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Creator: Anthony, Constance E.
Descriptor(s): Bielat, Isabel, Ditkoff, Andrea
Date: 1915
Text: Constance E. Anthony '17 Date Book for 1915 Trademark K & T Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.1915 Friday 1, Jan. Had a shampoo this morning and in the midst of it, "Tibby" called over and wanted me to go snowshoeing and take luncheon with her. [K. Starbuck] and [W.E.A.] we left about 12 and went up to water tanks. Made good fire and had oysters, coffee, crackers, olives, jelly sandwiches. Jessie Elliott came up after I got home and we went down town and over to see the H.S. Boys cause to...
Show moreConstance E. Anthony '17 Date Book for 1915 Trademark K & T Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.1915 Friday 1, Jan. Had a shampoo this morning and in the midst of it, "Tibby" called over and wanted me to go snowshoeing and take luncheon with her. [K. Starbuck] and [W.E.A.] we left about 12 and went up to water tanks. Made good fire and had oysters, coffee, crackers, olives, jelly sandwiches. Jessie Elliott came up after I got home and we went down town and over to see the H.S. Boys cause to take us to sleigh ride at 7.30 and are left when our party called - [Bligh] and Ruth Abbott, Louie Callahan and [Jes...]Carpenter, [seg} abd pete, Cas and Harry [Bockers], Jonnie and gregory- we were 14 of (...) not particularly large sleigh. Reached Mary Bush about 9.30 and three boys held vaudeville entertainment-[giving] no names of asters. used spot light on unfortunate performers - sang "Sister Suzie"! (...) to dance in Richeville. Molly there - met [Dale Beamont] and Alice Spooner. danced much and also quadrille and Portland Fancy. Left at 1.30 and had sandwiches and coffee at Mary's. Left there soon and had lovely time on way home. Everyone cross and uncomfortable. Pete ran half way home - reached town about 4?Jan. Saturday 2, 1915 got up in time for lunch! Doris, Issy and Helena came up this afternoon and we had a talk - regret et cetera at parting. Went downtown but nothing exciting happened. I mailed note to J.D.W. regreting trouble over dance episode at Athenian Ball but it probably won't do any good; strange I should want it too. "King" came up this evening and after conversing with the family a while, (me [brutling] half asleep) all went up to the dance. small crowd, mostly those on sleigh ride (which was incidently, chief topic of talk.) [Haroy] Bockers was very wrought up about it. also zeb (...) was there with [cac]! [Louis] devoted to Cornelia [Hatmaker]. She looked very pretty too. I didn't say much when I danced with him but thought he acted confused enough when I talked of far away impersonal matters. Enough sed! "King" certainly had his share of dances. Out at 12 of course and King came in. Didn't forget he wanted my picture - I felt just tired enough to be silly - seemed to have had good time. 1915 Sunday 3, Jan. I awake at 2.p.m. very much astounded because I had entertained thoughts of going to church in the morning! After dinner, deciding not to snowshoe on account of zero weather, I mended and brought some order to belongings prepatory to packing. I got lunch for family and played victrola till Tim and "Zeb" came - we made fire and told stories and Tim played card tricks while Zeb and W.P.A. made some "old maid's delight" a new "concoction" on the chaffing dish which was very edible - Tim made me promise to write often and also to send him my picture if he sent his down to me - Tendency towards prosaic-ness? no. L.L. Jan. Monday 4, 1915 got up for 7.30 train and said good-bye to [Dot] Fish and [Doris Ramson]and then went to school with Marion - left 4th period and packed all afternoon and evening partly - went to library and talked with Helen (Loveland) and Jessie - J- and I went to Wonderland to-gether. not much good. Then downtown and home to eat a bite and go to bed - wish I had let Tim come up now for note didn't have desired effect.5 1915 Tuesday 5, Jan. Left on 7.30 train. Pete and [Gle...] Priest rode all way down me With M- and me. We played cards, had mandoline music from "Bob" and Pete and ate candy to Utica - (changing at phil.) just caught train (no.58) at Utica and got pullman seats. Boys insisted on pilloting us thru everything. Pete left at Schenectady and [Gle...] and I went into the diner for luncheon - had pleasant time to Pokeepsie. Much ice cutting and ice boating on Hudson. Reached Pokeepsie at 3.54. Train on Time, for a wonder. Went up to Smiths for oysters, Tea and sandwiches. Then up to college at 5. Over to Main - I went to Davison for dinner and talked with Teddy and M. till about 9 - [h.q]- girls home on 3rd corridor R - and we ate nuts, and vacation candy. Went to bed early, about 10.30 after reading "Vanity Fair". 6 Jan. Wednesday 6, 1915 Slept till 8.30 when grace came dashing in with appropriate and usual noise. We decided To breakfast - and in time for fourth hour I got dressed and went over to chemistry lecture. Wednesday afteroon meant 6th hour. Curses! or I would have gone downtown. so went over to Davison and watched G.T. unpack- This evening [Ge..Gay], and I read "She" till about 11. and then I read "Their yesterdays" by Harold Bell Wright - was 1.30 when I finished it. Went over to main after chapel for express and found enourmous line of girls (waiting to sign for trunks)7 1915 Thursday 7, Jan. [?] classes this morning and all deadly and dull. After lunch I studied in library on Hist. G. and then went over to Davison and watched G.T. unpack while waiting for M.P.A when she came I did up bath robe and she dress and we took them over to janitors office and sent back to N.Y. Then I went over to Strong. Visited Bessie Callow for a while and then Genevieve Lyon - After Dinner I went over to Strong with Bessie, Gertrude and M. and we made Bessie try on her Prom. dress - a dream in silver and rose color! She has some lovely xmas gifts. After 9.30 we started in reading "she" and when a young mob of people came in to drink cocoa we fled to my room for peace. 8 Jan. Friday 8, 1915 Grace's friend (and cousin incidently) came this afternoon and this evening we had "cheese dreams" this evening also cocoa and cracker-jacks. All made "c.d." in Jenn's room and served them in our room. simply delicious. afterwards, when bunch departed, I read till all hours, Genevieve, Gay and I have been reading "she" all day9 1915 Saturday 9, Jan. Went over to the library and studied history for Tuesday. After lunch we read "she" in Helen - Arthurs' room. Then I dressed and went downtown with Marjory - we shopped industriously then went to "Cohans"- rather enormous, queer place. We wandered around and finally found seats - vaudeville rather good. Went to Smiths and Woods - got candy. Stopped at "Sloshs" - went to dinner with Genevieve Lyon. Had rather good time. Had more Cheese Dreams to-night in Harriet's room - "Lizzy Bell" was invited poor child and Elsa came of her own accord - Marjory came over about 9.30 and staid all night with me - I put her in bed and then went up to Dorothy Ferris' room with Harriet and we had a [secluce] with [Jameses]. More fun. 10 Jan. Sunday 10, 1915 Awoke at alarm, set by the thoughtful Marjory and we went down to breakfast. After which study till chapel and listened to a wonderful sermon. Read Cosmopolitan to Helen Arthur Davis part of afternoon and then studied and to Gertrude Finleys for supper - Grace with M.P.A and we went up to G.'s afterwards and saw her prom dress and also Teddy's. Much green drops. Went into Harriet's room for cocoa and cracker jacks after 10 and latter discovered Harriet and Mildred guiltily discussing [Ramases] but I was too tired to join them.11 1915 Monday 11, Jan. Classes 8.30 - 12.30 Class drill - 2.45 Off Campus - 4.45-5.45 sundaes and ham sandwiches at flag shop with Anne. After dinner studied Spenser's Faeire Queen and after 10 went into Genevieve's room for tomatoe bisque and cracker [jaurs]. Much conversation over Elsa, Dot [Bolt], acident in Main, Grand Rapids Furniture Co. etc. etc. skating on the lake to-day - gym - 7th hr.- Deans Office - 12 Jan. Tuesday 12, 1915 With [Alice] I went to flag shop and we had sundaes topped off by a ham sandwich! Got a light blue, silk, quilted bath robe from N.Y. To-day shall keep it - Any more express charge on returned packages will break me! 13 1915 Wednesday 13, Jan. Went to flag shop with Mildred and ate sundaes and sandwiches - in the gym - we met K. Hobbs and she had news from Mike Hayes for me. Very exciting indeed. Tendency toward [aceptisive]on my part? Anyway much trepidation at possibility of mistake? Mais, Oui. The Captain of a fire that might be/Is our friend dear and cute Connie/There's Morris, Pat and Lee/Each of whom she longs to see./Notice the Unity/(there might be)14 Jan. Thursday 14, 1915 Wickedly cut all four classes this morning and staid in bed - surrounded by many books and wrote letters and read the "Faerie Queen". Got up for lunch and 7th hour. Dorothy, Harriet and I went to flag shop and slosh's and Careys - D and I didn't go to chapel but rushed over to library to get books before mob arrived - after 10, had tea and Choc. in my room - Harriet, Joy, Grace and I. Judge, and Red Book equally prominent. Got letter from Tim and his picture To-day.15 1915 Friday 15, Jan. No lab this morning gave me 2nd, 3rd and 4th hours free and I did topic for history of Far East. It proved to be a long job. After stupid 6th hour class I went over to Davison and visited with M.P.A, Teddy and Gertrude. M - has a a 5 lb. box of chocolates from ["T---k"]to-day which I helped eat. Teddy, Gertrude and Peggy came over for dinner to-night. There was a lecture on "Heredity and Responsibility" which everyone rushed over to expecting a treat but I went to library and toiled on Soph. Lit. topic in co. with Bianca Shewer. Went to fudge-party in Anne's room - much discussion of world-wide topics - I left at 12 min to 216 Jan. Saturday 16, 1915 Got up for breakfast and then went right to Library and worked on topic all morning. After lunch toiled away all afternoon - fixed up Mildred's room - (it is her birthday) with an effigy of her on her couch and many funny things hanging from ceiling. Also ordered flowers for her. After Chapel (in which M. presented me with bottle of tonic!) I wrote letters and helped m. get spread ready - at 9.30 we began to eat. wonderful eats! Chicken creamed, a big choc. cake, cocoa, olives, nuts, dates, candy, "rusks" and jelly - we sang and talked so loudly that Miss Raymond came up and complained - also [Web-Rean]. In bed by 11 - 17 1915 Sunday 17, Jan. Got up for breakfast !!!! I made out ?'s for history preparation for Tuesday, wrote one letter, cleaned my silver, read "Thru the Looking Glass", and talked with Anne while rest of college was safe in chapel. At dinner Fran, Patty B. and I had quite a confab over Emily Dickinson's "I offered Being for it" etc. ???????? Music in parlor and then Ruth Anne and I did chem - for better of afternoon- Mlle. Reau complained to Peggy Woolsey about the noise last night and we were all warned of the [fast]. Mrs. Tillering has spoke to the "social laws" group this evening in the parlor and I went down. Very Interesting discussions - Gay, Grace and I had cocoa in 310 - and bed by early hour of 10.45.18 Jan. Monday 18, 1015 Met Kitty Hobers this morning and she had gotten a letter from Mick Hayes prophecying one for one which didn't come!! This afternoon, (after lunch with Marjory) I went to gym - main and all about in misty fog; and also to north to see [B----] and new room. (Very attractive). Had tea in 310 7th and 8th hours and played auction bridge with Genn and Gay. No chapel to-night and much fine dancing. Wrote letters and read and trifled with studying. forgot till too late that my intentions were all for shampooing hair!!19 1915 Tuesday 19, Jan. In morning mail a letter from J.S.W. very bewildering and in noon mail a stunning [mer--] in black leather - In afternoon mail a letter from King. Went over to M.P.A's 4th hour and again 8th - she was in bed resting and I had much candy - also she approved of my policy toward men in general and in specific!! Did geology Topic and Bridge for two - this evening - at 9.30 began Chem Review with Alice and Ruth - Betty Crabtree was here for dinner and worried the freshmen extremely by not considering "good-bye girls" a good Fox-Trot!! Wrote much mail and got packages ready - 20 Jan. Wednesday 20, 1915 There is a paper being passed around to subscribe to for two concerts up here next semester by two of four suggested musicians - Bauer [Tim Elliot], Kreisler, Hoffmann - The last two are the ones most every one wants? Quite a heavenly plan to have concerts privately up here, je [peurse]. Went down town this afternoon with Grace - we merely shopped around and went into Wood's for sundaes and got back just in time for dinner.21 1915 Thursday 21, Jan. Four hectic classes as usual this morning. Went over to M's after lunch and read and dallied a while. Then back here for 6th hour and 8th M. came over and read my accumulated mail. This evening, I shampooed my hair and then Helen Arthur created a bit of amusement by dancing around the halls in my gossards and girdles!! Went in Gay's room for tea about 10.30 and met Miss Raymond in the hall - she seemed convinced that is I who makes the "most disturbing noise" she hears on first!! Reviewed for History test after 9 got in bed - very much sleepy - 22 Jan. Friday 22, 1915 Many free hrs. this morning during which I read a lovely 24 page letter from the girls and answered it. After 6th hour English this afternoon I went over to D - then Eight Helen - Arthur and I went to the Hampton Institute quartette and lecture - Splendid! After dinner and chapel I read Peter Ibbetson and went to Carey's with Gay. confidences concerning Grace! Oh Lord! Hot choc. and cracker- [jaurs] when we got back and after a brief survey of [Louw - Bungery] I fell asleep. January 31 Days 23 Saturday 22-342 1915Rainy - 23 Snow! 1915 Saturday 23, Jan. Slept till 11.30 - Delicious fact. After breakfast of cocoa and cracker-Jaurs went down to lunch! Tendency toward sleepiness. Went to Flag shop for sundaes and there stopped in to see M - with letter from Bob - There decided to go to N.Y. the Saturday after Exams. With M- and Teddy and Gertrude! More darn fun. I staid at DAvison for supper in Gertrude's room - we had chicken (minced) lobster, chicken soup, olives, pickles, jelly, fruitola oranges, hydrox, Van Camp's beans. Bliss! Ruth Moulter, Pat s. (who had man come unexpectedly to see her in the midst of our meal and she fled!) Teddy, Gertrude, M. and I. Ruth told us our character's by our faces! More fun - I did Suzanne's, Gertrude's and Teddy's hair in french twist. I decided to stay all night so rushed back at 9.30 and got my things. Ruth kept telling things about us and five or six girls came in as her fame spread. She also told photographs splendidly! I slept in M's room on Teddy's extra cot- Ruth's remarks: I am not spoilt/aristocratic/reticent/apt to get blase in time meant for social life/not athletic/very artistic/vain - I think alot by myself. Have no [bu--p] of "brains"- " Good will power/ " determination/ my heart sometimes rules my mind.24 Jan. Sunday 24, 1915 M - and I got up for breakfast and afterwards heard Ruth read Katrina, Gertrude Folks, Carlotta [Browall's], Mildred Allen's faces in the reading room - more fun - I cut chapel! - and read and wrote letters while others were listening to Robert Speer's eloquence - After dinner agonising music by [W-Mc J]. in parlors - and study of More's "Utopia"- went off campus to the "U and J" for supper with Ruth Wood and Grace - Sop. Lit Exam 25 1915 Monday 25, Jan. Soph Lit. exam at 8.20 - 10.20 It was a one question-affair which took in the whole semester's work. Afterwards went for mail found letter from J.L.M. which was rather eerie (but I answered it directly in a flippant manner!-) This noon I went to lunch with Genevieve Lyon and afterwards we studied chemistry. Dilegently. There went off campus to the flag-shop and had sundaes and chocolate cake. This evening [--] Helen Arthur, Ruth and I did chemistry and eating and drinking and I hastily perused geology notes. It is rainy and slushy to-day and we had no chapel - geology- 26 Chemistry Jan. Tuesday 26, 1915 Geology came at 8.20 in Room 35. It was a picturesque affair and very short - I was thru at 9.30 and got my mail (a letter from Tim) and then went for a walk with "Davie" Farish - then went over to her room and had ham-(minced) sandwiches - after lunch (fright over chem. [---]) Helen-Arthur, "Davie" and I went for a walk on sunset and watched M.L. Streyer and Another Senior coast down the hill on chaffing dish trays, Chem-exam was not frightfully hard. After which H-Arthur and I made cocoa and read - I went coasting on box covers on Sun-set after chapel - started out with Madeline, H.A., Grace, [-] Davie and soon there were dozens of girls up there using everything to coast on from toboggans,trays,large and small boxes, boards to dustpans and brooms!! It was gloriously icy and heavenly sport - left at 8.45 - 27 1915 Wednesday 27, Jan. No exams to-day - I went coasting and studied some french with Mildred - Cora and I went coasting this evening - wonderful moon - light et cetera.French: 2:30- Studio. 28 Jan. Thursday 28, 1915 This morning went downtown after some trays for coasting and after french exam in studio (which was very, very easy and we got the very passage Mildred and I had looked up yesterday! Some luck!) Mildred and I went coasting on Sunset. Made or rather renewed acquaintances with young Paul Williams who used to play around down at Whitlocks last year! This evening Anne, Mrs. [Bowen], Dorothy Claudia, Mildred and I went off-campus to Carey's for dinner - much to eat! Also much snow and no chapel- Marjory has decided to wait till next week-end to go to N.Y. and the rest of us will wait too. History G- 29 35 1915 Friday 29, Jan. I crammed history all this morning and Jeannette Miller came up and to-gether we collected our knowledge about China, Japan and India. Exam came at 1.30. It was absolutely fiendish! The meanest exam I ever took - 8 long questions. Afterwards I went over to Davison and talked with Gertrude and M.P.A. This evening went very quickly with reading in my room and food. Exams are certainly exhausting. 30 Jan. Saturday 30, 1915 Slept till 10.30 or later this morning - got letters from J.P.M and "King" on [sauce] mail! This afternoon [Alice], Mrs. Bowan, Dorothy, Mildred, Harriet and I went down to see "[Tevrie]Beds" - It was very, very funny and for a road company very well done - we all laughed incessantly - went to Woods afterwards for sundaes - Dead tired this evening. Claudia spent the evening and night - we read the "Monk" out loud in Harriet's room. Also we read "What became of Deegan Folk" an eerie story in the Feb. McClures.31 1915 Sunday 31, Jan. 11.30 Didn't wake up in time to go to Waffle Shop so had to breakfast in room - Wrote letters, read and loaffed all day - this Evening about 9.30 Ruth arrived from N.Y. and found her three [flunk] notes - the poor child had really expected none-so quite a shock - Mildred also got 3 and also Harriet - Cora got Latin Prose and 2 others - Gay got none - she brought much food back and we had some in her room. Every one brought back a [Me ---] from vacation! quite amusing indeed. 32 Feb. Monday 1, 1915 I have same schedule as last semester but lab is changed to mon. and Thurs; 5th and 6th, I have petitioned to have it changed - Dr. McCraken lead chapel for first time to-night and made a short but nice speech . Afterwards everyone gathered at Taylor Hall and serenaded him and he gave another speech. He isn't moved into the Pres.' house as yet. Much show to-day and many were out snow-shoeing.33 1915 Tuesday 2, Feb. After strenuous day's work for history map I went to dinner with Kitty Hobbs in 136 Main - she didn't have as much as I expected to tell about Colgate Affairs. We danced in "g" after dinner - then chapel and home to work on map for history some more"34 Feb. Wednesday 3, 1915 Mildred met me this noon before lunch and broke the harrowing news that she has been told that she must go home. Poor girl- I certainly am sad over it - we both wept. Harriet also must go and feels even worse about it! Ruth also. They are sending home even those who flunked only three things. It's mighty hard for Harriet as her father, Mother, and Sister have just come East for the entire spring. There are, it is rumored, 30 freshman sent home and only 75 out of a class of 400 now passed every exam! 35 1915 Thursday 4, Feb. Much [wrong or itrony] and various rumors over the calamity which has befallen the class of 1918 - deep gloom has ascended over 3rd corridor. Ruth has decided to fight it out but the other two are going. Miss McC has announced that no more certificated students will be [ex...]. All will have enter on exams. The whole college is aroused over the blow of so many going home - Kitty Hobbs must go - also Eugene, 3 from McGlynns and Margaret Marshall has gone already. Harriet's father is here and she is resigned to going - we had [eats] to-night but they were not uproariously cheerful rather a forced gaiety. 36 Feb. Friday 5, 1915 Harriet left after 2nd hour this morning with her father who is ever so nice. We all said good-bye down in the hall while Miss R. hovered over in the back ground (making untactful remarks!) Mildred feels blue at not hearing from her family but heard this p.m. - Harriet lost her train and returned this afternoon and we had quite a cheerful visit. She and her father staid to dinner, went to chapel, played in parlor afterwards and finally we all accompanied her to trolly about 8.30 and gave her a rousing good send off - I said good-bye to Mildred and went to bed early - I sure do hate to say good-bye for ever to her. 37 1915 Saturday 6, Feb. Awoke at 5 by alarm and got dressed and left hall at 6 - much wet, deep slush out- still dark and moon out - got very wet and found my self locked out of both halls and went with hunger and cold. when I finally joined girls at trolley at 6:15. We had a rather good breakfast on 6.48 train. Reached N.Y. a little after 9 . Met Carrie at Grand Central went to Altman's where M- got prom dress a copy of Mrs. [Olreean] Castle's - also went to McCreery's, Lord and Taylor's, Best's and Tiffany's and Vantines - Much beautiful things to see - luncheon at Mary Elizabeths was so nice and then went to [Sort] theater "Wonder Cover" wonderful play with Wm. Courtney and Lily Cahill in it. Met Bob afterwards who took M- to dinner. We went to Manhatten but got sadly disappointed when our plans for a dinner on the train fell through!! Train left at 6:55 and we reached college at 9:30 Dead tired but had one wonderful day!!!38 Feb. Sunday 7, 1915 Awoke at 10. Had beautiful breakfast and rested at D- with Marjory - Staid there till 4.30 amused by McCarthy, Teddy, [Bunny], [is - turie-]- This evening M- Came over and I had a welsh Rarebit party - made good food. After which I wrote letters and Diary in Gay's room (and had tea incidently) and slept there all night as she is homesick for Harriet - 39 1915 Monday 8, Feb. After lunch I went over to the lab. and finished my 17th experiment - Fran and I in state in the lecture room - hope it's [uear] enough correct so I don't have to do it over again. Then class drill 7th hour - much twirling of clubs in "anvil chorus". No mail today!! Went over to Davison 8th hour and off campus to Slosh's and Flag Shop. After dinner danced a bit and received comforting assurance from Gay that I "am awfully good to her". Much sleepiness but got thru lessons all right - we were re-seated in Chapel and have moved a whole row so I am now opposite the guest seats!! More fun. 40 Feb. Tuesday 9, 1915 Slept with Gat to-night - very busy studying Conny41 1915 Wednesday 10, Feb. - Ditto - Went downtown after 6th hour with Ruth Motter, Teddy, Gertrude and Peggy - They arranged for rooms at Nelson House and then we shopped - Peggy and I staid later than the rest and got stranded downtown - the car line had some sort of an acident. So we went to Smith's for dinner and afterwards started to walk back with A. [McAdowaly], V. Lee, G. Roper, G Kindred, M. Peck and N. [Salladeis] but finally a Vassar car over took us and we got back in time for chapel -Dearest: - One last fond goodbye. Kiss! Your picture - well it just made me too joyous for words. Thank you bushels and also for the candle. It will help me some dark night. Love, Mildred.42 Feb. Thursday 11, 1915 Wrote letters all afternoon and made coaco with Helen - Arthur. Got [yearly] all import out letters answered - no mail to-day - did lessons for to-morrow in a hurry.43 1915 Friday 12, Feb. Felt absolutely miserable in lab and after lunch - But nevertheless went to 6th hr. English and over to "Lilee" to read afterwards - after a [runny] dinner hors doure in Gay's room and read "the Third Eye" out loud - (a priceless specimen - of R.W. Chandlers!)Then went to the concert in chapel - was boring although not bad in some parts. The [sword of Servarie] was the best and the Volga {??] next - went to bed soon after return to 310. 