe, a great future. We ask them only to subscribe to the doctrine of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, to take in and act upon the pure preaching and practice of Jesus, to admit its fundamental truth, its beauty, its far-reaching benefit. We ask them to unite with us in the worship of God, and in the study and understanding of the teachings of Jesus. and in self elevation by this study. Ours is a call to the unconverted."
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Creator: Aaron, Lester
Date: 1920-11-08
Text: 14 Story Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 8, 1920. Dear Mother, Father, and Fan: I am gradually getting back--for a little while anyhow--to that which the President-elect calls "a state of Normalcy". I went for a run early in the afternoon and then came back and slept from my bath until dinner time--and believe me, I am going to sleep tonight. I have enjoyed the last few days immensely, but I don't know when I ever was so continuously on the go. But before I get to...
Show more14 Story Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 8, 1920. Dear Mother, Father, and Fan: I am gradually getting back--for a little while anyhow--to that which the President-elect calls "a state of Normalcy". I went for a run early in the afternoon and then came back and slept from my bath until dinner time--and believe me, I am going to sleep tonight. I have enjoyed the last few days immensely, but I don't know when I ever was so continuously on the go. But before I get to talking about the week-end, I want to get a few other things our of the way. In the first place, Father, I'm awfully sorry I didn't send you anything for your Harrisburg speech. When you first asked me to think about it, I couldn't think of a thing to suggest. Then all at once one evening I got an inspiration and I made some notes which I think I could have worked up into something very good--that is, very good for me. It is said that an honest confession is good for the soul--and so I might as well confess it, though it doesn't help you any and I am heartily ashamed of it and awfully sorry about it--I absolutely forgot all about it and it wasn't till just now, as I was rereading Mother's letter of Saturday which I had read very hastily this morning, that I realized that I had forgotten all about it. I am terribly sorry. I just wired to ask you whether you wanted the odd ticket for the game for Saturday. Cort Parker with whom I filed my cheering section application for the Yale game wanted it if you didn't, and if both you and he didn't want it, I wanted to send it in for redemption. For that purpose it ought to be in Princeton by Thursday forenoon. The cheering section seat is very good indeed. The other two were rotten. They were in the South Stand, that is, in temportary wooden stands at the open south end of the Stadium. I was particularly disappointed, because the same mail that brought those tickets brought a letter from Grace in which she said that she would be very glad to go to the game and that she was just as keen to see Yale beaten as I was. I know I don't want to see the game from the end of the field, and I don't want to ask her to see it from there if I can help it. So I chased into Boston immediately after lunch and caught Bill Wasserman at Back Bay station, where he was waiting for the Knickerbocker to go to New York. I gave him those two South Stand tickets, and he promised to get me two of his own bunch or two other good ones instead. He had offered to let me have two before I knew how I came out; so I hope the thing will work out all right. By the way, when you write on Friday and on Thursday of this week, address me in his care--W. S. Wasserman, 61 Campbell Hall. I am going to use his couch. He wants me to go home with him on Saturday night; I hardly think I will.-2- Grace said, by the way, that she had seen the Princeton-Oxford track meet in London this summer. She said it was awfully hard to keep the English rules of etiquette by sitting quietly as silent and composed onlookers. She said all that the English do to show their "Excitement was to clap feebly and occasionally whisper a scarecely audible, 'Well played, indeed!'" Bill Wasserman slept here last night. He was going into Boston this morning to see some exhibit at the Boston Museum of Art in connection with some are course that he is taking. He certainly has come to his senses on the religious question. He says that Silver Bay is entirely responsible for it. He went to Temple in Philadelphia on the holydays. He has been attending service regularly at Princeton--more than that, he has been trying to help the thing as much as he could. He went around canvassing for it. You should have heard him tell me last night about his visit to one cllub-ambitious Maranno who hopes to be able to fool others by making a fool of himself. He was very enthusiastic about Lazaron and not at all so about Solomon Foster who was doen a week ago. There were eighteen men at the second service, by the way, and twenty-eight at the first. The Dean has been away for some time and consequently was not present at the first service. So much for that, at least for the present. Now for the events of the last few days. The last time I wrote to you at length was, I think, last Friday afternoon. Several of us went down to the Stadium that afternoon and managed to get past the guards to serve as guards at the final secret practice before the game. It certainly was good to see the old Orange and Black. I saw Frank Glick on the field and had a short talk with him. He said he was Marse's guest at Westmoreland and at 372 recently. That evening Bill Wasserman's cousin--Stix Friedman of St. Louis, a Harvard 1922 man, who looks very much like Helen Milius and whose sister, 1924 at Wellesley, looks very much like Dorothy--and I went down to South Station to look for Bill who had wired that he was coming at eight-five. He meant Saturday morning, but he didn't say so. After waiting around there a little while, I went up to the Boston Athletic Club which is opposite the Hotel Lennox near Copley Square to the Princeton smoker. It was scheduled for 8 P. M. I got there in time for the beginning at 8:45. Good old Doc Spaeth spoke in his old form. He said the Faculty had given up as a hopeless job trying to hold classes on football big-game days, and had decided to give the students a holiday on those days. He had been conducting Chapel service that morning, he said, and President Hibben had handed him an announcement to make that owing to the suspension of class exercises on Saturday there would be no daily Chapel service on Saturday morning. "Shades of Doctor McCosh!" was Doc Spaeth's comment.-3- I enjoyed the evening thoroughly. I also enjoyed the refreshments and got away--inter alia--with two doughnuts and three glasses of cider. The cider was quite soft, in spite of Frank Glick's asking me whether I was drinking some of that hard cider! I don't know whether he was just kidding me or whether he thought it was hard. As a matter of fact, quite a few in the crowd had something stronger than sweet cider. Bottles were very much in evidence, but probably in the old days such a gathering would have been very much wetter than this one was. Porter Gillespie of Pittsburgh, who is back in college this year--he used to be in our class, but he was kicked out of college last year for inability to resist the happiness that comes from ardent spirits--that comes to some people from them, I should say--Porter Gillespie on hand and happy as ever. He was happy on the side-ines on Saturday. There certainly was plenty of drinking around twon this last week-end. I think it is a sad reflection on the university men of the country that that is the way they like to celebrate those days of the year, as the Times put it for which one lives. Russ Forgan and Lou Tilden, whom you probably remember from "The Isle of Surprise", entertained the smoker with some songs to the accompaniment of the accordion. They certainly are excellent at the sort of thing. This years show is to be called "The Mummy in the Case". They are coming up to Boston in February. I hope they don't come during these trial midyears. Cort Parker and Lew Stevens and I stipped in at the Copley and walked through the lobby to see what Princeton men we could see there. A big dance was going on there in honor of the occasion. I didn't see any men that I knew--of any girls, either. I did see Helen Klee in the distance there the next evening. She was there with a friend of Bob Wormser's--at least she was walking around the lobby with him. I am quite sure she saw me; she immediately executed an about-face and headed off in another direction. She was all decked out in evening dress and a very red face to match her dress. I haven't seen Bob Wormser for a long time. It is just as well probably that I don't see him much, because we probably wouldn't get on too well if we did. As Mr. Wilson said of Secretary Lansing, his mind doesn't exactly run along with mine. What a childish bunch of Harvards he and his crew are! It was about midnight Friday-Saturday when I got back from the smoker. I was at breakfast before seven-thirty Saturday morning and then went down to South Station and met the Princeton bunch that came in. I found Bill Wasserman and brought him out here. I took him to my class with me. He wasn't less interested than I was. I never had any class hours pass so slowly as those two classes of mine did Saturday morning, and I have seldom been so absent mentally, either, at any classes at which I was physically present. It really would have been just as sensible to cut, because I certainy can't possibly have gotten anything out of them. I met Jack Strubing Saturday morning. He is working with some electric company in Philadelphia. He served as one of the linesmen at the game. He was quarterback last year, as I suppose you remember. he kicked the field goal in the Yale game. I found Mort here at ten o'clock. He had a Southerner with-4- him, a member of the congregation, a qualifier from the University of Virginia, who seems to be a very nice fellow. Mort says that the Union have agreed to pay the expenses of all visiting rabbis; they are letting him make his own arrangements. He has asked several men whom Doctor Goldenson wrote to--Stern of New Rochelle and Ettelson are coming next month, I think. Bill and I got cleaned up instead of eating lunch--we got a bar of chocolate and a chocolate malted milk on the way--and met Margaret and the friend whom she had invited for Bill at the Huntington Avenue station. There is a Wllesly special in to town every Saturday toward one, and I am told that everybody comes in every Saturday. We got out to the Stadium just a couple minutes before the kick-off. We could hardly get into the subway, it was so jammed. I suppose you have read all about the game. It was a great game to see, but it was another heart-breaker--not as much of a heart-breaker, perhaps, as last year, because we didn't really outplay Harvard as we did last year, but nevertheless it was might hard to see victory snatched away again. I think Harvard was very much more disapponted than we were, if that is any consolation. We have a wonderful team, but they were a little unsteady at a couple critical moments. Captain Callahan's passing was the thing, I think, that lost the game for us more than anything else. At several very disastrous moments his passing was so poor that it resulted either in a fumble by the back to whom the pass was to go or in his being unable to get away with anything and being tackled for a loss before he could get started. Don Lourie did some of the prettiest running that I have ever seen. Stan Keck was the real star of the game, though. The Crime said this morning that he played like "one possessed"; they called him the ubiquitous Keck. He certainly played all over that field. If he is in college another year, I suppose he'll be captain next year. He entered originally with 1921, but I think he only rates as a Junior this year. He is better at football than he is at books. The game Saturday, in spite of its unsatisfactory outcome, was certainly a wonderful game to watch; we simply have got to beat Yale next week. We went to the tea-dance at the Union after the game. It was very enjoyable. As a matter of fact, I don't think they served any tea; but there was ice-cream and cake. From there we went into Boston. We had dinner at the Hotel Brunswick near the Copley--Margaret, Agnes Friedman, Stix, Bill, and myself. After dinner--which we all enjoyed, none of us having had very much lunch--we went to theater at Copley Theater, the little repertory theater across the street from the Copley Plaza. It is a very delightful little theater; we all enjoyed the evening. Not many of the football crowd were at the theater--it has a quiet atmosphere of intelligence and culture that I like a lot. The play was "Nobody's Daughter". I have seen greater plays, but I enjoyed it. That is more than I can say of other plays that I have seen in the not distant past.-5- We waited in the lobby of the Copley Plaza until the Wellesley train time. Bill spent the time in a feverish attempt to write up his post-mortem on the game for the St. Louis Star. He thinks he is a newspaper correspondent. he seems to be making money at it; he showed me several checks from them. i saw Ev Case and George Tennant in the Copley. That seems to be quite a rendez-vous for visiting Princeton men. Bill wanted me to go out to Wellesley and spend the night out there with him. Margaret had a room for him at the Inn. He found out when he got there that it was a room with two beds. If I had known that, I might have gone; not knowing that, I thought I'd have a more comfortable night if I didn't. Stix and I had to get Bill's fool press report out after he left; so I just got the last subway train from Park Street at 12:30. The surface cars run all night, but the subway stops at that hour. I got up about nine o'clock and had a very good breakfast at Mem. Then I went into Boston and went to Temple. It was the opening Sunday service of the season. The Temple is certainly attractice and quite beautiful, I think, but I don't think the Rabbi proves a thing. He just babbles; he talks so fast that I think he talks before he thinks. He certainly made less than no impression on me. He had quite a fair crowd for the size of the building. The students who were present didn't look like a prize lot. The discourse had to do with the Pilgrim Tercentenary and its relation to the Jews--a good subject, but not very impressively handled. I wonder whether he tried to dazzle his audience or what, that he wears his Phi Beta Kappa key so conspicuously high on his vest that it shows very well over the reading desk. I am all against that sort of thing. I must say, if Temple weren't Temple, I don't think I'd be found there very often. After lunch Stix Friedman and his room-mate Albert Lippman of St. Louis and a cousin of his and of Bill's who is at Tech--Eugene Weil, also a St. Louisan, and a graduate of Washington University in the Class of 1920--and I went out to Wellesley. We met Bill and Margaret and Agnes Friedman out there, took a walk and sat around bickering. We didn't prove a lot, but we had a good time. We had dinner at the Inn. It certainly does some rushing business on Sunday evenings. Bill and I weren't the only Princeton men out there, either, by a long shot. We took the 8:54 train in and were back here at ten. Billy spent the night here. I got a bed for him in the study. We bickered until about midnight. We got up pretty early this morning. He went into Boston with Stix right after breakfast. I went back to the law. it was a good weekend. I don't want to have to send this letter by freight. I could probably tell you a lot more, but I'll quit for tonight. I have a seat on the Knickerbocker for Friday. That will give me a chance to get into Princeton at 8:26 that evening. A good many of the fellows are going down Wednesday night. I think it is wiser to rest up from one week-end before starting on the nest. Besides, I am supposed to be at law school.Mr. & Mrs. Marcus Aaron, 402 Winebiddle Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. East End
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Creator: Aaron, Lester
Date: 1920-11-08
Text: 14 Story Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 8, 1920. Dear Mother, Father, and Fan: I am gradually getting back--for a little while anyhow--to that which the President-elect calls "a state of Normalcy". I went for a run early in the afternoon and then came back and slept from my bath until dinner time--and believe me, I am going to sleep tonight. I have enjoyed the last few days immensely, but I don't know when I ever was so continuously on the go. But before I get to...