44 Feb. Sunday [Saturday is crossed out]13, 1915 Arose at 10 and had breakfast in Gay's room - ou. rolls and coaca - Ruth Perry backer and Flora McClellan came in - I just got dressed in time for Chapel - the juniors and their [?] filled all the junior seats and also the guests seats. Chapel was rather boring - Everyone was tired - preacher was not particularly inspiring. Felt [really] during dinner - Marjory, Teddy, Gertrude (with Valentine figt from Miss Judy!) "Libby", "spooney" and "Pete" came over before dinner and made me promise to come over to Davison afterwards but I felt too "[ruiny]" and merily left a note on his door and fled. Later Gay and I went for a walk and to Carey's for a soda and candy and peanuts!1915 Saturday [Sunday crossed out] 14, Feb Slept till 10.45 this morning and after a solitary cup of cocoa and Freud for Mon - [doue], girls came back from glee club concert reporting an awfully good programme. "Pete" came this morning as a surprise to me. I went over to [N's]about 3.30 and helped her get dressed for the Prom. She looked very pretty - Then I did Teddy's hair and fixed Gertrude's a bit - went down to meet "Libby" and "Spoony" - Them as I thought they would be - after chapel Gay and I went over to Student's and stood with our noses glued to the window till 9.30 - Saw all there was to see - Everything looked very pretty - and men were quite presentable. Back to Raymond and had a feast in 310 - Baked Beans, Coaca and crackers - jams - Anne and Lucia [Gording]. Gay Edith Grace and I - bed at 11.3046 Feb. Monday 15, 1915 A damp, drizzling, exceedingly uncheerful Monday! I almost staid in bed but luckily screwed up enough courage to go to classes for we have a very important lecture in chemistry - Dr. Moulton experimented with NH3 and N and we had to write down the observations and conclusions: "to be handed in"! This afternoon I went over to Marjory's room and heard all about the prom "teddy" was in bed and we fooled around, ate apples and I returned to devour McClures - "the Honey Bee" and "K" are rather interesting but not especially original in their (predicted) endings - 47 1915 Tuesday 16, Feb. This afternoon after 6th hour Gay and I decided to have our grand "spree" before swearing off frivolity during lent. We accordingly went down to the Flag Shop and ordered a luscious feast. Raced over to grocery store and got olives, crackers, and stuff for cheese dreams - we had supper in Gay's room - tea et cetera and about 9.30 made Cheese Dreams - they were good. Edith Sturgis (gay's new room-mate) also helped us consume them but Gay and I had about 5 apiece! Such food as dreams are made of! 48 Feb. Wednesday 17, 1915 Almost yielded to temptation to stay in but thought of lab 1st and 2nd brought me up. I made (in lab.) Cu(NO3) and NO and NO3 - very interesting experiment - In quiz - learned more of N.Read R.L.S's letters every spare minute of the day I am fully [entrancing] things. Letter from A. L. Kantor and R. Johnsons reports that Mildred feels terribly now she is home - Read french for an hour this evening then K. A. Davis and I took baths and "soaked" and talked of Nero and [Rein casuation]. Thought of letters but they will have to wait till I feel more in the mood - 49 1915 Thursday 18, Feb.50 Feb. Friday 19, 1915 Went over to Mary[Horace's] room after 6th hour. We joined a bunch [steering] for Belgian babys. I [beaued] a diaper and then watched the rest - 8th hour Anne and I went in reviewing - Mrs. Ferris came over with Dot - She is here for a week-end - after dinner Grace and I decided to cut chapel and go to the "Posture League" lecture downtown in Y.W.C.A Miss Bancroft, pres. of the association gave an illustrated lecture which was long but illuminating - got back to college just before 10- Mobs of people went down for it counted as an hour of gym! 51 1915 Saturday 20, Feb. Went downtown this afternoon with M.P.A Went to "Movies", shopped and went to Smith's - Returning had dinner with Bessie Schotton - in North - the dining rooms are certainly weird there - No news from home - beautiful evening - 52 Feb. Sunday 21, 1915 Got up for breakfast and although didn't accomplish much, had a nice, leisurely feeling all day - went to chapel - Dr. Taylor of Chicago - gave enormous prayer - audience in giggles - longer sermon much gesticulating and dramatic effects. Audience convulsed with laughter - At last at 12.25 we were out! 25 minutes later than by rights - went to dinner with Bessie - Afterwards one Margaret Wells, who is studying in N.Y. - and visiting a girl on 1st in Strong) sang - delightfully. Helen - Arthur and I donned all clothes and took a cross county trip in Hackensack region - dogs and men most frequently seen - Gay, Grace and I went to Carey's for supper tonight - long waits between coarses but food better than on campus.53 1915 Monday 22, Feb. Walked downtown with Gay this afternoon. Lovely day - Washington's birthday but all stores open - we shopped - (I got yarn for rose colored sweater for Marion) and went into Woods for lemonade and nut-bread sandwiches. Bought flags, chickens, music, shirts, shoe-laces, peanuts! Incongruous. Walked back and went up to see Mary Messler who spent week-end at Colgate with Phi Gamma [m--] met Markewich but no others. Went to dinner with Valerie Sahnnon who lives now in 200 Davison - pretty room - danced - she is lonesome of course without Kitty (who is in reserve - taking four classes) Bed at 12.30 - Studied Russion History - 54 Feb. Tuesday 23, 1915 Got state scholarship letter and one from Leo this morn - [Leo] is to be home from the 2nd to the 5th - studies exceedingly hard all day and feet tired constantly- Miss Smith gave enthusiastic account of Granville Barber's new production of " Mid-Summer's Night's Dream" at Wallarck theatre, N.Y. - hot discussion over drama - went to flag shop 7th and "sloshs" and over to D- a minute afterwards - started sweater - did "Richard III" part of evening - cocoa in Gay's room. oh, so tired - 55 1915 Wednesday 24, Feb. No chapel to-night - rainy - danced - knitted during interval-56 Thursday 25, 1915 Went down town with [Ger]; rain and much shopping - got crepe de chine for Aunt Helen's birthday present - returned to write letters - study history - chapel to-night although moisty out - Letters today form A.L.A.S and M. Collat.57 1915 Saturday 27 Feb. see over for Friday - wanted to get up for breakfast but rest didn't- so we arose about 8.30 and went over to Candy kitchen for coffee and toast- Suzanne has a debate try-out this morning- I do hope she makes it. I sewed on Crepe de chine all morning and got it done before lunch- staid at D- and toward 2 Gert (Brown) Matteson arrived from putting her mother on the train at po'keepsie so M- and I went down-town with her- (I ordered flowers for Mlle. Rean -) Went to Cohen's- bum show except funny Idian act - really eerie. Walked to ferry - went for dinner in R- after chapel- Genevieve Lyon came over this evening - knitted usuall banalities.58 Feb. Friday 26 1915 Had no lab 3rd and 4th so read Hamlet; assiduously and knitted meanwhile on [bonny] rose sweater. After 6th hour went Jean's room and sewed on crepe de chine chenusette - dressed for dinner - M.P.A- dragged me over to Main and then to her room to spend the night. Geraud Foot with two other po'keepsians were down in the parlor and Geraud sent his card up and M- went down - came up after me but luckily I was undressed and sewing - went to bed about 11.30-Senior Canon of St. John the Divine Cathedral in N.Y. - led chapel - wonderful service. 59 1915 Sunday 28, Feb. Up for breakfast and cleaned out desk and wrote M. Collat- a distingue letter. Felt incapable of the art of epistolary so didn't do more letters but read Atlantic monthlies and letters of R.L.S. (second vol.) started to read Hamlet over for second time. A soph. table put a gorgeous light green snake into their salad for "Libby" to serve and of course all screamed and had the best little time hence on. After supper Miss Raymond cornered the culprits - much evasion - I went for a walk with H.A.D. before chapel and to Dark Music. Gorgeous day - absolutely - and in dark mmusic the full, new moon lighted up one of the large windows in an inimitable eerieness - tendency towards sentimentality? Not a bit scientific - Gay came back from N.Y. with food and D.I. but I felt cross and fled to study chem. 60 March Monday 1, 1915 Class drill this afternoon - very strenuous. Excepted my Posture Excuse for class drill last week!! Went over to see Valerie Shannon afterwards. She seems anxious enough for company - made all sorts of dates. Dressed for dinner - with Genevieve - dear girl - hard time studying this evening - worn out from class drill, I guess - food in Gay's room about 10 - Wonderful moon but no one seemed to be as moon struck as I and wouldn't go for a walk - 61 1915 Tuesday 2, March 6th Soph Lit. and 7th went to flag shop for food with Valerie and ate it on steps Of [couvered ient] way side house. Went to lecture by Miss Lextor 8th hour. Very distinctive as usual - nice pictures - black velvet dress and huge red flower. V- a quaint child - Kitty is very busy at Resever, she says-, takes four subjects and expects to return to V.C. next year. Vassar College March 3, 1915, at 7:45 o'clock p.m. in the Student's Auditorium Pianoforte Recital by Harold Bauer Under the auspices of the Student's Association 62 March Wednesday 3, 1915 Waltzes: dreary, sad,also melodious. Moonlight Sonata: Conveyed distinct impressions to me. On the whole very gratifying and not at all disappointing. Kinder Stucke - : delightful. Especially ["Traumerei"] prelude etc: weird and not as easily understood. Three Inventions: [nice]. Etude: queer but melodious. Ballade: " and comprehensible. Encores by Chopin, 63 1915 Thursday 4, March Looked up at chapel to-night and saw Dot Perry - such a surprise! Saw her afterwards - she expects to stay until Monday - with Mildred. Seems prettier and wiser than ever. Changed room (Swake) all around with bed in front of window which gives a wonderful view of Moon at night. Also [imported] desk. Grace thereupon copies my idea and plants her furniture in exactly the same way! Oh mores, oh tempora! Penalty of independence, I'm afraid. [map of room]64 March Friday 5, 1915 Walked downtown with Gay and Grace 7th and 8th and shopped and went to Woods for sandwiches and cool drinks and walked by Hooker Ave - and reached College in time for dinner!Good Time! But all very much exhausted - I went to a reading of "Othello" to our Soph. Lit. class by Miss [Seville] in [3oo L. Anne Sevaers] room. "Very rapid play" and very exhausting. Left Perry at 310 where I arrived - also Mildred. Dear girls both and so nice to me. After reading R- went down to Gay's room for hot soup and there distinguished myself by spilling a cup over my left hand and getting horribly scalded - much pain - but Gay, being a doctor's daughter, had everything at hand and bandaged me beautifully - tendency toward faint? 65 1915 Saturday 6, March 10.30 up for breakfast in [Candy] kitchen and met Bob and Peggy on campus and after usual salutations hurried over to gym to get tickets for to-night - not especially good ones. Snow and dismal weather. I did french, english for Tuesday and accomplished altogether quite a bit in the way of studies. Dot Perry and Mildred came for dinner tonight and it [reeurs] very nice to see them. Grace as usual very childish and de trop. I would like to have seem more of Dot but the little was very satisfactory. "Candida" was charming - last was disappointing by the rest lovely. Morell and C- nice but personally didn't rave over Marchbank's [alelio] she was a good feminine personification of his character [ wintime] wept. I confess I didn't take it that way altho I do adore Shaw. 66 March Sunday 7, 1915 got up about 8.30 and went to Two Pine Villa for waffle breakfast - mere 3rd and fourth arrivals! (Grace and I) Waited on corner in wet snow storm for car and Edith - Saw M.P.A go by in car to met Bob and go across River to New Paltz for dinner with Howard and Gert. I read Dostoejevsky's "Crime and Punishment" all day and wrote letters and had miserable time with hand. "C. and P " is a horrible book - Had pineapples and oranges in Dots room this evening and cocoa in Gay's.67 1915 Monday 8, March Went downtown with Teddy and Peggy - 6th and 8th - descended by Gov. Clinton house but found it closed for repairs so we walked the rest of the way into business section and ["rubbered"] at all the shop-windows. Beginning at "Lucky's" shopped all down street - got back in time for dinner. After chapel did french and Peter the Great. Went to Doctor's office for hand and she bandaged it beautifully. Feels considerably better but is very bad still - got an excuse from gym this week. Much satisfaction. 68 March Tuesday 9, 1915 After 6th hour class Gay and I went to the Flag Shop and to see the Wanamaker Collection of gowns etc. at "Two Pine Villa" very poor - Then to the Russian lecture by Prof. Lextor on Moscow very good; and bought materials for cheese dreams - This evening was devoid of work so I read and knitted and later made cheese dreams and gradually a whole mob [footed] in to get some. Helen Shaw, Mary Bacon, [Jeu}, Anne, Dot, Grace and Jean! I left early and got to bed by 10.30 - feeling very cross but the Dreams were good - Went to Doctor's office for hand - better. 69 1915 Wednesday 10, March Lab. very easy this morning - mail - letter from J.S.M (answered at noon) danger of scarlet fever imminent - also a delightful letter from Miss [Tilley] urging our coming West this summer. Quiz fourth hour was a cinch. Then [] Lit. and 7th I read "The Life of Man" by Andreiev - A weird thing and has a harried effect on me the rest of the day. Went to lecture by Madame Rosika Schwimmer of Hungary, 8th hour with Dot Ferris - much dramatic screaming and pathetic minutes and quaint broken english and a few jokes. Rather a feminist speech after all. We young women of America were asked to do all to stop war! Dinner with Lucile Miller very painful - went over to see M.P.A - disappointing visit - Saw Vanity Fair and letters.70 March Thursday 11, 1915 Cut classes this morning - was ill and wickedly and shamelessly spent day in bed and wrote letters and other trivial things - went to doctor's office to-day and she removed bandages entirely - this afternoon spent in reading "Crime etc." and languishing on various couches - went down to dinner and also to chapel for simple reason of not knowing the history assignment for tomorrow. Went over to see M- who with a bunch of others cut chapel - was in Suzanne's room - we laid on the couch, sang favorite hymns and looked at Vogues - returned to R- to go to to bed early - 9.30 such an accourance - went to sleep learning a sonnet of Wm. Shakespeare's!!!!71 1915 Friday 12, March Lab.[blowing] good! Went to vocational conference this afternoon at 4.00 with [Genn]- Lalcott Williams spoke on "Journalism", Arthur Dean on "Education" and J. Franklin Paris on "Interior Decorating" - ! Very good - Dinner a bore - I detest open tables - Anne and I went to song recital by Charles Clark - baritone of world fame. He was a lamb, absolutely - Especially nice were his french song and Homer's "Prospice, How's MY Boy" etc. Returned to Raymond Anne, [Ge] and I went up to D's room and played Victrola - [Geune] left early but after the "Kin" stage, 10.30 or so Anne and I returned to try "Just a Little Love, A little kiss" over again and read Cosmopolitan. At 1.00 A.M. We made a forage for food - got home from Gay's room and felt happy again. 72 March Saturday 13, 1915 Up for breakfast and spent morning in French prose, Main wards for food and money and Vain trip to White's for pictures with M.P.A. Plans for walk to town cut short by same with news of my imperative attendance at tea at S. Moores - about 2.30 M and I started [sleyad] a bit, took So. car and reache Moores soon - delightful hospitable welcome - Mrs. M. so very nice and cordial - delicious "eats", nice people and "Peggy" Simpson, Patti's sister [all to be - 1920] - a dear. An intimate of Putnam Hall said that there are Eight freshman there! Walked to Main St. for Car - just in time for dinner at D- This evening went to lecture to hear home folks on "Dependent Children" and returned to D- to spend night with M- "Lis" arrived as dear and jolly as ever - much re-[]!73 1915 Sunday, 14 March M and G and G. and "sis" got up about 9.30 and went to the waffle shop for breakfast. They "cut" chapel" but but unfortunately we had to go - I staid at D- for dinner (Valerie being under the weather) with M- and afterwards we four read "Snappy Stories" with much expression in M's room - flutter, flutter - "Sis" and I went to Carey's for butter and milk and returning to G's room made fudge and ate many cakes. Left about 5. Supper very prosaic. Played [Din] in D's room about 7.30 and Eleanor has again informed us of the rules! I have suspicions - Grace arrived about 9.30 with hat and tales of N.Y. I read "Loves Labout Lost" amid much conversation and eating of pine apples in Anne's room and finally about 5 min. to 12 was ready for bed-74 March Monday 15, 1915 Woke at 10 minutes to eight! so of course no breakfast and I decided rush for 1st hour class. Very busy outlook from now on to vacation. Will make time go quicker how ever. Helen Arthur and I, deciding to go downtown, left right after lunch - shopped up and down and looked at hats, went to "movies" - one film a trifle risque and another Roselyn started beautifully with a tantalizing view of a satin slipper! ("Naomi Childers"right good)- then hurried back to college - I found that "funk" in on the scene - around at one and M- had brought things over - thrills - G. Lyon and Bessie Callow came to dinner with me and after chapel "Sis" and Gertrude brought the [tur] girls of S.B. over to see me - right attractive75 1915 Tuesday 16, March Have three seats for "Chin chin" Evening of March 26th Will be looking for seats for you both - Best [wish} [C--luck]82 March Tuesday 23, 1915 Ethics elective next year! Phyllis Corbell won Elizabeth E. Dana Reading prize - 191785 1915 Friday 26, March M and I left college after 1st hour and shopped and had lunch at Smith's - wild dash in taxi to train - Teddy, Dot and Ruth Moulter and Gertrude saved seats for us - soon reached N.Y. special train about 200 or 300 girls on it - Carrie met us and we went shopping - got suits at Altmans' after a weary search Everywhere - Had dinner at Martha Washington and left for "Chin Chin"- (G.T. Withers) it was lovely, absolutely original and M and Stone so good. Tool GT. to Pennsylvania Station afterwards and then had some thing to eat in Tea room at hotel - queer, good, place-!86 March Saturday 27, 1915 Breakfast at Martha Washington. Several V.C. girls there. Then shopped! 3 waists at Stewarts - Shoes at [Camigers] - hat at Bonwit and Tellers - dresses at Franklin Simons' s (met cousin Anne) more gowns at Altmans and skirts. Returned to hotel to pack and left in taxi for Belmont where we had luncheon with Aldricks and then went to matinee with Ruth and college friend, "The White Feather"- very clever and amusing. War plot. Then shopped a bit and in stores met Harriet Katz! Many shrieks and embraces. Left Carrie there - she certainly is a dear to chaperone us. "[Telluk] and Noreen Marsh took us out to dinner and dancing at church - bills. We just made the 11.30 train - tired of course but after a wonderful time in N. Y. one always is. 1915 Sunday 28, March Home at 10.55 - Breakfast at Richland - stroll at H2O town [Watertown]. Mrs. Carpenter on train family at station - much embracing - slept all evening - "dead" tired - March Monday 29, 1915 Sewing ... W.L. with Jessie this evening. Packages arrived all day - mere fun opening them.1915 Tuesday 30, March Bessie Callou came this evening - I went to W.L. with Jessie - Visited school with [Jamie] & ... to-day. Went to Chem (poor place) & Miss Bowman's 3rd year English - old memories brought back by that!!!! Then went to Library and ... home to sew. Went to W.L.March Wednesday 31, 1915 Much snow -/ Busy -/ having good time./ Went to Wonderland/ this evening with "Tim" -/ who condescendingly called not very exciting - mostly raved of future life and St. Law. This P.M. Miss Dean took us over to see the new H.S. It's a Beauty - thru & thru. [Finished] much like new art building at College.1915 Thursday 1, April Sewing and much business. This evening "Tim" took [me] and [Louise] C., Bessie & Hugh [Peggy] & Morris - "Lobby" to a ...masquerade in ... More arm fun - "Tim" being around constantly. I wonder if he is getting a case - dances well but not a la mode ... doesn't improve a bit - I tried to hammer a few such ... into his head but failed, I'm afraid - We all went over to Jerry's for lunch after wards - Much soft snow on ground - [Disgusting] weather: absolutely. April Friday 2, 1915 Very busy with superintending of sewing all day. In afternoon tea for Bessie. This evening unexpected phone for [Leo? Lea?] - who later came up also "Tim" - but the latter refused to come in and was alto-gether grumpy - he demanded Sun. night or [none] and I think it only fair to ask for it. Misunderstanding on both parts. [J.L.M] not at all exciting but rather prosaic. I frankly got sleepy. 1915 Saturday 3, April Lea at Bun's this P.M. fortune telling and sewing. Pat came up this evening. ...& Erwin Miller arrived on their motorcycle from Malone, then went with us to the rehearsals of the minstrel show - quite droll in parts - "dragged" in others. Went right home to sit by fire - nothing exciting. Mob arrived and left about 12 after enforced singing of "Perfect Day."April Sunday 4, 1915 Went to Episcopal Church. All of us singing very good. Sermon not as good. Went for a walk after dinner and then donned old clothes and went for a ride on the back of "Bunny's" motorcycle. More [darn] fun! Way to ... - M.P.H. on [Erwin's] - very dusty - met all of our friends, I guess! Pat came up this evening & Pete and the boys (Malone) & the other girls had a rabbit ... Pat & I called on Helena - lovely night. After we got back they all tried "parlor stunts" - "crossing scissors" spoon photographs etc. Much consternation. "Tim" phoned this noon - expected to be refused and didn't care about another date. 1915 Monday 5, April Tea at our house for Nina Starbuck. Easter Ball this evening with Pat. Rather a good time. Gunnison a dear - and a cute dancer - ... man also attractive - [Hall cock] - '18 Syracuse. Staid over at our house during interval after supper - back at 3.00. Pete had a beautiful grouch! [Program folded in between pages: VIOLA, THE BEAUTIFUL]April Tuesday 6, 1915 Up about 10 - terribly sleepy and packed and went down town for necessities. All P.M. packed and then M, Bessie, & I went to tea at McAllister's - much discussion of the dance and show to-night - after dinner picked up odds & ends and left for train 7.48. Kids dressed up for show - Leo and Pete came up to see us off - (...also). Leo offered a fat train letter & a box of Liggetts. Very touching. We had a stateroom on sleeper and felt very luxurious indeed. Had more darn fun (queer letter - very readable). I couldn't sleep as usual on a sleeper and never spent such a long night. 1915 Wednesday 7, April Arrived in Poughkeepsie 4.47. Dark, misty. Cab men following. Another V.C. '18 on train and we all had breakfast and then took taxi to College. 5.30 Day Light - rang till Mrs. Creery came to door - ... - ... slept (in her room) till 7.30 when Bessie came over for breakfast. All were dead tired. No classes till 4th. Went to "..." - Also Estelles in P. We unpacked & sewed; at 5 went over to [M's] room and we slept thru dinner till chapel. [Rumor] of 10 cuts???? Beautiful evening - quite warm. I unpacked and read french. Bed at 10.30 after pasting in photos in book.April Thursday 8, 1915 Miss Whitney lectured to us in "Russian History" on the Drama. Very interesting. She knows a lot about it for one whose specialty in something else. I wrote letters and studied this afternoon. Prosaic life - but beautifully busy. Went to the Glynn's this evening. Afterwards read "Smart Set"* till 2.30 and then tried to study but couldn't do much of course. *The Smart Set was a literary magazine founded in America in March 1900 by Colonel William d'Alton Mann. Under the editorship of H.L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan, The Smart Set offered many up-and-coming authors their start and gave them access to a relatively large audience.1915 Friday 9, April Letter from [J.L.M or T.L.M.] this A.M. - very sweet. (... [pin]?) After Lab & 6th [hr] - class - had to go to the Glynn's and staid with M. for dinner. Very uneventful day, altogether. We read Snappy Stories* and Suzanne captured a cat and brought it into Dot's room where we were. Squeaky fellow, quite a farce. Then returned to ... to read and write letters - principally to [J.L.M. or T.L.M.] till 1.30 o'clock. Package came from mother and another from Wanamaker's**. *The first issue of Snappy Stories was published in August 1912 under the direction of William C. Clayton. The magazine ran for a total of 321 issues, featuring roughly 128 pages of mildly provocative stories, serialized novels, bawdy jokes, racy pen and ink drawings, and letters from readers. **Wanamaker's was the first department store in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and one of the first department stores in the United States.April Saturday 10, 1915 Absolutely the warmest Spring day we ... had. After breakfast Grace and I went downtown to shop - which we did steadily till 11.30. Then went to the train to meet Ruth Wood who is coming back to take her re-exam in English I. Ruth is at Delphi now. Jessie [Niles] & Merle Moore were down to meet her also. After lunch I went over ... M. and we went down a ... to meet Tom Rankins who is here to see Ted. He is not as handsome as his pictures but very nice. M. & I then [met] Lil at the theatre and rushed ... in dark to our seats. Orchestra!! "7 Keys to Baldpate" was very clever, especially "[Hermie]" - whole cast was original except Hero and girl. Then we went ... for sundaes - shopped a bit. We went back to college and Lil and I went to Mary Elizabeth's for tea and then "...". Rode back to college on front seat of an open car - we both like lots of things in common. She ... [italian or latvian] & A.T.O.s very well. It started to rain after chapel so I didn't go to "All-of-a-Sudden Peggy" but read Snappy Stories.* Went to spread in Anne's room and knitted. Thunder & lightning later on. *The first issue of Snappy Stories was published in August 1912 under the direction of William C. Clayton. The magazine ran for a total of 321 issues, featuring roughly 128 pages of mildly provocative stories, serialized novels, bawdy jokes, racy pen and ink drawings, and letters from readers.1915 Saturday 17, April Lil Suzanne and Teddy came in and woke me up at 8.05 to go down town to Breakfast at the Morgan House with Mr. [Murdoch]! So they went on and dressed in a rush and went down on the next car. We had a nice breakfast and then came up to college. Teddy, Lil & Mr. M. & I went over to Senior Parlor and saw students. At 11.30 Ted & I went over to senior picture sale where I managed to [break] myself beautifully!! After lunch I brought some order into the chaos of my room & talked with Helen Arthur until 2.30 when I went to Slosh's* & McGlynn's for an hour. Oh, such a beautiful day! H.A.D. and I went up on top of library tower and read. ("Me" in [century].) No mail at Main - altho this A.M. and noon letters from J.L.M. and mother. Dinner in 310. H.A.D. and I had trays sent up and cut chapel. Played Victrola till 8.45. Mostly [dreamy] pieces. I read the "7 who were hanged["]** till almost fell asleep. Then *Cleaner and dressmaker **Published in 1909, The Seven Who Were Hanged by Leonid Nikolasvich Andreyev is the story of the last few days of seven condemned prisoners.1915 Sunday 25, April Peggy and I pick Violets near chapel - then go to Library and look at Theater Magazine. 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Creator: Babbott, Elizabeth (French)
Descriptor(s): Ditkoff, Andrea
Date: August 12, 1910 - June 22, 1912

Creator: Babbott, Elizabeth (French)
Descriptor(s): Ditkoff, Andrea
Date: c. September 1911 - August 12, 1912

Creator: Babbott, Elizabeth (French)
Descriptor(s): Ditkoff, Andrea
Date: February 5, 1913 - March 12, 1915

Creator: Bagg, Sophia D., Burnham, Sophia R.
Descriptor(s): Ditkoff, Andrea
Date: n.d.

Creator: Banfield, Edith C.
Descriptor(s): Ditkoff, Andrea

Creator: Barus, Annie Howes
Descriptor(s): Ditkoff, Andrea
Date: 1869

Creator: Bromley, Frances M.
Transcriber(s): Hausam, Josephine
Descriptor(s): Ditkoff, Andrea
Date: 1870-1877
Text: PLEASE NOTE: Blank pages are omitted, and pages with text are presented in the order in which they were Written (in the original, the diarist left every other page blank from the beginning, and upon reaching the end of the book, began working her way back, Writing upside down on pages that had been left blank). From "The Checkered Scene"-- Dansville, N.Y. 1878 "Mr. Little has been telling me how he went home last night, after our little talk up in Paradise Gate, and had a dream...
Show morePLEASE NOTE: Blank pages are omitted, and pages with text are presented in the order in which they were Written (in the original, the diarist left every other page blank from the beginning, and upon reaching the end of the book, began working her way back, Writing upside down on pages that had been left blank). From "The Checkered Scene"-- Dansville, N.Y. 1878 "Mr. Little has been telling me how he went home last night, after our little talk up in Paradise Gate, and had a dream about me. He did not dream that I got well, he said, but that I became helpless. That I was placed where scarcely anything about me was as I would like it to be - in a hard place - where nothing fitted - and the people about me were uncomfortable people - and little to my taste - but that amidst it all I was sucha happiness to others; which was so much better than getting well." "A little talk with Mrs. Evans tonight. I leave her feeling that there is a blessedness greater than any sadness in knowing that the Master is even now at the gate." "Dr. McLean said to me: 'My wife and I have remarked ever so many times that we would give anything if we could always look as bright as you do.' Blessed be the help that comes to do it! The Master remembers.""Pet's letter came today; and her "why nots" are so full of the unselfishness and heroism that I love so in her that I feel an uplifting. But, O, how it makes my heart ache!" "In due order breakfast. We might pass this over were it not that it gains in importance unspeakably the nearer one comes to not having any!"Sabbath evening- Oct. 9" 1870- A log-book! and mine! I said I'd have a log-book - said it long ago - said it every time I had a peep into Sue's upper, unstratified, bureau drawer, where hers lay nestled - comfortable and un-searchable. I'd like to be born such a night as this if I could be born to live and not grope. day times these mountains make us toil - climb - drag on! "To the heights" is what they say. Tonight they let us look at them and rest. "As the mountains are round about Jerusalem so the Lord is round about his people." Does that mean Hewouldn't miss us if we died? Not even a sparrow falleth to the ground without your Father__Christ said that. He came down from the singing and the glory to tell us that. He cried for us, too. Oct. 16"- Blue and black_all wool! Pretty thing to run in one's head when the minister's text is "consider the lilies". I know the prayers and the metre_Long and common! Doctor told the Lord that "yesterday the icy streams dissolved." I did not know it. Then came the intense heat of summer, and the growing crops, and now the fading leaf reminds us of ourfrailty. It doesn't me! When I see the royalty of everything I remember that I'm born a queen, and longing for my kingdom possesses me, and never a thought that 'tis frail to be royal, or sorrowful for " the king to come to his own." Oct. 23" 1870 "And while he was yet a great way off the Father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck and kissed him." As long as those words read just so i shall never be afraid to die. i shall dream of the Father's house, .. as I dare dream of nothing else. I get so tired of myself. I want to run away from myself and be pleased andhappy just a little while. Nov. 4" 1870 - God can make a beautiful life even out of mine. I pray for it as I pray for nothing else. Twenty two years blossoming in frost flowers - only frost flowers - no pansies, no myrtle, no goldenrod. Nov.13" -- I want to see Paul - I want to know him. It is one of the dear dreams that are to be worked out in Heaven-and Heaven is a great many years long. I could sing tonight. I could talk to Christ. I can't always. Will there be any great blanks up there-can there be? Will I ever say when I have gone to Him and seen Him, "My vacant days go on-go on"?Dec.11"_ My thoughts tonight are organic & inorganic! The way of life is plain.._but tell me-Is there anything else that is plain? When do I pray & not feel the first heart throb those old words-"Friend of sinners! we are in the dark, and bewildered and sick at heart"? I've done a heap of thinking since Wednesday, or dreaming which is only prismatic thinking... A great deal of it is Castleton, but the space between and the way thither is full of shrinking and dread. It seems so hard to stop here - break off the little plans and comforts, and live through shrinking and desolation again! How I amlearning to love "being led" thoughts. Rain day-Jan. 15"_ Doleful! I kept away from myself all day. Blank verse - blank verse - will it ever be anything but blank verse? Aug 8- There's good natured little breeze frisking around here like curly-headed children in a hay mow._________ We touch lives at all angles that seem so satisfied, and I renounce such as I do the world, the flesh, and the devil. I grasp eagerly at any thought that makes the infinite distance between my life here and my life after some great change, called death, grow less and not so terrible. My child! my chicken! More help! more love! more light! .... Senior Editor has fled. The editorials, compositions, printing presses, type, ink, proof sheets, galvanic batteries, reviews, exchances, masculine tone, spurts, printing office, Willow St. & all the chicanery is left on my hands - two poor, bony hands! Life is span- I'm in a stew- Now will you help? Write an editorial-..I'll thank you someday. Prayer meetings may make some people think of tabernacles & Mt. Tabors and whatever's the pural of "good to be here" - but from some of them I couldrun and not be weary. That's the most orthodox way I can find to tell it. Blessed are they that ask for bread and do not receive a stone. The feeling of a great need is grateful to me for it is the precursor of a great pity and great fullness not far away. Castleton -- I feel to strange and lost for anything - I'm afraid to look in the glass for fear it isn't me.... I'm pretty well but tired. It doesn't pay to be tired but what's a man to do? Normal School - Mar-ch-ch-ch-sh-sh! +++ We have more prayers than provender. We have solemn roasts, solemn potatoes, serious pie, & a realizing sense of concocted rice. What will becomeof me in such a frame as this? Laughs are my vital breath.... Soon the bell will ring for supper - not to be eaten but served. Our conversatoin will be heaven, our bread emblematical, our digestion ritualistic. .... My doctor tell me..I must rest or die. Which is the biggest? I don't know which to take. .... These are days of heaven upon Earth, and I rejoice through & through. I'd blossom in purple & red if I knew how. Do you? - Mar. 14" 1871 - Patmos without the vision! Sunday, Mar. 19" 1871 - Mr. ___ is an exminister. I'vespanned him with Montgomery's measuring line wherewith he sounded the ocean's depths and pierced to either pole & his height is seventy six inches. His brain is the seat of sensation. ++++ He prays in minor scale-very minor-and is a very Jeremiah.++++ Mrs.___ you've read about. don't say you haven't for I know better. She abounds in S.S. books and religious memoirs. I never saw a live one before. ++++ I haven't made up my mind whether to be very much afraid of her or make a gasp or two toward "appreciating her worth"! The "Normals" here are awfully old. One of them has taught 37terms! but I find her docile+++ Imagine me before the old, the married, the big - to teach without a book! To be infallible, judicial, celestial, didactic four times a day! Sunday, April 16, 1871 -- I've written the date - anybody could do that. I wonder why we have to live such days. There is discipline in "so as by fire"- discipline even in vacancy - but to have no heart in anything and be simply stupid - where is the help in this? I don't believe I ever felt so utterly cut off from human help beforeAnything that makes me talk to Mr.___ is a terror to me - all his way are. But I believe God is going to help me through. +++ If I never why I was sent to Castleton God has known it all the time. If I could be necessary! - to you - to just a few as i would love to be - as I long to be just once and for always - it would not seem so often, "My vacant days go on - go on". +++I cannot be just a little to any one. I must be a great deal or nothing. "The heart to be all to" will not come to my life. It is one of thebeautiful things that is left out. Love calls to most. It called to me years ago and I Passed it by. It will not call again. ++++ Goodbye. I am very, very tired and only Fanny at that. "half of heaven is the not parting". Why the thought is half heaven! What won't it be to be there and say to each other "Always-always!" And Susie will let you come into her garden and mine where the glorified sumachs [sumacs] and firs are to be. There have been reasons for things, hours for things, andthings and things without hours for them. I used to wonder nights when I went for the milk, and used to [do] up much of my thinking, how it would seem to be twenty three. Now I wonder how it would seems to be a little girl and go for the milk. +++++++++ More than anything I am longing for the woods and hills. Does anyone love a wide stretch of sky and meadow more than I? +++ I thank God for anything that roots and grounds my faith in others. Living & working in thisworld is such a tearing down, pulling away process. My window opens on the grass-plot, which to be truthful must be further limited by the statement that some of it is brick plot! I am thankful for the little bit of green & the little bit of sky bending over it. All around is a high board fence +++ how much of my life lies before me in the pent up struggling grass. How it does fight! "Walled in", I say to myself, remembering how much of me is walled in. "All about ++ everything"! How very modest! Where shall Ibegin? When shall I stop? Would you have any objection to my taking a little bit of the time up in Heaven to finish? I'm afraid I shall hardly be able to get it all in this side. My experience has been that I never seem to get any father than Mr. W. in this world. Castleton--Jan. 18-1872. Something sent Miss H.__ up after school to kiss me & say somehow they all liked me very much. After she had gone one tho't was in my heart. It came rolling up from where the tears are, & the springs of life: "I don't believe I shall every be cross to my girls again."Sunday-Jan. 21--- Something must be done. I am all adrift. For days & days & days I have just gone on; and I must stop a little while & rest & think Tues. 23"- Spoiled another day for my girls, & wish-O yes-yes-yes- that there was help for it! Monday-29".--One thing I lay down for Frances-she must listen to me. "Don't let me hear one cross word this week! Love your girls too well-please do! My life opens into such large wide ways-&&the work makes me so happy && it is like giving the little ones the kingdom. Feb. 24"-- Our friend, philosopher & guide R.G.W. surprised everybody by rising to remark that he had nothing to say on the subject of grammar, butwould introduce to the association Miss Bromley. Nothing less than me - I might say "me less than nothing"! I remember one distinct thrill - from the rest I shall never rally. Monday, Feb. 26"-- What is macaroni? Who first harrowed mankind with it? Why must it be set before me & not desert [dessert] but gingersnaps? A gingersnap is a desert [dessert] but macaroni is dead men's bones. Tues. 27"-- The best thing we have set before our hungriness is rice pudding. How it came to be so good doth not appear but it possesses many saintly qualities. We always have it with beefsteak. Those days do not smile on butter. Thurs. 29-- Again the big noise in our house was me. 'Twasn't bringinga trunk down nor taking a trunk up, but talking Mr. Williams down & bringing life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness up. ++ You mustn't scold a man unless you want to ease your mind, or see what you can do, or show him you are not afraid, or give him an idea of his meanness - but to carry a point-never! Take a silken shuttle & silken thread & spin a man into anything you want - but don't scold him. Tues. March 5"-- Mr. Williams is on a perfect rampage. Stands primed & ready to go off any minute, usually: lately, he runs round to find things to go off about. hawk-like in his nature he looks for achicken & finds one. ++ I've heard of four-footed beasts, & creeping things, & fowls of the air: don't remember to have seen them combined before. +++ Do I get cross any? Not much. There is untold sunshine at the heart of things & it touches me. Thurs. 7"-- Annie A. looks like an untimely frost--bluely dreadful! Sat.9"-- The right proportion, said Miss G., is an ounce of serpent to a pound of love. She was in my room writing a cross letter - both of us cross everywhere but inside. Miss ___ wants to know. Do I tabulate food & clothing? Do I diagram what I don't tabulate? ++++ Mr. Williams prays with his eyes open & [L.] wonders if it isn'ttime his ... was multiplied! March 12"-- Another something that stopped: & I only stop once in a long times to think about it. "Time driveth onward fast, & in a little while our lips are dumb". +++ O for the quiet-calmed-down-toned-down, if need be! only let it reach me. "Friend of sinners! I am in the dark & bewildered & sick at heart!" March 15". O, if the breaths of spring would come faster, would do anything to make the leaves come out. We are cheered by prospects of snow! +++ All the poly things possible to e condensed within four walls take this howling wilderness as their business center. Sat. Mar.15"-- I have learned to fill my soul with a horror of Saturdays. I am in terror over the long dark hall, the sweeping around, above, below me, the orders from below, the inspection of drawers, the bells, the dinners, the harryings by R.G.W. But then I am not a ghoul. If I only had a nice sense of propriety all this would be vital breath - native air. March 27"-- In which I find time to pity myself.== The pivot on which the state turns appeared to us at the first class. We all came in in the afternoon without feathers - we had been picked clean!== The rest of it ishard++but I can bear it. "To distil the one elixir patience" - Must there be another crucible- & another- & another? Will I learn? March 30"-- spring is waiting be wooed-& so is somebody else. Well! March. 31"-- March dies in just such a storm as father died in. Such storms bring it back even over ten years. April 8"-- I am going to adopt Milton's style of address next time I talk to Mr. Williams, Like this: "Sole partner & sole part of all these joys, Earth's hallowed mould, O prince of men, off-spring of Heaven & Earth & all Earth's Lord, O sacred, wise & wisdom-giving Plant, my author & Disposer, what thou bidst unargued I obey"-- And he will answer (probably) "Fair Consort, my latest friend, associate sole"! April 13--Memorable for the contemplated talk with Mr. Williams. Are you sorry to hear that Milton's style was not ours? I know now - how things look different to us as we learn - I can that it is better for me to keep the assistant's place; even tho' conscious that upon me falls the principal's work & more than the principal's care. April 16"-- Winter has very fairly set in! "Come gentle spring! Etherial [Ethereal] mildness come." April 18-- I wish etherial [ethereal] mildness would come to me! I don't possess much. +++ Tt is such a relief to me to be busy setting myself right instead of other people. I know better where to begin! April 27"-- Mr. Williams asks t dinner would we have hot scotch or solid meat? We live to regret the hot scotch & long for solid meat. May2-- It is a sad & sorry thing when one is made to stand before one's self as I have today. +++ I have seen the good, the glory of living, & have fallen in the very presence of it. ++ I stand such a sorry wreck before myself. I have made shipwreck of a whole year. O how the words hurt! May 6"-- We ride down to see them go, & come back to put something in the vacant places so they won't look at us so. We can't see "flame & azure [b]indingeach other - we only see the moving & the places left. May 26" One of the kind of Sundays that I dread when I lie still all day. Thinking is so close to doing that it is hard to have to think when one cannot do. May 29"-- Annie is all in a maelstrom. She makes it a duty to be happy as little as possible, & stay so short a time as possible. +++++++ I will not worry. A pain to bear now that came near enough to be a pain would make me so miserable. I can lay "no plan for next year - not one. I can't see the way. May 30 Would I decorate? I saidnot. She was mistaken. Miss G. & I went ahead with a flag & an umbrella & a flower or two. +++ We came home for the loaves & fishes & found loaves but no fishes. may 31-- A. comes up & I do not spit out much of the hardness that is in my heart lately - the bitterness that comes over one when they have wrought much, loved much, & lost much. June 3-- And the mill goes round & round - & I - if not a hopper what am I? On to the day - the good time out doors - the gala time up in the trees - the rest up in the blue - the whirl in the mill - & the heartsick of it! And what did I do to drive awaythe heartsick for somebody else? Anything? How can I tell? ++ I come up stairs so whizzy & perplexed! June 4--Miss G. asks for tea at dinner. Mrs. Williams arises in presence of us all, unlocks emerald treasuries, wafting odors of Yaddo & Changcha fu chun passes to mysterious precincts eastward. Is gone a long time. We eat on. Reappears - gets a cup. Disappears. Is gone a long time. The door opens. Mrs. W. & the Tea! Someway I'll not ask for tea at dinner. June 6-- "the Lord knoweth them that are his"-- I'm glad for we have a hard time finding it out! The butter is abominable. Never mind - its intentions are all right -it meantto be good. June 7"-- I wish we could browse indiscriminately. We don't. We take "meals regularly". June 22-- My trials consist in getting hammer & nails. Mr. Williams deals out nails as he deals our matches - companionless. +++ We behold with our own eyes a bouncing shortcake in the kitchen window, but not for us. We go down to bread & butter & platitudes.. June 25-- I have had my talk with Dr. F. He made me see things & feel good & now I am coming back next year. June 26-- Pretty hard day, Frances - pretty hard day! June 29-- I do love a wide stretch of sky & meadow: it gives me sucha feeling of perfect freedom - especially when days stretch before me as wide & free as sky & meadow, as full of places for the sunshine to fall & soil for daisies to blossom. +++ How jolly it seems to be company-warranted to rest. July 19" Albany. Today has touched me where I ache & long-on my book side. It was gala-time to me up there in the State Library. I come back elevated seven pegs & a pole! Aug. 10"-- ++ O how glad I am that no one but me knows how I am longing for Broadfields! If only a little piece of it could come into this vacation! At home things are real & hard. We know not anything save "getting a school" & "earning money" & "paying it back".Aug. 17"-- The nicest thing in all day was sitting down by the window with Grandma to knit after the tea-dishes were washed & put away. i wish my life - the whole of it - could be washed & put away for a long time. Aug. 20"-- I cook a great while but not much! Aug. 22"-- It's "no not yet" day! Sept. 5--Castleton-- Things look better. Mother brings deliverance in her very eyes & we set to work cheerily. I never went to my first day with such a heartache & with so little to expect. ++ But I can challenge the promise of this word. I met Miss Bissell first & she throws her arms around my neck & bursts out crying.Sept. 15"-- The silent side - mine - is growing more & more silent as there is daily less to tell & more to bear. Sept. 21-- I wish these days would stay. Why need I when it isn't weather that keeps me fit to live but grace? Sometimes grace takes the form of weather! +++ Folks come & I see them: & they go & I'm properly thankful.... Sept. 29 - Sunday - ++ If religion consists in being pleasant to have about I might as well ask the dear Lord please can't I begin again! Oct. 7"-- When the base & rate are given how do find the percentage? that's what we talk about up at school. Can we afford a new oil-cloth for the dining-room? that's what we talk about at home. How can I come close 7 know - that's what I talk about all to myself. Oct. 18"-- Folks can live & still not have things as they want them. They can still live & not do as they have a mind to. These significant facts are chapter from my personal experience! Oct. 19-- The weather is like last hours with friends before they go. Oct. 28"--What makes me get so tired - so right down tired? I almost wish what I never wished before - that there not five days in a week - that there not forty weeks in a school year.Oct. 29"-- ++ I get up cross - so cross - so cross as never was. Nov. 1"-- ++ I go to school. Sometimes I teach school - other times I only go! Nov. 21"-- ++ I go upstairs to the hall to be alone. Things go so wretchedly I cannot teach. ++ A. comes up softly & puts her arms around me & says, "What do you want me to do about that?" I look about about as pleasant as the piano box & don't want anything. Poor A. goes down. I call myself a narrow neck of land, chiefly stone! Jan. 1" 1873-- Into Isaiah! What does that make you think of Fannie? Play that I asked the question a good ways from todaywhen I have grown up & out of & beyond! Today I only remember the words that have comforted me so & given me out of my storm a great calm - "For the mountains shall depart & the hills be removed, but my kindness shall not depart from there, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed." O years! still let the promise hold me. Jan.6"/73 - Into a prayer meeting. +++I never did want God so much before. ++ The coming home part of the meeting was nice to me: it was like coming up thro' the pines into the world again.Jan 8"/73 - Into red bows & vanities. Did I wear a red bow? When my existence for a long time has been a protest against them. ++ Yes. I deliberately marched to the store, picked out a red bow, came home & tied it & donned the same. If I were the only one who advances on the lifeless bodies of her convictions! By & by I'll begin to resurrect! Jan. 11" - Into grinding processes. Jan. 13" - Into a Cumulo-stratus. I don't seek such places: but sometimes I wake & find myself there; sometimes I'm pushed thro' like a pneumatic railway! sometimes Mr. Williams holds one up for me to jump thro'.Jan. 29"/73 - Into the Promised Land. For what is it but a land of promise to me? ++ I've held it to my soul thro' thankless tasks and heavy happenings++ in days when he was more than usual Williams & I less than ever Frances. That she was there was all & everything to me. In that real land of promise when I glide thro' the open door into the first glow of the warmth & light will my first feeling be one of pain as I feel. My whole life for this? Feb. 3" - Into her eyes - & down deep. " 15" - Into the Spanish Inquisition. ++ One chairman to face & four gold-headed canes - I had never sighed for such bliss! Mr. Williams lookedlike the strongest fortress the Moors ever held in Spain. I only it is ended & Mother's room is the refuge whereunto I flee. Feb. 21"/73-- Into seas of it! Floods of it! ++++ But oh, how cosy [cozy] it looked at home when I came into a nice tea, & a big fire, & a Friday night spasm of content! Feb. 24"-- Into bliss for which I did not sigh. Mother say, "Never mind, it's your last term." The bliss is object lessons & Mr. Williams' face as he looks on "to see if I have the idea"! Feb. 26"-- Into a blue that is the most blue! and I got into it. No alternative is left me, not even that of the man who found hiseyes were out. +++ Poor Mother! how pale & sick she has looked all day. Mar. 2",/73 - Into losing the name of disciple. +++ Could I not have borne for Jesus' sake? I must impose on me sterner discipline, & heart pleadings for strength. Mar. 19" - Into a little more powder now, my boys! Mar. 28" - Into a long pull & a pull a good while. A day of gaspings in Arithmetic, of giant strides in grammar, of much ado about nothing in Eng. Lit., of clutching at & panting in Botany, of crawling Orthography, of leaping for joy in Natural history, of feeling along in other history& going at Algebra in gunboats! What does anything mean for me but school? Mar. 29"-'73-- Into Terra catena - in libera poena-desidero te - English cannot express it. I go reverently to Latin! How much drudgery can be squeezed into one day, & that a leaky, Scrooge-like A.M. - M. P.M. in March I shall know hereafter more definitely than hitherto. April 25"-- Into bein' & doin' & sufferin'. " 17"-- Into matronly perplexities. I do not entertain guests after the primitive style! To turn a cake or bake a kid is very different from nineteenth century breakfast getting. I am sadly inexpert in slicingham, or cutting cold pudding, or finding where Mother keeps things, & I forget to salt! But I do at last muddle a breakfast together. ++++ April 28"/73-- Into knowing how sublime it is to suffer 7 be snapped! I do not bear snaps with dignity. Gentleness & forbearance seems to have been left out of Mr. W.'s religion this morning. My religion was not expecting to be snapped-And so-! April 29"-- ++++ Then I went over to help Ella with her Latin saying sadly to myself, "O Fanny, you have a queer way of laying your life down". April 30"-- Into being a benefactor to Miss Bissell by giving advice which she does not follow!May 1"/73-- Into a night more dreaded than the day. There's no telling what a Board will do. I've always said that. So I was not surprised today when lofty honors were confered [conferred] upon me in the form of a call from Dr. Webber & Gen. G. to learn that it was the wish of everybody & everybody's friend that I should remain here another year & teach with Mr. Williams. I've just sat & held the dreaded thing in my heart until it seems too hard for me - & then the night came for me to toss in & wake every few minutes to think how near heaven was - & now how far. May 2"-- +++ I've worked two ways today. Outwardly - mechanically atthis & that: inwardly at the question "Shall I lay down myself next year that mother & Danny may still enjoy our home here, & the girls come back? or shall I go away?" There is no answer & the rain falls heavily - drearily. May 4"-'73-- Into holding out. ++++ I finish "Middlemarch" & lay it down saying over & over to myself its closing words: "That things are not so ill with you & me is half owing to those who lived faithfully a hidden life & sleep in unvisited graves".keep on asking in my blind discontented way, "What shall be done with me next year? Where can I go?" There's not an answer anywhere. May 9"/73 - Into a next- ++++++ "The one elixir, patience!" How often do I think of that when it seems as if all of me was being thus distilled. There will come a day when there will be a next - so I work hard & find a "forgetting" even in the life of a first assistant. +++ And grandma knits & knits-- May 11"-- Into wishing to be less miserable! May 13"-- Into the more I think I will the more I won't. +++ I know all the words in the Englishlanguage but rest. I rejoice to see the last skeleton of an examination paper dissected, compiled, & filed away. No wonder I never see sunsets any more! May 16"-73-- Into finding people to please & nothing to please them with - such experiences fall abundantly to my lot - they prove disciplinary. May 19"+++ I fish away with imaginary lines in imaginary water & fish up what might have been. ++++ May 22"-- Into feeling heart-bare, heart-hungry, very poor. I am glad to come & find rest in Jesus. Glad of anything that takes me near to Him. May 28"-- +++ Today in my half-decided, sadly tortured state comes a letter from Edward Conant. "Will I go to Randolph next year? "O, yest," I say in my gladness at the thought that anybody want me - that's there's any place for me but this. "O no," I say by & by as I think of Mother & the pretty new house. +++++ June 4"/73.