Show more14 Story Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 8, 1920. Dear Mother, Father, and Fan: I am gradually getting back--for a little while anyhow--to that which the President-elect calls "a state of Normalcy". I went for a run early in the afternoon and then came back and slept from my bath until dinner time--and believe me, I am going to sleep tonight. I have enjoyed the last few days immensely, but I don't know when I ever was so continuously on the go. But before I get to talking about the week-end, I want to get a few other things our of the way. In the first place, Father, I'm awfully sorry I didn't send you anything for your Harrisburg speech. When you first asked me to think about it, I couldn't think of a thing to suggest. Then all at once one evening I got an inspiration and I made some notes which I think I could have worked up into something very good--that is, very good for me. It is said that an honest confession is good for the soul--and so I might as well confess it, though it doesn't help you any and I am heartily ashamed of it and awfully sorry about it--I absolutely forgot all about it and it wasn't till just now, as I was rereading Mother's letter of Saturday which I had read very hastily this morning, that I realized that I had forgotten all about it. I am terribly sorry. I just wired to ask you whether you wanted the odd ticket for the game for Saturday. Cort Parker with whom I filed my cheering section application for the Yale game wanted it if you didn't, and if both you and he didn't want it, I wanted to send it in for redemption. For that purpose it ought to be in Princeton by Thursday forenoon. The cheering section seat is very good indeed. The other two were rotten. They were in the South Stand, that is, in temportary wooden stands at the open south end of the Stadium. I was particularly disappointed, because the same mail that brought those tickets brought a letter from Grace in which she said that she would be very glad to go to the game and that she was just as keen to see Yale beaten as I was. I know I don't want to see the game from the end of the field, and I don't want to ask her to see it from there if I can help it. So I chased into Boston immediately after lunch and caught Bill Wasserman at Back Bay station, where he was waiting for the Knickerbocker to go to New York. I gave him those two South Stand tickets, and he promised to get me two of his own bunch or two other good ones instead. He had offered to let me have two before I knew how I came out; so I hope the thing will work out all right. By the way, when you write on Friday and on Thursday of this week, address me in his care--W. S. Wasserman, 61 Campbell Hall. I am going to use his couch. He wants me to go home with him on Saturday night; I hardly think I will.-2- Grace said, by the way, that she had seen the Princeton-Oxford track meet in London this summer. She said it was awfully hard to keep the English rules of etiquette by sitting quietly as silent and composed onlookers. She said all that the English do to show their "Excitement was to clap feebly and occasionally whisper a scarecely audible, 'Well played, indeed!'" Bill Wasserman slept here last night. He was going into Boston this morning to see some exhibit at the Boston Museum of Art in connection with some are course that he is taking. He certainly has come to his senses on the religious question. He says that Silver Bay is entirely responsible for it. He went to Temple in Philadelphia on the holydays. He has been attending service regularly at Princeton--more than that, he has been trying to help the thing as much as he could. He went around canvassing for it. You should have heard him tell me last night about his visit to one cllub-ambitious Maranno who hopes to be able to fool others by making a fool of himself. He was very enthusiastic about Lazaron and not at all so about Solomon Foster who was doen a week ago. There were eighteen men at the second service, by the way, and twenty-eight at the first. The Dean has been away for some time and consequently was not present at the first service. So much for that, at least for the present. Now for the events of the last few days. The last time I wrote to you at length was, I think, last Friday afternoon. Several of us went down to the Stadium that afternoon and managed to get past the guards to serve as guards at the final secret practice before the game. It certainly was good to see the old Orange and Black. I saw Frank Glick on the field and had a short talk with him. He said he was Marse's guest at Westmoreland and at 372 recently. That evening Bill Wasserman's cousin--Stix Friedman of St. Louis, a Harvard 1922 man, who looks very much like Helen Milius and whose sister, 1924 at Wellesley, looks very much like Dorothy--and I went down to South Station to look for Bill who had wired that he was coming at eight-five. He meant Saturday morning, but he didn't say so. After waiting around there a little while, I went up to the Boston Athletic Club which is opposite the Hotel Lennox near Copley Square to the Princeton smoker. It was scheduled for 8 P. M. I got there in time for the beginning at 8:45. Good old Doc Spaeth spoke in his old form. He said the Faculty had given up as a hopeless job trying to hold classes on football big-game days, and had decided to give the students a holiday on those days. He had been conducting Chapel service that morning, he said, and President Hibben had handed him an announcement to make that owing to the suspension of class exercises on Saturday there would be no daily Chapel service on Saturday morning. "Shades of Doctor McCosh!" was Doc Spaeth's comment.-3- I enjoyed the evening thoroughly. I also enjoyed the refreshments and got away--inter alia--with two doughnuts and three glasses of cider. The cider was quite soft, in spite of Frank Glick's asking me whether I was drinking some of that hard cider! I don't know whether he was just kidding me or whether he thought it was hard. As a matter of fact, quite a few in the crowd had something stronger than sweet cider. Bottles were very much in evidence, but probably in the old days such a gathering would have been very much wetter than this one was. Porter Gillespie of Pittsburgh, who is back in college this year--he used to be in our class, but he was kicked out of college last year for inability to resist the happiness that comes from ardent spirits--that comes to some people from them, I should say--Porter Gillespie on hand and happy as ever. He was happy on the side-ines on Saturday. There certainly was plenty of drinking around twon this last week-end. I think it is a sad reflection on the university men of the country that that is the way they like to celebrate those days of the year, as the Times put it for which one lives. Russ Forgan and Lou Tilden, whom you probably remember from "The Isle of Surprise", entertained the smoker with some songs to the accompaniment of the accordion. They certainly are excellent at the sort of thing. This years show is to be called "The Mummy in the Case". They are coming up to Boston in February. I hope they don't come during these trial midyears. Cort Parker and Lew Stevens and I stipped in at the Copley and walked through the lobby to see what Princeton men we could see there. A big dance was going on there in honor of the occasion. I didn't see any men that I knew--of any girls, either. I did see Helen Klee in the distance there the next evening. She was there with a friend of Bob Wormser's--at least she was walking around the lobby with him. I am quite sure she saw me; she immediately executed an about-face and headed off in another direction. She was all decked out in evening dress and a very red face to match her dress. I haven't seen Bob Wormser for a long time. It is just as well probably that I don't see him much, because we probably wouldn't get on too well if we did. As Mr. Wilson said of Secretary Lansing, his mind doesn't exactly run along with mine. What a childish bunch of Harvards he and his crew are! It was about midnight Friday-Saturday when I got back from the smoker. I was at breakfast before seven-thirty Saturday morning and then went down to South Station and met the Princeton bunch that came in. I found Bill Wasserman and brought him out here. I took him to my class with me. He wasn't less interested than I was. I never had any class hours pass so slowly as those two classes of mine did Saturday morning, and I have seldom been so absent mentally, either, at any classes at which I was physically present. It really would have been just as sensible to cut, because I certainy can't possibly have gotten anything out of them. I met Jack Strubing Saturday morning. He is working with some electric company in Philadelphia. He served as one of the linesmen at the game. He was quarterback last year, as I suppose you remember. he kicked the field goal in the Yale game. I found Mort here at ten o'clock. He had a Southerner with-4- him, a member of the congregation, a qualifier from the University of Virginia, who seems to be a very nice fellow. Mort says that the Union have agreed to pay the expenses of all visiting rabbis; they are letting him make his own arrangements. He has asked several men whom Doctor Goldenson wrote to--Stern of New Rochelle and Ettelson are coming next month, I think. Bill and I got cleaned up instead of eating lunch--we got a bar of chocolate and a chocolate malted milk on the way--and met Margaret and the friend whom she had invited for Bill at the Huntington Avenue station. There is a Wllesly special in to town every Saturday toward one, and I am told that everybody comes in every Saturday. We got out to the Stadium just a couple minutes before the kick-off. We could hardly get into the subway, it was so jammed. I suppose you have read all about the game. It was a great game to see, but it was another heart-breaker--not as much of a heart-breaker, perhaps, as last year, because we didn't really outplay Harvard as we did last year, but nevertheless it was might hard to see victory snatched away again. I think Harvard was very much more disapponted than we were, if that is any consolation. We have a wonderful team, but they were a little unsteady at a couple critical moments. Captain Callahan's passing was the thing, I think, that lost the game for us more than anything else. At several very disastrous moments his passing was so poor that it resulted either in a fumble by the back to whom the pass was to go or in his being unable to get away with anything and being tackled for a loss before he could get started. Don Lourie did some of the prettiest running that I have ever seen. Stan Keck was the real star of the game, though. The Crime said this morning that he played like "one possessed"; they called him the ubiquitous Keck. He certainly played all over that field. If he is in college another year, I suppose he'll be captain next year. He entered originally with 1921, but I think he only rates as a Junior this year. He is better at football than he is at books. The game Saturday, in spite of its unsatisfactory outcome, was certainly a wonderful game to watch; we simply have got to beat Yale next week. We went to the tea-dance at the Union after the game. It was very enjoyable. As a matter of fact, I don't think they served any tea; but there was ice-cream and cake. From there we went into Boston. We had dinner at the Hotel Brunswick near the Copley--Margaret, Agnes Friedman, Stix, Bill, and myself. After dinner--which we all enjoyed, none of us having had very much lunch--we went to theater at Copley Theater, the little repertory theater across the street from the Copley Plaza. It is a very delightful little theater; we all enjoyed the evening. Not many of the football crowd were at the theater--it has a quiet atmosphere of intelligence and culture that I like a lot. The play was "Nobody's Daughter". I have seen greater plays, but I enjoyed it. That is more than I can say of other plays that I have seen in the not distant past.-5- We waited in the lobby of the Copley Plaza until the Wellesley train time. Bill spent the time in a feverish attempt to write up his post-mortem on the game for the St. Louis Star. He thinks he is a newspaper correspondent. he seems to be making money at it; he showed me several checks from them. i saw Ev Case and George Tennant in the Copley. That seems to be quite a rendez-vous for visiting Princeton men. Bill wanted me to go out to Wellesley and spend the night out there with him. Margaret had a room for him at the Inn. He found out when he got there that it was a room with two beds. If I had known that, I might have gone; not knowing that, I thought I'd have a more comfortable night if I didn't. Stix and I had to get Bill's fool press report out after he left; so I just got the last subway train from Park Street at 12:30. The surface cars run all night, but the subway stops at that hour. I got up about nine o'clock and had a very good breakfast at Mem. Then I went into Boston and went to Temple. It was the opening Sunday service of the season. The Temple is certainly attractice and quite beautiful, I think, but I don't think the Rabbi proves a thing. He just babbles; he talks so fast that I think he talks before he thinks. He certainly made less than no impression on me. He had quite a fair crowd for the size of the building. The students who were present didn't look like a prize lot. The discourse had to do with the Pilgrim Tercentenary and its relation to the Jews--a good subject, but not very impressively handled. I wonder whether he tried to dazzle his audience or what, that he wears his Phi Beta Kappa key so conspicuously high on his vest that it shows very well over the reading desk. I am all against that sort of thing. I must say, if Temple weren't Temple, I don't think I'd be found there very often. After lunch Stix Friedman and his room-mate Albert Lippman of St. Louis and a cousin of his and of Bill's who is at Tech--Eugene Weil, also a St. Louisan, and a graduate of Washington University in the Class of 1920--and I went out to Wellesley. We met Bill and Margaret and Agnes Friedman out there, took a walk and sat around bickering. We didn't prove a lot, but we had a good time. We had dinner at the Inn. It certainly does some rushing business on Sunday evenings. Bill and I weren't the only Princeton men out there, either, by a long shot. We took the 8:54 train in and were back here at ten. Billy spent the night here. I got a bed for him in the study. We bickered until about midnight. We got up pretty early this morning. He went into Boston with Stix right after breakfast. I went back to the law. it was a good weekend. I don't want to have to send this letter by freight. I could probably tell you a lot more, but I'll quit for tonight. I have a seat on the Knickerbocker for Friday. That will give me a chance to get into Princeton at 8:26 that evening. A good many of the fellows are going down Wednesday night. I think it is wiser to rest up from one week-end before starting on the nest. Besides, I am supposed to be at law school.Mr. & Mrs. Marcus Aaron, 402 Winebiddle Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. East End
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Creator: Aaron, Lester
Date: 1920-11-11
Text: 14 Story Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. November 11, 1920 Dear Mother: What a contrast this cold day today is to that wonderful and never-to-be-forgotten day two years when the whole world [seemed] to ring of gladness that freedom had come at last. How quickly people forget - how quickly they seem to have forgotten the [hopes] and the ideals for which the war was fought - for which so many gave their lives. There is something awfully sad about it. A few flags out - some extra [perfrmances]...
Show more14 Story Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. November 11, 1920 Dear Mother: What a contrast this cold day today is to that wonderful and never-to-be-forgotten day two years when the whole world [seemed] to ring of gladness that freedom had come at last. How quickly people forget - how quickly they seem to have forgotten the [hopes] and the ideals for which the war was fought - for which so many gave their lives. There is something awfully sad about it. A few flags out - some extra [perfrmances] in the theatre - otherwise this day might have been any other. I have a lot of work to do - I am looking forward to "jetting back". Love Lester.To The Unknown Dead In Westminster Abbey, London, and in the Arc de Triomphe, Paris, a finely reasoned thought is to be consecrated tomorrow morning at 11 A. M. Celebrating the anniversary of signing the armistice the Germans asked for at Rethondes, the English and the French will do honor to the Unknown Dead. In each case a soldier, unidentified as to name and regiment, will be given a final grave, one in the exquisite nave of the English national shrine where kings and queens, statemen and poets, heroes, men of letters and martyrs lie in silence, sleep and fame: the other in the vault of the Arc de Triomphe, that visible symbol for all time of the military glories of France. In both countries the dendeavor is to immortalize "the unknown dead"-that most moving of in scriptions in any war cemetery of the world. It is a sure instinct which has led to these commemorations for the unknown dead; for next to our own, who may lie in graves marked or unmarked, the dust of those who died as heroes and left no sign of their identity appeal to our sentiment. The two overseas ceremonies will be conducted with the same thought. In Paris, an unknown poilu from the Verdun battle zone will be carried on a fgun carriage, the flag of France over him, three marshals of France, Joffre, Foch and Petain following afoot, to solemn music and between reversed arms of troops. The body of the unknown British Tommy will arrive in England on a British warship. The same earth of France in which he lay and on which he died will be brought to line his grave in consecrated English ground-that little spot which "is forever England." His body will be carried on a gun carriage, as was that of King Edward VII, and beside it will walk the pall bearers, senior officers of the three fighting services, admirals of the fleet, field marshals and generals of the army and the air marshal. Massed bands will add their stirring voices. The King, as cheif mourner, will follow on foot, representing the nation. As the body is lowered into the grave, a field marshal's salute will be fired and a guard of honor mounted. Beside this grave all Britain in spirit will stand, glorying in the hero and vowing anew that what he died for must remain. And it will be the same at the Arc de Triomphe. Though the unknown dead are not to be honored here in any national ceremony, there will be a responsive echo in the hearts of those Americans whose son, brother, husband, made sacrifice for his flag, holding our honor high with wounded hands, carrying our honor safe with bleeding feet. Perhaps the remembrance, though unspoken, may reach them where they sleep, those lads of imperishable memory, who not counting the cost, faced death and would not yield-splendid soldiers passing out of the sight of men by the path of duty and sacrifice.Mrs. Marcus Aaron. 402 Winebiddle Avenue Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania East End.
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Creator: Aaron, Marcus
Date: 2/25/19
Text: My dear Stella I tried to sleep all day while Fannie worked her [ ] - finally at 4 oclock the rain ceased + we had 13 holes followed by a hot bath and a good dinner so the day was not lost. Fannie's good hum[our] continues - mine is dependent on the weather. Your [Sundays] letter came + we read it and [one] from [Lester] with much pleasure; we are now looking forward to the next. Our sleeping porch is fine on rainy days - the hotel lobby is [thin] so stuffy that its [fun] to get the air ...
Show moreMy dear Stella I tried to sleep all day while Fannie worked her [ ] - finally at 4 oclock the rain ceased + we had 13 holes followed by a hot bath and a good dinner so the day was not lost. Fannie's good hum[our] continues - mine is dependent on the weather. Your [Sundays] letter came + we read it and [one] from [Lester] with much pleasure; we are now looking forward to the next. Our sleeping porch is fine on rainy days - the hotel lobby is [thin] so stuffy that its [fun] to get the air [second ] They had wonderful weather [here] all [winter] altho 2 weeks ago they had snow that stopped golfing for 4 days. Lets hope we will have none of it How is the "rest" getting along. Did you see the Doctor. Dont worry about Ikkel Fannie. She is perfectly happy. Love [kisses] Marcus 2/25/19
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Creator: Aaron, Marcus
Date: 2/28/19
Text: My dear Stella - I felt we were going a little strong so we took the afternoon off yesterday. Fannie + I rested till 4 + then we putted for an hour. In the evening she told me she would not play today. She remained in bed + apparently was comfortable. Tonight she is in the lobby + will not attempt to play until she is ready to do so. I had 36 holes with the fellows and put up a perfectly rotten game. The weather is delightful, quite warm. You ask about [Lesters]stockings. I [have] them. What...
Show moreMy dear Stella - I felt we were going a little strong so we took the afternoon off yesterday. Fannie + I rested till 4 + then we putted for an hour. In the evening she told me she would not play today. She remained in bed + apparently was comfortable. Tonight she is in the lobby + will not attempt to play until she is ready to do so. I had 36 holes with the fellows and put up a perfectly rotten game. The weather is delightful, quite warm. You ask about [Lesters]stockings. I [have] them. What shall I do with them. [Here] is a carefully thought out proposition. How would you like to meet us in Washington March 16 Sunday [A M.] and have Lester meet us there for the day. I think it would be great if it does not interfere with your treatment. If I have to go to Phila Fan could remain with you + then go home with you. What say you. Fan is improving in typing & in speed. Did you go to Alberts party? Is the massage agreeing with you by [this time]. Lester [writes] regularly Lots of love & kisses from the Old Man 2/28 "
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Creator: Aaron, Marcus
Date: 3/1/19
Text: My dear Stella Yours of Thursday has not yet come. I had a fun time today. My golf was so much improved that I played 36 holes + was not a bit tired when I finished. It was warm and delightful. Fan went to the horse with Harker who left tonight. She is waiting for me to take her into the ball room to [rubber] [a ] She has her "pretty" dress on and looks very sweet. She [mixes] well; meetspeople graciously + [converses] nicely. The hotel is fiilled; no other porch room has been...
Show moreMy dear Stella Yours of Thursday has not yet come. I had a fun time today. My golf was so much improved that I played 36 holes + was not a bit tired when I finished. It was warm and delightful. Fan went to the horse with Harker who left tonight. She is waiting for me to take her into the ball room to [rubber] [a ] She has her "pretty" dress on and looks very sweet. She [mixes] well; meetspeople graciously + [converses] nicely. The hotel is fiilled; no other porch room has been vacated so we are not yet transferred. Ours is noisy. Fannie [rcd] a letter from your papa - he [writes] as [Blanche] [Kler] says he looks - better. Tomorrow is Sunday - I hope you don't have too big a day. Love from both of us kisses too Marcus March 1'
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Creator: Aaron, Marcus
Date: 3/2/19
Text: My dear Stella Only one round today - it was nno good and I am tired in consequence. Your letter + [pk] came today. It seems to keep one busy no matter what one does! Fan is banging away on her typewriter + is gaining in speed. She ought to be able to play Tuesday. Poor kid - you can imagine how she likes to be [cheated] out of her golf.She keeps [employed] + in a good humor. We followed a match for 4 holes today. That is all the walking she did. I [teard] from papa today (L[J]A). Its colder...
Show moreMy dear Stella Only one round today - it was nno good and I am tired in consequence. Your letter + [pk] came today. It seems to keep one busy no matter what one does! Fan is banging away on her typewriter + is gaining in speed. She ought to be able to play Tuesday. Poor kid - you can imagine how she likes to be [cheated] out of her golf.She keeps [employed] + in a good humor. We followed a match for 4 holes today. That is all the walking she did. I [teard] from papa today (L[J]A). Its colder but still pleasant. Is the medicine you sent "your cold medicine? Love from Pap March 2"
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Creator: Aaron, Marcus
Date: 3/3/19
Text: My dear Stella This was a great day; I took a dose of oil last night with the usual result. I felt about 30 years younger. Wintringer + I played 48 holes. Fannie played 18 with us + played beautifully. [Believe] me that that lad will [deo ] into a real golfer. Its a pleasure to play with him; with a little practice she will [gwy] anyone a good match. Before she leaves here, I predict she will be able to beat 75% of the 700 players here, men or women. Yours of Saturday came today. I am glad to...
Show moreMy dear Stella This was a great day; I took a dose of oil last night with the usual result. I felt about 30 years younger. Wintringer + I played 48 holes. Fannie played 18 with us + played beautifully. [Believe] me that that lad will [deo ] into a real golfer. Its a pleasure to play with him; with a little practice she will [gwy] anyone a good match. Before she leaves here, I predict she will be able to beat 75% of the 700 players here, men or women. Yours of Saturday came today. I am glad to hear about the half day rest. Keep it up + dont [overdo] the other half. Love + kisses - I just readFan's letter. I cant vie with her as a correspondent. Yours, as always Marcus March 3rd
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Creator: Aaron, Marcus
Date: 3/7/19
Text: My dear Stella In order to get this to you on Sunday, I am writing now with stiff fingers. We just came in from our afternoon round + had a bully time. Slept well in our new room; had 11 holes + [durded] an [hrs] lesson with Fan. [lusecle] + 18 holes. Picked up two Putts [bigen] whome Fan + I [hicked]. It was a fine day. I had Dr [Becht] call a meeting of the State Board for Monday the 17th; Fan will go with me to Harrisons Sunday night + either will go home from there on the M train Monday...
Show moreMy dear Stella In order to get this to you on Sunday, I am writing now with stiff fingers. We just came in from our afternoon round + had a bully time. Slept well in our new room; had 11 holes + [durded] an [hrs] lesson with Fan. [lusecle] + 18 holes. Picked up two Putts [bigen] whome Fan + I [hicked]. It was a fine day. I had Dr [Becht] call a meeting of the State Board for Monday the 17th; Fan will go with me to Harrisons Sunday night + either will go home from there on the M train Monday or go with me to Phila in the early afternoon if I go there - provided Lester will come over then to meet her. If it suits him do you approve or shall Iput Fan on the train at Harrisburg + tag her for East Liberty. I am [letting] Fannie play [so foursome's]. It gives her confidence. She is fine. My throat is [much more] night than at home. Love kisses. Marcus 6 PM Friday
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Creator: Aaron, Marcus
Date: n.d.
Text: My dear Stella I had a fine sleep on the train. I feel good. Spoke to Bessie. All well with her. Also talked to [Hugo R.] Aunt [Pauline] is better. He is so [anxious] to see me that I must try soemhow to arrange it. It is more pathetic than flattering. Well meet [Earrickkoo] in a few minutes after paying a farewell visit to Mr. [Dessions]. No [boon] from you yet but it will no doubt come later. It did not come to 320 We have attended to everything. Fan does not feel the worse for her ...
Show moreMy dear Stella I had a fine sleep on the train. I feel good. Spoke to Bessie. All well with her. Also talked to [Hugo R.] Aunt [Pauline] is better. He is so [anxious] to see me that I must try soemhow to arrange it. It is more pathetic than flattering. Well meet [Earrickkoo] in a few minutes after paying a farewell visit to Mr. [Dessions]. No [boon] from you yet but it will no doubt come later. It did not come to 320 We have attended to everything. Fan does not feel the worse for her [treatment]. No [improvment] since last [treatment] but no worse. [It send ms] to a Doctor who took ablood last + will send [it] to [EG.] Fan is in fine spirits. We both conclude it better for her to use the park and to mix with the other girls so I will [probably visit] the blance of the family - Love Marcus
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Creator: Aaron, Marcus
Date: n.d. [Feb 24]
Text: Monday My dear Stella, It was very good of you to wire to me yesterday. I had a queer feeling about leaving you all alone [+] particularly [taking] Fannie away + it was a relief to know that you felt better [+] by that I assume that you felt more cheerful than when we left. It would have done you good to have seen your daughter + listened to her "<giggling> enthusiasm. She is great & I am having [more fun] than I ever had here - she is so very perfectly happy + is grinning all...
Show moreMonday My dear Stella, It was very good of you to wire to me yesterday. I had a queer feeling about leaving you all alone [+] particularly [taking] Fannie away + it was a relief to know that you felt better [+] by that I assume that you felt more cheerful than when we left. It would have done you good to have seen your daughter + listened to her "<giggling> enthusiasm. She is great & I am having [more fun] than I ever had here - she is so very perfectly happy + is grinning all the time. It's great + the only thing [that mars] it is that you are not here to see it and to [enjoy] it with me. She made some very good [strokes] and you can imagine was not a little [pleased]. The sleeping porch is [her toy]. I feel her stay [here]is going to do her a lot of good in lots of ways. I never realized that she is so grown up + I don't know whether I like it or not: I feel quite good or I should say, quite well. My game is [rather unsatisfactory] but it does not worry Me. Lots of acquaintances but I have not changed my opinion that to be here + not to golf is a bore. I hope you have started your treatment + that you [saw] Dr [Litchfield]. Wont it be great when [we are] all - [reasonably] free from pains [nerves and] aches! Lets do the best we can to put ourselves that way. The hotel is jammed full but we are very comfy. Lots of love and kisses too. Please take good care of yourself + think of us every now and then [ ] kiss & good night Marcus
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Creator: Aaron, Stella
Date: n.d. [postmarked 1919-09-22]
Text: Fannie's room is like [this hot in] the other side, it faces the quadrangle and [has] a very pretty view. She is indeed very fortunate. [We] are gradually getting in [order] but it keeps us busy, Love, Mother Mr. M Lester Aaron 402 S. Wine [hiddle] ave, Pittsburgh, Pa.POST CARD THIS SPACE FOR MESS/JGE. THIS SPACE FOR ADDRESS.

Creator: Adams, Ruth
Descriptor(s): Bielat, Isabel
Date: 1865

Creator: Adams, Ruth
Date: 1900(?)
Text: <p>I got the bundle. I think the wrapper pretty but it is nearly a foot too long and the waist is very much too long. So it looks abominably on me. And I think I had rather not get it. I think I can get along without any at all, the flannel one you cleaned looks so nicely. So don't bother any more about it. I return the package as you direct. Send it collect. That's right isn't it? R. M. A</p>

Creator: Adams, Ruth
Date: 1900(?)
Text: I have just got your letter and one from Frances. Tell her I was delighted to hear from her. I am in despair about Theophilus. I can find nothing about him. I think I shall have to go in town and use the Po. Library. What are the (?) for the pillow? I think they are lovely. For goodness sake what do you expect (?) mother? You and she didn't arrive I didn't know there was any chance of it. R.M.AMrs. Leo B Adams 37 Edgehill Road New Haven Conn

Creator: Adams, Ruth
Date: 1900(?)
Text: How like the postal card habit? I am trying to acquire it. Did I tell you that when my window seat came, they found it can't be got into the room it being too long to turn in the hall. So I had to wait until I eld get a man from the carpenter to come out this morning and take it to pieces & put it up inside the room. I feel that it has a funny side. Other ppl come to see it. I have ordered the cushion it is to cost 5.25 & the shelf 18 cents bracket 8c all. I am sorry you felt...
Show moreHow like the postal card habit? I am trying to acquire it. Did I tell you that when my window seat came, they found it can't be got into the room it being too long to turn in the hall. So I had to wait until I eld get a man from the carpenter to come out this morning and take it to pieces & put it up inside the room. I feel that it has a funny side. Other ppl come to see it. I have ordered the cushion it is to cost 5.25 & the shelf 18 cents bracket 8c all. I am sorry you felt obliged to send the money - but thanks very much. R. M. A.
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Creator: Adams, Ruth
Date: 1900(?)
Text: English exam. Dear people: I have finished writing my exam, but I don't dare go out yet and wish to be writing so you see I am writing you a letter. The exam was not bad. But it is the last one of that kind I expect. Dr. Gentry says the trig exam is her "master piece" and she flatters herself nobody could get more formulas into an exam Ha-Ha. Miss Wilkinson is a dear, we all love her. She is so distressed about the exam and so anxious to tell us everything she can so that we...
Show moreEnglish exam. Dear people: I have finished writing my exam, but I don't dare go out yet and wish to be writing so you see I am writing you a letter. The exam was not bad. But it is the last one of that kind I expect. Dr. Gentry says the trig exam is her "master piece" and she flatters herself nobody could get more formulas into an exam Ha-Ha. Miss Wilkinson is a dear, we all love her. She is so distressed about the exam and so anxious to tell us everything she can so that we can get through. The weather is perfect, the buttercups are all out and the daisies are beginning to come out, while you can fairly see the rose buds swell. I wish you could see the garden when the roses are out. There are 2 big trellises running partly around the circle which are covered with buds and lots of beds besides. They will be gorgeous exam week. Here somebody had courage to start the exit so I followed. I wonder if you are having as good a day for your birthday as this. I wish you many happy returns of it. What a pity that you can't come up for the day. Not that I could see you but still. I have to review Latin which I have let slip not being able to grasp that itis exam week. But I must pitch in. Ruth
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Creator: Adams, Ruth
Date: April 1900
Text: Vassar Dear people: I must scribble off something to let you know I am neither drowned, hurt or sick. I couldn't get the mail yesterday because I was in a lecture the loveliest one I was ever at by Champney on pastelles. He made 3 for me right off the platform. Then we are going tohave a beautiful circus tonight, some of us freshmen who can't go to the dance. And then we put up some loves of posters Mrs. Doowitall's circus etc. cock fighting, trained monkey, performing...
Show moreVassar Dear people: I must scribble off something to let you know I am neither drowned, hurt or sick. I couldn't get the mail yesterday because I was in a lecture the loveliest one I was ever at by Champney on pastelles. He made 3 for me right off the platform. Then we are going tohave a beautiful circus tonight, some of us freshmen who can't go to the dance. And then we put up some loves of posters Mrs. Doowitall's circus etc. cock fighting, trained monkey, performing elephants etc. Miss Cornwell saw them. One was on our door and she called me up and gave mea dreadful blowing up. Such a scandal to the college if any of these young gentlemen who are come here had seen there was to be cock fighting at a young ladies college!!!!! She can't take a joke. The things she said to me were no joke though. She was perfectly furious. She's such a fool. lovingly Ruth.so sorry you are having such a time with the servants.
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Creator: Adams, Ruth
Date: April 1901
Text: Vassar Sunday Dear people: - It makes me so weary to think of beginning to write letters again. I wish nobody had invented them. We feel now as if we had never been away for a vacation. Everything is going on just as it did before, except we are going out doors more all the time. SInce we got back we have had perfect weather, and so warm that all the little flowers are coming out. We have found a place where theground is covered with hypatica plants full of buds, but there are no flowers so...