-- Into the new home. We enter it joyfully. Who can know how very good it seems to us? not in ++ its comforts alone but in the happier thought that, if God will, it shall be ours some day. We want mother to have a home all her own again; & we have brave hearts to work for it for her. ++++++++++O Father, reveal to me my duty! direct my feet for I do acknowledge thee! +++ June 5"/73-- Into a deep hard question that I cannot answer. And it grows deeper & harder & makes a burden of my thought to weary me. I am helpless before my life-problem. An answer now & here - its result for all time. I can't stay here next year - how can I! It seems almost wicked when I feel as I do. I can't go away next year - it seems too selfish in me to think of it. O is the right choice always the one that involves the greater self-denial? ++++++ June 7"-- Into taking comfort in the new house with Mother. ++++++++June 9"/73. +++ A new plan possesses me, thought up in a twinkle, but taking may twinkles to work it out. That's one reason why I don't like this world! ++++ June 24"-- +++ All feeling has left me but passivity to accept the best that comes - to let Dr. F. decide. He say stay. +++ July 6 - Albany... There is an ache - a dread in my heart - I have no strength to face next year with Mr. Williams. July 10"-- That Mr. & Mrs. W. will not go to Troy is evident. Won't I live to see the earth open somewhere & gulp him down? Why doesn't somebody want him?July 23/73-- My Latin moves slowly. It is hard for me but I creep on. My hopes rise & fall as a distant college looms before me-- And what will Mother do? is the only pause. Aug. 12"-- ++ I have not knowingly touched terra firma today. I have moved in one most joyous dream of Michigan University, until the year I have so much dreaded seems only as door. Aug. 30"-- I feel restless & stirred up. Nothing rests me or brings free visions of that all enfolding peace; & so I chafe on. +++ It seems so easy to let the Normal School & its troubles swallow me up body & soul: & I lend myself so ready to be swallowed.Castleton Aug. 31"/73-- Into standing before myself. +++ I need greatly these days the strength that comes from the Cross - the look from the Master that humbles. ++ Night comes - & I walk the streets & toss & toss! O Jesus! other refuge have I none! sept. 8"-- Into finding the stuff that R.G.W. is made of! Sept 10"-- A man has been raised up to teach me Greek! Like everyone else raised up for me he wasn't made to order - but I'll make him do. Oct. 12"-- Into the return of blessing. The day had so many things that were restful Oct. 19"-- Into beds of dying leaves.How lovely the trees begin to look. ++ And I, in among the rustling leaves & the lovely places can only think how near I am to being 25. The desolate places would not look to bare to me if Mother, too, was not growing old. Oct. 20"/73-- A letter- +for me. It treats of a fall of 45 ft & no bones broken; of a boy who will study good next term; of money to pay for a slate; of a lamp chimney & four window-lights broken! Oct. 21"-- What I feel like tonight is better conceived by the members of my profession than developed & recorded. Oct 23"-- Dreams of Michiganare like cold water to parched lips, like rest to heavy lids. Oct. 24"-- Into "This is the way the mill goes round"! Oct. 30"--Into patching up today to make it do! Oct. 31"-- Into the Greek Testament. Nov. 1"-- At home this evening is long & cheery: but I want Mother. That isn't all i want. i chafe so under this year's cross - it grows hard to carry & spring looks like a far-off speck. Nov. 4"-- It is what goes out from us from a gathered richness within, more than what comes to us from without that makes us know we live. A bright day - Nov. 5"/73-- Into a little more Greek, at once, my boys! That's all there seems to be of anything except school. A little Greek to read - a little Greek to study - a little rule or two - jump up in my faced every tired minute. But I don't die. I am quite alive. I shall sit up there & feel my way thro' 150 more days, just as tired as this, & then come home to 150 more Greek lessons increasingly hard. Where shall I find something good? In my new garters? Possibly! In Mr. ___? Who can tell? In the original Greek of St John? Always! Nov. 15"-- I've set everythingto rights but me, & I'm all to wrongs! Nov. 20"/73-- Our boy at home. We think he has improved. If God would only give some of us wisdom, strength, influence to hold him back from the pit that is digged - from the snares that lie in wait! Nov. 23"-- Into feeling unfeignedly comfortable.! Nov. 27"-- Home is so full of cheer today - there is so much in it that I want to keep. Nov. 28"-- A boy set down in our family seems to have been an unprepared for event. It is almost sufficient to furnish matter for the Tragic Muse. My hopes lookforward - But, oh "Thou Friend of Sinners! I am bewildered, & in the dark, & sick at heart." Nov. 29"-- Into a cheery Saturday night. I revel in the cosy [cozy] evenings by the fire with Mother. Nov. 30"-- I felt so good this morning so well, so strong. +++ Mother & I walk & talk, & plan for our boy - & next year looks at us wistfully. Dec. 3"-- Mother sat up till three o'clock sewing for Dan. That worried me wide awake: & i thought, & thought & thought if I could give up Michigan next year & let Danny stay in school. Dec. 6"-- Into "[Bils] of Work" by F. B.! Don't look at me, or talk to me. I don't dare look at myself.Dec. 7"-73-- Into a rest spot. Days at home, lately, are so nice all of them! Dec. 11"-- Into whatever is the opposite of "outing": I suppose Patience Strong would call it inting! +++ I go into winter quarters in Greek! Sunday, Dec. 14"-- A day that came like a hope of heaven in a field of graves. Dec. 20"-- Into little done or thought, or dreamed. That last is much missed out of a day of mine. +++ I keep thinking of that pitiful little note from my boy - the sick. Dec. 22"-- I was mercifully spared from a dragging-on existence.Dec. 17"-- Mother has been gone three days. The fires have gone out only three times around. We have eaten starch for soda in our cakes only twice! Dec. 29"-- Into finding things to be glad about. Jan. 10 1874-- I live too fast - so much is certain. +++ i write Greek exercises, & get girls ready for examination & answer the door bell - & after my hands at last drop, & the light is out I want to think of our absent boy & pray & pray & pray for him - but I am too tired to lift my heart. This not the way I was made to live, & my release seems far-off.Jan. 11"-"74-- ++ I am glad of the Sunday - glad to be more & more ashamed "to speak of burdens to a Man on a Cross". O god! give me the life Thou didst give Thy Son! And home - all of it -makes me sorry. Jan. 15-- ++ A vacant day: not music, no dreams - no incense - only vague reality - a living on. +++ Jan. 19". +++ Dr French appears, armed & invincible. he says, "Don't stay here." My heart say "No - I won't." But I must wait. He only, of all others, says "Go to college." Every one else says no. Feb. 3"-- We have ups & downs since Dan's letter came. What he means isincomprehensible. We are left to worry about it - which we do in a manner never before attained. It was a mistake sending a boy down in our family. But we are learning so fast that the next generation may all be boys & we'll be ready for 'em. One can live & worry, too. the latter doesn't kill one - at least not me - any more than teaching with R,G.W.! Feb. 7"-'74-- A good word comes from the boy & our hearts take rest. It is a blessed giving from the King in answer to my feeble asking. He cannot fall away & be our disappointment - not as long as I bear him up to the everlasting Arms. Work makesme feel good today. It is so nice to work at home. Feb. 12" '74-- The bell rang a year ago this morning &, Fanny, do you remember that I promised never to make you walk up to answer its call another first day Feb. morning? This seems like one of the problems where the slate & pencil were taken away from me. The girls bring good cheer. There's a spirit of good times in Normal Hall. ++ I go home from it into a cloud that settles black & grim & sends tears to my eyes. Feb. 13"-- What can she do! I suppose this is one phase of the woman question! +++ The answer seems tobe to start a school, to be its first, its motive power, & its waste material. Feb. 19-'74 ++ I feel so unsatisfied & forlorn today. I can't find higher level & no pastures are green. +++ Feb. 20"-- What the final decision is. I don't know what the [number] of this final decison is. There have been so many since the first one I've lost track. Today proclaims we move. It makes me tired & sorry. +++ There have been cheery things today, & I have been in smoothe waters without much of any head wind. March 1"-- I take long looks at mother & the cosy [cozy] sitting room & envy & enjoy till I am dizzy withthe blessedness. Home never seemed as nice as it does this winter. Mar. 3"-'74-- +++ How proud I should be to have my boy turn out well! Now my heart calls for this as from the Father who had a son in this world & gave him power to overcome mar. 11"-- There are some of my girls that will never let life look very dark to me - some that are as priceless as these priceless days that are taking them from me. Mar. 12"-- I know one thing thro' the day-school. I know one thing thro' the night - Greek. +++ i can't erase mistakes & i am longing to right all things - to make myselffelt forever. ++ if I only could! I love my girls so! March 17"-'74-- I am in my martyr mood today: that is I go about kind o' pitiful & work with my teeth set & my hands holding on hard; but not a word do I utter! This well for those who learn of me. Mar. 19"-- I feel a good deal forlorn. I drag Fanny around. I make her teach & write & translate - & the child doesn't want to. Even Michigan is a terror to her. Mar. 20"-- I change my habits & become a guest. ++ E. has a pretty home. I envy girls with a father. ++ There is a plant here they call heartsease & I love it. Mar. 23"-'74-- ++ I'm tired of buying coats for a contrary naughty boy who will do what we don't want him to. Don't let me worry about it. ++ Let me grow patient & keep busy with living. Let me lay day - & lay down -& lay down - that I may take again. Deny - deny -deny- thyself. Mar. 24"-- In which I cannot face a frowning world. +++ Danny is head-strong & unreasonable, school stormy & discouraging, & my head fairly swims for want of rest - & all of these things move me. "Jesus - A Saviour" - I need nothing tonight so much as to be saved. Mar. 25"- There is a happiness in the bright morning when soul & body wake together strong for whatever comes.++ O if I can only keep tender, loving feelings & be patient nothing else shall worry me! Mar. 26"'74-- In which I am "pleasant to have about". The rarity of this accounts for its being recorded! The whole day has been like a hope of heaven. I love these new fresh days! Mar. 28"-- it seems so strange to feel the shackles of my work so unceasingly. I reproach myself for taking one moment to play. But rest is coming. April 1"-- In which i lift up mine eyes unto the hills & help cometh. There's spring enough to smell the sweet breath of pines, & see the water running, & watch the sunset glory on bare hill-tops. ++ I thought of Sue. She must bethe poetry of my life for there is no beautiful thing that does not bring me thoughts of her. All before this lay a day of hard work with a headache & thoughts roll & roll. April 7"-'74-- ++ School is such a treat to me when I feel like work - & I do today every inch of me. April 9"-- I go to prayermeeting & hear about living above the world. I know less about that than I once did. The work of this world - the hope of success draw me & chain me. ++ "Bringing every tho't into captivity to the obedience of Christ!" Ah, I have work to do-- There's mud & sow & spring is an ancient myth. April 10"-- ++ It's so nice with Mother today. What I shall do when I can'twork by her & talk to her next year I can't bring myself to think. April 14"-'74-- In which a wave of trouble rolls across my peaceful breast. It takes the form of a coal bill. I have been so in hopes those old bills could wait a little. I feel bound hand & foot this spring with Michigan before me. School partakes of the coal bill - so does the sitting-room & the coal stove! Not much "Broadfields" about me today! April 18"-- +++ Well - there's one thing - my salary is a comfort to other people! April 19"-- Heaven has sent us a reminder of itself in the day: a suggestion of what may be somewhere. I felt like resting my heart in thetenderness that is in the Almightiness. I asked for bread & he gave me a creed! never mind. The beauty of God & the glory are all about me. ++++ Mother & i have a nice visit. We talk of the time when Danny will be thro' school, & be a joy & comfort to us - when the old debts shall all be paid, & our new house shall be builded! April 23", '74-- +++ These are pleasant days to me after all; full of the work I live & the light of young faces & loving hearts. April 25"-- We are in another [woful] snow storm ++++ I suppose all we can do is to shovel paths & hope. +++ A letter from Cousin Mary lays hold of me: "You cannot do too much for your mother. If you could see things as Isee them now would love, trust & indulge her more than all the world." April 26"-'74-- The ninth regular snow-storm in the series was delivered today! ++ but there's cheer inside. I am very tender to Mother all day. Can anything ever take her from me? How weak I feel to keeps her! - & yet how strong! April 28"-- In which I don't know what to do with Fanny ++ If she had said anything today it would have been cross. ++ How thankful I am for the little sources of discipline. I wish I had enough more to make me behave. ++ O for power - for power to become a son of God! April 29"-- ++ I'm so cross I can'tstand it! +++ The mignonette, in the dear little bouquet that came yesterday, has helped. It holds me fast like soft hands touching mine in the dark. May3"-'74-- In which I consent to live. It begins to smile out of doors, & the desert places are going to blossom. +++ Mother & I chatter, chatter thro' the day. ++ I write to the boy, too: & I lie awake & think & pray that God will give his angels charge concerning him. He must ot break my Mother's heart. I think over & over what Mary wrote - "Trust her, love her, indulge her more than all the world." May 4"-- In which "heavy, heavy hangs over me." I go up the Monday steps slowly & not steadily. I ponder overin my heart the things R.G. said to me & I take fire. ++ I guess I shall stand it! I've had an extended course of standing it. +++ Comfort comes in the girls' prayermeeting. May 8"-'74-- ++ I think & think what we will all do & how we can get along: but nothing comes of it. In the meantime I write to Michigan & ask big questions. And so the days go. May 15"-- In which there is something new to be glad about - my copy of De Quincey. +++ There's an end to every trouble under the sun. Even examination papers will fade away. But there's no end to a joy. My books are durable riches. May 17"-- In which serene is thelight in the soft May weather." My heart rests & sings. ++ "O moment gone too soon & morning left behind!" The pale gray night comes down, & in the stillness I am left with God +++ He is nigh even at my doors. May 18"-'74-- In which one girl gets tired - too tired to think or be good. But as old Mr. ___ says: "It's a good deal to ask any body to be good all the time"! May 19"-- In which the things that make me tired are not less. "A lodge in some vast wilderness" has had a pleasant sound of late. +++ I am a living martyr to the present ideas of education: & I scold to myself about it which martyrs never do. May 24"-'74-- In which rest remaineth. ++ It has been a hard week. +++ My thoughts of heaven are alloyed with thoughts of work, & dreams that do not centre near the Throne. I never needed more a tidal wave to sweep over in my life & carry me out of myself. Will not God send it? Or must I always live this way? May 26"-- In which I am again in the crucible. === I go to bed but cannot sleep. Life touches me at so many points: & who is sufficient for these things? May 27"-- +++ My head fails me. Every little nerve sends up its feeble protest. But there is no help. I must workFanny still: & if she runs over & lets out cross things how shall we punish her? Ah, the punishment is swift & sure! There are nights of pain - unknown. June 2"-'74-- In which I find plenty to do. You may have heard something of this kind before! ++ This is Sir Launfal weather; & the nights are those in which Maud came into the garden. ++ Life is full of grammar & arithmetic & essays: but the blue is somewhere! June 6"-- In which my desires lie in the direction of a ride & not in the direction of Botany questions. But I do not take the ride & I do take the Botany. I can't set myself to work. I have to drag the child to it & pin her witha star. She has things on her mind & she is restless. June 9"-'74-- ++ School is pleasant. It's one of the days when I resolve to teach always. June 12"-- ++ I'm glad I'm just as I am - mostly. I'm so up when I am up & so down when I am down. But it's good to enjoy with all your might even tho' you suffer in the same way. June 29"-- In which our mode of life is primitive. ++ I wash windows & sweep, & contemplate my work as the gods eat ambrosia - in a fit of divine abstraction. ++ My greatest housewifely accomplishment consists in being able to be here washing windows, & being off somewhere else at the same time - in fingering & thinking at opposite ends. July 1"-'74-- In which chaos is no more. One only needs to move to be reminded of the creation. Cohoes-July 13"-- I am full of the summer pleasantness, & a quiet, restful content. I have a feeling as if I had just been converted: & what is that like but opening tired eyes & seeing the "place prepared" for the first time. July 17"-- In which I am in the middle of the pasture, & do not even put my head over the fence. July 21"-- In which courage predominates. She kind that works & will not stop - that dodges pain - &will not worry. Aug. 1"-'74-- In which August drips in. Greek & I are getting on very good terms now. +++ I don't jump around at my work & sing: I creep when I'm up & sit down pretty often. +++ The moment D. leaves me nights I worry & I worry until he comes in. It makes me feel better, little book, to tell you about it. If I could only look on & see him safe-! Aug. 5"-- In which my boy is good to me & shows me his best in our quiet talk. Almost every summer has had in it some intense longing which has been put into words only for God's ear. This time it is all for my boy - the pain & longing. God is God -"To doubt is still disloyalty". My neuralgia is assuming painful proportions. I am found pitying myself. Aug. 9"-'74-- In which it might have been glad & heartsome. That is hasn't been makes me toss & toss. buy why do I chronicle my tossings as if they were good things to keep? As if in God's world the aches & sorries did not perish & the bright things only live on? God tells us so much about blotting out. I sat up stairs a good while & the quiet made me over. Aug. 10"-- Everything at home has taken on the most uncomforting aspect. I do so want Mother to be at least a little happy: & I think &think & plan & plan - but the night takes it all up away from me. Aug. 15"-'74-- In which its time Sunday came. I love the Sundays - look, long, wait for them - most of all when I am with Mother. I keep in my heart most lovingly the memory of our Castleton Sundays. They'll be dearer than ever when the little mother is gone. What made me think of this? It must be because she is so pale & tired today. Aug. 17"-- In which I make great efforts to be a hero. My most desperate attempts have been in two directions - to study some, & to sit up straight & still & bear the toothache. I've a great desire to see someone who achieved heroism by this method. I'd like also to knowif two of their teeth ached. +++ The little Mother is better. Her face brightens & she is her own dear little self again - our everyday hero. Aug. 19"-'74-- After a wilderness I come upon a goodly heritage. I am requested to be in Castleton at one & "take charge of the Normal School". +++ I hasten to order me a hat, & walk as the head of a Normal School would be expected to walk: & I dream as girls dream. Forgive my weakness! Mother comes home springing. Castleton - Aug. 22"-- In which I am fully instructed as to the kind of charge I am to take of the Normal School. My reception at Castleton partakes of warmth: I am waited uponby the dignitaries of the town, & compose myself to a placid benignity in the hotel parlor. Developments are not slow: i soon see that taking charge does not mean taking charge at all. What I think of it will not now be recorded. In the meantime observe my benign placidity. Aug. 23"'74-- In which He strengthens my heart. I have so dreaded this Sunday without the little Mother. God has not let me miss Him, too. +++ I am ready to take the place I did not choose - to be subordinated & humiliated if it be His appointing. Aug. 24"-- I go to the task of filling up the Normal School with a vanishingcourage. Lilly C. comes & takes me to ride - carries me off to reverie & dreams. I do not come back as I went. I am so like a child about going into the deeps of a joy; & so not like a child in my efforts to rise above the heights a a sorrow. Aug. 25"-'74-- In which they sent Mr. Sherman to talk to me. It is the old story that is told to girls & women as they learn with every struggle that they contend with men. A college boy, because he is a boy, is preferred, without experience or years: & the woman is passed by. Ah! don't I know how it feels. A man, they tell me, "will give the school more of a name." Andso the letter is already on its way that recommends Mr. Hyde to the principalship of the Normal School; & I, who have loved it so, & worked for it so long am out of sight. The whole of me says, as I toss 7 toss, "I will not stay." Aug. 26"-74-- In which I look for God's answer in a calm that is strange & welcome. The drawing away of the profs in Castleton means, does it not? that I shall realized my dearly-loved purpose & see Michigan. Aug. 28"-- In which there is a high tide & low tide. ++ I find myself the joyful recipient of a letter or two stating the certain coming of a student or two;& in the same mail I find myself the woe-begone recipient of other letters stating the certain staying away of a student or two.! ++++ R.G. Williams is vanished from my horizon! I have lived to see this day! Aug. 30"-'74-- A day of peace in country places. +++ Tonight I could pray for my boy & it has seemed sure, so sure, that he should be preserved from evil, for my faith grows stronger & stronger. Sept. 1"-- In which the tendencies are domestic. I sit on the upper piazza & aspire to make good sheets! +++ The day is full of the thoughts that almost always come with stitches. Someof them are restless; but those that stay are calm & full of courage. I feel so sure that the best shall be for me & mine. Sept. 4"-74-- In which I am at the height of all dreariness. ++ Which means that the Normal School is not filling by tens & dozens. ++ How am I to get up any spirit? I must find a way out of this. Come-arouse! The generations are calling & you are not a hero! sept. 6"-- In which there comes a growing comfort & a Sabbath peace. I wish I could make myself feel something away down deep - as deep as I ever feel. What is going to come upon me to bring me out of this valley?Sept. 10"-'74-- +++ The Board has met & it is done. E.J. Hyde is principal. God is plainly calling me to do a hard thing - To stay here & take the lower place - to stand here in the dark & suffer! Sept. 13"-- In which I am quiet a few minutes. How well for me it is! Anybody like me ought to be quiet a great many minutes: but my life spins on ++ while all the time I am wishing so still to myself that I had a little home & my work could lie inside of it. +++ I take all my steps in a maze - for where do they lead? Sept. 21"-- +++ I come back from the dear little home-visit with the firm purpose of making all the peoplepossible glad that I am to live among them! Sept. 24"-'74-- In which my hands are unequal to their burdens. Oct. 3"-- In which the King comes to his own. ++ It seemed God's message when the doctor came & took us up to the lake & among the woods & hills. ++ Was I ever known to forget my rides -- they form epochs! Oct. 5"-- ++ This girl is a mystery unto herself. She might be always kind, tender-hearted, forgiving - but she is far from it. O-God help her! Oct. 7" +++ Work is a delightful solace tho' I can't talk & explain. I sit in a grim silence which means only sorrow.Oct. 9"-74-- In which the evening is long & quiet to myself alone - one of my lovely times when I can bear to look out upon things as they are & not lose heart Oct 11"-- In which the day is delighted in ++++ It is easy to be homesick but I won't let me. ++ Everything cosy [cozy], even a cosy [cozy] thought, is a comfort - & I find a few. Oct. 12"-- ++ My courage is slowly coming back, as the old work is taken up & the put-away things are taken out. How funny all my dreams see - I who was to have been at Michigan! Oct. 13"-- ++ A metamorphosis going on. A cross girl is to be fixed over into a sunny girl. Come & see!Oct. 14"-74 ++++ The girl wakes & clings - oh, how she clings! - to the hand held out to her - lest a cross word come - a heartless word - God help her! I think the struggle going on down here in the dark is part of the battle for Christ. I can feel Him so much nearer since the conflict began. Nov. 2"-- In which the leaves go & the comforts begin to take their place. Nov. 3"-- In which the girl wonders how so many happy things could come at once. Nov. 4"-- In which mine is the deep joy, the unspoken fervor the sacred fury of the fight! This is one of the days when the girl likes to talk to herself - & to God. What she says in those still moments,let us hope will make her what she finds it so hard to be. Nov. 11"-'74 +++ I am clasped in the cold arms of Duty! This is why I am not at Michigan. You find me a favorite phantom chased & not graceful Sophomore. I am learning - how slowly! - not to expect all things to move for one girl. Nov. 17" ++++ I've not watched this girl today & I feel - as if it would never be helped. Do I not know the sunless depths that come after such a day? Am I never to be helped? Or must I be shown & shown & shown that without Him I can do nothing? Nov. 24"-74-- +++ There's a girl here that's wanting to go home. Some days she never hears the cars : today every car-ring goes thro' her. +++ I don't believe she is sorry down in her heart for this hard day. The pain is so sweet - the help so precious. +++ The home letter teases the child to come. Danny, bless the loving boy-heart! - sends dear words to me. Nov. 25"-- In which this looks pretty hard. ++ The joy that I can do it makes my face bright as I kiss the girls off & watch the trains go. How good life is even such times! Dec. 2"-- In which I make the world a little brighter for some people. +++ I take some time tobewail that I have downs as well as ups. This is also a source of regret to those who have to do with me! I stand the girl up straight & say, "Are you comfortable to have about? Then I'll know how much of a Christian you are." +++ I tell you what you may believe it or not but I'm good today. I've embraced Miss W. 1 I try to radiate geography & make the highways of grammar & arithmetic glorious. Hard job! Dec. 5"-74-- in which it's about so! Dec. 16"-- in which I come to a standstill. Dec. 19"-- in which I embrace my Mother & enter into rest. +Dec. 27"-- In which I come to a great calm.Jan. 8-/75-- Gives me the idea! I comprehend at once about what I've got to come to. I can get a good deal in a taste! All the joy there is in holding a girl down tight & making her stay is mine to the full. How thankful I ought to be for blessings like these! Jan 26"-- Shows me prospects of continued discipline. I fight at the very thought. I raise up an armed insurrection in my heart : but there's nothing to do but quell it & meet my fate. Jan. 29"-- Has to go chasing about for endurance. It is a pitiable sight. One can't gaze upon martyrs every day. Jan. 30"-/75-- Gets where the Dark is. These are cheering pages. What an addition they would be to the literature of the desponding! Such chroniclings of love rising triumphant over frowning worlds - of a brave will conquering & defying fate - of a patience that is not afraid to walk alone! Let the heroic record stand for "some forlorn & shipwrecked brother," +++ I go sorrowing these days for appreciation. Isn't this high moral courage? Feb. 2"-- Brights & darks alternate. Anything like a bright even with a dark tied to it comes as hopeful as the sounding tread of a victorious army to the waiting prisoners in the city!Feb. 3"-75-- Floats me about - My catch words do not of late convey any idea of fixedness. I am a spar floating, or a spindle whirling, or a speck wherving, or a piece of endurance chasing about. Feb. 12"-- Pushes into worries. The way there is so plain that I never lose the path. Feb. 16-- The girl thinks that she will do a great deal but she doesn't - she worries. She sees herself in the midst of things she ought to help: & some of them she does help - & the rest torture her. Feb. 19-- Do take a chair! That's the way people talk to you when your back aches. People whose backs never ache lay out the straight & narrow path.Mar. 4-/75-- I was glad to creep under the shadow of a trouble greater than mine. Glad to think of the eternal peace into which another soul has drifted. Mar. 21"-- Sunday - strengthens my heart. I am always so glad to see the Sundays come: & the Sundays here this year have been particularly dear & holy to me. Mar. 28-- Sunday - makes me fitter to live. ++ At church the flowers told us of resurrection & the sunshine made us glad. Mr. __ had caught none of the Easter joy. He threw his sermon at us, fiercely. April 2"-- All the melancholy verses of the forlorn poetswould