Show moreVassar Sunday Dear people: - It makes me so weary to think of beginning to write letters again. I wish nobody had invented them. We feel now as if we had never been away for a vacation. Everything is going on just as it did before, except we are going out doors more all the time. SInce we got back we have had perfect weather, and so warm that all the little flowers are coming out. We have found a place where theground is covered with hypatica plants full of buds, but there are no flowers so far. Skunk cabbage abounds around here on the banks of the brooks; where ever you stop you crush the leaves and create a very unpleasant odor. Yesterday morning Lucile and I took our trig. up on Sunset hill, and did it up there. It was lovely and warm there. A man was ploughing in a field just below me, and lots of little birds were chirping and singing around us, and the hills over across the Hudson were very blue.It was so nice out doors that I had great difficulty in staying in long enough to get any studying done. Friday night, and Saturday night, and today I have worn my blue silk gingham and I can't bear to take it off, I like it so much. Every one thinks it is very pretty. So!!!! Thursday or Friday I met Miss Richardson in the corridor, and she took my hand, and asked me how I was, and if I had had a pleasant vacation!!! I went to see her last nightplease mark but she had an engaged sign out, so I couldn't go in, and you can't put your sign on an instructor's block, so she doesn't know I went (I mean your name. Some of the girls have signs they put up instead of their name) and I suppose I shall have to go again. I have had to spend such a lot of money for books. Very sad. I am so interested in my walk, what is lost with it? I am so curious! The girls have begun playing basket ball out in the circle again, and it's such fun to watch them. Theyhave made up a training table. It's more fun! It's the table right next to ours, and they got Dr. Harley to sit at the head of it. She's so nice. We elected her an honorary member of 1904, you know. She will only let them eat certain things, and makes them take a great deal of them. They don't like some of it very well. Lucile is there, and Cecilia, the little Spaniard or the girl that looks like a spaniard, has come to our table in her place. She has no end of money and gets up theprettiest costumes, very unusual you know, almost like fancy costumes, but they are always pretty, and the colors are lovely. Then she has quantities of pearls and diamond etc. Sometimes she wears a great long string of pears festooned in her black hair. She always wears diamonds in her ears. Really she is very pretty and interesting. Friday night we had a fine concert up here. It was called the American Symphony orchestra, and was composted of men chosen from various other orchestras I think. They were such an unusually gentle manly looking set of men. Saturday afternoon Beta, that's my chapter you know, and Alpha gave plays. They were very clever and amusing. Dear me, I almost forgot to tell you how the trunk came through, that is of course my hat. The box was all smashed in and I was in despair when I saw it. Butthough the hat was pretty badly bent I think it will all come out so that nobody will know it isn't natural. Everything else was alright. One poor girl was bringing a glass of jelly home in her trunk, and it broke, and went allow over her new, and clean dresses, so that they all had to be put into the wash, and some couldn't go. That was rather bad. I have some of Hawthorne's book out to read over summer. I like him so much. Ruth How is grandfather?W ~\ ..........----~ ~ //5/>(X\'§‘D‘ - Z» ..» ~ . E .3» ‘ __ t, ..--aw->'-" . .1,‘-w-——-*"'”A ‘V :*71i%zi :—***—'*:';' ::;1—i—'_: V __ _.. , -- _.,; ' :14 1 \ > v 1 i \) ‘Z r41-ﬁi-" 7 1‘? - Wn\ _ IO, [ 7 ~ j‘; $.P""wm :1 —f -~ I _ _,_.. L _— 4’ § lg {Q — ‘”F'1l" \.r* \ J ___ _ _ —— V 7" A V 7 4, >‘l<‘ __ T ~ \_ \; \ ‘ ‘___.___ ~> i ti 1 =__; _ __ 5 / ~ -._, 'T"""“* _ . \\A,_\,, __,;}_:_%W qwm_@iw,\_%r__%. @eQ-Q--4-v~/.z____ $7" 8“, v ‘ Q ‘-~a.. '~ ‘.12?’ a 30% $“‘* H4, 1;’-[D ‘ii "_R-rplﬁ 1'. v \9 ' " ‘ \C‘ (3 5*’ . *r=»,= <3, ‘-~_,»;_._'£' 7
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Creator: Adams, Ruth
Date: April 1901
Text: Vassar Dear people:- Safely arrived you see. I have hardly time to catch the mail. We have been off on a long tramp and took longer than we expected. We got into a field full of the love- best pussy willows and bough home our arms full of them. Mine look beautifully in my copper pot. Well we just hardly caught the train in New York and got put intoa car where there were about 3 girls- the rest all common people. There was a sickening bride and groom in front of us. But when we got to...
Show moreVassar Dear people:- Safely arrived you see. I have hardly time to catch the mail. We have been off on a long tramp and took longer than we expected. We got into a field full of the love- best pussy willows and bough home our arms full of them. Mine look beautifully in my copper pot. Well we just hardly caught the train in New York and got put intoa car where there were about 3 girls- the rest all common people. There was a sickening bride and groom in front of us. But when we got to Poughkeepsie there were plenty girls. Cora and I came up on the same train but we didn't know it till we got to the college. We saw everybody and had a grand time we went to Miss Hastings room and found the light out and her in bed but we went in to see her and were sitting on the edge ofher bed in the dark, when Cora began pummeling me and in the confusion which inside a glass of jelly which she was holding got knocked on the floor and smashed to smithereens the jelly messed all over the floor. Very unfortunate in the dark. And it looked so on the carpet!!!!! Lessons began this morning unfortunately. Ruth.Haven't opened trunk yet/ /4><~'\V\ ‘ J»? 4 ‘) M Ir , //It I /\\ <> 7* -LO ‘<\ ‘ » r" C1) ._\ =/A ".13 (D '\ ( (_> 5- ;,;1-.§;=i»>;?1=z- a 9'41 “*0 < ,_' -\ ., . .. , ,- J * v.»ma>v.-w4»n=w-no-'v.~w9-w~»<‘~n-.-1.-v—r<-u--w-1~.w.-_>. -:;~.-1:1~u-van-».r_v \...\1un. ~ ’ . , \ _- \ .' - (440-'91»-1 0,-.. .-_w..¢,.,.,,..»..-........-.......=..-=,....- ”..-.._..._.,.....~ W Q tar ';\ liyj _ " '” " ‘ 7"’ " ' ' ' . \\. J 7} '~@‘;., _. . . ‘ P _ ;"r1 ._ "1' M-‘ . I »¢ - .,'_!T'c11=1"l5 _1 I, - =3-_ t. . . ....__.. . ........._...,._..~-1.1..-....,...-.........._......¢.M-...... I . Q.-.--..~..--¢-..,__.».-....,.--.._.-».-_-'.-_-.-=.—~-w-n=--~.-'-.»-_=~=¢v-~-- —-» ~ - —~- - -~ - 97 {TL Rmwkﬂ, ﬁg 3$@~.-& _ __ _A.-,,,_._ﬁ1>*_,»;_-~..,.. _ 7 7 N ___: __..--< -._ -.v ......,._-w- \- P _ _ ﬁ xv‘, :1 ' "I I ‘ J I I ~ _§ 7‘ Ta , ,1. \‘ f I , _ J ¥ _
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Creator: Adams, Ruth
Date: April 1901
Text: Vassar Sunday Dear people: - Well the men have once more fled. You wouldn't think it was the same place it was yesterday. Everything is so quiet and peaceful. It is very hot, it might almost be mid-summer. Such an uproar as there has been here this week, or the end of it. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday it poured poured, poured, but Friday and Saturday and today have been perfect days. Friday, my how peopleworked, I never was more tired. You know the girls decorate the corridors...
Show moreVassar Sunday Dear people: - Well the men have once more fled. You wouldn't think it was the same place it was yesterday. Everything is so quiet and peaceful. It is very hot, it might almost be mid-summer. Such an uproar as there has been here this week, or the end of it. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday it poured poured, poured, but Friday and Saturday and today have been perfect days. Friday, my how peopleworked, I never was more tired. You know the girls decorate the corridors and dining room and the rooms we usually use for dancing themselves. Our end of the corridor they fix up with rugs and couches and lazy chairs for promenading and sitting between the dances, also J. where we dance every night. Of course all the rugs and couches and chairs and pillows have to be taken from different girls' room, they have to be go together and worked, so they will getback to their owners, and then arranged. It is no small work. The dancing is done in the dining room and that has to be properly decorated with bunting etc. The girls do it all themselves. Part of the corridor on 3rd is arranged for promenading too. Then the other end of this corridor with the reading room and so forth is used for serving refreshments and has to be fixed up with little tables and chairs. My [morris] chair and the table went. The freshmen were allowed to get refreshments at 11.15, which we all did. Friday morning some of us went down town to have our pictures taken and do some other things then when we got back we walked into the store with Miss Cornwell, I told you about, and I flew miles and miles about these corridors then we had a meeting of the circus company + decided to put it off until Saturday night, + as it finally happened we didn't have it lastnight either, the girls were too worn out and some of the most important ones didn't feel well. But we haven't given it up for good. We had the funniest time with Miss Hastings. Poor dear we do tease her so, at lunch Friday I was very tired and so was quiet and subdued contrary to my usual custom. She was terribly distressed for fear I felt badly about the row, and asked Florence in private if she thought I mindedit very much, or was just pretending to. Of course Dube was highly amused, and said well she really couldn't tell. So Miss Hastings was terrible worrited in her feelings and said she was awfully sorry, but she didn't know what she could do. So she was very unhappy about me. and Dube came and told me all about it much amusement. That evening, I went down with Dube to help miss H dress. I thought I had better set her mind at rest even though itwas very funny. After I had been down there a moment (nothing had been said about the circus yet) Miss H. said very beseechingly and humbly "Am I so out of favor that I can't come to the circus tonight" That was too much of a temptation. SO I said, looking away from her onto the floor, in a very sad tone "Oh we aren't going to have it after all tonight" Miss Hast. turned perfectly white. I almost shouted,but restrained my self for a moment. I could see Dube on the be simply doubled up and shaking with laughter. Miss Hastings said "Why Ruth dear did you give it up because Miss Cornwell and I said what we did? I am terribly sore. We didn't mean that you should do that at all" and she came and put her arm around me and kissed me to make me feel better. At that Dube and I could contain oursel-vest no longer. We shouldered at the top of our lungs. She was so perfectly taken in. Then she was much relieved to find we didn't really feel as badly as she had thought. She's such a dear. Saturday morning they had the glee club concert. And in the afternoon everybody went off on the river and driving or something, that is all the people who had men: We were so cross we didn't know whatto do. It was such a glorious day we wanted to go off somewhere but some of us couldn't walk, Lucile has torn the cartilage in her knee part off and can't walk (that's what I might have done if I had gone in training) of course it isn't very bad but very painful. Then we were terribly cross so finally we went to sleep and felt better when we woke up. After that we went out on the grounds and found Dora +Marie on a bench in a chump of pines doing Latin so we joined them. Cora was reading along and got to talking louder than she thought she was. She said "by pollux" very loud and just then two young men went by behind us, they started and looked around very much surprised at hearing a young lady use such an exclamation. We were very much amused. Today we had Dr.Rainsford (?) preach and I never had such a fine sermon in my life. If I heard him once again I believe I should go right into some social work. He carried everyone away with him. When he stopped everybody drew a long breath as if they had been holding it all the time he spoke. But it's no good talking about him as to your letter Papa. What struck you. You wanted me to learn to swim at once and to speak to Prof. Brac at once. I am sorry to say I have done neither yet. Though Idid ask Prof B. when I could come and see him as I wanted to talk to him about my next years work. He said he was always at the service of the young ladies and was only too delighted to converse with them on any subject in their life which interested them. I think perhaps I shall go to see him tomorrow. As to the swimming I haven't had an opportunity for that yet. Why are you so anxious about it all of a sudden. As to Mrs. Gal. I am thoroughly disgusted with her. She sent me Friday morning my blue dress also I had to pay .25 cents on it. I think she ought to pay the charges of it, seeing it is her fault they didn't get home on time. And then did she think I wanted to wear that blue dress to the ball. She is so provoking. I had to wear my blue lawn. It looked alright enough but when I am going to have another dress I like to have it to wear at the big thing. The blue looks very pretty and is very becoming but makes me look old, old. So everyone say. Ruth.
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Creator: Adams, Ruth
Date: April 1901
Text: Vassar Thursday. Dear people: I am so sorry not to have got this in yesterday, but Wednesday is particularly hard you know. i have an essay to get in, a conversation hour in german and prose in latin to prepare for the next day. The prose paper I got back this time was better I am glad to say. Nobody talks about anything but rooms now-a-days. The incoming senior draw this afternoon, the juniors a week fromtoday, and we 2 weeks from today. Everyone is in such a muss and excitement. Oh if only...
Show moreVassar Thursday. Dear people: I am so sorry not to have got this in yesterday, but Wednesday is particularly hard you know. i have an essay to get in, a conversation hour in german and prose in latin to prepare for the next day. The prose paper I got back this time was better I am glad to say. Nobody talks about anything but rooms now-a-days. The incoming senior draw this afternoon, the juniors a week fromtoday, and we 2 weeks from today. Everyone is in such a muss and excitement. Oh if only we could do just what we want to it would be so nice but I suppose it's impossible. They say it is dreadful (the drawing I mean) every body loses their head and you hate you best friends etc. I wish it were over. The weather keeps lovely and warm. The girls are out almost all day, play bockel ball, or training, or play golf. The circle is filled with peoplelike a big reception in the afternoon, only they all come without their skirts. You will be interested to hear I have left off my flannels. I haven't worn a hat since I got back to college. When do my dresses come? I life my little scissors, + my cuff buttons at home. Will you send them please? I don't know what pins I left but you might as well send them along. I see there is a students meeting posted for Friday night. I am so anxious to hear what the Facultythought of our amendment. I have posted some more postal cards in. Saturday night a whole lot of us, about 20, are going in to see the Williams' dramatic club which is coming then. Isn't that fun. I never saw men play women's parts. Edith knows 4 of the men, and they are coming out to dinner with her. Two of them are to be ladies. lovingly Ruth
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Creator: Adams, Ruth
Date: April 1901
Text: Vassar Sunday. Dear people:- There are always so many more things to write about on Sunday than on Wednesday. I wrote you Thursday afternoon didn't I? Well after that noting happened because I have to prepare for the 3 first house Friday morning, so I have to get them all done Thurs. night. Now I will give you a diary of what I have done since then. Friday morning after the 3 recitations were over I did my Latin formonday and part of the trig. Then after lunch I did an hour's more...
Show moreVassar Sunday. Dear people:- There are always so many more things to write about on Sunday than on Wednesday. I wrote you Thursday afternoon didn't I? Well after that noting happened because I have to prepare for the 3 first house Friday morning, so I have to get them all done Thurs. night. Now I will give you a diary of what I have done since then. Friday morning after the 3 recitations were over I did my Latin formonday and part of the trig. Then after lunch I did an hour's more trig and then Edith and Helen Graves and Cora and I went on a long tramp. We went way off up on a ridge called Cedar ridge in the woods. I took a basket, quite a good size, along just as a joke "to gather my flowers in" and it was very fortunate because it was heaped up with them when we came home. We found hepaticas by the dozen, one big plant, I never saw such a large one, Edith dug it up for mewith her finger nails. I have it in a big Japanese bowl and it looks very pretty. There are 13 flowers on it now and more coming out. Then we came on a spat where there was a big patch of blood roots, we got enough to fill four tumblers full. They are so pretty. We had such a good time all off in the nice springsy woods we found a place where Colombine is going to be very thick, and we found dutchman's breeches and violet and dog tooth violet plants by the score.I got some burs in my hair, in reaching under the bushes for the flowers, and we had a terrible time trying to get them out. I can fully sympathize with Loddie now. Then we came back and got dressed for dinner just in time. After chapel came a Students' meeting. But they hadn't got the report from the faculty yet. After Students' we made some fudge in Edith's room. Lucile and Dube couldn't eat any being in training, so we had it all to ourselves.and mm mm mm mm but it was good. Then the soph's, just a few of the real nice ones that is, (the ones we would like to get in with next year) have the rivets show in one of the rooms. They charged 3 cents admission. It was something they just concocted for the occasion. This young gentleman came to see a girl at Vassar but had no peace, 1st they were interrupted by one thing and then by another. It was very clever all the college characterswere introduced you know and current jokes. They mimic chapitally. The room was packed and every one roared. They had to keep fueling us up. Then Saturday morning I did my German prose for Monday and some work in the library, and fooled around until lunch time. Then in the afternoon I went for a walk with Mary Bell then as we were coming in we met Marie Honeycutt and she wanted us to turn around and go with her. Mary couldn'tbut I went. She is very nice. I like her and her room-mate Dora Waring about as well as any of the girls. Mary Bell is a fine girl too. She has asked Lcuile to room with her next year if they can't get singles. Lucile thinks she is condescending to room with her (Mary B.) and doesn't exactly want to I think. She says she doesn't know her very well, but if Lucile wouldn't study all the time but would try to be more agreeable she could learn to know a great manypeople. That has been just the trouble she doesn't know any body. She always has some work to do. It is perfectly dreadful. She gets her lessons all done up in no time, then she does them for the next day, and she never seems to get any leisure. We can't understand how she works it. I am very fond of her but she disgusts me extremely sometimes. She has absolutely no sense of how things she says sound. There is something very strange abouther. I know she would like to room with e. But it would drive me wild to room with her. Mary B. is a poor girl, but she has got lots to her, and I think it was very nice in her to ask [Stimmie] to room with her. You see complications are many. If we have to stay over here in main next year then we should have to be in a parlor and I know Lucile would want to come in with us and it would fidget Cora more than it would me. She gets so disgusted with her. I can make herdo pretty much what I like, but it's tiresome and that isn't the kind you want always. Now I think this is rather horrid. But she's queer. Cora and I have great discussions about her. But to continue. (It's nearing supper time). Saturday afternoon, after that, there were two chapter plays and one of them was particularly clever. It was a melodrama. I'll tell you about them when I come home. Then in the evening we went to the Williamsplay, which was great. I had never seen men take girls parts before. They were so funny, not as good as the girlmen. Why they all wore such big bustles I can't imagine. It looked very odd. I wonder if they think all women stick out so behind? I'll tell you about that when I get home too. Why don't my dresses come. Next week comes the big promenade and I must have them. I think Mrs. Gallagher is horrid to keep themso long. I wish could hunt around and see if you couldn't find a good dressmaker who could make my dresses and get them done when she says she will. Of course Aunt Flo must come. I can't think what Aunt Belle can be like to allow her to do such a think. I think there must be some mistake. I hope Grandfather is feeling much better now lovingly Ruth.
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Creator: Adams, Ruth
Date: December 1900
Text: My dear family:- I have just 10 minutes before it is time to go to get my lunch and so am going to write to you. We have just been having a class meeting sandwiched in between the fourth hour recitation which ends at 20 minutes past 12 and lunch at quarter to one. We voted to sign a petition to have some distinguished gentleman come and address the college at commencement Instead of having the girls who have received honors read essays. It has been signed by all the classes. Well thats as far...
Show moreMy dear family:- I have just 10 minutes before it is time to go to get my lunch and so am going to write to you. We have just been having a class meeting sandwiched in between the fourth hour recitation which ends at 20 minutes past 12 and lunch at quarter to one. We voted to sign a petition to have some distinguished gentleman come and address the college at commencement Instead of having the girls who have received honors read essays. It has been signed by all the classes. Well thats as far as I got. It's now dinner time. And I am In such a state of excitement. What do you think a messenger came to the room and said President Taylor wished to see me In his office after Chapel. What can he want. Cora and I amused ourselves with making the wildest suppositions (?) about it while we were dressing. (I wasn't going to change my dress but changed my mind after the mess. Luger had come and put on my brown dress. Well I have seen the president. He had heard I wasn't feeling well from Dr. Thelburg and wanted to see If he could help me In any way. Wasn't that nice in him? He wished to be remembered to my father. I wish everybody wouldn't ask how I am andso on. What made you write to Dr Thai, about me? Didn't you believe me when I said I was feeling better? Certainly I am an only daughter, and there Is no use trying to disguise the fact. As to what I want for Christmas, It is a serious question and it took me most an hour of hard thinking while I was out walking alone one morning to decide I am very sleepy but I will try and think the things up again. First I couldn't think of anything I wanted at all. But of course books I always want, and I should like little Shakespeares or some of the Thackery's or anything. ThenI should like a pair of skates. And pictures framed, perhaps some of my English pictures or postal cards. I should like a set of furs. This I think you might as well give me any way. Just to fill up the toe of my stocking, you know. It's so little and inexpensive. Then a chafing dish or tea-kettle. And some little five cent cups. I dont want nice ones. Or whatever you happen to see that you think I would like. Well I am going to give up and go to bed. I am good for nothing in the evening. It isn't half past nine yet. But I just can't think and so am going to leave my theme and go to bed. Ruth.1 /. V _ 7/ v W "2 ‘ 17”‘; P ~ y»/'1‘./-’ ‘.-__;,g_ \:._:» ai '=,> D /r?*K“‘*'5z;1“k\ _ \) 1'71"‘! '5‘ 7@§*\ u ‘n ‘J L I -.4 .__, " .1 ,.. .. ..... V \ ' . W \ \ “ -¢- _ '_\_ .. . / " f 1 '»§ \;¥ _=» J“_ F" ix b If ‘=\->4; “ ~=~/'—*\ *1/:3 ‘ /-Q 5' ‘ K <\ , I- ‘ -w~J ¢'>”==§_,*\;*;.-> » ) \ . A ~ ‘ ..l_{ ‘Ja- l | 1 ' \ ~ » _ ' . , j , , , - ._.-- _ . .‘ ,2 " ﬁx I‘ 5‘ \ "*L_ cc//‘_ \ 1 \’~ . ":4 ;~: .1»;/5, A., _,._ ~ A 1»: 9 dlurbw u <'uI1 -ww; 1. -01! $0 _ y 2 0 ‘O M 3%} 5 H VJ ‘O r E Q D69 i\ Q aux
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Creator: Adams, Ruth
Date: December 1900
Text: Dear people:- It has suddenly occurred to me that perhaps you dont know the train I am coming by. Did X tell you? I cant remember there has been so much to think about. I leave New York on the 2 o'clock train reaching New Haven about 3-45 or 50 I think. What on earth is the baby blanket for You never told me a word about it. - Ruth I am not vaccinated. Ought I to be ?

Creator: Adams, Ruth
Date: Dec. 1900
Text: Vassar Dear people:- I have been lying down the last hour and wishing I was at home. I made various plans for seeing if I couldn't go home and still continue my work. They all seemed very plausible. 1 don't know whether they would strike other people in the same way. However I don't really wan't too. I have slept better since I came back but I feel pretty frightfully nervous. It makes me so angry. I don't see why I can't stand it whenother people do. Sunday we...
Show moreVassar Dear people:- I have been lying down the last hour and wishing I was at home. I made various plans for seeing if I couldn't go home and still continue my work. They all seemed very plausible. 1 don't know whether they would strike other people in the same way. However I don't really wan't too. I have slept better since I came back but I feel pretty frightfully nervous. It makes me so angry. I don't see why I can't stand it whenother people do. Sunday we got here all right after 10 and had to ring the bell and be let in by the night watchman. We stopped at the station to get some hot chocolate. Monday and Tuesday went about as usual. I nearly put in a meal order Tues. night, but decided it was foolish after all and didn't. I am quite lame from working in the Gym. Mon. I took me glasses down to be fixed. They didn't have to send to New York and I can get them as soon as I go for them. I expect to go down tomorrow and want to try to go to see Miss Wylie too. But I am very busy Thurs. Oh I almost forgot to ask you. Do you think there would be time for me to send a doll to you and get it back before we leave for Christmas. And in any case do you want to dress it. I can get it done up here for $.75. You needn't be very particular with it. I should say they were about 8 or 10 ins long. Most of the girls have gone in swimming this afternoon. I ought to have my suit here. Do you know where it is. Miss Slade goes Friday. With lots of love Ruth.J _ \ < / /M’ * IE)” 1/ /( \ J ‘ 2___ Emu AW; ___m ( Q _ E ___ M A L _ _ _ __________q __ : : _ _ w % _ _ If (k_’__/ < ( %V%// /w 1 4/M 9 ﬁn <__‘_‘_ __ _ 1 \ n_v>__ % _ \’__§_ ___ ' Lt_.'l_i§. ‘vhf gm [U AM rd FL MK C _\ w:\ _ (Um ‘ M '_\\ \_ ' 1‘, ﬂMW_ FL 1 & \ {Q N Vt Q __\ K >>‘- jj _ my 3 ” _Q_! %__Ur_ MVP‘ W ‘ _ z 4* “Q Q_,_g’_ly ﬁlo I “A X T NH‘ Ni‘ _ ‘ﬂu ‘ _ R ___ \H‘ H_(_ _n__'_V)N\ ‘J _>_\ 5, \_ J A\ If V I ““
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Creator: Adams, Ruth
Date: December 1901
Text: Vassar Dear people:- The time for mo to go home seems very near now, for they have got all our trunks down. And today we even got our tickets and the checks for our trunks. I hare decided to check my dress suit case along with the steamer trunk I am going to bring home. The case is so heavy. But the horrible thought has occurred to me that they may want to take the bagage down the night before, and then where would I be. I shall have to borrow a night gown of some girl who is going to stay...
Show moreVassar Dear people:- The time for mo to go home seems very near now, for they have got all our trunks down. And today we even got our tickets and the checks for our trunks. I hare decided to check my dress suit case along with the steamer trunk I am going to bring home. The case is so heavy. But the horrible thought has occurred to me that they may want to take the bagage down the night before, and then where would I be. I shall have to borrow a night gown of some girl who is going to stay here. But this isn't what I want to say to you at all. The all important fact is that I have been skating!!!! and have bought a pair of skates!!!! What do you think of that? I couldn't resist the temptation when Lucile came rushing down to the room wild with delight and she and Cora Hew over to the Lake, where the ice is at last sale for the "whole college". As I say I couldn't stand it to say the girls go by with their skates and everybody so excited and having such a great time. So I ran up to Florence & Edith to see if I couldn't persuade one of them to go down town with me immed-iately and buy a pair. I found them both sitting in the same bed eating breakfast. It was about five minutes of nine and they had only just waked up. You see it Is Saturday. Well I so worked on Florence's spirits and feelings that she gave in, and promised to meet me at the loot of the elevator at a quarter past nine,- it was then nine - though she had heaps of work to do and had said she wouldn't go skating. You see her skates were in at her home. Well we got the 20 minutes past car into town and went way around to Florence's and got her skates and to townand bought some for me, and to a picture store, to get a picture, which Edith is having framed, and which was to have been done last week, and which has been going to be done just hall an hour alter we are there for at least the last four times we have called for it,- or somebody has called for it. So provoking every time he says he is so sorry it isn't quite done but will be in Just hall an hour. He knows college girls haven't any hall hours to waste waiting for pictures And then we went to to see a young man, or rather Dubie did end see if he would go to a dance with her that the Po'keep girls are getting up. We didn't go to his house, but to the bank where he works* And got home by hall past 10, wasn't there pretty good time? Then I came in and got Coras sweater (?) (by the way I must have one. A regular man's you know, a great big white one. I will take it in place of the skates tho' I imagine it will cost about 3 times as much.) and took off my glasses in case of accidents and went out for my first lesson I wish you could see me. I do finely. I think. I must remember fromwhen I first learned. My but I am lame now. I went out again this afternoon. It has been a most glorious day so sunny and bright and the ice was perfect in some places you can see right down to the bottom of the lake the ice is so clear. It makes you feel as if you were skating on water. I wish you could see some of the girls my but they skate beautifully! Why dont you skate Papa? all the Profs do up here. It would be fine for you. And then you could take me out in the Christmas vacations. I only hope the ice will last. It is now Sunday night and this isn't finished, and I am very sleepy. So I am Just going to put an ending on this and send it off with out telling you anything about the Beta play Saturday after noon, or the Alpha play, to which Margaret Mather invited. They will wait until I come home. Today I have had such a good time. And this evening was the Christmas music which was beautiful beyond words. Mary Thompson had a solo which she sang wonderfully. They say she has the best voice of any one in college Since then she has been singing in the senior parlor and we all got invited in. She is a stunning girl. Ruth.ﬂap»--,--» ——- :n1~~1 “i 1 4\++<f<% fﬁ l @5501? _, (aw A Y“ _ A O ' $909 ( __,,, - ‘Q !\ Q Q 3 *f , <3 7 M ,5 -<1 J, =~»*-=¢\ ' /;.j_J¢\<.-\\,.4\_;.,»_ Y. ﬂ_ n k , \\‘:;.. ‘ \ - ’ —ﬂ‘ -v 11 1,./.._ M. ._ Dug‘, “ Z5; (/i§ -... F» E’ ‘A Q -mar" _\,;;L4-Qix E? b *— M /_!_ “H ___‘_' _ ‘Q I /K“ hang I ’ W’ __ Vvz ’ _" I f_ M6, I’ M 0 / :53‘ I 7 Fr 1‘ _ 5’ AU _ _ V {L _ up /V _'_ 7//IE_ _ 3“ M “ V,‘ J I
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Creator: Adams, Ruth
Date: February 1901
Text: Vassar Dear people:- Its sunday afternoon. Cora went in town with Hilda to dinner at some bodies house. I forget their name. After dinner I went up into the Sophomores room while one of them read a sermon. It was a translation of one of the Italian Monk's sermons delivered at the time of a plague in one of the southern cities and wos very good. Then I came down here and foAdele Buffinton just leaving a little note asking Cora and me to go walking with her. But as Cora couldn't go I...