apply. Minor strains wail through the rain. I grow & increase in ability to worry. What becomes of my religion such days as these? Cohoes - April 3"-75-- Is ready for a hallelujah or two! Delectable mountains have risen between yesterday's rain & today's clear blue, as I rush towards home & the little mother waiting on the hill. April 4"-- Being allowed to wake up in a christian manner is an ecstasy I had almost forgotten. I have been rung up so long! I never felt so tired before.Castleton - April 26"-/75 It looks as if there were a demand just now for a heart for any fate! I'm not on a quest for the immortal glory part of anything. To see me mount heights (stairs especially) would give you the most painful sensations. +++ I crawl on - & doze & doze when I can - & call it getting along. "Lift up your eyes & see!" April 30" - So glad not to have a headache. So glad to go into the schoolroom & find so much work waiting for me. I had thought for a little while that I could never go into the schoolroom again.May 13"-75. Something lovely & new is being done out of doors every day. It rests me so - I can teach 7 teach & not get tired a bit. It makes me just as happy in my work as I can be. The poetry of the May weather steals in & makes rhyme even out being rung up, rung down, rung out, rung in. June 21"-- Dreams of a better world. Anybody could with a lap full of essays. I know of nothing more likely to awaken thought of a heaven for you & a heaven for me! "How do you do it?" says Ignorance. "Why, re-write them, stupid!"June 24"-/75-- You'd better be careful, Fannie. There's always somebody near enough to get a part of your shadows. June 29" - Cohoes - The home door swings wide for me. God keeps me still a mother to be glad I came! July 1"-- Many of the interesting details which have hitherto been all-absorbing to this journalist will appear no more. There will be no more mention of bells or of anything that may, can, must, might, could, would or should be done. There will be only resting & dreaming with no money in it anywhere! I want it under-stood that I want my dreams aerial, etherial [sic] - that kind. July 3-/75-- I delight to record a visit with my mother & her mother in the open door. This is a good world as long as the mothers stay in it. July 5"-- Mother's short cake roused all our slumbering patriotism. We sat & loved the country where such berries could grow. July 17"- Crawford - ++ I've left the hard part for this last little corner. A little place is big enough to fret in. I've come to a standstill. But the Lord knows what to do with me. I am trusting a little.July 18"-/75--Knows how His love went before me each day. It came with all its beauty giving no sign. Night ended in day while yet tired eyelids lay upon tired eyes. July 23"-- My early ride was perfection itself. Such an air as I have not breathed since I left heaven, long ago. July 25"--Sunday - Lives in sunlight. Aug. 3"-- Lives in a What shall I do? +++ Everyday it seems harder to go anywhere & leave Mother. Weak-hearted girl! But she does love Mother so! [O years]! speak tonight. Open just a little way & tell me things.Aug. 4"/75-- Things look better to me today - brighter. As if I could do things - sometime. As if mother should have a quiet, happy old age. Aug. 9"-- Brings so much. ++ I was so happy I woke up in the night to think about it. I felt so good all day. Nothing could mar it. Aug. 19"-- Cohoes - Horrifies me! This page is for the desponding. It starts out as if it might be so bracing. +++ Yes, it comes over me - the darkness & hopelessness of things. Looking forward makes my heart sink, & I seem not to touch the solid earth. Why I never can go & feel like this. I never felt so before.Aug. 22"-/75-- Has a hope in it - that the head will be better tomorrow. +++ Talks at home have been more cheerful. It looks a little as if it would not seem quite so dreadful to go away. Taking up a new life in a new place, among indifferent faces sets me to hunting up all my courage, just to think of it. Aug. 29"-- [Woos] me away from life's tangles & perversities. It seems easy for such things to heap up, & where the biggest heap is you'll see me standing round most generally!Aug. 30"-/75-- I got up with the spirit of the morning in me, & everything that came near me touched some happy spring. Sept. 7"--the part of me that tosses & dreads things finds this a shut-up summer. Sometimes it will not rest on the promises that lie like solid rock under my life. It wonders if the time for sacrifice is come - if the taking what I so wish & yet dread to take is God's will for me - It wonders if anybody at home must give up one little hope or joy to give me this. Sept. 8"-- Keeps me pondering. These are bright days. Whowould think that in such days anyone would flounder in the dark asking questions. But I know who does. Sept. 11"-- Waxes not valiant. ++ It took me way out of myself to watch the hills tonight. I realized then that there was a shadow to lift. Such a dreary miserable sickness these days. Next week I must be better. It can't last always. There's been good cheer at home today. Sept. 16"-- Looks forward too much - & back plenty enough. What I fail in is "lending a hand". I look enough to supply all the demands. +++ Why-how can I make you know how dreadful going away looks to me! Sept. 23"-- Fixes clouds in the sky. It seems as if they were fixed to stay - as if it would never be bright & glad in my world again. ++ I can't say, "Not as I will." I hold up defiant hands at fate. I can be a weak little girl & cry & cry & cry. I keep thinking "I will be well - I must go." Have I not asked God all summer to tell me what is best?Sept. 24"-75--Lets the sun shine in. I kept looking to the hills all day & thinking how lovely it was. ++ Today my heart doesn't say "I will go" - it just waits. sept. 25"-- Stands in the dark & suffers. +++ The doctor has been seen - we know now. The day was so bright it almost seemed as if I couldn't ask anything but what I should have. Not so. It gives not & it takes. It falls upon me. Be He knows - that God for that. Sept. 26" - Sunday - All alone with the day & the pain. Sept. 29"-- Has a little help in it. In any trouble howI dread the first waking thoughts - those that come before we are wholly ourselves to face things & get courage together. Oct. 3"-/75. I noticed how bright everything was this morning because I wanted it so. +++ A long ride up the hill & drearier thoughts than I shall ever tell you or any one. I go off to bed alone with them. Oct. 4"-- Anybody would think I might revolve a little even on a creaking axis : but there wasn't any such thing done. I decide to think today & achieve tomorrow. Oct. 9"-- Has a ring of triumph in it. ++ God's great sunrisehasn't found me out but one of the best little earthly ones has. Oct. 13"-/75-- I pray so to get better - to be well. I will be so careful of the child if she will only get so she can walk once more. It is so hard to sit still these days & wait. But His grace is near. Oct. 14"-- Looks out for courage. Do you think it failed to come. It did not - it is there - ready - sure. +++ I am really getting better - O am I not? Isn't something the least little bit better? I get so sure of it - I feel way up. Oct. 17"-/75. +++ It makes me wish for the work - some work - any work. O God! anything but this! Nov. 14"-- Tosses - as it did one day before. +++ There's nothing down-hearted in the talk & I keep where Mother & the children are a great deal. When I do go off by myself the white chrysanthemums make me cry. The little thoughts that come of mother are so dear & close. In my thought of what I am to do or be I find myself in a perfect struggle. I can feel my heart beat as I try to decide which way is best - as I try to know just what God means for me. I try to see His way -but, oh, I so want His way & mine to be the same. Mother doesn't say much - O if I only knew what to do! Oct. 15"-/74-- ++ I go down to River St for Agnes - my one sister. I feel kind of sorry for this child as she trudges along, choking back the tears, as she thinks how hard it is to plan to go to Smith College - & how much she wants to do for Mother & the children. Well - well - we won't feel sorry. We'll just work all we can & trust God for the rest. Nov. 16"-- It's a pull & haul day. +++ I hate to have Mother get tired. I would so love to have a home for herfree from all this - just as some mothers have it. Nov. 22"-/75-- I go down to the doctor's & come back on wings. He says I am better - that I may get well. What could I hear that would be like this to me? Nov. 25"-- Thanksgiving - "Rejoice in hope." The girl that was down yesterday, down at the bottom of the hill where it is lonely, lonely, is way up today. I was so glad all day just be at home. Nov. 27"-- Mr. Johnson's words to Gertie about Vassar for me seem like an answer straight from God. I have so prayed that if there was any other way He wouldmake it known. Nov. 28"-/75-- ++ I think of Vassar & think, & think, & wonder if it is for me. Wonder what God's answer will be. Dec. 2"-- Brings the answer! I believe it is from God -- I believe I shall go. I get all my Latin books out & begin to climb the mountain is before me. Dec. 3-- Associates itself with dark closets. This is where I get some days & peep out on life thro' chinks. Dec. 10"-- A little better - a little brighter - but so tired! How could she study with the pain & the restlessness? +++ I can't bear lately to think how much I love mymother. Oh how close they lie - the tenderness & the pain! Dec. 11"-75-- "Let me hide myself in Thee!" Dec. 12"-- Gives me rest - not because I am worthy, but because He is good. Dec. 18"-- Insists on being an anniversary! +++ I feel stronger today & very hopeful. 1876 Jan. 6"-- A day when the steps turn away from home & toward a new unknown. One of the solemn days when we touch reverently all the little things that we must leave. +++ The last rolling away - the space between & the beginning of the great loneliness that already threatens to swallow meup. The ride up the hill to Vassar - the first look at its walls in the moonlight! Jan. 8-'76-- Will I go & be Lady Principal of Waynesburg College? says my letter. We will see. Jan. 10"-- A day when things don't begin. It takes an interminable length of time to get planted here. One has to be laid above ground sever days. +++ Jan. 14"-- ++ When I think of where I am & how I came here & what I have the chance to do my heart grows so warm, so glad that I know I can bear anything. +++Jan. 19"/76-Vassar-- A day when I lived tho' it! ++++ I feel a little fresh & good with the first of things: but on into the day I get to wondering what is to become of me. Jan. 20"-- A day when I stand like one bewildered. As given below: I want that position on Waynesburg. I just do. I want the course here - I just do. I don't know what to do - I just don't. ++ Jane. 22"-- ++ For me, the hermit, there was plough boy's work without the plough-boy's whistle. ++ Five pages of Cicero's first Oration, interrupted with flashes of Waynesburg. A solitary walk with a storm threatening, & my perplexities also threatening. Never mind. When I am oppressed Hewill undertake for me. +++ Jan. 26"-/76-Vassar-- A day when my career continues to be spectre-like. To stop & think about it, which we never get time to do here, it is easy to appreciate the feelings of a phantom, gliding thro' these halls & sailing around these woods! Never to be thought about, or missed, or noticed! ++++ Jan 27"-- A day when I will be glad anyway! +++ Jan. 28"-- To remove my spectre habiliments & find somebody that wants to talk to me because they do & not because I am alone, or a stranger, or woe-begone, is now the desire of my heart! +++Feb. 1"-/76-V/C.-- A day when there's a great flutter of things. Things here means heart. Put in the plural because I have a great many of them & all fluttering. +++ Feb. 22"-- A day when I sould keep his memory green! +++ God help me to fulfill in my life the best, the noblest wishes of the dead father, & care always for the one boy he fain would have taken with him! ++++ Feb. 25"-- +++ Worst siege yet encountered in V.C. Miserable floundering in Greek, & another squelch in Horace. I do get up stairs at last. Cry it out! +++ A day without a smile from any human being: & a long stretch of hard work without a letter. Vassar - Mch 5-76 +++ had my everyday siege of homesickness - the awful sort. No dear little Mother to come in. ++ Why can't I have her a few minutes? +++ Mch 24"-- Not a day to be blue in. Everything above & around laughed & shouted or was just going to. +++ Greek & dinner - neither in any demand by yours truly. A feeble attempt to walk. Abandoned! No more attempts to chronicle except the scramble to live tho' the President's prayer. April 4"-- ++ A great many bodies are packing. Found Laura Skinner at it & ventured to say "What does this mean?" "It means 'Exit Skinner'", quoth she. ++++April 13" '76 - Cohoes-- Here's a girl no good to anybody, wriggling this way 7 that under excess of aches & ills +++ looking forward to day after day just like this, pitiless & grim. What a queer standstill I've come to! Let's talk about the lilies in the window How they grow; & the pin, how fast it is opening to the light-- & the baby at the neighbor's window-- & Grandma so safely past the din & the struggle-- & of a sure safe time past all this weariness. No - it isn't for nothing that we hope & dream. April 17"-- ++ How comfortable that big rocking chair is with the huge pillows. This is the bestlife & the world can do for me now. The best I can do for me now. The best I can do for myself is to wait in patience for the sunshine to come back. April 19",/76 - Cohoes-- A day when the story reads not a bit as I had written the plot! There's just about as much of the awfulness of living on as there was when I came home - & I ought to be in V.C. this very day. +++ The doctor leaves some miserable little concoctions, vile & ineffectual, & says I'm pretty bad off. No, I aint neither! There's fifty years in me yet - good solid ones too! Cohoes - April 20"-76-- A day when I have "hurries to go". There are all beginning down there, & I'm up here fenced in. +++++ Sunday-April 2[5]"-- +++ It seems a myth to me that I ever got up Sunday morning & walked down to church - ever got up at all in fact. Little snatches of minutes between the pain - these take the place of all larger ambitions. ++++ April 24"-- It's surprising how little I can get her to caring. Dying or coming back to life - it seems all one to me +++ April 25"-- ++ The nights are very long. The great thoughts - the thoughts that have carried methro' so many unfilled hours - will not come to help me. But God's promises come & lift my heart up into the blessed places. +++ April 26",/76-- +++ How could I love my home more than I do? If God will only let me be well again - well enough to work! But I lie here waiting. I may be taken & these left. ++ "O God our help in ages past - Our hope for years to come!" April 27"-- +++ I get more & more glad of little things: a little brightness - a little ease from pain - a scrap from out of doors - all these have it in them to bless me. As my horizon narrows - as Isee this denied on one hand, and that taken away on the other, I stop resisting, & cease to demand. ++ Just as if at first we should want all outdoors & should say at last, "If I can only have this one green plant in my window!" Vassar-May 17"-'76-- Given a problem to work upon: To want to do a great deal - wonderful things - to be set in a place where everybody is driving ahead & turning out wonders - & then be forbidden to exert yourself under penalty of forfeiting forever all you want to do & be - & then be patient & unworn & light-hearted! ++++Vassar - June 1"-76-- Light & beauty enough out doors to fill us, satisfy us - if we would be good & rest in it. ++ I feel stronger to do & bear, today. O, if I could only walk! June 5"-- Dug a little at Greek with Laura. The Greek words took it upon themselves to be clothed in unsearchable forms & Laura says, "Lets hang ourselves!" ++++ June 10"-- Sprang to my feet with a delicious sense of joy in the early morning - of being glad I'm here - of an assurrance [sic] in my heart that my steps are ordered by the Lord & a determination that I won't be troubled. ++++Cranford-July 8"'76-- ++ I just love Susie, & it makes me happy as I need to be. Her home is beautiful to me - & someway i seem to breathe only when she is looking at me. ++ Aug. 30" ++ I am in the delicious dream of a may-be college. Dare I try it? I am asking God. His plan for me is larger, nobler than mine. Vassar-Sept. 29'-- +++ I know what one week of Trig. is. Fifteen more come up from the statistical corner of me - don't say grimly! You can't afford to be grim - 15 weeks. It is Friday - a breathing-space let down. It's like prairie-land between Fri. 11:50, & Mon. 8:15 - a smoothgreen stretch all level! Huldah keeps up an intermittent dig - that is her measure of prairie-land & hill-regions. Polly's digs lie in the last five minutes before she goes to something. Sept. 30"-76-- ++ Don't know who is steeped in homesickness! Oct. 10"-- +++ I got up this morning wishing I didn't have to. More cold, more strain, more something to make me an exact misery. ++ Laura lets me lie still & says nonsense rhymes to me whereat I rejoice. Laura's new word is "whaeck"! Oct. 11"-- More to get up for - so it sort of somehow seemed. This suggests Prof. Hinkel's[Greek letters]- & also especially those! We have actually left Chap. I in Herodotus. There is every indication of our making a continuing city of Chap. II. "Come up & gaze upon the felicities of cot-beds". I go. "This was the out-cropping of our brains", explained Laura. Oct. 13"-/76-- I come to it aching - I got tired - the big kind - over my rally in cosines. ++ The little Greek man says, "I will explain & then we will go on". So we sit & are poured into. It's a way he has. Huldah get a letter & goes around saying, "Poor Aunt Mag! poor Aunt Mag isdead." Somebody's always dead in the letters Huldah gets. Polly's letter makes her shout. It comes pealing forth from the bed-room & I take a new lease of life. Blessed Polly! +++ Oct. 16"/76-- A sort of clear grit morning. It is not brilliancy I astonish people with in Trig. - nor brevity. My demonstration only covers one wing of the college! +++++ Oct. 20"-- I am tired out trying to make my girl attend to things today. I had to make her get up in the first place - tendencies all against me. Then she staid up, in a dreadful poking way,keeping me pushing her up to this & steeling her against that: but now I've comforted her with the assurance that today is a kind of exception & tomorrow she won't ache in so many places. ++ O - one of my low-down days! Nov. 3",/76 - Vassar-- A sort of uplifting all thro'. I pray for days like this - ready for anything - glad in what is. Nov. 4"-- My birthday & how bright it was! ++ I had to be glad - there must be no dark guesses, no restlessness. There was help to see "the real whole best." "God is known in her palaces for a refuge."Nov. 5"/76 - Vassar - Sunday & I have lots of time to think how many days it is before I go home. ++ I believe if there was only a day between me & Mother I should think that day would never end. I am sure I never wanted home so - or tossed so to see it. Nov. 9"-- Could I get up? could I stay up? Rather singular questions from a girl who has Senior Greek & Sophomore Latin on her hands! There was a great mustering of forces: every available one was summoned, & I did squeeze through the day some how. +++ I have seen Dr. Webster. She makes no mention of death's door, but speaks of a time when I shall be well - bless her!Nov. 15"/76 - V.C.-- Huldah says that in the Bates Mitchell's class they are all "revolving around the marks." Heaven help them! Dec. 19" - Cohoes-- A good deal to it that wasn't consoling. I come home to add to Mother's troubles &, as far as I can see, to be of not the slightest use to any body. +++ Miss -- comes in like a fresh morning breeze. I'm so devoutly thankful to be relieved of my thoughts for an hour or so. Dec. 23"-- +++ I wish very much for the use of my feet. Have longings for the pretty shop windows, & the people withbundles & pleasant secrets to keep; want to see the cutters skip along; want to get stirred up. Instead of that I am a city set on a hill. But Aggie brings some of the good cheer home : there's almost always a next best. +++ Dec. 27"/76-Cohoes +++ D. brings up two tickets for the concert. "Can Fanny go?" It has not yet got fully settled here that "Fanny" can't "go" - can't ever go. She say "No - ask Emma." +++ Go! isn't it one of the nights when she would scream if she could go!1877. Jan. 1"--- I've found out how the courage of one is the courage of the souls that live near it: that good cheer is nothing short of an atmosphere: and even of a little patience the world has need! ++++ The worries that we began last year with are most of them here to start out with us again. +++ But I am a little surer that the storms are in the lower strata. We shall get above them by and by. I have reason to be more sure of a few things than I was a year ago. "I tell you that One knocked while it was dark."Jan. 2",'77--- The spell of silence is broken at last. Somebody has sent me a written communication. Huldah is noted for breaking silences. It is her voice, grim and inauspicious, that comes summarily into dark mornings : her alarm is that it is six and something, and I am too far gone to contest the point - usually. ++++ Jan. 3" ++ My letter from __ makes me feel rich - well-to=do in the world. I won't say that there were any bluish tendencies for her to counteract, but still I view her eight pages in the light of a "marcy".Jan. 6:, '77--- D. says, he starts to go, "Oh, I forgot!" and hands me - why, it was one of the loveliest things - L.s letter! What a new face everything wears for me. Jan. 10"--- V.C. and no. 11,d once more enfold me. Polly and the girls come at me. And - well, there's an example in Trig. for tomorrow with two solutions and six answers! Ye fates! I spend silent time with L. - bless her! Jan. 14"-- A severe talk on the married state - Parlor 12 all there. L. comes in for the woful [sic] summing up -- "It's a wuzzly world!" L. thinks there area few happy marriages - not many, perhaps, but a few! H. sets her foot down - "None - whatever!" We feel the projection of the great circle of hopelessness crossing our celestial equator. We turn reverently to the Greek of Matthew. There's no hopelessness there - no dragging down sensations. "Come to me" it says. Well - we are tired children, and He knows. Jan. 15",'77-- Head streaks of disaster in it. But then - why should you sing, "Increase my courage, Lord" if there's never anything going to happen to make courage, and lots of it, the thing to have?You were torn up by the roots when you got out of bed this morning, and you lay around on top all day. +++ It's L. who packs up 82 and brings it down stairs for my present comfort. Jan. 16", '77-- We aren't going to have any mournfulness about this business. You've got it on hand and we see you wriggling it through. Trot right along. You stand up before Prof. B. gladiator-fashion, and impress her with the fact that you embraced a hot water bottle last night and not Trig.-aches, and not cosines. She doesn't act as if you were confessing incendiarism to her, and you sit down,meekly, as is your wont. You persevere through half a chapter of "thought-weighted Thucydides" with L. and then her good angel comes down and enlivens the world by Keeping you up from tea, spreading for you a famous little supper in 82, and making you feel the blessedness there is in love. Jan. 24","77-- To be sure you didn't have your Trig. but as L. says, "That's nothing!" "Same problem for tomorrow," says the sharp-eyed Professor in drab. "You may get it." Another little supper with L. in 82. You peep into "Sights & Insights" while she lays the cloth and brings out the cunninglittle cups. She buzzes about & you call it "being out to tea", and almost forget you are a Sophomore with aspirations. Jan. 15, 1877-- For steady help from outside give me a day of sunshine. It is impossible to feel that you are fighting single-handed as long as there is sunlight that will not forsake you. ++++ There are lots of things left over that you wanted to do. Left over for when? We shall see. Meantime we are glad - glad for life just as it is this minute. Jan. 27".-- Undermining forces are at work again. You've heard about such days before.this week, though it ends with full noon, has had its hard places : but which one would I have had left out if I could? "Until He says 'Come up higher', let us be content at the foot of the board." Feb. 2", 1877-- For one day freedom from that pain has not left you for weeks before, and that has made everything you did so hard. You almost know, for a little breath, what the better day will be. Feb. 4"--"It's a lovely day, Fanny. Wish you could go to walk." Have not yet attained to any such paradise. Yet nights I dream of walking. +++ "Edith isgoing to read some of Hale's Christmas stories - don't you want to come up?" Inclination wanted props. Supplied by the maiden who wanted to know - "a maiden who wanted to know - "a very young Freshman". Feb. 5", 1877.-- A review of Herodotus is about to be entered upon. I like this way of taking it - viz. me on the bed, pillowed. L. in a chair, with dic. "Curtins" and most of it in mind, gives me exact meanings and optatives "with and without ar". I, purely receptive. Then we have crackers, and beff-tea, and Jam up in her room, and I am spared the dining-room. ++ Great uncomfort-ableness today. If I only could feel better! "Here I stand. I cannot do otherwise. God help me!" Feb. 8",/77-- Trig is over & gone. The examination did not bear as strong a resemblance to "the Assyrian" that "came down" as we had darkly pictured, though there was a slight disproportion between the number of questions and the number of minutes. ++++ How we've laughed today! but tonight we sit very still. To think that this was coming! Sunday, Feb. 11"-- The first thing was the breath of the flowers. Then the dawning sense that this wasthe last day - that the little Greek books lying in the window meant nothing any more. i got up with my trouble and went out where the girls were. Everything has been very sweet all day. My comfort has been thought of and thought of till I am strangely confused at being so cared for. ++ To see the day die over Sunset Hill and know it is the last time for weeks 7 weeks--! Feb. 12"-/77. +++ The sight of the little Greek books in the window, where we left them last Thursday, is more than I can bear. When I am bravest I can't look at that window. +++ It's all over now. I see them waving to mefrom the platform - my train moving slowly away. One of the hard times, Frances - one of the very hard times. "O Lord! only to be made like Thee in Thy great love!" Home - where are those who care also - who care most! Feb. 14", 1877-- Last night I woke in the night and heard Mother praying. It went to my heart and left the sorest kind of an ache there. How can I die when I know she wants me like this! If she were anywhere - anywhere in this wide earth and wanted me I would go. But how can I if it is that River I must cross? Bit it isGod she is talking to. Her cause is safe with Him. Feb. 15", 1877. "Faint yet pursuing" - to have this said of you because you washed a handful of dishes! Think of coming to this! Feb. 16"-- Yes'm. I keep very very still. These are not days for talking. I would not like to write what I am living. It is all too solemn, and I shall remember it all. It is not such days as these that we forget. Feb. 17".-- Saturday night - in the harbor, I. My boat rocks gently as the night comes down. There are cities full of busy people buying & selling; but I seemout of it all - with the feeling of one who is to be forever out of it. "Under His wings thou art come to trust!" Feb. 19", 1877.-- I feel as if I were following somebody over a thorny path between tall hedge-rows - and yet I know that it is not a stranger that I follow. Albany, Feb. 20"-- +++ I watched the little mother's gray shawl and black dress and little bonnet out of sight. I think after that I had the heartache. Tonight it seems as if there could be nothing grander than to have, like the Lord Jesus, power to heal such trouble as mine.
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Creator: Bromley, Frances M.
Transcriber(s): Hausam, Josephine
Descriptor(s): Ditkoff, Andrea
Date: 1880-1882
Text: PLEASE NOTE: Blank pages are omitted (in the original, the diarist left every other page blank from the beginning.) "The thought of her blooms in one's mind like the whitest of flowers: it makes one braver and more thankful to remember the simple faith and patience with which she bore her pain and trouble."Frances to Edith. -May 2" 1880- Dear Edith, Every word that I say to you this afternoon will be drowned in the voices of those bells. Chimes, my dear. The Cathedral is...
Show morePLEASE NOTE: Blank pages are omitted (in the original, the diarist left every other page blank from the beginning.) "The thought of her blooms in one's mind like the whitest of flowers: it makes one braver and more thankful to remember the simple faith and patience with which she bore her pain and trouble."Frances to Edith. -May 2" 1880- Dear Edith, Every word that I say to you this afternoon will be drowned in the voices of those bells. Chimes, my dear. The Cathedral is at the top of the hill just above. They've been calling joyously this long time, those bells. Now they are rolling slowly the Venite, adoramus. I can't keep them out this letter - I just can't do it. The Venite adoramus - perhaps that's given us to pitch from! I wonder if I can get Frances & the afternoon up to it. I didn't think so a minute ago when I sat down in this May rainstorm; but if the chimes come along and ring the gladness in, we shall just have to take it & pitch higher - that's all. ++++++++ You were good to write me. I think of you as very busy always. It is such a busy world & you are so strong to do "The Lord hath need of you". I like to think about you, & some other dear people that I know on my still days - & have many days that are only this. +++++++++++++June 2" 1880 Well, dear, I have put the "June 2" " down & I have been sitting here ever since looking at it. There's something in the look of the word that makes my heart warm & glad. It comes to me, the June of the world, with a delicious undercurrent of joy, always. I cannot imagine any sorrow that would quite crush this feeling out of my heart. Just because there is such a thing as June, & just because there is such a girl as I - well, I know I never feel so sure that I ought to be glad of this last fact as I do in this kind of an air & this kind of a day - nor so sure of what's coming. You know, of course, the name goes back to the Mr. Olympus of things. Good & royal, isn't it? "Sacred to Juno," says the lexicon. "Sacred" - that sounds good, too. I'm glad we got our June from the celestials. Somebody else is thinking of the royal mountain, too. I take this from her last letter: "We sat down on a stone, Home & I, & entered into conversation, & this is what he told me -" Then the bright-eyed Athene went away to Olympus, where they say the seats of the gods ever steadfast abide: nor is it shaken by the wind, nor ever wet with rain, nor is there snow there, but cloudless the pure ether is outspread, & white splendor over lies it; here the blessed gods rejoice all the day long'." +++++++ I'm going to bring you right into this minute, into my most comfortable thought. It's that word "take". It seems so restful - the feeling that just the being ready, the putting out of our hands is the whole of our part of it for so many of the "good & perfect gifts". There is so much waiting for us if we can only get to the taking point. Did you ever notice in the Testament how it is "receive ye" - "receive ye" - & "take ye" - "take ye" all the way through? ++++ Is it as good a thought to you, I wonder, as to me - that we can be still & just "take"? That with all our reading & striving we can never come into possession of the best of the "comforter", even, but that it cometh" � we have only to be quiet & "take". ++++++++++++ Talk to me sometimes about your sisters. I have an insatiable interest in other people's little sisters. I tried to keep my sister little, but I couldn't. She would get tall in spite of me, & old & wise & profound & I know not what else. +++++ "Oh that hillside of waving grain!" I echo your words. Do I "remember"? O my dear, will the grain ever grow long, & the wind come down & touch it that I do not remember! -January 3" 1881- Good morning, dear! We are going to get a visit out of this morning. It feels like one of the real visiting kind. ++ We'll begin, I think, by finding out what kind of a world it is we're in on this particular morning, & we'll talk from outside in. A white world - a clear, white world. It began away back somewhere in the night. To think of the clouds dropping down upon us such things as these - those thickinexplainable clouds - children of the night. One would never dream that out of them gentle things like these would come. +++ Strange night! strange world of clouds! Out of the darkness of the one comes rosy dawn: out of the other softest drifts of snow. Is this the message the morning has for such haunting things as dreads? They too are dark things. Do they mean nothing but soft sweet touched upon our lives after all? Light, or snow-wreaths. ++++ Hills are pretty good things - & they go well with cream. This takes us quite naturally to Portville. Yes, I saw burnt Hill, & the hill where the Arbutus grows, & the Arm & Shoulder across the river. I'm not setting myself up to teach you anything about Portville hills. --- We had long mornings on the piazza with Jean Paul, & Justin McCarthy's "History of Our Own Time", & Taine's "Philosophy of Art," & John Burrough's "no end".We had afternoons of botanizing & fancy-work, & the "Tribune" & naps. Yes, m'am, naps. We had little walks in the garden after tea, picked nasturtiums, counted the rose-buds, named the pansie, scolded the verbenas, told the scarlet & flame of the geraniums every particular time that it was just about everything that could be put into color, & the arms of the big butternut tree that they were everything that could stand for shade & coaxing. Then we would sit on the porch & watch the night creep up the hills. Did you every go to Hookertown after ferns? That is one of the climaxes of an August morning. +++ Yes, that lake - now you can talk to me & I'll understand. I've learned the language from that blessed lake Erie, from Laura's own "joy-forever corner". I didn't just look at it & runaway, but I saw daylight come & bless it twenty three mornings. I saw all the sweet ways daylight has with it : I learned what it was to wake up in the night & feel it there - lived with "a bit of infinity on my horizon". +++++++++ So you were not happy with "Patience Strong". The "too-much"-ness is against it. Quite right. The "so-ness also. Right again. It's a sort of herb-extract of everything that can preach while it's a-simmering. ++ For a pure lark I think Paley's "Evidence" would have been much better. ++++++++++ Your dear wishes for me & your Christmas card came Christmas morning. What a blessed warming-up time Christmas is! -August 10" 1881- It is such a morning, dear, as we could take from & take from & still feel that we had only crept to the door of its fullness & looked out. It is here to the heart of summer that we have come. No more surpriseslaid away - no more unfoldings - but the great miracle of fullness before us. We can't understand much of it, tho' we seem strangely enough to belong to it. It is only in rare moments that we find ourselves high enough to see even what it is like. Then we think of life unending. +++ These are such little glimpses at my window today. The summer that I feel is larger than this. All the broad sweet places where shadows have crept after sunshine; all the deeps of the woods with their manifold secrets; all the meanings of long mornings with the sun coming up; all the sparkle & shimmer & rest of water with the parable of color upon it; all the wide upland stretches; all the forest goo-paths with gleams of still water in the distance; all the nights coming up over the world with the sounds in them that only summer nights bring; all that I have ever known of summer - it is this that I have here with me thismorning. How rich I feel! How glad I am to think that if anything in life seems limited it is we that limit it. +++++++ I have been reading Thoreau lately. Do you know him well? I can't tell you what a contrast it has been - his cheery out-door walks & my one bedroom window that looks nowhere. I couldn't see one sparrow even jump from an elm twig. But to go with Thoreau "cross-lots" on a ten mile walk - that was quite another thing. There wouldn't be a note nor a flutter up in the woods, there would be a thing to know about a swamp or a pasture that Thoreau couldn't tell you, & you feel all the time like poking him up to say more. ++ It is good in this age of hurry to stop & hear Mr. Thoreau talk about minnows, or, if you please, scarlet raks or ripe apples. Think of getting out of your room to do it! ++++++++++++ I do not like to talk of myself & of my sickness, but I must talk this little bitto you. +++ There is a strange uncertainty in what may come. But whatever comes be glad in it-.. Let it all mean the brightest, sunniest thing to you. +++++ Dec. 19" 1881. Is it so long since we have talked, dear? Perhaps so in the counting, but my thought has held on to you so, & filled the space with those thousand little things that were like talking to you - almost better sometimes, as touches of hands are better when the heart is full - that it seems as if there had not been any break ++ but we had kept right on. ++++++++ I don't wonder that boys grow up sort of braced & toned up - that they have to cultivate that sense of feeling that to girl is so often a sixth sense. A girl gets so little of the wide free living which a boy is so often born to. And so it falls out that a boy sees his way though life. a girl feels hers. I suppose one great question with us all is the kind of relief we seek for our moods. There is nothing, perhaps, that determined more the whole drift of our nature, next to our way of bearing sorrow, than the way we seek relief from it. ++++++ As to H. what she needs now above everything is somebody's arms. There are times when to the strongest there is nothing like a little human tenderness. There are moments when the dear Lord's best message to us is an arm around us. ++++++++++ The comfort part in my own statistics is very large. I'm not putting it at the best, but the best is putting itself at me. I say to again, "Be glad for me, whatever comes." When I said it you before there was the thought in my heart that perhaps for me there might be the going home : but there was a deeper thought than that & there is today - the thought, dear, of the long waiting that is likely to come first. Be veryglad for me in it all - in the pain - the slow waiting if it comes - the weary laying down. This is the hard part. For this, dear, put your hand in mine & be reverently glad. It is the joy of my life - the crown of it, dear one, that I am finding the gladness; that there is no longer faint far-off dawn, but that for me the morning has come. "Do not fear for me dark days. I think there is nothing dark for me henceforth. I have to do only with the present & the present is light & gladness." +++++++ -July 5" 1882- Well, my dear girl, to start with I am going to give you a downright hug. When a hug is downright it is the best one I know how to give. But hugs in this world have their limitations. As I have been known to remark on several occasions there are several things more satisfactory than a hug with a metal pen. But here it is, my dear - takeit quick. It is only one more thing - I say this settling back & putting on my - why, no - not spectacles - surely what do people put on when they settle back to begin a moral reflection - people, I mean who have outgrown their airs & haven't yet come to spectacles? Well, as I had begun to remark, it (this hug, mind!) is only one more thing that has to stand in this world for a great deal better something somewhere! +++++++++++ I am looking this morning straight up into the elm trees & my thought gets all tangled up there where the leaves grow so thick & the limbs cross. In one of them there's a bird's nest. I take the greatest delight in giving you this little peep at it. I think you are one of the people the birds would be sure to tell. I don't know any house around us that's capable of making more poetry than that little home of theirs - & poets, youknow, always confide in you! What else do I look at? Carts, my dear, & poor, spiny horses. I suppose there are a goodly number of sleek, fat, easy-going horses that I don't see. Horses take their chances like folks - but how in the world it is to be made up to these other horses I can't conceive. There must be a horse-heaven! I fully believe, you know, that there's a dog heaven. +++++ There's such a delicious little thing in that journal of Hawthorne's that he kept when he was a boy? Can you imagine Hawthorne a boy? I'm afraid I imagine it less since I read this journal than before. But if you can say the alphabet of him backward & get him fixed up there in the wild edges of that little Maine town, & see him stopping his fishing long enough to write down what he saw & what he thought about it to please his uncle, you willbe in fine trim to read that little colloquy he had with a horse. I think of it every time one of these sorry, graceless things goes by. +++++ Do you know any horse real well? I wish, if you do, you would just mention my anxieties about their future sate, & find out for my comfort what they have made up their minds to about future felicity. ++++++ That bird from my big elm has come down for a wisp dropped by that big hay-wagon. How wise you look, you tiny brown thing! Isn't it a bit of rare good planning that that bird's next should be set down - poetry over all this plodding prose? Planned? Why, of course, it was planned, & by a Heart that comprehends the meanings of all beauty. The sense of the doing for us beyond our thought is wonderful to me always. The great plannings are so beautiful : but the little thingslike these - the thinking of little things to please me - the sending the birds to me - the springing up of tiny weeds among the stones - I can't tell you how such things touch me! It is like walking behind somebody - every step - is it not? Well - the cart-wheels rumble on; the poor much-worked horses go plodding by; the rag-men & a the umbrella-men, & lack-a-day, the strawberry men go shouting by; the milk-wagons from Araby the blest go crunching over the cobble. +++ Perhaps it isn't just the out-look for a Browning talk. ++ It isn't that big orchard you & I would like to jump into this morning - & the bees aren't in the clover. Indeed there are no bees, & it's much to be feared there isn't any clover. However (let us begin it with a big H) ++ some of "Parcelsus" [Paracelsus] was lived out & written out I fancy under the inspiration of cobblestones. I quite believe the sameof "The Soul's Tragedy". Perhaps there was an organ-grinder & a swarthy man selling strawberries. "Well, it is earth with me; silence resumes her reign, I will be patient & proud & soberly acquiesce." +++++++++++++++ Get out of the atmosphere where people "scold for a principle" and, if heaven gives you the privilege unspeakable of of getting into the atmosphere where people die for a principle", if it is only you or I we could write a poem. If it is Mr. Browning he can write "Lyrics of Life". +++++ "Abt Vogler" touches me. I can't tell you how. Perhaps some of it is too near my own broken life for me not to understand. "And what is our failure here but a triumph's evidence For the fulness of the days?"Haven't I fought for this? It's a hard thing to stand before a failure - big or little. ++++++++++++++++++++ I have told you that I was rested, & I am. God is taking care of that: but close beside all this rest there is pressing upon me the consciousness of the work that has dropped from my hands. If I had died into some strange existence where I knew nothing but the pause & the waiting, to pause & wait would have been almost easy thing by the side of this that has come. But to be dragged to one side & left, & to hear the battle going on without you - that is another thing. Some of the pain of the world lies very near me. This is perhaps why I feel so much, how real a thing the pain of other people is - & with it the wish that is so strong in me to help- and close by me there are such sad & sorry things - things that I have to know. They roll in likewaves from that world ful [sic] of sadder things & sorrier. And I lie & hear them. ++ The longing grows upon me to do real work; but with the longing comes more & more the consciousness that my hands are dropping. If then, my dear girl, I call out to you, forgive me if I seem too earnest - if indeed one could be too earnest in a world like this. If sometimes, when you see the vacant place at your side, you can be a little braver, a little stronger - if you reach out more tenderly to others - how glad - how very glad I shall be. +++ If there come moments when your heart fails you, or your courage flags, think, won't you of Frances, & don't, don't darling, know one discouraged hour! ++ The dear Christ bless you & endue you with power from on high! Dear love - always--- -Sept. 28" 1882 - [The last letter]. ++++ I can only peep out of the window for a minute to get a little of thefeeling of the morning into me. ++ The feeling of the morning! I like to say it. I like to stand & feel for a breath of that wider morning that is always somewhere. I can't say "morning" without thinking of it. Such a long, dear letter from you! I cannot say "I thank you, dear". It seems as if we had both got beyond any thanking for such things. ++ It is untold giving when one gives one's self. Your words are never commonplace events to me. +++++ I'm glad you didn't let me miss Miss___'s talk. ++ I was interested the more that she is at Michigan University. I prepared - perhaps you don't know it - to enter there. It was a dream that never came true; but I never hear that a girl went there or is there but it sets some of me stirring. My plans died, dear, so hard! I am ready to believe anything in regard to the possibilities of a strong friendship. I am ready to believe a long, long waybeyond what I have lived; for you see I have only sent out a few feelers yet - & I don't know much about living - I've only begun. +++ Friendship is a constant surprise, I think. I suppose life is when one gets to the deeps beyond its shallows. A strong high friendship with another woman is as incomprehensible to some people as heaven its. I think those to whom an ideal marriage has been a thing known & lived are slowest to believe in the possibility of this other thing. +++ I think it is so with H. She has had, she feels, the very best that any life could offer in her love & marriage. That such a thing could even be approached in the tenderness & love of another woman is something she neither believes nor comprehends. ++++++ I am glad you have found a new friend this summer. You have discovered a new country! What a royal time is before you! & how thesun will shine, & the leaves rustle, & the birds sing as you explore it! ++++++++++ I have never talked you much about myself. You have taken me on trust so far. You do not know how little there is of me. +++ I am slow about saying things - too slow oftentimes. But my hour for writing you is nearly gone - I cannot say what is in my heart to say - until some other morning - I hope like this with the gold coming. It is so near your royal month. One thing I will say. I have wanted you to be happy in your thought of me. I have wished it very much. The pain of my life has doubtless come to you to hurt you in moments when I have seemed nearest perhaps: but you have not known, dearest, how much beyond any pain is the joy that has been given. So, be glad in your every thought of me. The Christ has come to me. "Go tell my brethren" were his words on that resurrection morning. Darling, I have come to tell you. +++++++
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Descriptor(s): Ditkoff, Andrea
Date: 1866

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Descriptor(s): Ditkoff, Andrea
Date: 1868

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Descriptor(s): Bielat, Isabel, Ditkoff, Andrea

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Descriptor(s): Ditkoff, Andrea
Date: 1866

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Creator: Elwell, Abbie (Nickerson)
Transcriber(s): Serra, Andrea
Descriptor(s): Ditkoff, Andrea
Date: 1878-1928
Text: Abbie (Nickerson) Elwell, '82#762/2 37.50 Abbie M. Nickerson, Vassar College, Sept. 23, 1878It is a singular fact that in journals on those days that are fullest of adventures, and which furnish abundant material, people seldom make lengthy entries, often passing them by altogether. The traveler starting for Europe, will furnish an admirable example. On board ship, where there is an abundance of leisure the pages of the diary are faithfully filled, but open the book, when he is fairly in...
Show moreAbbie (Nickerson) Elwell, '82#762/2 37.50 Abbie M. Nickerson, Vassar College, Sept. 23, 1878It is a singular fact that in journals on those days that are fullest of adventures, and which furnish abundant material, people seldom make lengthy entries, often passing them by altogether. The traveler starting for Europe, will furnish an admirable example. On board ship, where there is an abundance of leisure the pages of the diary are faithfully filled, but open the book, when he is fairly in the whirl and bustle of London or Paris, and what do we find? In most cases blank pages. Yet think you these days are forgotten? Most assuredly not. The mind is ever recurring to them. Thus I feel it may be with the days, whose record I have been to busy to write, but now in the quiet of my room, as I think over the past two months that have flown so quickly, I feel moved to write something of their many and varied experiences. Nov. 30, 1878 I left home on the afternoon of Sept. 17. Emma and Addie Tuttle were at the station in W. Newton to see me off. Papa and I took the cars for N.Y. and changed to the boat, where we rested very well. Wednesday morning we woke quite early, and after a lunch, which mama had prepared for us, went out on deck to see what we could of the harbor. We went under the new bridge, which had progressed considerably since I saw it before on our return from the "Centennial." Arrived in N.Y. papa made some arrangement about my baggage, and we then walked to Broadway. Papa left his coat at the hotel, and we then visited the Post Office, Trinity, Stewart's and Tiffany's. We returned to the hotel for dinner, and after resting a while went to the boat, where I waited while papa went out for a walk. Mr. and Mrs. H. F. King came on with us, also Mr. Kingman. We had a delightful trip ip the Hudson. When we arrived at Poughkeepsie, it was too late to go to the College, so we went to the Northern House. In the confusion at the landing, I was separated from father, but he joined me at the hotel, soon after I reached there. I had a very comfortable room, but did not sleep very well the first part of the night. Papa left on the early boat for N.Y. I accompanied him to the wharf, and felt rather peculiarly, as I returned to the hotel for breakfast, alone. During the morning I went to the college in the horse-car, which was mostly filled with girls and their friends. After waiting a few minutes in the parlor I went to Miss Morse in room J, who assigned my room, and then one of the Messenger girls took me there to leave my things. I then went to the chapel to await further developments. There I saw Miss [Shailer] and Miss Buckland, who said she was to me by room-mate. In a few minutes they came for me, and I took an examination in Phys. Geography in the Library. Miss Haskell gave me the examination, and pronounced it satisfactory. After settling my account with Mr. Vassar Ireturned to my room, where I busied myself trying to arrange my things. My trunks were brought out in due time by the horse-car co[mpany]. We had no lessons until Monday, so that we had leisure to explore and to form several acquaintances. Laura Gross came, but did not spend the first night here. I sat with her sister a while, when Laura was taking her examinations. Sunday, Sept. 22 President Caldwell preached. We heard vague reports of "hazing," when we first came, but the old students have been exceedingly courteous and kind. There are many things to be learned--e.g. the clothes which we consider plain, we find to our dismay, are mostly "fancy," and do we chance to put in a collar on which the marking is a little "dim" our bag is returned. There were so many bells to mind that some of us taxed our poor brains to the uttermost, and after all forgot corridor meeting. We find our exercise a delightful change after the day's work. One of the popular walks is to the cider mill. Generally a party of five or six go together, each with a water pitcher or sometimes more beautiful though not so useful majolica. Arrived before what we suppose to be the house, we debate whether we shall go to the door or proceed directly past several windows filled with people evidently immensely amused. At last, we go on to the barn, in front of which we see piles of apples and smell what is unmistakably the odor of cider. There are several men at work, who do not seem inclined to pay us much attention, and we standfor a few minutes very much like laughing. Finally one man says he will go for the measure, which, by the way, he has considerable difficulty in finding. When he has rinsed it at the pump, he calmly inquires how much we will have. Now none of us have bought cider, and here another consultation is held. On our way back we refreshed ourselves once or twice in order to lighten the pitchers. Chestnuts in due time come, and we hunt for them among the dry leaves. Anecdotes of Prof. Hinkel. What is the first step in a Greek funeral--a death. Why did Apollo draw his bow? To shoot. Prof. had a certain order of hearing the young ladies recite, so that knowing what part of the lesson each would have, they prepared themselves accordingly. This reached his ears, and he was very much troubled "Young ladies" said he "I am very sorry to hear this, but to prove it I will begin at the other end of the class tomorrow." Knowing this the lessons were prepared with especial care, and Prof. was convinced that the report was not true. An English Bishop was stopping at a certain hotel. The proprietor instructed the boy whose duty is [it] was to wait on the said bishop, to answer, when he knocked at the bishop's door, and the bishop asked "who's there?" the boy my lord, but the boy very much confused said "The Lord my boy." As someone has said there is no great credit in doing some things, but great discredit in leaving them undone.Notes on Drawing. The following extracts were taken from several books, which I read before coming here, and I transfer them from my loose papers to this book, so I think them worthy of preservation. Drawing is an art, which renders woman truly feminine. It increases her love of home, by teaching her to render it attractive. It is in a word, an art which lends modesty and wisdom; which subdues imagination to the control of reason. How many artists are like goats, which when fastened to a stake, begin at once to browse on what it remote and difficult to obtain? It is wiser to begin with what is in our reach, with the most simple and easiest. See that streamlet which follows lovingly the channel nature has prepared for it, bearing in its undulating course freshness and plenty to its banks, enriching itself with little brooks that join it on the way, and finally reaching the sea, a deep majestic river: that is the emblem of talent and genius. All styles should be studied impartially: thus one preserves originality. The pupil of all is the pupil of none. "I am nearly convinced that when once we see keenly enough there is very little difficulty in drawing what we see; but supposing this difficulty is still great, I believe that sight is a more important thing than ability to draw, and I would rather teach Drawing that one may love Nature, than teach looking at Nature that one may learn to draw." It is more important for most of us to appreciate art, than to paint or draw.Drawing enables us to perceive the beauty of the natural world, to record things not to be described in words, to preserve something like a true image of the beautiful things that pass away, to understand the minds of painters. M. Rouillet's Method of Enlarging. Trace on glass or gummed gauze with lithographic ink. Take a small lamp with a flat wick cut slantingly so as to make it very pointed. When it is lighted, lower it until it forms a luminous point. Dark room. Place the lamp so that the luminous point is in the center of the image. As the lamp is placed nearer or further from the gauze the reflection is increased or diminished. If a large copy is required, divide the tracing into sections. Fixature. Put half an ounce of white shellac in 3/4 of a pint of alcohol, cork it well and let it dissolve two days. With a little sponge spread on the back of the drawing.-- Accuracy is the first and last thing. If precision is used in the means, it will be manifest in the result. Crayons should be held inclined and not pressed between the finger. Lights may be taken out with a crumb of bread. The gauze proof is a faithful instructor, a silent teacher, responding to the eyes which consult it only by presenting truth. Sharpen the charcoal fine, for the outline should be very light yet perfectly distinct. It may be erased with a bit of muslin."Trust in God, and keep your powder dry." Cromwell. Adjoining the college grounds at the rear, is a small burying-ground, surrounded by a stone wall and shaded by apple trees. The graves are nearly on a level with the ground, some of them scarcely distinguishable. We found our way there one afternoon this fall. Viva and I. We tried to read the tablet inscriptions, and one of them was as follows: Remember me as you pass by, As you are now so once was I, As I am now so you will be, Prepare for death, and follow me. Someone had added in pencil--To follow you I'm not content, until I know which way you went. Viva said she would like to be buried in such a retired and quiet spot. I would prefer our Newton Cemetery. I cannot bear to see neglect, although it may make no difference to the departed, it is pleasant to think that people are still remembered, and what better tribute can be paid than cultivation and care of the spot, where their bodies were placed. I sometimes think people mourn for those gone too much, and do not love sufficiently those remaining. Children are quick to hear and apply new words or sentences. Viva told me the other day that her little cousins, who slept together, were very "cute" to use Vassar slang. One had heard someone say "excuse my back," so as he turned over in bed back to his little sister, he said "excuse my back sister." My Mother and I = Miss Storer and Mrs. Storer. The girls on Miss Brown's corridor are called Helen's Babies. Vassar College, Saturday, Feb. 7/1880. Sophomore party in Society Hall began at seven o'clock P.M. The Literature class was the first feature of the regular entertainment. Miss Foos acting Prof. B. Miss Baldwin acted Miss Pass to perfection. Miss Cora Glenn and Miss Sandford [Sanford] exchanged parts or places. Miss Home was Miss Foos, Viva was Laura Glenn, Miss Varnes was M. B. King, and Miss Lyon visited the class a la Mrs. Ray. Prof. B. distributed paper for examination amid the loud protests of the whole class, saying he would take the "moral responsibility." The Latin class followed. Miss Goodwin was acted by Miss Patterson, in a black dress and red shawl. Miss Stanton acted Miss Sanford. The usual requests of please shut the register and open the farther window were made. HS was explained in Cicero's Letters just before Dr. Hinckel made his appearance, when it was repeated in full for his benefit. Miss Coleman acted Dr. Hinckel. The Faculty Meeting was very good. Laura Gross in white represented Miss Morse and did the honors of the big book. Miss Phillips was Pres. Caldwell, Miss Moore read the minutes of the last meeting, which were very interesting. She represented Prof. Braislin. Miss Easton was the doctor, and Miss Kountz, Prof. Mitchell. The windows were hung with our carpets and 'Welcome' and two large paper babies decorated the curtain. Quid agamus? was on one side of the room, and the wall was also decorated with pictures from Harper's Weekly and Rising Sun stove polish pictures. Miss Warder and Miss Glenn, her son "Skip," dressed in a chemistry apron, etc. distributed pea-nuts, corn-balls and apples from a little cart. And Miss Warder presented sticks of candy. Soon Misses Brittan and Nicks, as waitresses, passed plates, napkins, olives, sandwiches and coffee. The 'Glee Club' sang several pieces and we danced. A number of the cards presented had very good hits such as;--She's a daisy, she's a Darling. Warren-ted to enter heaven, below the picture of a crying child who 'wants to be an angel'. Viva sat up with George after we returned, and copied her essay in part. Clear and cold. We were excused from breakfast and Bible-class. Spent the morning thawing oysters and making soup. I breakfasted on sardines, crackers and oranges. Pres. Caldwell preached. Viva and I walked just before dinner. I spent the afternoon in the Reading Room. In the evening attempted to call on Miss Nicks, but she was engaged. A Miss [Beech] addressed the Society for Religious Inquiry on the subject of the Christian Missions in Paris. She was very entertaining. I finished a long letter home after the meeting. Ida and Jennie Cushing are spending Sunday with Miss Cleveland. A number of the young ladies went home Friday to spend a few days between the semesters. Sunday, Feb. 8. Clear and cold. The semester began this morning. Miss Hinckel excused the German class after a few moments. We went to our first Greek recitation at the second period. Miss Miller pronounced the alpha- bet and explained a little about some letters, before dismissing the class, which is very small. Spent half an hour on the ice with Laura Gross after Zoology. Cora exercised with me in Gymnastics. Misses Abbot, Starr, Glenn and Darling were admitted to '81 this evening. Miss Jessie F. Wheeler to '82. Miss Cutler to '83. Spent most of my leisure to-day on my essay. A meeting of the Philalethean Society was called after dinner in the Lecture Room. Monday, Feb. 9/80 Very cold. I was awakened in the night by a loud noise, which proved to be the bursting of our steam pipes. We went to Mr. Robinson the Engineer immediately after breakfast, and he had them put in order during the day. Mrs. Johns and Mrs. Ray came down, and gave us the key of Miss Storer's room, which was a very comfortable resort for the day, as our room was so cold. We were excused from Gymnastics, and I skated with Ida Cushing. I went to Miss Yamakawa's room between dinner and chapel to consult about our German, " ...zu Maria Stuart," afterward I went to see the Dr. about Physiology. I asked Prof. Braislin about taking it yesterday noon. Rec'd letters from Fanny, Addie Tuttle and Mother. Tuesday, Feb. 10/80 Warm. I was excused from gymnastics and skated an hour. They began to cut the ice today. Prof. Mitchell lectured at eight o'clock this evening. The lecture was very interesting. She said we must use our eyes. Wednesday, Feb. 11/80 Although it was a hard rain storm, Society Hall was well filled to hear 'Cinderella.' The evening was a very enjoyable one, and the programmes in the shape of a red slipper very attractive. Friday. Sunday, always a welcome day here, was doubly so to-day, as I was tired with my week's work, especially by my essay, which I finished very late in the evening. George and I both wrote until the last minute, when she took our essays up just before the last bell. Prof. Dwight preached this morning on the text, "With God all things are possible." The discourse was very able yet exceedingly characteristic of the writer. Read the "Princess of Thule" at the spare moments. Called on Miss Haskell with Cora, in the evening. Sunday. Miss Storer left this morning. I walked with Laura an hour as we were excused from Gymnastics. George and I attended Miss Hinckel's sociable in the evening. A number of young ladies acted "Die drei Spinnerinen." Monday. Walked with Ida Cushing. Went to Miss Miller's to read Greek just before dinner, as I did yesterday at the same time. I spent the evening after study hour in the Library in connection with Zoology. Tuesday. I received the news from home that father was attacked by a robber Wednesday night, as he was on his way home. Prof. Dwight used the solar microscope in the Zoology class. The Beta meeting this evening was very pleasant. Miss Hoyt read a critique, Miss Fridenberg recited a piece, and there was also a charade in three acts, 'Stage-struck.' Miss Foos and Misses Williams and Woodward with Miss Phillips took the parts very excellently. Friday, Feb. We had about two inches of snow. The storm cleared in the p.m. In the evening there was a very fine concert in the chapel given by the Mendelssohn Quintette Club of Boston. Saturday, Feb. 21/80. I read 'Lady of the Lake' yesterday. George and I called on Emma Bush in the evening. We have a holiday to-day in honor of Washington's Birthday. I spent most of my time working on a white shawl for mother. Monday, Feb. 23/80. Notes on Prof. Mitchell's lecture. Copied June, 4. 