Show moreVassar Dear people:- Its sunday afternoon. Cora went in town with Hilda to dinner at some bodies house. I forget their name. After dinner I went up into the Sophomores room while one of them read a sermon. It was a translation of one of the Italian Monk's sermons delivered at the time of a plague in one of the southern cities and wos very good. Then I came down here and foAdele Buffinton just leaving a little note asking Cora and me to go walking with her. But as Cora couldn't go I went up and got Lucile and Edith and we had a very nice walk, though they snow made the walking rather hard. It snow some more yesterday so we are quite covered up. What do you think we did Saturday afternoon? It was snowing so we thought we wouldn't go sleighing as we intended to. But we went into town to the theater to a melodrama. We paid .20 cents for orchestra seats. It was very thrilling and absurd. All the good people got rich, and turned out to be great personages and the daughter who had been stolen as a baby is restored to her father and marries her lover. And all the villains get found out and punished. At wagons points the heroine expressed lofty and sublime sentiments during which the band played softly. It was dinner time when I got back and I intended to do a lot of studying in the evening, but they asked us to come down to the fire wall, and be read to which we accordingly did. And I didn't get a lesson done. Alegbra I have first thing Monday morning, and I don't know it at all. I ahem been meaning to review the stuff ever since I came back to college and have nee got around to it. It is something dreadfulthe way time goes. Saturday morning I intended to do latin prose and my essay but i want skating and only got my prose done. When I went to read my poems for my essay I found that one of the books was not on the reference shelves and so I hunted up Miss Hookers and asked her about it and she went down to the library and made inquiries about it but the book seems to have entirely disappeared. Then while they were hunting the thing up I read some books on art instead of studying as I ought. You see I am a very foolish person. What do you think, Mama? Such a blow! Cora was told she couldn't wear her Maria Stuart costume because it wasn't appropriate for a Washington's birthday party. I am afraid perhaps the same objection might be made to a such peasants costume. What do you think?I wish I could write Valintine poetry. THink of it, our prose day is Valintne day. What a sweet Valentine we hand to Miss Sanders. There was something else I wanted to say to you o ask you but I can't rhino what it was. I shan't send this till Monday afternoon though so perhaps I will remember before hone. Monday. I can't think what it was at all unless I wanted to ask for Miss Sevann's address. I know it wasn't that, but I do want that. Yesterday I wrote a letter to Miss Haines. It was the steadiest thing I ever wrote. No sense in it at all. But still I sent it. Well I have got throe Algebra and German safely. Though I found that I hadn't studied the right lesson in the book nor learned the rules she gave us. Some of the girls got dreadfully scolded, but she didn't realize a hadn't done it. Cora and Lucile had Miss Dutton in Latin for the first time this morning She has been sick. Such disgusted children you never saw. It must be dreadful really some of this poetry is decidedly sentimental. At present we are reading Ovid. At halfpast 3 a single bird unto a silent sky propounded but a single term of cantos melody. At halfpast 4 experiment had subjugated test, and lo! her silver principle supplanted all the restat halfpast 7 element nor implement was seen, and place was where the presence was, circumference between. Emily Dickinson. Can you make sense of this thing? I can't and i had to interpret it for my last theme. Isn't it absurd? We want to send each junior a little bunch of violets for a Valentine; from the class you understand because they have done so much for us. DOn't you think that would be nice? We are to have a class meeting this afternoon to bring upthe subject. There's the bell for latin boo hoo how I am scared. Ruth Mrs. Gorge B Adams 57 Edgehill Road New Haven Conn\ NE I _“ Sh ‘V t_ ‘ ‘ If W ‘Q § ‘wk _’n\_* J A V I: T >1? > _ _ _ I‘ ___) _ ___ __ __ :3 \ \ _\ \\ _ / J _ ;_ ‘J _ V‘ ‘M M ’_ ; ‘ \’_ __ _ _' _ "_ I‘ L.‘ _ L __ “(J _ V M K‘ F‘ _ _\ “\‘p_+__ __ I ’ I \ _’_ I FJ > _ \ _ 3' _}/_%\ V_\ _\\ !,("“ \
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Creator: Adams, Ruth
Date: February 1901
Text: Dear father: I have been talking with Franlein Bareteman. She doesn't seem to think I had better do it. I feel rather unhappy in my own mind and don't know just what I want to do. She says even if I had the highest marks possible ("which you haven't Miss Adams") she wouldn't advise me to do it. Now is she right in her estimate of what I can do in German or am i? It seems to me that I know more German than any other girl. But perhaps I haven't cared to make...
Show moreDear father: I have been talking with Franlein Bareteman. She doesn't seem to think I had better do it. I feel rather unhappy in my own mind and don't know just what I want to do. She says even if I had the highest marks possible ("which you haven't Miss Adams") she wouldn't advise me to do it. Now is she right in her estimate of what I can do in German or am i? It seems to me that I know more German than any other girl. But perhaps I haven't cared to make an effort to show it. Or perhaps I don't know as much as I think. Miss McCaleb, the sec. say I can't take that French next year without passion of the Freshman french in an exam. And I can't take French tis semester without taking an cam in last seems. work. It too bad isn't it? I am really quite disappointed though I keep telling myself that therewasn't any possibility of my doing it. What do you advise me to do. Drop German this seems. take French (and Miss Mc.C. said perhaps Prof. Brac would let me wait until the end of this seems or next Fall before passing off the 1st semester French work in June or Sept, work on German during the summer and take exam on 2nd semester work in Sept. and have the chance of loosing both. Or take German this semester pass it off in June and work what I can this seems on French and this summer, then try to pass off Freshman work in Sept and get into Course C. If not take Course B (which is what the frills with French as 1st language do this year) and drop German next year. What and which? Answer as soon as you can. I rather think I had rather study on French than on German, particularly this Freytag in the summer.The worst part is that I am afraid I shall have forgotten French so by that time that I shan't be able to do it. Isn't it too bad. I am unhappy. Oh no I am not. We have just been doe the grandest sleigh ride; Cora, Lucile, Edith, Dubé, Hilda (to chaperone) and I. I wish I had time and money to tutor in French. RuthProf. George B. Adams 57 Edgehill Road New Haven Conn’_ ¢_' Q KW X ,_/{ J_’ E W41 fa L’ 1 _ “J PA i _“" H “:4” _ \‘ \ ‘ii }// \_ x 7/ _\H_x_ __ A t 6 “J \ _ :1 __ 5‘ __ 4*“ ,1 \ ' if//V F /_ _ ,1‘ \ Q I Q {,4 _€ _ ‘ _ I 6 ‘ V‘ _ 7: _ \‘ L, __/E ))A‘ 1 V\
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Creator: Adams, Ruth
Date: February 1901
Text: Vassar Dear People:- Well I found no notes when I arrived but I have since heard that Miss Dutton's flunks are not out yet. Cheerful isn't it? Cora didn't get any. Isn't that fine? I haven't had time to see about the change, but Miss Hastings doesn't seem to think it would work. And Hilda seemed to think it would be awfully hard to take both Sophomore french and German at the same time. Well I got down to the station in fine shake Hilda and Cora and their brother...
Show moreVassar Dear People:- Well I found no notes when I arrived but I have since heard that Miss Dutton's flunks are not out yet. Cheerful isn't it? Cora didn't get any. Isn't that fine? I haven't had time to see about the change, but Miss Hastings doesn't seem to think it would work. And Hilda seemed to think it would be awfully hard to take both Sophomore french and German at the same time. Well I got down to the station in fine shake Hilda and Cora and their brother were on the car going down chapel. So I got my suit case tended to for the rest of the way. Our train was late in at New York and we were rather afraid of missing the other but didn't. They put us in a pullman car because the others were so crowded. When we got out here we lurmted all around and were very much excited at not finding any notes. We hunted under the beds and in the drawers and all around bu didn't come on any so we ran up to Miss Hastings and made eugurice. She said that she had heard my papers were very good. Edith flunked Math and so did Lucy. Mary Showkson flunked Math & Latin and French prose. We are so pleased she got through the rest. It was really better than we hoped. Elisabeth Ladd flunked English. Wasn't that foolish? It is simply because she has been careless and forgotten to put essays in where she ought and so on. Lucile and Florence are all right. Have had my first Algebra lesson. Miss Wilkinson is certainly not Richardson class! Well you will hear soon of my success in the change. They had great doings Saturday night. Ruth Prof. George B Adams 57 Edgehill Road New Haven Conn. __ ‘ I I _‘_‘ éﬂ 60 _:y_=\ _ v__ Y i _ /N \ ’_ ’ Iv /4‘ / /2 ‘_‘- ‘ ‘ \‘\_ N, j hp _'/; v r / ‘AH ‘ )1” mf / I _ _ * . _ I I L,“ J‘ ‘P’ '7' V! .1‘ “'.I\ \
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Creator: Adams, Ruth
Date: February 1901
Text: Vassar Dear people:- I have no time to write, the bell has just rung for Latin, just as I took up my pen but I don't need to go just yet. I have been particularly busy this week not having been able to do either my essay or my latin prose on Saturday we have prose today. I am anxious to see what little not I have on my paper today. Last time she said I must be more descriptive noting in my use of tenses but it was not deficient asmany of them were of which I was very glad. Well I have...
Show moreVassar Dear people:- I have no time to write, the bell has just rung for Latin, just as I took up my pen but I don't need to go just yet. I have been particularly busy this week not having been able to do either my essay or my latin prose on Saturday we have prose today. I am anxious to see what little not I have on my paper today. Last time she said I must be more descriptive noting in my use of tenses but it was not deficient asmany of them were of which I was very glad. Well I have just come back from Latin and gym. I meant to go and see Miss Wylie this afternoon with Mary Yost, but she can't go so we put it off until next week. My paper was not deficient this week either. Ha, ha. The poetry we are doing is so much nice than Livy. We have Ovid now. In English we are having a very uncomfortable time. Abstract subjects and definitions. FOr our next essay we have poetry define it. What is poetry anyway? As to the Algebra I can do the examples alright and don't know what I don't understand. There is nothing I can ask to have explained, only I don't feel as if I had the whole thing classified and right down so I knew all about it and through and through it as I did with the geom. with Miss Richardson. Of course its the difference in the teacher. Do you know Cora and I think our room is haunted. A while ago a bottle of tooth powder appeared on the washstand which belonged to neither of us and we neither knew how it got there. Wasn't that queer? Then the other morning, Sat it was I didn't get up for breakfast, that is I slept over and Cora brought me breakfast. When she brought me a napkin out of the drawer where I always keep them it was not one of mine. It had no name on it and I know it never came in the wash to me. Cora doesn't know anymore about it either. Don't you think that is very strange. Then last night I wanted some camphor ice. You know I had a new tube. well I have used very little when I came to look at it last night and the bottom which you can push up as you use the stuff you know, was up at the other end and the ice below it. The seal cover gone. Evidently somebody had pushed it way out and then put in the other end to, though how they didit I don't see the camphor ice is so soft. It was nearly all gone. Don't you think we had better employ a detective? Well lots of love Ruth Cora may go home next SundayMrs. George B Adams 57 Edgehill Road New Haven Conn
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Creator: Adams, Ruth
Date: February 1901
Text: Vassar Dear people:- You letter come this morning. You were very good to sit down stairs. I am so worried as to whether I got your letter in intime to reach you this morning. I think I did though. I don't think I need to take a tutor in Algebra. If I would just find time someway to do some reviewing I wou ld be all straight. What do you think, this morning when I was going up stairs in Rockerfellow I met Miss Richardson. She tookhold of my hand in both hers and patter it. "I have...
Show moreVassar Dear people:- You letter come this morning. You were very good to sit down stairs. I am so worried as to whether I got your letter in intime to reach you this morning. I think I did though. I don't think I need to take a tutor in Algebra. If I would just find time someway to do some reviewing I wou ld be all straight. What do you think, this morning when I was going up stairs in Rockerfellow I met Miss Richardson. She tookhold of my hand in both hers and patter it. "I have missed you, my dear," she says with her sweetest smile. "I am sorry to have lost you." Edith who was behind me nearly fainted away and after I had been brought to, we had to turn our attention to her, but she finally came to. I had such an unhappy time ini class drill this morning. It is the second one I have been to. And of ours they have got way a head. She made us do all kind of stunts with indian chins and I nevergot into such a mess in my life. I don't like it at all. Well there is the latin bell. I must run. Wednesday. Nothing interesting has happened since yesterday, just study and recite, recite study. I wish you could have seen me trying to get a steamer letter into the post for Winifred today. The postman had come and I thought if I didn't get in the mail it wouldn't reach her in time so I tore, and ran down stairs putting it in the envelope as I ran. It was too big and I folded it any old way. It will be a pretty sight I think. When she get it. I just caught the post man. Don't you wish we were sailing for Italy tomorrow? I do. Yesterday Cora and I had the finest sleigh ride. We were walking over to the washerwoman's and we had to go past the new building. The only path went that way and just then a wagon or sleigh rathercame out and we jumped up behind and had a lovely ride out of the college fronds and down a side street. When we came o the main street, where the street cars are, we decided we would have to get off, for fear of shocking somebody or harming the reputation of the college. They treat us like babies. Miss Cornwell is a pill. I wish Mis. Kendrick was back. Miss C. wouldn't let us send the little bunchesof violets to the Juniors for Valentines. Did you ever hear of anything so absurd. Bah. Then they had a meeting of Phil. the other night because Miss Cornwell had discovered a rule made a long time about, soon after college was started by the faculy that no costumes should be rented for the Hll plays. No attention has been payed to it for over 10 years. But she discoversit and says we can't have any costumes unless we petition the faculty for them. So we had to have a eating to get up the petition, everybody hooted when the girl got up and announced the business. In the last hall play she wouldn't let the girls say rape. She told them theft was much more befitting. It sounded too absurd for anything. When the bandit told the old Gentleman about the different styles. The theft by moonlight, the theft polite, etc, etc. Thurs. Another Latin press ex. done. I passed. Miss Dutton's, but don't expect to Miss Sander's. Last nigh I made three calenttimes no 4. This morning when we went to breakfast there was an orange at every place. Nobody knows who put them there, except the person who did it, and she doesn't let on. Some of them think Cora and I did it which is very amusing. We are going to vote our class motto and mona gram. Todays they are all horrid, I have more work than I can possibly do for tomorrow 3 lesson, class meeting and gym to do before night beside one recitation. Friday all my recitations come the first thing i the morning so I have to get them all the day before hand. I got a very pretty Valentine from New Haven. Voila the bell. Alas prose and grammer. Goodbye. Ruth. Mrs. George B Adams 57 Edgehill Road New Haven Conn/ _.- J3 ;;c % K"-;i:r~,> 3' -, 1‘ r-‘jg 7 ‘W 1 \ 3 €'f:i\ i 4 \k/:\ , A ¢ , '\'/ k U / ‘\ .;_- / "~. _ ‘ \ ‘ > w
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Creator: Adams, Ruth
Date: February 1901
Text: Vassar Freshman? 1901? Dear people:- Sunday once more. How the weeks go by. We have just come from church and I didn't wait to get asked into the senior parlor today as usual, because the minister made me feel creepy and I didn't want to be in the same room with him. He was a great big burly fellow with his block hair shaved off as close to his head as it could be, and he had big hooked nose andsuch sharp piercing eyes way in under bushy eyebrows that he made me think of an eagle on...