1880. Popular knowledge is not scientific. Mathematics are necessary to the study of Physical Science and Astronomy. Astronomy can be studied without instruments. Newton was a philosopher, mathematician and astronomer. Did you ever prove to yourself that the earth turns? Taking one inch as the diameter of the earth the sun would not come in this room. Mars is not up we are under. The earth turns more slowly than it did, viz: 1/66 of a second in 2500 yrs. The days are therefore growing longer. Stars do not set farther north or south at different seasons. Use your eyes. Kepler observed without a telescope. A mile is the smallest space that we can distinguish on the moon. The study of Science lifts us out of ourselves. Continued from Page 72 The Revel of Sir Hugonin de Guisay William S. Walsh/ Revels of the Inns of Court T.K. Hervey/ King Witlaf's Drinking-Horn Henry W. Longfellow/ Old Christmastide Sir Walter Scott/ Christmas Games in "Old Wardle's["] Kitchen Chas. Dickens/ A "Mystery" as performed in Mexico Bayard Taylor/ Book of Christmas Hamilton W. Mabie VIII When All the World is Kin Christmas Night of '62 William Gordon McCabe/ Merry Christmas in the Tenements Jacob Riis/ Christmas at Sea Robert Louis Stevenson/ The First Christmas Tree in the Legation Compound, Tokyo, Mary Crawford Fraser/ Christmas in India Rudyard Kipling/ A Belgian Christmas Eve Procession All the Year Round/ Christmas at the Cape John Runcie/ The "Good Night" in Spain Fernan Caballero/ Christmas in Rome John Addington Symonds/ Christmas in Burgundy M. Fertiault/ Christmas in Germany Amy Fay/ Christmas Dinner in a Clipper's Fo'c'sle Herbert Elliot Hamblen/ Christmas in Jail Rolf Boldrewood/ Colonel Carter's Christmas Tree F. Hopkinson Smith IX Christmas Stories Christmas Roses Zona Gale/ The Fir Tree Hans Christian Andersen/ The Christmas Banquet Nathaniel Hawthorne/ A Christmas Even in Exile Alphonse Daudet/ The Rehearsal of the Mummers' Play Eden Phillpotts X New Year New Year Richard Watson Gilder/ Midnight Mass for the Dying Year Henry W. Longfellow The Death of the Old Year Alfred Tennyson/ A New Year's Carol Martin Luther/ New Year's Resolutions "Elizabeth"/ Love and Joy Come to You Old English Carol/ Ring Out, Wild Bells Alfred Tennyson/ New Year's Eve, 1850 James Russell Lowell/ Rejoicings upon the New Year's Coming of Age Charles Lamb/ New Year's Rites in the Highlands Cahrles Rogers/ The Chinese New Year H.C. Sirr/ New Year's Gifts in Thessaly J. Theodore Bent/ "Smashing" in the New Year Jacob Riis/ New Year Calls in Old New York William S. Walsh/ Sylvester Abend in Davos John Addington Symonds XI Twelfth Night--Epiphany "Now Have Good Day!" Old English Carol/ A Twelfth Night Superstition Barnaby Googe/ Twelfth-Day Table Diversion John Nott/ The Blessings of the Waters J. Theodore Bent/ La Galette du Roi William Hone/ Drawing King & Queen Universal Magazine/ St. Distaff's Day & Plough Monday Hone's Year Book XII The Christmas Spirit "As Little Children in a Darkened Hall" Chas. Henry Crandall/ Christmas Dreams Christopher North/ The Professor's Christmas Sermon Robert Browning/ Awaiting the King F. Marion Crawford/ Elizabeth's Christmas Sermon "Elizabeth"/ Nichola's "Reason Why" Zona Gale/ The Changing Spirit of Christmastide Washington Irving/ A Prayer for Christmas Peace Charles Kingsley Under the Holly Bough Charles Mackay/ Christmas Music John Addington Symonds/ A Christmas Sermon Robert Loius Stevenson List of Plates The Holy Night Correggio/ The Holy Night C. Muller/ The Arrival of the Shepherds Lerolle/ The Bells Blashfield/ The Madonna Bellini/ The Virgin adorning the Infant Christ Correggio/ The Madonna Murillo/ Holy Night Van Ulade/ The Holy Family with the Shepherds Titian/ Madonna della Sedia Raphael/ The Adoration of the Magi Paolo Veronese/ The Adoration of the Magi Memling/ Vassar College, Oct. 3, 1880. I have now been at the college two weeks yesterday. Laura Gross and I came on by way of Albany, leaving Boston at 8.30 a.m. Father came into Boston with me and Mary Gross, with Laura. A friend of theirs Mr. Saroni of Pittsfield accompanied us as far as that town. He is about thirty years of age, very pleasant and entertaining. We passed the time in reading accounts of the Boston Celebration, playing cards, eating candy, our lunch etc. Miss Spaulding was on the train and changed with us at Greenbush. It was a lovely day without, but very warm in the cars. We reached Poughkeepsie considerably behind time. As we stopped to make arrangements for our trunks the car-driver called out, "If you young ladies are going to the college you had better hurry up." After we were seated he said, "If you had given your checks here you would have saved time." Finally when considerable difficulty was experienced in getting the car on the track, he made other remarks to the same effect. We could not see what our delay had to do with the present trouble. My studies this semester are Astronomy, Rhetoric and Greek, coming on the second, third and fourth periods. Nothing of much importance has occurred since our return. The meeting of Beta last Friday evening was very well attended by members and friends, there being about ninety present. Miss Fitzhugh read a critique, descriptive of our last meeting at Mlle. [Sec's] room. George read a critique then, Miss Van Kleeck impersonated Lord Dundreary, MissFridenberg played the piano, Laura Webster and her friend the violin. Sandwiches, lemonade and cake were passed, and we enjoyed a very charming evening. Friday night after the critique Miss Fridenberg read a selection from Mark Twain, in which he acts as second in a French duel. A charade, Fan, Tom, Phantom was very well acted. Miss Alice Shove read "Tom Sawyer" white-washing the fence. We then had refreshments, and adjourned. Cora and I walked in and out from Poughkeepsie, Friday p.m. Yesterday we walked to Cedar Ridge. It is beautiful weather for walking now. Viva and Lula Morrill went into town to church this morning. Prof. Braislin met our Bible class for the first time to-day. The lesson was Genesis XXVI. 12-26. Pres. Caldwell preached as usual. Oct. 9, 1880. Notes from Life and Literature in the Fatherland By John F. Hurst. Scribner, Armstrong & Co. 1875. Bremen. Faulenstrasse. The myth is as follows: There was once a forest where the street now is, on the edge of ... lived an aged couple who had seven sons. The father was industrious, but they were drones. The parents were very kind to the large, lazy boys, but people said they had been spoiled. Even the children came to make sport of them, and at length the eldest proposed going to work. They determined to leave home and seek a livelihood in some other part of the country. Their father feared they had been lazy too long to become industrious, but he told them if they would walk through the streets of Bremen with axes on their shoulders and spades in their hands as proof of their sincerity, he would give them each a new suit of clothes and twenty-five dollars in gold. They actually did this, and soon started off. They adhered to their resolution and rose to high positions. One morning, the people of Bremen were surprised to see seven well-dressed men with axes and spades coming into town on foot. They cried, "Can they be the lazy brothers?" Their aged parent[s] were glad to welcome them back to the little house. But the brothers said, "The house is too small. Let us build a new one." A fine house was then erected on a piece of land where there was no road. They made a street. "What shall we call it?," said they. It was agreed that since they had spent so much time in idleness they would call it "Lazy-street" as a warning to others. "..." ... In SOuthern Germany the augment is often omitted. ... is used for ..., etc. ... at the end of German words is pronounced like ia in Virginia. Miss Terry had over her door: "This is the abode of Mys. tery." (Miss Terry). "A person can scarcely be put in a more dangerous position, than when external circumstances have pronounced some striking change in his condition, without his manner of feeling and of thinking having undergone any preparation for it" Wilhelm Meister at death of his father pg. 269 Carlysle's [Carlyle's] translation. Also the following, "One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, speak a few reasonable words." President Raymond. "Considering what I had come for and what I had got, I felt like the Irishman who was allowed to work his passage on the canal by leading the horse, and who concluded at the end of the route, "But for the name of the thing, faix! he might as well travel afut." Dr. Raymond born in 1814. "To praise ordinary excellencies of character in him would be a wrong to his virtues." "Integritatem atque abstinentiam in tanto viro referre injuria virtutum fuerit." Tacitus, Agric, IX. Extract from Vol. 44. of Atlantic entitled "The Greatest Novelist's Work for Freedom." Ivan Turgenef [Turgenev], Alex I and Alex II and their times. Nihilism "Prenez la terre et le ciel, prenez la vie et la mort, l'ame et Dieu, et crachez dessus--voila le nihilisme." Extracts from Black's "Sunrise." Chap. VIII. "Those Nihilists are becoming more and more impracticable. The aim at scarcely anything beyond destruction." Portions of Chap. III. and Chap. V. Chap. VLI--"Lind used to denounce the outrages of the Nihilists, and talk with indignation of the useless crimes of the Camorra etc."Questions to be answered in writing critical essays. Copied May 24/81. 1.What is the comparative position which this author occupies in English or in American Literature?/ 2. Is his range of subjects wide or narrow?/ 3. In what line has he achieved most marked success?/ 4. Is he a profound thinker?/ 5. Is he a close observer of human nature?/ 6. Is he possessed of much of the imaginative quality?/ 7. What can you say of his diction?/ 8. Does he seem to reflect strongly any prominent tendencies of modern thought? the influence of foreign literature?/ 9. Has he talent or genius?/ 10. Does he exhibit much of the pathetic element?/ 11. Do you see his own personality exhibited in his writings?/ 12. Does he show a tendency to repeat himself?/ 13. Do you note any development, advantageous or the reverse, in going from his earlier to his later writings? Concerning a novelist. 14. Has he shown power in dealing with female character?/ 15. Is his chief strength in plot or character drawing?/ 16. Is he nearer the standard of fiction established by Walter Scott or that exemplified by Henry James, Jr.? Concerning a poet. 17. What can you say of the character of his rhythm?/ 18. Has he the power of making word pictures? Miss Hiscock advises me to read Taine. An idea is an image or representation of an object conceived in the mind. Essay subjects. Copied Feb. 5/82. Is Aristocracy the great sine qua non of American culture?/ Is the popular lecture useful to the college student?/ Charlotte Bronte's ideal hero./ The inestimable privilege of grumbling./ The Teutonic and Anglo-Saxon man./ Woman's limitations in English social life./ Trollope's novels and Sat. Review./ Are women loyal to each other?/ Pageantry and patriotism./ Spanish character in history?/ Anthony Trollope and Henry James Jr./ T.W. Higginson./ Emerson vs Mallock./ Dr. Holland, the apostle of mediocrity./ "Cranks" I have known./ Are Americans a nation of imitators?/ Sentimentality in literature - Robert Browning./ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps./ The wrong side of our indebtedness to our puritan forefathers./ Danger of the present craze for the picturesque in writing. Essay Subjects. Copied April 15/82 The Sense of Humor as an Ameliorating Influence in Life./ The Cobden Club and its Works./ The Office of an Aristocratic Class in Civilization./ Influence of Alex. Hamilton./ Interest of Fitz Green Hallack [Fitz-Greene Halleck]./ Place of the Club in American Life./ Sheridan and Wilberforce./ The Place of Parlor-lectures in Education./ Should the Average Citizen Be a Politician?/ Howell, James and Mallock - School of Opression [sic]./ James' Life of Hawthorne./ Office of the Supernatural in Literature [from Hamlet down]/ Is America Wanting in Ideals?/ Are we fairly Represented at Coney Island? Subject of lecture by J.H. Allen, Harvard, Dec. '81 Chivalry as affecting the condition of the women of the Middle Ages. May 25/81. Subjects for Astronomy lectures. The planets Mercury and Venus./ The planets interior to Mercury./ The planet Jupiter./ The planet Saturn./ The planet Mars and its satellites./ The planet Neptune./ The 200 small planets./ The Sun and its spots./ The Moon (descriptive)./ The November meteors./ The Comets./ The Moon (Harvest)/ The Zodiacal light./ Periods of nature./ Systems of the universe./ Proper motion of the stars./ The view of astronomy before the 17th century./ The view after 1600./ Newton, Tycho Brahe, Galileo, Maria Agnesi./ Observatories. Equatorial telescopes./ Fixed stars. Variable stars./ Distance of stars and nebulae./ Eclipses & occultations./ Which is the more interesting the mathematical study of Astronomy or the observing? Why?/ Bode's law and other laws. The weight of the bodies of the universe. Sources of sun's heat & light.First newspaper was published in Venice, and was called Gazette from the coin Gazetta for which it was sold. It was issued monthly in manuscript by the government. Notes on Mental April 15/82 Formal relations belong to thinking/ Real relations belong to concrete and actual existence/ Principle exists only in the mind./ All systems of philosophy may be resolved either into Monism or Dualism./ Knowledge is a knowledge of relations. Feb. '83 "What is mind? No matter." Dr. Caldwell/ "When Bishop Berkeley said there was no matter/ It was no matter what he said." If strange, strange noises in the night/ Cause you to almost die of fright:/ If stealthy footfalls drawing near/ With wildly beating heart you hear;/ Then use this gift, courageous wife!/ Sometime, mayhap, 'twill save your life. - Mouse trap A dainty Bride should keep with pride/ Her little hands both soft and fair./ The gift inside if well applied/ Preserves the hands - But, use with care! - Holder Similia similibus curantur/ For Monday's blues use this instanter -[Blaine] Extracts from Smith College Calendar for 1881. Selected and arranged by Kate A. Sanborn. Copied Jan. 8, 1882. Sat. Jan. 1 Another year of happy work,/ That better is than play;/ Of simple cares, and love that grows/ More sweet from day to day. J.W. Chadwick. Sunday, Jan. 2 To hope-lit New Year, with thy joys uncertain,/ Whose unsolved mystery none may foretell;/ I calmly trust my God to lift the curtain,/ Safe in His love for me, 'twill all be well. Julia B. Cady. Tuesday, Jan. 4 Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again; wisely improve the present, it is thine; go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. Longfellow. Wednesday, Jan. 5. Now [No] longer forward nor behind/ I look in hope or fear;/ But, grateful, take the good I find,/ The best of now and here. Whittier. Friday, Jan. 7. Though thou have time/ But for a line, be that sublime,/ Not failure, but low aim, is crime. J.R. Lowell. Sat. Jan. 8 Life? 'Tis the story of love and troubles, Of troubles and love, that travel together - The round world through. Joaquin MillerMonday, Jan. 10. Persistent people begin their success, where others end their failure. Edward Eggleston. Wed. Jan. 12 It is better to say, "This one thing I do," than to say, "These forty things I dabble in." Washington Gladden. Thursday. Jan. 13 The only reward of virtue is virtue. The only way to have a friend is to be one. Emerson. Friday. Jan. 14 We cannot help thinking that when a head is full of ideas, some of them will involuntarily ooze out. Eliza Leslie. Sat. Jan. 15. The devil is credited with a great deal of mischief the stomach is guilty of. B.F. Taylor. Wed. Jan. 19 It is not well for a man to pray cream, and live skim milk. H.W. Beecher. Thursday, Jan. 20. About the only person that we ever heard of that wasn't spoiled by being lionized, was a Jew named Daniel. G. D. Prentice. Sat. Jan. 22 The cure for gossip is culture. Good-natured people often talk about their neighbors because they have nothing else to talk about. J.G. Holland. Sunday, Jan. 30. Religion is no leaf of faded green:/ Or flower of vanished fragrance, presented between/ The pages of a Bible; but from seeds/ Of love it springeth, watered by good deeds. J.T. Trowbridge. Monday, Jan. 31. We can each have all the time there is; our mental and moral status is determined by what we do with it. Mary Blake.Thursday, Feb. 10 Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and the laughter abundant. W. Irving. Friday, Feb. 11. Familiarity does not breed contempt, except of contemptible things, or in contemptible people. Phillips Brooks. Wed. Feb. 16. A sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. W. Irving. Sunday, Feb. 20 On this earth there are many roads to Heaven and each traveler supposes his own to be the best. But they all unite in one road at last. It is only Omnisciecce can decide. Eliza Leslie. Thursday, March 3. Of all amusements of the mind,/ From Logic down to fishing,/ There isn't one that you can find/ So very cheap as wishing. J.G. Saxe. Friday, March, 11. Suffering is God's tool to cut life into beauty. C.A. Bartol. Monday Mar. 14 It does beat all how good advice will make some people squirm. Josiah Allen's Wife. Copied - June 2 - 1883. Friday, Apr. 8 A bore is a man who spends so much time talking about himself that you can't talk about yourself. Eli Perkins Wed. Apr. 27 All will join in the credo, I believe in the total depravity of inanimate things. Mrs. E.A. Walker. Thursday July 21 The chief obstacle and inconvenience in traveling is the prejudice in favor of taking the body with us. N.P. Willis Sat. Aug. 13 No sensible person ever made an apology--Emerson Apology is only egotism wrong side out. Holmes Sat. Oct. 8 If of all swords of tongue and pen/ The saddest are "It might have been,"/ More sad are these we daily see:/ It is, but hadn't ought to be./ Bret Harte Sat. Nov. 26 Teeth are carious, precarious and vicarious. A.B. Frothingham. Mon. Dec. 5 Everything, Nothing, Something, Enough!/ These are the infantine, adolescent, juvenile and mature stages of culture. Joseph Cook. Wed. Dec. 7 Books are all very well, but when a girl tells me she prefers reading a book to talking to a man, I always set her down as mendacious, or else a little simple. Robert Grant. S.G. Goodrich (Peter Parley)The Book of Christmas - Hamilton W. Mabie, Forbes Library. Extracts for the Introduction When "The Birds' Christmas Carol" appeared we laughed over it to hide our tears. Mr. Janvier's charming account of Xmas ways in Provence captivated us, and we found excuse for its tender regard for old habits and observances in the fact that Mr. Janvier has been in the habit of spending a good deal of time with a group of unworldly old poets who still dream of joy & beauty as the precious things of life, and hold to the fellowship of artists instead of forming a labor union. Mr. Thomas Nelson Page, Mr. F. Marion Crawford & Mr. ... Hopkinson Smith have written undisguised Christmas stories with as little sense of detachment from modern life as if they were telling detective tales and, what is more astonishing to the worldly wise man, these stories have a glow of life, a vitality of charm & sweetness in them that make scorn & cynicism seem cheap & vulgar. And here comes Dr. Crothers and stirs the smouldering Christmas fire into a blaze and sits down before it as if it were real logs in combustion & not a trick with gas, & makes gentle sport of the wisdom of the sceptic. These recent revivals of Christmas literature have met with a surprising response from a generation popularly believed to be given over to the making money & the extirpation of human feeling. xxx Alexander Smith, whose book of essays, "Dreamthorp" is one of the books of the heart--kindled his imagination into a responsive glow by reading every Christmas Day Milton's "Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity." When one opens the volume of this great song, it is like going into a church & hearing the organ played by unseen hands; the silence is flooded by a vast music which lifts the heart into the presence of great mysteries. xx The real business of the race is not to make money but to make life full and sweet and satisfying. Contents I Signs of the Season "The Time draws near the Birth of Christ" Alfred Tennyson/ An Hue & Cry after Christmas Old English Tract/ The Doge's Christmas Shooting F. Marion Crawford/ Thursday Processions in Advent William S. Walsh/ The Glastonbury Thorn Alexander F. Chamberlain/ In the Kitchen Old English Ballad/ Christmas in England Washington Irving/ Christmas Invitation William Barnes/ A Christmas Market Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick/ The Star of Bethlehem in Holland Bow-Bells Annual/ The Pickwick Club goes down to Dingley Dell Chas. Dickens/ A Visit from St. Nicholas Clement C. Moore/ Crowded Out Rosalie M. Jonas II Holiday Saints and Lords. My Lord of Misrule T.K. Hervey/ St. Nicholas Collated/ An Old Saint in a New World Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer/ St. Thomas Collated, W.P.R./ Kriss Kringle Thomas Bailey Aldrich/ Il Santissimo Bambino Collated, W.P.R./ The Christ Child Elise Traut/ An April Baby is Thankful "Elizabeth"/ Good King Wenceslas Old English Carol/ Jean Valjean plays the Christmas Saint Victor Hugo/ St. Brandan Matthew Arnold/ St. Stephen's, or Boxing Day Collated, W.P.R./ St. Basil in Trikkola J. Theodore Bent III Christmas Customs and Beliefs. The Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ From "The Golden Legend"/ Folk-lore of Christmas Tide Collected by A.F. Chamberlain/ Hunting the Wren Quoted by T.K. Hervey/ The Presepio Hone's Year Book/ Hodening in Kent Contributed to The Church Times/ Origin of the Christmas Tree William S. Walsh/ Origin of the Christmas Carol [Card] William S. Walsh/ The Yule Clog T.K. Hervey/ "Come Bring with a Noise" Robert Herrick/ Shoe or Stocking Edith M. Thomas/ Jule-Nissen Jacob Riis/ "Lame Needles" in Euboea J. Theodore Bent/ Who rides behind the Bells? Zona Gale/ Guests at Yule Edmund Clarence Stedman IV Christmas Carols "I saw Three Ships" Old English Carol/ "Lordings listen to Our Lay" Earliest Existing Carol/ The Cherry-Tree Carol Old English Carol/ "In Excelsis Gloria" From the Harleian MSS./ "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen" Old English Carol/ The Golden Carol Old English Carol/ Caput apri refero resonens laudes domino. Balliol MS. about 1540/ "Villagers All, this Frosty Tide" Kenneth Grahame/ Holly Song William Shakespeare/ Before the Paling of the Stars Christina G. Rossetti/ The Minstrels played their Christmas Tune - William Wordsworth/ A Carol from the Old French Henry W. Longfellow/ "From Far Away we come to you" Old English CarolA Christmas Carol James Russell Lowell/ A Christmas Carol for Children Martin Luther V Christmas Day The Unbroken Song Henry W. Longfellow/ A Scene of Mediaeval Christmas John Addington Symonds/ Christmas in Dreamthorp Alexander Smith/ By the Christmas Fire Hamilton W. Mabie/ Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity John Milton/ Christmas Church Washington Irving/ Dolly urges Silas Marner to go to Church George Eliot/ Yule in the Old Town Jacob Riis/ The Mahogany Tree William Makepeace Thackeray/ The Holly & the Ivy Old English Song/ Ballade of Christmas Ghosts Andrew Lang/ Christmas Treasures Eugene Field/ Wassailer's Song Robert Southwell VI Christmas Hymns A Hymn on the Nativity Ben Jonson/ While Shepherds Watched Nahum Tate/ O Little Town of Bethlehem Phillips Brooks/ The First, Best Christmas Night Margaret Deland/ It Came upon the Midnight Clear Edmund H. Sears/ A Christmas Hymn Eugene Field/ A Song of the Shepherds Edwin Markham/ A Christmas Hymn Richard Watson Gilder/ A Christmas Hymn for Children Josephine Daskam Bacon/ Slumber-Songs of the Madonna Alfred Noyes. VII Christmas Revels "Make me Merry both More and Less" Old Balliol MS about 1540/ The Feast of St. Stephen in Venice F. Marion Crawford/ The Feast of Fools - The Feast of the Ass William Hone/ Continued on Page 46Dec. 7/79. The Well of St. Keyne. See Southey's ballad. It is supposed that St. Keyne came to this well about five hundred years before the Norman Conquest. May 21/81. Children of the Week. The child that is born on the Sabbath day/ Is blithe and bonny, and good and gay;/ Monday's child is fair of face;/ Tuesday's child is full of grace;/ Wednesday's child is merry and glad;/ Thursday's child is sour and sad;/ Friday's child is loving and giving;/ And Saturday's child must work for its living. Old Rhyme. Miss Sarah P. Mc Lean of Simsbury is the author of "Cape Cod Folks" A gift, a friend, a foe/ A lover to come and a journey to go. "For when a woman will she will,/ You may depend on't;/ And when she won't, she won't/ And that's the end on't."Springfield, Mass. "Missing Link" contest conducted by children's room of the Memorial Square Library in winter of 1927-28. Average 84% - Helen Jurkowski & Myron Jurkowski each 100% 1 Jason went in search of the Golden Fleece/ 2 Robin Hood's home was in Sherwood Forest/ 3 Little Cedric became a knight/ 4 Midas loved his gold more than his daughter/ 5 William Tell saved the life of his son by shooting the apple off his head/ 6 The mountain and the squirrel had a quarrel/ 7 St. George saved the life of the princess by slaying the dragon/ 8 The spider caught the fly because he was able to flatter her/ 9 Hercules was a strong man/ 10 Robin Hood's favorite weapon was the bow and arrow/ 11 Ulysses built a great wooden horse and thereby the Greeks were admitted to Troy./ 12 "The Children's Hour" was written by Longfellow/ 13 Franklin wrote "Poor Richard's Almanac" 14 "Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates" tells of sports in Holland/ 15 King Arthur founded the Round Table/ 16 Sir Galahad was the noblest knight/ 17 Siegfried was a German hero/ 18 Washington lived at Mount Vernon/ 19 Joan of Arc was a French peasant who was made a saint./ 20 Florence Nightingale nursed the British/English soldiers in the Crimean War/ 21 "Black Beauty" is the story of a horse/ 22 King Richard was called the "Lion-hearted"Press Clippings. In Memoriam. Advertiser, Boston, Mass. June 4, 1906. James H. Nickerson. Newton, June 3. James H. Nickerson, one of the oldest and best known citizens of Newton, died at his residence in W. Newton, Saturday, of hemorrhage of the stomach. He had been ill but a few days. Mr. Nickerson had been a resident of W. Newton for 33 years, and was a conspicuous leader in the substantial development of that section of the city of Newton. For over a generation he was very active in its affairs. He established the First National Bank of W. Newton and the W. Newton Savings Bank. In politics, Mr. Nickerson was a republican, and for several years was a member of the Newton city council, as councilman and alderman. Journal of Commerce, New York City. June 12, 1906. Newton, Mass. June 10. James H. Nickerson, one of the foremost citizens of Newton, died last week at his residence, West Newton. He was 76 years old, and a native of Provincetown. For over twenty years he was prominent in the clothing business. He was the first president of the West Newton National Bank and the first treasurer of the West Newton Savings Bank. He was in the common council from 1881 to 1883, and on the Board of Aldermen from 1884 to 1888. He later served as an overseer of the poor and as chairman of the board. Weekly Transcript, Boston, Mass. June 8, 1906. Funeral of James H. Nickerson Services for Prominent West Newton Man Attended by Many Friends. From the family home on Elm Street, West Newton, the funeral of James H. Nickerson, who was long one of the most prominent men of that place, was held on Tuesday afternoon. The service was conducted by Rev. Julian C. Jaynes of the West Newton Unitarian Church and Rev. Francis Tiffany, former pastor of the First Universalist Church, of which Mr. Nickerson was a member. There were many at the services, including family friends and people prominent in social and civic life, members of the Odd Fellows and Royal Arcanum, to both of which Mr. Nickerson had belonged, and members of the City Government, officials of the West Newton First National Bank and the West Newton Savings Bank. During the service Mrs. C.A. Morton sang a solo. The burial was in Newton Cemetery. There were many floral remembrances. Journal, Boston, Mass. June 4, 1906. James H. Nickerson Dies in West Newton. James H. Nickerson, one of the oldest and best known citizens of Newton, died at his residence in West Newton at 3.45 P.M. Saturday of hemorrhage of the stomach. He had been ill but a few days. Mr. Nickerson had been a resident of West Newton for thirty-three years, and was a conspicuous leader in the substantial development of that section of the city of Newton. For over a generation he was very active in its affairs. He was born in Provincetown Dec. 20, 1830, of old Cape Cod stock, his father being Caleb Nickerson, and his mother Bathsheba Freeman Nickerson. He was married in Boston in 1857 to Mary A. Cowing of Provincetown, who survives him. He leaves two married daughters, Mrs. L. H. Elwell, wife of the well-known Greek professor of Amherst College, and Mrs. W.W. Harrington of West Newton. There are six grandchildren. Charles Harvey Nickerson of Norwich, Conn., and Henry Paine Nickerson of Boston are nephews to the decesased. After acquiring a competency in business at Provincetown the late Mr. Nickerson moved to West Newton in 1873. He established the First National Bank of West Newton and the West Newton Savings Bank. He was the chief owner of the Electric Signal Company, treasurer of the Boston Physicians and Surgeons' Supply Company, and had recently accepted the treasurership of the Halifax and Suburban Electric Railway Company. He held various other positions of trust and responsibility. He was a prominent Odd Fellow. In politics Mr. Nickerson was a Republican, and for several years was a member of the Newton City Council as councilman and alderman. Record, Boston, Mass. June 4, 1906. James H. Nickerson. Newton, June 3. - James H. Nickerson, one of the oldest and best known citizens of Newton, died at his residence in W. Newton, Saturday, of homorrhage of the stomach. He had been ill but a few days. Mr. Nickerson had been a resident of W. Newton for 33 years, and