Show moreVassar Freshman? 1901? Dear people:- Sunday once more. How the weeks go by. We have just come from church and I didn't wait to get asked into the senior parlor today as usual, because the minister made me feel creepy and I didn't want to be in the same room with him. He was a great big burly fellow with his block hair shaved off as close to his head as it could be, and he had big hooked nose andsuch sharp piercing eyes way in under bushy eyebrows that he made me think of an eagle on hawk all the time. He had such an effected, sarcastic, [sueering?] voice too, and said marcy instead of mercy, and "such like things." Oh the girls had such a perfect time who went down to New York yesterday. I really wish I had gone. She boxes and front seats were given over to them, about 77. Then the director spared no pains to make them enjoy themselves. A man came around and gave each girl a big bunch of violets tied with the Vassar colors, rose & grey. Then he himself came around and spoke to every girl. And the crowing compliment when the curtain wen up in the second act, where Francesca and Mima are on the stage, they each had flowers on tied with long streamere of rose and grey ribbons. Wasn't thatlovely in him. The girls say they clapped and shouted for at least a minute before they let the play go no, while all the rest of the people stared open mouthed at them. The theater was crowded and it holds about 1100 they say. At the end they raised the curtain six times and finally herr coud--I forget what the rest of his name is had to come out. After the performance wasover he took there all up on the stage and showed them how all the contrivances for making it thunder and so on, and the scenery is worked. Generally they had quite a time. The railway people let them go down to New York and back for $1.60, hardly more than you would have to pay for a single trip on a regular ticket. Cora and I went down town yesterday and made various purchases including a drape lightwhich is going to nearly break us, costing $3.60. But I hope it will be good. We have had such a time with the gas. It is very poor and so far up. That 3.60 gets us only a plain upright stick for the lamp part, and no shade, we are going to make that. The burier and all the separate pieces cost so much. I am going to be dreadfully busy next week. My essay isn't written and regular lessons keep me working steadily, then a costume has got to be made for Friday night. it can't be done Friday after noon because Mrs. Stephens lecture comes then, and he excepts to stay over Saturday so I suppose I shall see him then sometime and Saturday evening come a french reading that I won't of course to go to. Don't you think I shall be rather full? Our essay is perfectly awful. We are to take some modern sentiment, as the nobleness of labor, or the equality of class, or anything we like, and take 2 or 3 poems in which this feeling is expressed and compare the different ways of bringing it out and the different though on the same subject which different people have. Why its terrible. I have no idea where to look. I should have to read all the poems, modern poets have written, thorough in under to find the ones in which they have expressed some such sentiment characteristic of the time. What shall I do. I haven't time for that, and take Kipling, there must be some in him, but how am I to find it without reading his poetry all through? Certainly Hooker is getting too frisky. The other divisions don't have any such crazy things to do. Did I tell you about Thursday night when I hadn't done a single one of my three lessons for the next day by chapel time and yet stayed to a lecture on college settlement work and had my lessons for the next day as well as usual. I got out about 8.30 and got my German by mine then I did Algebra until about 10.40 and then went to bed. The next morning I got up at the usual time and went to breakfast after that I borrowed a copy of Kate and wrote a theme on the Ode to Melancholy before the first recitation which came in twenty minutes. It was fully as good as those I spend an hour and a had on. If only you could get your lessons done as quickly when you have plenty of time and don't have to. I don't see why you can't. Cora is going to have a costume made for her by a dressmaker. She is going to be my man. Didn't they wear those little short waists and scant skirtsin George Washington's time? LIke those in "Pride and Prejudice ?"How do you think you would cut them? How many seams would there be in the skirt? And would they just be straight or would they have to be gored? Fo you suppose I could get a pattern for such a dress? What do you think of the bill? The doctors was not as much as I thought it would be. I am beginning to get so I can skate quite well alone, if only the ice would last. Lovingly Ruth.Prof. George B Adams 57 Edgehill Road New Haven Conn. _ ’_ L L‘; _\‘ _ ‘>6 ~ ‘ n"__M_g _ 1’ ‘K \ 5 _ Q U‘ K ‘Y ‘v \\_ I \M > >/___ ' _( \J f \\L 5 Ur I ‘_ :1; V) ‘ \ _ ‘V \ ‘J _/ (.\ “ L‘ J) \/, 3 p/UN _ \_' _ 1) ’v‘\ _\_ V ,2‘! Q R! \_ __ 7 _ ‘()‘§“ II I I‘ R-1 I‘ ‘ll_ _ n __ \
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Creator: Adams, Ruth
Date: February 1901
Text: Dear people:- This is the the German class. And is very stupid, so having recited, I think I will write a letter to you. I can keep one ear on what is going on. I find it rather hard she keeps looking at me. I wish I wasn't in the from row. Yesterday I got some lawn to make my costume, and have started it but I doubt if I even finish it. Suton-Thompson is coming here on Thursday to lecture and I intend to go in to hear him, whether I get any lessons or not. Then there is a concert out...
Show moreDear people:- This is the the German class. And is very stupid, so having recited, I think I will write a letter to you. I can keep one ear on what is going on. I find it rather hard she keeps looking at me. I wish I wasn't in the from row. Yesterday I got some lawn to make my costume, and have started it but I doubt if I even finish it. Suton-Thompson is coming here on Thursday to lecture and I intend to go in to hear him, whether I get any lessons or not. Then there is a concert out here this afternoon which I don't want to miss. Just see how things pile up. Here. My course was cut short with as big a scolding as I ever had in my life. After making me over the coals for a few minutes and letting me that even if I knew any German I couldn't pay attention to what was going on and write at the same. She ended by telling me it was extremely impolite. Whew! Whew! It's such a bore. I think she has a particular grudge against me. Well I have just come from the Suton Thompson lecture. It was very interesting. My costume isn't done and I don't know what is going to happen but I except it will finish up. They are to have my gulag to adorn something for the lecture, American and British Flag and so on! Very fine doingas to my health it is fine. Never felt better. Nothing disturbs wen there is really something I might worry about I never do. Lovingly RuthProf. George B Adams 57 Edgehill Road New Haven Conn
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Creator: Adams, Ruth
Date: February 1901
Text: Vassar Dear people:- I am going to begin this letter now and write when I have time. I wish you could see the drifts around here. It is something terrible: there has been, and still is, a very high wind blowing. We think we will probably get stuck in one Friday night. Oh you don't know tho' do you? The current topics club is going to give the 10 freshman members a sleigh ride. There are to be two big barges, and Miss Salmonis to chaperone one and Miss Ely (the head of the Math...
Show moreVassar Dear people:- I am going to begin this letter now and write when I have time. I wish you could see the drifts around here. It is something terrible: there has been, and still is, a very high wind blowing. We think we will probably get stuck in one Friday night. Oh you don't know tho' do you? The current topics club is going to give the 10 freshman members a sleigh ride. There are to be two big barges, and Miss Salmonis to chaperone one and Miss Ely (the head of the Math department the other) won't that be fun? I have just polished my shoes, and they are so dazzling that they really hurt my eyes. I keep seeing then, even when I look at something else. Its just before dinner now. Can't you find my thimble? I need it badly. Did I tell you our division in Latin was transferred to Miss Saunders, the had one, you know. I don't know what will happen to me. I have been a very unhappy by time this afternoon trying to do latin prose. Before, when I had Miss Dutton I wished I had Saunders. But it isn't all delight, I find. Tomorrow we have got to take to the English class some [?] which we have never been able to understand, and have discussed and talked a great deal about. I haven't any idea what to take. I wish I had read more, and thought more about what I have read, and I wish we had discussed such things more, so there. Would you like to hear something funny. A girl named Christine Cushing flunked her Math and she went to see Miss Richardson about taking a reexam. But Miss R. said I don't think you can do that Miss Cushing. It will be necessary for you to take the subject [?] over next year. And Miss C. gave a sort of gasp "don't you think you wear your corsets to tight Miss Cushing?" Says Miss RichardsonIsn't that lovely? Fancy her saying a think like that. Friday. Well my lessons are over for this week, and I feel discouraged. I don't understand a think that is happening in Algebra and the m ore Miss Wilkinson tries to explain the more mixed p I get. I am wondering whether I had better try to get changed to Miss Richardson. I shall it this way a while, longer but if I find I don't know anything about it perhaps it would be less strain to go into R's class. Then German makes me unhappy. I don't feel as if I were learning much. It seems as if we learned more history than German. It takes so much time to learn the history to recite it that I don't get time to do extra reading. But I know almost all of the words in it. Of course I learn something. But ti's so slow I don't feel it. I don't seem to know more German than when I came to college. Oh dear. You see I am blue today. Well we went on our ride last night. It was lovely weather and the stars were all so bright. They sang all the way, so I hardly opened memouth all the time. I would give anything if I could follow a time. I wish you could have seen the things I put on to keep warm. I put an extra suit of underclothes on then a pair of bloomers and 2 sweaters!!! fancy. Besides, of course, my frees. Don't imagine I went out with nothing over the bloomers. Shocking, shocking. Oh another thing I am discouraged about is English. Miss Hooker is such a fool. I wish you could hear her. You know English was one of the things I wanted to improve in but with such a person!!! She isn't any help. What will you think of me. I wish I wasn't like myself. Well I must go skating and see if I can't get more cheerful. But there isn't anyone to go with me. I shall probably break my leg. I started a letter to the German girl in Berlin in the German class this morning. I love you and wish I was at home. RushIt feels much better now and am going to take a nap. Your letter came just now. Mrs. George B. Adams 57 Edgehill Road New Haven Conn.i \ q~ “ <:> % ﬁn H , .:v,".;:? \V\\\ (ﬁx ’ ‘* *&\. _ _‘;- . /I * m, -- ﬁ =_ i? » >0/\' w ‘ ‘ 1; _. ' LEE A ~ ‘_ ‘\ _ r\_ Rx Q‘ _ 0 \ A Rs’
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Creator: Adams, Ruth
Date: February 1901
Text: Vassar Dear people:- At last Cora and Edith have got away. Such absurd people I never saw. They have been acting "fit to kill". Well I draw a long breath and start to tell you about things. Such gorgeousness you have never dreamt of, as was to be seen Friday night, and they (or Miss Cornwell) wouldn't let Mr. Stephens go. Did you ever hear anything more foolish and silly. It thegirls wouldn't mind I don't think Miss C. need get excited. We are just as madd as we can...
Show moreVassar Dear people:- At last Cora and Edith have got away. Such absurd people I never saw. They have been acting "fit to kill". Well I draw a long breath and start to tell you about things. Such gorgeousness you have never dreamt of, as was to be seen Friday night, and they (or Miss Cornwell) wouldn't let Mr. Stephens go. Did you ever hear anything more foolish and silly. It thegirls wouldn't mind I don't think Miss C. need get excited. We are just as madd as we can be, and so is Mr. St. He told Prexi that he would never come again with out making it a condition that he should see what ever was going on. If Teddy, who is young and unmarried and unconnected with the college, can go why can't Mr. Stephens? Well I managed to get my consumes done. It was not ver swellbut looked pretty. I made one of those short waisted businesses not with standing what you said about the time when it was worn. It was the easiest to awake with out any pattern. I really feel quite proud of myself. I cut the lining for the waist by the [?] of my blue chally (?) dress and put the rest on os Mrs Galheger (?) does. I haven't nearly got the powder out of my hair yet. It is dreadful. But how stunning it does make the girls look. Cora was too conning for words. But as was everybody. It changed some people so that we didn't know them at all. Mr. Stephen's lecture was a great success. I just went into the reception which was given for him in the faculty parlor for a moment and spoke to him and then skipped out. You see the lecture was in the afternoon and lasted until about five and we had to get all dressed between it and dinner. Then we went to the ball and had a beautiful time. They gave us doughnuts and and apples for refreshments. Then Saturday morning we stayed in bed rather late and Miss Ellery came in before I was dressed to ask if I would take charge to Mr. Stephens at 10 o'clock and I was to acquire at the messenger office to find where he was. So up I go at 10and ask where he is. They really don't know but will find out if I will wait. I wait. They hunt and hunt and hunt. Prof. Stephens seems to have disappeared. He is no where to be found. THey will let me know if he turns up. So I go back to my room and try to do a little Algebra. After a while Miss Ellery comes in. Where is Prof Stephens? What shave I done with him? I haven't seen hi at all. How very odd. and off she goes. Pretty soon the lunch bell rings and as I go down I see him standing by the dining room door talking to Miss Salmon, so I go and speak to hum. It seems he and Prexi escaped and went off for a walk. Miss Salmon has bullied Mr. Stephens into giving an informal talk on the historical novel in the afternoon so he decides to stay over a train so that he can have a chance to talk with me. After lunch I try to get some latin done. But of course it is usually hard and I only succeed in digging out about half of it. Then comes three o'clock and his lecture which lasts about 3/4 of an hour and is very amusing. He was very much distresses through for fear Miss Salmon didn't approve of his joking so, and not taking it seriously. After wards I went up to get hum and what doeshe say but "now you are going to take me to your room and give me some tea, aren't you?" I hadn't thought of it and didn't have any tea kettle or any tea, or any milk, or any sugar, or any anything. "You promised me long ago, didn't you, that I should have tea in your own room when I come to vassal?" So I smiled and said of course he should have tea and winked at Cora whorushed, and byte the time I got Mr. Stephens down to the room everything was beautifully fixed. That is the joy of College. If you get in a tight fix everybody is willing to help and in no time you are all right. One girl rushes to some body she knows has a beautiful tea kettle she meets somebody who has the tea, etc. WHile you have time to fix up the room. Nothing fazes (?) a college girl. I will admit wedidn't go down directly Prexi came up and talked to us. He wished to be remembered to you. ANd what do you think he said. It was very delightful, but it is rather frightening. Mr. Stephens said he had come up to see how "this young lady" was getting along and he was advising her very seriously to avoid study as much as possible, because he knew she had a tendency I meant to over work that way. President I said yes he knew I wasn't feeling very well before Christmas, but I seemed much better now, (please observe) wasn't I really? Then he said I had won a victory (which I have) and it would never be hard again etc. etc. Prof. Steph asked when those dreadful exams come with which they troubled us, and whether I got through all right I said I didn't and Prexi added "and well, very well too. I looked it up myself" Now isn't that the limit? Imagine my feelings to think of his looking up my marks. Why I shall certainly have to do good work. Well then Mr. Stephens come to the room. Miss Ellery chaperoned. I have a suspicion it was improper, even a strong one. The rules say no gentlemen shall be taken to the rooms with out a chap. and that Father and brothers may stay 15 minutes but not more. Prof. Stephens was here until so before six. A trifle more than 15 minutes, you see. Then he departed and I had dinner and went ot chapel and went to the french lecture. you see I have been having my fill of lectures lately. This man is M. Lavel w with whom Miss Salmon and Miss Ellery studies in Paris. He lectured in English, very broke, and read selections from Rostard in French. I couldn't understand very well. By the way I met Richardson again and she "squoze" my hand some more & hoped I would come and see her soon. I go, I go. Ruth Mrs. George B. 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Creator: Adams, Ruth
Date: January 1900
Text: Vassar Dear People:- Here are the letters. I thought you might like to know that I am feeling much better quite getting over the grippe. But I never had so much to do in my life. I haven't done a but of reviewing in anything and don't see when I can. I expect to flunk Latin. Am not particularly afraid of anything else. You aren't in a hurry for the samples are you?I haven't time to decide on any now. I could meet you in New York couldn't I? That would be "...
Show moreVassar Dear People:- Here are the letters. I thought you might like to know that I am feeling much better quite getting over the grippe. But I never had so much to do in my life. I haven't done a but of reviewing in anything and don't see when I can. I expect to flunk Latin. Am not particularly afraid of anything else. You aren't in a hurry for the samples are you?I haven't time to decide on any now. I could meet you in New York couldn't I? That would be "perfectly" lovely. Do you think it would be worth the money though. If I don't come home could you send me my algebra book? Our petition about commencement essays was not granted. Perhaps if you had expressed your opinion on the subject it might have been. Oh I hate studying. I think my eyes are giving out. And I can't do German in the evening and as its the only thing I can go where I am sleepy my evens are practically wasted. RuthMrs. George B Adams 57 Edgehill Road New Haven Conn
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Creator: Adams, Ruth
Date: January 14, 1901
Text: Vassar Friday Dear people:- How nice it seems not to have any lesson tomorrow. We are going to bed rather early tonight. This morning in English we had rather a nice time, particularly as it only lasted about had an hour. We were taken over into the studio and had pictures thrown onto a sheet for [?]. We had to take notes on them for writing themes and essays about later. First they showed us Mona Lisa and Beatuce Cruice and are to take eitherone for our next essay. There they gave me a...
Show moreVassar Friday Dear people:- How nice it seems not to have any lesson tomorrow. We are going to bed rather early tonight. This morning in English we had rather a nice time, particularly as it only lasted about had an hour. We were taken over into the studio and had pictures thrown onto a sheet for [?]. We had to take notes on them for writing themes and essays about later. First they showed us Mona Lisa and Beatuce Cruice and are to take eitherone for our next essay. There they gave me a portrait of Van Dyck by himself and a peasant of millet to compare them. Then the Madonna of Botticelli you have over the piano and that Madonna among the Rocks by Leonarda di Vinci. Do you remember where that was and who the other woman besides Mary was. We have had the greatest discussions about it. Then we had math and Miss Richardson gave me a lecture on taking exercise and held the English up as an example to me. I wish youcould have heard her. She told us to take walk before lunch and a nap after lunch and go for a walk for at least 2 hours. She said the English woman accomplished twice as much as we did in the same time because they were about to concentrate their minds. An American's girls conscience is only satisfied when she studies all the time while and English girl tries to get her work done in as short a time as possible. I thought I would walk around before lunch, and while I was out I met Miss Richardson. so I told her to see how she had impressed me that I took her advice immediately. And she patted her on the arm (right on my vaccination spot) and said, that was right and I was a little girl who needed a great deal of fresh air. She had noticed. I am quite a favorite apparently. But it is perfectly true, I feel miserably if I don't get out. Thursday it poured all day and I felt dreadfully and didn't sleep that night as well as usual. So Friday I went out notwithstanding it was stillpouring and had frozen during the night, and the roads were covered with ice and very slippery. Helen Graves and I walked into town and out again. They fixes me all up nicely. I had a pair of leather gaiters, that came up to my knees from Dubir; and Edith gave me her maclinetoch which made short enough by taking a tuck in it, and I had on my shortest skirt and was very fine. People were perfectly astounded when they head we had been way into town on such a day, but it didn't so us any harm and I felt much better. What do you think I am going to do. Cara and I have been asked to bin the next hall play, just as figures you know. There are to be a whole lot of us and it's more fun. Dubie and I are to carry a sedan chair & Cora and all the others are in a ruffian crew. The play is "Les Romantic" by Rostand and is capital. Saturday afternoon we went to a rehearsal and had more fun. It is going to be very good I think. Margaret Jackson is to be the hero and she acts beautifully. Saturday morning it snowedand I went out for a walk and did some studying. I someway can't get up my courage to being reviewing anything, but I suppose I must get down to it. All the teachers advise us to very strongly. My sweater foes beautifully. Saturday evening I went to a German play. it was so funny. The name of it was "Das Schwert des Damarkles" and the girls did finely. Our cheeks fairly ached when we came away we had laughed so. This morning we lay in bed until 10-30 as usual. Lucile & Edith brought us some bread and butter and milk.Then we had morning Chapel which bishop Potter bed. He gave us a fine sermon Poor Prexi had to read the lessons, and he had forgotten his glasses so he had to put his nose right down into the bible on the reading desk. Poor thing. I couldn't sympathize. Then at dinner I asked Elizabeth Allen to come to the table, because you see there is an empty place as Miss Hastings is taking her vacation now. After dinner Cora and I went for a walk up on Sunset hill, and she forgot to put her fibber on and so got her feet soaked, so that she had to spend quite a time drying them. And while she did it she read aloud to me, and I lay on her sofa. We have read the first chapter of "Alice of Old [?] Do you know it? Then we had a spell of writing letters and then the sweetest little black kitten came to call on us. That is I heard her crying outside the door so I went and let her in. She was evidently making the best of her way down to the parlors and I thought she ought to be intercepted. She was a very agreeable cat, as Miss Will and used to say. Then we wrote letters some more while the cat enjoyed herself on my bees. And then Lucile came down to get us to go for a walk and we were in our wrappers and very lazy, and couldn't make up our minds whether we wanted to go or not. So we tossed up for it and found we had to go. Then it took a long tim to get dressed (Lucile was very much disgusted). But finally we got up and went up Sunset again and saw the sunset. Which was glorious and then went down into the glen, which was perilous and the path is very steep and it was all icy. Then we sat on the bridge over the little stream and sang hymns while the dark evening mists rose from the water and the darkness and chill fell around us. Then we continued our way home in the dark and just had time to get ready for supper. I think you would be interested to hear what Cora heard while shewas taking her bath this morning. one girl was telling another what they had had for breakfast. First some hot chocolate, then some sardines and crackers next mince pie and peaches. Wasn't that delightful? Do you want me to send Miss Sawns a Vassar Cataloge, and if so will you send her address. You see my pen has arrived. I never was so lad to get anything. How much did you have to Pay. O, My watch keeps coming open. Do you think it would be safe to trust somebody here to fix it? Ruth Prof. George B Adams 57 Edgehill Road New Haven Conn‘ Vii, _ v(,‘_ 11 _‘_ ‘X4, 3 _ Y‘),-‘lf
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Creator: Adams, Ruth
Date: January 30, 1901
Text: Vassar Dear people:- Cora and Hilda have at last decided to ho home this week so I shall be sure of an escort home. I don't really think it would have hurt me to come there alone though. There would probable y have been somebody on the train. So I shall see you Friday afternoon at 3.50. The Crowning of Edward VII come that Saturday night but I sheen's ind missing it though it would be great fun. They are to have myflag for decoration. Well the Math and Hygiene Exams are over. I don...
Show moreVassar Dear people:- Cora and Hilda have at last decided to ho home this week so I shall be sure of an escort home. I don't really think it would have hurt me to come there alone though. There would probable y have been somebody on the train. So I shall see you Friday afternoon at 3.50. The Crowning of Edward VII come that Saturday night but I sheen's ind missing it though it would be great fun. They are to have myflag for decoration. Well the Math and Hygiene Exams are over. I don't know whether I passed Math or not. I don't think she will flunk me, because my classroom work has been alright. Or at least she ought not too. I am so sorry I am to have Miss Wilkinson next semester, and she isn't nearly as good a teacher; and now that I am used to Miss Richardson I had somuch rather go on with her. We have Math the first thing Monday morning too which is fierce, not to be able to look it over before class when you go it on Saturday. Whoo. We had hygiene this morning which was very easy. I am beginning to feel as if I really belonged here now that I am taking these exams, someway, even though I don't know yet whether I can stay. Of course thats only talk Cara is making out the bulletin for current topics this week. I suppose mu turn will come soon. I ought to study German but I can't screw my courage up to it. I want to go out doors but there is a terrible snow storm. If it keeps on like this I am afraid we will be snowed in and I can't go home. I will see you soon. RuthProf. George B Adams 57 Edgehill Road New Haven Conn
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Creator: Adams, Ruth
Date: January 1901
Text: Vassar Dear People- Excuse the pencil but you know I am penless. It is the greatest nuisance. Well as you see I am here safely. It was quite a nice last night getting back, this morning it is losing some of its charm. I have been to German and Englihs. In English we are to begin describing the fine art. We commence with pictures. For our next theme we are to describe, for a child! (not very appropriate, I think). Either that picture, we sawin the late Gallery you remember of Uncle Toby and...
Show moreVassar Dear People- Excuse the pencil but you know I am penless. It is the greatest nuisance. Well as you see I am here safely. It was quite a nice last night getting back, this morning it is losing some of its charm. I have been to German and Englihs. In English we are to begin describing the fine art. We commence with pictures. For our next theme we are to describe, for a child! (not very appropriate, I think). Either that picture, we sawin the late Gallery you remember of Uncle Toby and the widow int eh sentry box. You know the Davises had it in the hall; or our of Hogarths pictures from that seris of a fashionable marriage in the National Gallery. The trunks haven't come up yet you see. Do you realize you put Paper's tooth brush in? Do you want me to send it back, or shall I just keep it and get a new one for myself? Last night it was very exciting after we got to New York. I the mof of girls at the gates waiting to get through. There was a train there going to New Haven and they wouldn't let us through. But there was such a crowd of us and every body was pushing and joking so that the poor people couldn't get through at all. Who wanted to take the new Haven Train. Finally some big officials acme along and made a little alley way font the middle and stood there to pilot any poor mew through who wanted to catch the train. When finally they popped the gate of us I wish you could haveseen the mess there was we were absolutely helpless. The man at the gate got so mad at us and keep saying "one at a time please. don't crow so. the trains wont go without you. have you tickets ready." But it didn't do any good. We were quite powerless. I got swept out backwards. But at last managed to get safely to the car. Did you see the girl in the car, Papa, who met us. She is Edith Brooks, one of Hilda's particular friends wasn't she pretty. There weren't many freshman on that train, though. There were several cars of Vassar girls. When we got back we had to go up to the office to get our keys and saw Miss Hastings there. Then we came down and opened the room and the windows (it was like a furnesss in the room) and then went around to see people. We found Edith and Florence were here but Lucile didn't come till after 10 so we didn't wait up to see her. Lucy and Mary were here too. AndAnd I think everybody is back by this time. I have n't noticed any who haven't come back. But everybody serif our class would be much smaller after Christmer. Well me hand is nearly paralyzed with writing with the pencil, and I must study my Latin lesson. So lots of love, Ruth Prof. Geo. B Adams 57 Edgehill Road New Haven Conn1 E <’\ /"' "‘ ‘\~ LB. ’\ \‘\\/J =,»1Iv' ‘ V >04-1 J i \ , \ Ii}, ~ ? M A; Q3 | ' Q 1' 5’ - _ ‘ \ /1 M.“ . ‘. W‘ I - u-‘.4.-*1" _ *3 H ~ ,":" X?‘ ‘<>~ f‘E:L~w *2 ('6 W“ 53 :.3~ \ 7 I /' . {H
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Creator: Adams, Ruth
Date: January 16, 1901
Text: Vassar Dear People:- You will have to average up the letters you got last week and those you get this week because this has got to be very short. I am dreadfully busy this week on account of those rehearsals, and then of course Miss Hooker had to go and give me a conference today for which I have to write 2 long things. I really don't know when I can do them, but still. So I am sending you a note in the time between breakfastand first hour when it is very much against my principles to do...
Show moreVassar Dear People:- You will have to average up the letters you got last week and those you get this week because this has got to be very short. I am dreadfully busy this week on account of those rehearsals, and then of course Miss Hooker had to go and give me a conference today for which I have to write 2 long things. I really don't know when I can do them, but still. So I am sending you a note in the time between breakfastand first hour when it is very much against my principles to do anything. I usually go for a little walk. But of course you must know that I am prospering. Miss Duiton, our Latin teacher is sick, so we are having samples of the others. They are much harder. Miss D's other two divisions got cuts and we were so mad when we didn't. However on Monday Dr. Shelberg couldn't come to Hygiene so we got excused from that. Sr. Sh. is having grippe, &her vaccination is taking hard (isn't that amusing). I am so afraid I shall get the grippe. Lots of people have it around here. As to the oranges. We get very good navel oranges for 35 a dz. Do you think it is too extravagant to eat there every night? I am so disappointed about the check, but anyway it is more than you thought it would be in the first place, isn't it? I think that subject for a paper would be lovely, Mamma. I shall try to imagine Papa playing whilst tonight. I expect the first time he tried to shuffle he will spill the cards all over the floor. But of course he wouldn't mind such little things! Lots of love, Ruth.Mrs. George B Adams 57 Edgehill Road New Haven Connr» ;-; ~ = $54» W’. <f;;\ A \ i§' \ _/\)§,/ - r __\),f/ \ . ‘UAN 5 \ :2 '2 N _ -\ \) ‘ \/xi / ‘ 5‘ 9 :/ .1 ,1 \ /' \ ‘ {"1 \"‘1_-.-._-=<='¢" _ Z U1 1 f.@-,~ Y?» Q‘ 6 >-»' § “V c, E I Lg;-E av‘ 14," .1 ,1,‘ ‘ “Q1 :;"3..»§'@5r;~;'1=_.u_;; . . i J ' - V \ ./ />-.. ;‘ '1 I .1 1” I - r ; .- . 1 . . < ipv: 4” _~..-_-.... " ' ‘ 1’!-uzm'v.'_ » /- 01 8 -.. p K 41} pi!
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Creator: Adams, Ruth
Date: January 11, 1901
Text: Vassar College January 9, 1901 at 7:45 o'clock PM Piano Recital by Martinus Sievking Program Preludium…Bach-Sieveking Sonta appassionata…Beethoven Two Etudes, C sharp minor and C minor… Nocturn, C minor…Chopin Scherzo, C sharp mino… Prelude…Rachmanioff Erlking…Shubert-Lizst Duet…Mendelssohn Moo erpetuo…Weber Menuet… Tarentella…Mozskowski Steinway piano used.Dear people:- This is Wednesday and I meant to write some to you each day, but it is so hard to find time. Its after 10 now and I...
Show moreVassar College January 9, 1901 at 7:45 o'clock PM Piano Recital by Martinus Sievking Program Preludium…Bach-Sieveking Sonta appassionata…Beethoven Two Etudes, C sharp minor and C minor… Nocturn, C minor…Chopin Scherzo, C sharp mino… Prelude…Rachmanioff Erlking…Shubert-Lizst Duet…Mendelssohn Moo erpetuo…Weber Menuet… Tarentella…Mozskowski Steinway piano used.Dear people:- This is Wednesday and I meant to write some to you each day, but it is so hard to find time. Its after 10 now and I haven't got my German done nor eaten my orange. However I shall let my German go. The reason I haven't got it is that I went to a concert tonight. We had a grand pianist up and enjoyed it very much. I will send you the progamme. He was so funny and conscious the way the moved his hands and particularly the way he lifted them up. He was a kill as to his appearance. but he certainly played beautifully. I am having the awfullest time with my trunk. I can't get it open at all. Thursday I got so sleepy I had to stop last night. Well I did have a bad time with my trunk. The key wouldn't go in far enough to turn around. And so I sent for a man and he tried but couldn't do any better and got dreadfully angry at it. Then he wanted to know if he should take the lock off and I told him to go ahead as I had got to get into the trunk. But he began going at the thing with one of those big box openers, like ours you know, and I thought certainly hewould brake the front of the trunk all to pieces and ruin it, so I asked him if there was anybody who could pick the lock, and he said I was afraid he would hurt it. At which he became very mad and walked off. Well at last this morning I got it opened. They had to cut it out. It has been very inconvenient as I could change my clothes this morning. It is very nice to have it now though. I gave Miss Eilery they plater piece, and she was very much pleased and wished me to thank you. The pen holder and tooth brush came. I broke the pen I had and so writein pencil again. Would you please send that map, Papa, for using in conniption with "Die Bilder" It has been a horrid day today, raining and sleeting all the time, so that I haven't been able to go out. This afternoon I read German with Mary Yost, the southern girl you know from Virginia. She is so lovely, I wish I were like her. Everybody loves her. Yesterday afternoon I went out for a little walk with Marie Honeycutt who lives in Washington. I think I told you about her. Her father is an army officer and they havelived about everywhere in the United States. They know Dr. Geo. Bushwell. Isn't that strange. More girls meet here and find out that they have mutual friends. Well its very early but I think I will give up and go to bed. With a great deal of love I wish I were at home. It seems so long since I left. RuthMrs Geo. B Adams 57 Edgehill Road New Haven Conn.
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