was a conspicuous leader in the substantial development of that section of the city of Newton. For over a generation he was very active in its affairs. He established the First National Bank of W. Newton and the W. Newton Savings Bank. In politics, Mr. Nickerson was a republican, and for several years was a member of the Newton city council, as councilman and alderman. Transcript. Boston, Mass. June 4, 1906. James H. Nickerson of Newton. Mr. James H. Nickerson died at his residence in West Newton Saturday. He was born in Provincetown Dec. 20, 1830, of old Cape Cod stock, his father being Caleb Nickerson, and his mother Bathsheba Freeman Nickerson. After acquiring a competency in business at Provincetown he moved to West Newton in 1873. He established the First National Bank of West Newton and the West Newton Savings Bank. He was the chief owner of the Electric Signal Company, treasurer of the Boston Physicians and Surgeons Supply Company, and had recently accepted the treasurership of the Halifax and Suburban Electric Railway Company. He held various other positions of trust and responsibility. He was a prominent Odd Fellow. He was for several years a member of the Newton City Council as councilman and alderman. His wife and two marrried daughters survive. Globe. Boston, Mass. June 6, 1906. Funeral of James H. Nickerson. Newton, June 5 - The funeral of James H. Nickerson, who was for many years one of the most prominent men of West Newton, was held this afternoon at the family home on Elm St. The service was conducted by Rev. Julian C. Jaynes of the West Newton Unitarian church. There were many floral offerings, including a piece from the West Newton Bank. Tributes were also sent from the Odd Fellows and Royal Arcanum. Transcript. Boston, Mass. June 6, 1906. Funeral of James H. Nickerson. Same exactly as in Weekly Transcript, Boston, Mass. June 8, 1906.Essence of "Marco" Inserted in '82 letter by L. Farrar Jan. 14/29 Into a paragraph Ivor Brown Distills O'Neill's Current Play. O'Neill has great fun with Marco, and is wise not to make him a knave. He sees the Venetian as a kind of cunning simpleton fed high with "success literature" and starting out to "make good" like any little "go-getter" from the Middle West. He is earnest and efficient and amiable; all that is wrong with him is that he has only one eye. Beauty, pathos, wisdom are blotted out; he just plods on and piles up the booty. The East with its wisdom and its patient brooding on the goal of life cannot touch him. And how can the Kaan and the Princess resist so naively confident a creature? To them he is a curio. "So this is Europe!" they seem to say, and smile upon their thrones while Marco studies the markets. It is a great opportunity for sardonic fun, and O'Neill has displayed a new aspect of his art in making the most of it [Manchester Guardian] Ida [Howgate] & Mrs. Oliver of Washington Mrs. [Hove's] letter Jan. 27/29 Mrs. Oliver had operation for glaucoma on both eyes. They reached Italian Riviera & I.H. fell ill. They reached Florence & she wore a plaster cast for 6 mos. for spinal misplacements then heavy jacket of leather & steel & then she was taken one night desperately ill with intestinal obstruction, was operated on at 2 a.m. She has been able to take a little walk in hospital grounds.From a Vassar paper Miss Cushing The news of Miss Florence Cushing's death three days before the opening of the dormitory named in her honor came as a distinct shock to the college. Through this event Vassar has lost an alumna, a patron, and a friend. It has lost something more--the influence of a rare and valuable personlaity. Miss Cushing was more than a generous alumna who retained an affectionate interest in her alma mater after graduation, more than a hard-working and conscientious trustee. She was an individual who was not afraid to recognize the weaknesses of the institution she loved, and, seeing them, could not content herself with a mere shrug of the shoulders or even a denunciation. Her life in relation to the college is a record of battles fought and won in its behalf, of old and worn out ideas overthrown, of new and better ones set up. Her peculiarly appropriate position as the first woman elected to the Board of Trustees, in itself a tribute to her progressiveness, was used by her as an opportunity for even greater activity. Part of a clipping enclosed on the back of another in '82 class letters Feb. 1928 Youthful Old Age by Daniel Hoffman Martin Booklet enclosed by L.R. Peck - Mr. Martin was pastor of Fort Washington Presbyterian Church 174th & Broadway N.Y. City He said "Many people think they must lie down & die when they reach their seventieth birthday just because the Psalmist said that three score years and ten were the limit of life. That unfortunate bit of poetry has killed a good many people. The Psalmist was speaking of the average. If you really want an age limit, take that spoken of in Genesis 6:3, "And the Lord said ... his days shall be an hundred and twenty years." Let us form a club of that sort." Prof. Osler (?) thought that the zenith of efficiency was reached at the age of 35, and [suggested] chloroform at 40. If that plan had prevailed at the start the world would be many centuries behind its present advance. All mighty movements of civilization have been generated by men of mature years. Most of our presidents had passed their 60th birthday. "Age is opportunity, no less/ Than youth itself, though in another dress./ The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed,/ Lets in new light through chinks that time has made."[1] Idleness is the old age microbe. Retiring from business is a common form of suicide. Count Waldeck of the French Court lived to be 109. He never married until he was 83, & his lovely wife said she had fallen in love with him because he was irresistible and the youngest of her suitors. "True, he is 80, but that is only 20 four times over," said she. So you cannot judge the tenant from the tenement. A candle flame shines brightly in an old candle-stick as in a new one. Time makes his dents only on the casques of men. Time writes no wrinkles in the spirit. Gladstone at 80 said to his birthday callers: "It is better to be eighty years young than forty years old." Theodore Cuyler preached in my pulpit several times after he was 85 with all his old time vigor, a fine example of youthful old age--If youth has ambition, age has fruition; if youth can talk of plans, age can show results. Youth has prosepect; age has retrospect. [marginal note; transcriber unsure of correct position of previous sentence in text]--Is there a deadline? strength, judgement, reserve power do not balance the buoyancy of young blood, the energy of young ambition demanded by the merchant. An employer is apt to feel that an elderly man's habits are hard to change & that he is set and cranky & not teachable. If the applicant make the [Marginal notes; intended position in text of the following unclear to transcriber:]Bismark von Moltke Daniel Webster achieved his best work after 62. Thiers/ Gladstone/ Thaddeus Stevens & Joseph Cannon Caleb/ Joshua 14:10-11 [1]This is attributed to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow but the diarist does not acknowledge. impression that he has banked his fires he cannot expect employment. It takes live steam to move machinery--it cannot be done with the exhaust. When Victor Hugo reached 50 someone said to him, "Do you feel old?" He replied, "I feel younger than ten years ago, because forty is the old age of youth, but fifty is the youth of old age." A called expressed a wish that a Pope of Rome who was ninety, with mind as vigorous as ever, live to be a hundred. He replied "Would you limit me to that?" John Wesley was planting churches until 88. Franklin labored until 84. Gladstone was directing destinies of England after 80 & beginning new studies in Greek when past 85. Duke of Wellington served his country as Prime Minister at 85. Tennyson was "crossing the Bar" ar 83; Carlyle was writing essays at 86; Michael Angelo was busy at 90. Julia Ward Howe recited in public at 94 the "Battle Hymn of the Republic." This grand old lady said, "The deeper I drink of the cup of life the more I love it; the sugar is all at the bottom." Robert Browning taught that we should reach our best in old age. He says in "Rabbi Ben Ezra" "Grow old along with me. The best is yet to be." etc. Three stages of life growth, equilibrium and decay Worse than failing eyesight etc. is feeling of dependence. Worst of all is the old age that has no love for spiritual things; no consolations of religion in the winter of life. "the hoary head is a crown of glory when it is found in the way of righteousness." Such a one can sit at life's West-window gazing with hope-glinted eyes toward the shining hill tops of glory. Where Jesus talked with the woman of Samaria he could read her thoughts and that she was fearful of losing her beauty when she lost her youth. She was probably using cosmetics to give the delusive bloom of youth to her face. Jesus said "I will be a well of water etc. Jesus in the heart is the fountain of perpetual youth. 1 Samuel Chap. 30. David said to aged veterans "You shall share equally. We have in our own homes veterans of life's warfare who have fought a long, faithful fight to provide us comforts, give us education etc. Let old age come. You can bring up reserves to meet it." "They that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength." When J. Quincy Adams was 80 he met in Boston an old friend who shook his trembling hand & said, "Good morning! And how is J.Q. Adams today?" "Thank you," was the ex-president's answer. "J.Q. Adams himself is well, sir; quite well, I thank you. But the house in which he lives at present is becoming dilapidated. It is tottering upon its foundation. Time and the seasons have nearly destroyed it. Its roof is pretty well worn out; its walls are much shattered and it trembles with every wind. The old tenement is becoming almost uninhabitable & I think J.Q.A. will have to move out of it soon; but he himself is quite well, sir; quite well." And in the same spirit a dear old Christian pilgrim has written: 1. My life is a wearisome journey,/ I'm sick with the dust & the heat;/ The rays of the sun beat upon me,/ The briars are wounding my feet;/ But the city to which I am going/ Will more than my trials repay,/ And the toils of the road will seem nothing/ When I get to the end of the way/ 2. There're so many hills to climb upward/ I often am longing for rest;/ But He who appoints me my pathway/ Knows just what is needful & best;/ I know in His word He has promised/ That my strength shall be as my day,/ And the toils of the road will seem nothing/ When I get to the end of the way./ 3. He loves me too well to forsake me/ Or give me one trial too much;/ All his people have been dearly purchased/ And Satan can never claim such./ By & By I shall see Him and praise Him/ In the city of unending day Repeat two last lines/ 4. When the last feeble step has been taken/ And the gates of the city appear/ And the beautiful songs of the angels/ Float out on my listening ear!/ When all that now seems so mysterious/ Will be plain and clear as the day;/ Yes, the toils of the road will seem nothing etc./ 5. Though now I am footsore and weary,/ I shall rest when I'm safely at home;/ I know I'll receive a glad welcome,/ For the Savior Himself has said "Come";/ So when I am weary in body,/ And sinking in spirit, I say--/ All the toils of the road will seem nothing etc. When in the eventide of life and almost or quite alone, how blessed is the consciousness that Christ, "the friend that striketh closer than a brother" is ever nigh, fulfilling his promise "Lo, I am with you always." Comforting thought that when we are called upon by the sleep of death to say "Good-night" to our friends on earth it will be only that we may in the light of an eternal day, say "Good morning" to those whom we have "loved long since and lost a while."Miss Margaret Baker, niece of Mabel Foos, has managed the Champion Chemical Co. since the death of her father Scipio Baker some years ago & within the past two months has taken over the active management of the Foos Gas Engine Co. founded by her grandfather John Foos. Total capitalization $650,000 and 300 employees. Her grandfather A.A. Baker founded the chemical co. Being the granddaughter of two manufacturers it would follow that Miss Baker would naturally have a double endowment of manufacturing instinct. Granddaughters, say the students of heredity, are much more likely to reproduce characteristics of the grandfather than are sons or grandsons. Ability in a given field tends to step across the sex line as it descends & alternates back and forth as a compensation to either sex, holding the balance of nature level in the long run. Miss Baker laughingly says she manages business from necessity having had them forced into her hands by reason of being the sole heir of her father. Still it is hard to make the chickens take to the pond or keep the duck out of the ... Anyway Springfield (Ohion) has a woman managing one of its most active plants and reaching out and assuming the management of a second one with all the initiative of her forebears. [Her mother was Jessie Foos] From M.B.B. Pensions for the Old - Canadian Gov't. will pay 1/2 pension & the provincial gov't the other half; and British Columbia has just provided a maximum pension of $240. a year for 2500 old people. If you asked a native of the Congo what he thought of pensions for the old he'd say, "They seem quite needless to me. Here in Africa, when persons are too old to work or hunt we take them to the river bank & drown them. They don't object because they know it would be of no use, & we have one less to feed. 1864. Life of Poor Tip, [circled by diarist:]DOG [end of circled text] who died December 1st. 1863. Poughkeepsie; Telegraph Press. Preface to the third edition. [circled by diarist:]Dog [end of circled text] It is not often that a modern author's works are so popular as to call for successive new editions, but I felicitate myself in claiming this honor. The popularity of this work, I believe, has been owning more to its brevity than its substance--a warning to all other authors. Especially I would impart to the fraternity the secret of my success: that to the reading public it is gratis. M.V. Poughkeepsie, March 4, 1864. Died on the morning of the 1st Dec., 1863. (Picture of dog) On the Death of Poor Dog Tip. The subject of this memoir is well-known by many of the inhabitants of this City, having been seen by them accompanying his master in his walks through the public streets. Tip was some 10 years of age, of humble extraction, but respectable parentage; born in the beautiful town of Auburn, the residence of the honorable distinguished Secretary of State, and on the premises of my-host late of the "Auburn House," to whose generosity his master is indebted. Tip was about 2 months old, and the size of a full-grown rat when he left the place of his nativity and became a denizen of the town of Po'keepsie [Poughkeepsie]. His outfit for his journey was a little Merino cloth covering in a small boy's school-basket, and his transit was by railroad [marginal note:]wood cut of train [marginal note:]Page 2nd and by steamboat [inserted between two vertical lines:] cut of steamboat [end inserted text] in the care of a little lad. Nothing especial attended his journey; but the new condition of his life led to weeping and sadness by leaving, as he did, his younger brothers and sisters behind, for whom he was often seen to weep. After a few days, however, Tip became more reconciled to his new home and began to be playful; but on one occasion indulged in this native propensity so far with an elder dog of his master's that Tip was thrown into fits or spasms by over-excitement. Tip was half brother to Dog Don who was poisoned some years since by strychnine placed in meat in [text circled by diarist:] cut of a dog [end of circled text] his master's yard in revenge for Don killing a Cat. Don died in his mistress' lap with convulsions, after terrible agony of a few hours. The grave of poor Don, with his monument, now stands in his master's garden, upon which is the following words: The Grave of poor Dog Don/ He had no enemy in life,/ And but one in his death,/ And that was his assassin. Aged 2 years, 2 months 17 days. Faithful and true he always proved/ Till death's insidious bait he ate,/ Placed inside of his master's gate./ Where many a passer by have seen/ His bounding over the verdant green./ Confiding, generous and kind,/ Did ne'er suspect that man, or friend,/ In friendship's garb, tempt him to eat/ The deadly poison in the meat. [On the page to the left of the epitaph is a drawing that looks to be a memorial stone or flame.] Tip always had more courage than discretion, which trait of character frequently got him into trouble. On one [marginal note:]Page 3 [end of marginal note] occasion, riding with his master's coachman on the box, seeing another dog pass, which his extreme politeness accustomed him to salute with a wag of his tail and a bark, he leaned too [marginal note:]cut of coach far over the Coach and fell to the ground, both wheels passing over his body. The coachman stopped, picked him up bleeding profusely from his mouth and nostrils. This catastrophe cost Tip some six weeks confinement and much suffering. As I said, Tip was good-natured and bore no malice to other dogs; but to cats and rats he was a great enemy. Seeing one of the latter cross the lid of a large kettle in an instant he was after him, and both went, head and heels, to the bottom. As fortune would have it, Tip escaped with only a good drenching, but the rat was drowned. Tip, as I said, was rather mischievious than ugly: On another occasion, at Springside, he plunged into a pond amidst a flock of geese and ducks, but an old gander so terribly frightened him, that he would never look upon a goose again [text circled by diarist:] cut of a fountain in shape of a swan [end of circled text] without trembling; and as to rats, he never but once, after he fell into the kettle, troubled them, and then in a chase of one he fell off the dock log into the river, and having no place to escape came near being drowned. [text circled by diarist:] cut of a ship [end of circled text] Some year or two after, Tip was taken suddenly ill and his life so far dispaired of that all preparations for his funeral were made and his grave dug by the side of Don's, when, early next morning, out came Tip from his kennel wiggling and waggling his tail on hearing his mas-[text circled by diarist:] cut of dog [end of circled text] ter's voice. [marginal note:]Page 4 Perhaps there is no other animal in the world more faithful and true to their attachment than [marginal note circled by diarist:]cut of dog lying by a safe with the big keya Dog. Examples are numerous in history, and in this respect Tip was not excelled. He would wait hours in all weathers for his master's appearance in the morning, and although often he had reason to be cross and fretful for his tardy delays, yet he never resented it. Tip was pretty particular what company he kept, and was seldom seen in [bad], always kept near his master when permitted to accompany him, and if he lost him would in an instant make a bee line for home. Peace to his ashes [parenthetical text inserted by diarist:] head of dog [end of parenthetical text] Good bye, poor Tip. May there be a good place for good dogs in another world.E.C. Temple "Templed Promontories of the Ancient Mediterranean" in Geographical July '27 Review. E.C. Temple. Before Aug. 1927 Patricia Dunkerson, her niece, dau. of Bonner Temple has passed entrance exams in Latin & Franch with honors. She is 15. M.B. Britton. Sept. 1927 Arrive at Lake Tahoe in a.m. circle the lake by steamer andleave in p.m. Newphew Herbert is in Harvard School Los Angeles & his brother Weslet in navy on the Idaho. Niece Belle had an operation. Comments on short skirts. Mollie Woodward remarked in Students' Ass'n [Association] Meeting "This is a progressive age." Burta had only one year at school before entering as a "prep" at V.C. [Vassar College]. Had had German governess teach Grench and English chiefly through Shakespeare dictation. Older brother at school in Switzerland collected stamps which were burned in S.F. fire in 1906. "Tout passe, tout casse, tout lasse" Rose Baldwin lived in San Jose and attended same school as B's Spanish-Irish-English sister-in-law (not anxious to enter V.C. [Vassar College]) What a lovely time Marion E. must have had in Norway & Sweden. She seemed a very enthusiastic and appreciative traveler when she met her mother here after a world tour. I had a train letter from Miss Edith Bridges (Head Mistress of the Ransom-Bridges School Piedmont California which sends many girls to Vassar) in which she spoke of stopping off at Winnetka and enjoying M.E.'s companionship for a time. Am glad that a critic has found Edna St. Vincent [Millay] of the breed of Tennyson, although she may not realize it--in the King's Henchman at least. In Sunday paper in San Francisco Lindy week under L's picture were Tennyson's lines:-- For I drift into the future, as far as human eye could see/ Saw the vision of the world and all the wonders that would be;/ Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,/ Pilots of the purple twilight dropping down with costly bales." [Diarist's marginal note: Perhaps not Tennyson at his hest but the seer a poet should be] We have express parcel service now & soon will have passenger service to New York as we now have up and down the coast. Play made from Browning's Ring & the Book (Caponsacchi(?) outstanding dramatic even on New York theatrical season. Abbie Elwell thought of Burta when the old Amherst House burned. No wonder! Part of my astral body must have been hovering over the smoke - with delightful memories of the summer of 1883 there with Mlle See. She was about to take up her work at Wellesley and was connected with Dr. Sauveur's summer school. Friendship for Abbie Leach began there; she was about to teach at Vassar - after opening the "backdoor" of Harvard (Radcliff[e]) for women. There were two "might-have-beens" who made the place quite exciting, one destined for the wide spaces of Kansas, the other, a graduate of Williams, for a cosmopolitan existence ending permanently in Paris. I did not dream of the possible home in Paris at that time! Am so fond of Paris! But have no regrets! Jessie Wheeler practices what she preaches ($1000 annuity funds) J.F.W. notices in V. [Vassar] Quarterly for Sept. Eliz. Howe gifts to library. Read Stresemann's speech at Oslo when receiving his share of the Nobel peace prize. Elimination of freshman & sophomore year discussed. The Sarah Lawrence Junior College in Bronxville, Marion Coates 1907 President under Vassar as a Cooperative elder sister. Pres. Wilbur of Stanford favors Junior Colleges. See p. 69 in Vassar Sept. Bulletin about the first in Empire State and the opening wedge is under the auspices of Vassar! Written by M.B.B. on Lindbergh Day Sept. 16/27. Almost 1 o'clock & here comes out of the North Everybody's Boy riding The Spirit of St. Louis (how that name of their beloved King must have touched the hearts of the French) together the spirit of Youth Triumphant, bringing hope for the future of this ever-renewing old world! J.M. Luhrs From Basel Oct. 11/27. On the way to a sanatorium for her husband who has had a nervous breakdown. M.R.S. Oct. 31/27 Old-fashioned counter. Bennington church 165 yrs. old. ["On a cane"] in 1932. [Writing running over onto adjacent right-hand page:] Middleton Murray's "Jesus Man of Genius," "Woman in White" [end of overflow text; continues on next line of left-hand page] I have a real "hunch" that Al Smith will be elected. G.B.C. Nov. 4/27 At Hotel Grosvenor, 35 Fifth Ave. Dorothy & family at Summit Mt. St. Michel and Chartres is certainly a great book and Cornelia Stratton Parker in "More Ports & More Happy Places" gives Henry Adams full credit for excellent advice he gives about places & things worth seeing. Deephaven Camp, Squam Lake. Mr. C's brother Hanford lives at Marblehead. Margaret C. graduated at Middletown. Ruth C. Mitchell is authority on Immigration & went to Czecho Slovakia at Pres. Masaryk's invitation during the war to make a survey of the young women's activities. Dr. Mary C. Schuster is trustee of Cornell, her alma mater. Lawrence's "Revolt in the Desert" appealed to me. Gertrude Bell's Letters. I agree with Mary Sanford about Ludwig's "Napoleon" but would the English have given so hurried a version of his incarceration on St. Helena? I read recently an account which made the island seem quite an earthly paradise. Trollope I love especially the Barchester series. Doesn't Mary like Hugh Walpole's "Cathedral" "The Green [Mirror]" and the "Jeremy" books? Lindsay Crawford Hamilton & Crawford Buckland Hamiltom's pictures sent. Fanny Young Nov. 12/27 Did you hear someone say just as the Holland Tube exercises closed "Thank God that's over?["] The speaker forgot the tell-tale Mike. Mrs. Josiah Tubby of Westfield talked in [Chatham] to Porch Reading Club about "A one-woman flower garden." Readings held for 10 wks. every lady welcome. dues 15 [cents symbol] a meeting. money used for books. It was exasperating for Abbie E. to have those good chickens stolen not to mention the apples. We keep White Wyandottes too and while we do not name them as we did at first, we find them a great pleasure and a lot of care. I would love to hear Marion E. tell of her summer journey. Mr. Young wants to congratulate James Elwell on his success in corn raising. Enjoyed "The Grandmothers" "Trader Horn" & "Giants of [in] the Earth." Friend said "Doomsday" most unpleasant book. Youths Companion always a part of our household. Listening to wonderful Gigli (?)* Lydia Peck Dec. 12/27 Anne Wyman sailed Dec. 7, 1927. Lydia Peck's "little" sister-in-law had a stroke Nov. 8 & is unable to walk alone so Lydia has given up all hospital work. Young friend of 19 operated on for appedicitis. Of the three kinds of cataracts hers are the slowest in developing. [L.L. Farrar] Dec. 30/27 Small child lost her mother in department store & when asked why she did not hold on her mother's skirts said she couldn't reach 'em. "Jeremy at Crale" is delightful. The chapel window of '77 I think is the one in little picture in J.F.W.'s letter [she said it was a prize for the one finding a misspelled word] This was my sister's class & the inscription was by request suggested by Dr. Griffis. Two of my sister's grandchildren, a sweet little Katharine of 18 and Wm. [William] Elliot 15 are at Cushing Academy preparing for V.C. [Vassar College] and Cornell. When a letter was redirected Poughkeepsie the postman took the letter looked at it then at me sadly took his pencil and said "Poo (double o) Mrs. Farrar." He is still pleasant to me but I'm sure he feels sorry for my great ignorance in spelling. A case of "skeptical" poisoning? (What is the Christopher shop work?) Little Anne called her lovely Christmas tree "Santa Claus bush." Fell down stairs & hurt foot & was knocked down by two dogs & broke part of her right shoulder. Jeremy at Crale is delightful. E.M.H. Jan. 7/28 at Christmas send Mary King's mother, 90 yrs. old, a cyclamen from us all. She lives in The Block House, Concord, Mass. in which women & children were shuttered during that family row of long ago. Mary K.'s son alone remains of the family of 5. One died early. Margaret died of pneumonia in Charlotte, N.C. Mr. Babbitt died in winter of 1927-28. He was a man of gifts but not "practical." Not that that would trouble M.K.B! I think she *Beniamino Gigli (March 20, 1890 � November 30, 1957) was an Italian opera singer. found the greatest possible pleasure in his companionship, and few husbands are so constantly quoted. "Mr. Babbitt says" was a recurring phrase. From Columbia he went to the Univ. of the South at Sewanee as head of a department. One of Sewanee's trustees, named Stuck published an autobiography in which it was generally felt that he had done ample justice to his own merits. Prof. Babbitt dubbed it "Stuck on Himself." This was too good to be discreet. Dr. Home rec'd medal from Ass'n for the Prevention of Blindness. He has now as his fancy-work the preparation of his address due next June as President of Eugenics Research Ass'n. His predecessor in that office was Mr. Frank L. Babbitt, for so many years Vassar trustee. Mr. B's address last June was admirable. I hope Dr. Home will do as well. Napoleon in Captivity by Julian Park presents reports made to his government by the Russian Commissioner at St. Helena. Sir Hudson Lowe was indeed stiff, a martinet, and without imagination, but he was sorely tried. To the end, Napoleon was a Corsican peasant. If you wish some hours of joy try Guedella's "Palmerston." Our annual hegira is under way. The Wymans are "over there" & Jan. 6 at midnight Ida Howgate & J.F.W. sailed. My great niece 2 mos. old & still unnamed is destined for Vassar. She will be 3rd generation. Jan. 31/28 Mary E. ... has a grand-niece Margery Borden. Thought Jalna very unpleasant & "Dusty Answer" is like unto it. "Roosevelt a Hero to his Valet" enjoyable. Reading for mind's sake "Pupin's New Reformation." When Abbie E. left Plymouth for Boston, if she had turned left at the hotel instead of at the center, she would have found a shorter and very beautiful road to Boston by New Found Lake, and could have stopped off at High Field tosee what has been called the finest view of the lake, and incidentally to call on me. Really no one should go to N.H. [New Hampshire] and omit what is thought by many to be its most beautiful lake. You see, I am not exactly modest about the location of my home, but I didn't make it. Send a postal addressed simply Bristol & I will write proper directions. I have enjoyed Robert Frost's North of Boston because when I read my mind flies up to N.H. [New Hampshire] & I can see it all happening around New Found Lake. I like to fall back too on Trollope--Barchester Town is a favorite. M.C.B.'s grandchildren Hadwen Barney 2 girls 1 boy/ Mary 2 girls 1 boy/ Beth 3 girls live in Montreal J.F.W. March 22/27 I was once asked "Gie me the varse about the little dog that lappit up her blind" and made a guess about Mary Stuart's execution. The laugh is quite often on the librarian I heard this in Troy lately "Who was Anne Hathaway in connection with Shakespeare?" And my successor said she'd try to find out during the day! And in another reference room the librarian explained that "blue sky laws" had to do with building permits for tall buildings in N.Y. [New York]. I don't know why I should have mentioned ancestors to M.R.S. or anyone else. "We all have 'em." Mr. Dwight Marvin of the Troy Record is a cousin to Dr. Taylor. Miss Cushing has made a fine recovery from an operation for cataracts on both eyes. Vassar came near losing the Student's Building from cigarette stubs, discovered just in time in a waste basket & Wellesley has lost a dormitory from careless smoking. The charming library of Alumnae House has lost its charm for me owing to stale tobacco odors. I have met the Dean & Mrs. Morris a warden--they did not impress one [as] leaders. But I do think Harriet Sawyer seems the right person in the right place & a difficult place at that.To E. Home May 8, 1928 On the dock awaiting our arrival was a good looking Japanese young man of 28. He was Shige's great nephew, K. Masuda, son of the great playwright, and a grandson of Shige's sister. He had been waiting nearly two hours and came aboard at 7:30 to greet me, I had previously cabled that the 19th would be my free day and he promptly said that the 20th would suit better, took my intricate program of shore trips, rearranged it in a masterly way and persuaded the cruise directors that it was better so. I then presented him to Mr. Rollins after I succeeded in getting that old gentleman up and them I proceeded to go "with my party" to Nikko, sunshine, cherry blossoms and beauty everywhere. Next day I went to Tokyo [and] as I entered the Imperial Hotel at once caught sight of a tiny figure, all in black, shiny black hair, a little bent Japanese whom I at once recognized as our merry little Vassar friend. She had found Mr. Rollins and we at once persuaded her to lunch with us--also K. Masuda who happened in. Then Shige said I was to go to Prince Oyama's right after luncheon & that Mr. Rollins & Betty might also come. She was about to telephone for a car when we reminded her that we had one at our disposal. We had a very long ride and lost our way once, the streets are so different since the earthquake.* Shige had not been in that part of the town for years she said. At last we turned down a mean, narrow street and then entered an enclosure, and then we were in a private landscaped garden of several acres and at the residence where Stematz lived and died--the Japanese house for the big brick and stone American house had been utterly destroyed. Even the name of the street had been changed. Shige demanded our cards, which fortunately we had with us. Then a servant was sent in again to know if we should remove *The Great Kanto Earthquake, which struck on September 1, 1923, was at the time considered Japan's worst natural disaster. our shoes--permission was sent that we might keep them on--and so we were admitted. The Prince was at that moment engaged but the Princess and her three boys and little girl of seven all clad in Japanese costume were standing to welcome us. All spoke English and the Princess understood it if one spoke slowly and of course Shige was there to help us linguistically. The children were all good looking, the oldest boy eleven. They clustered around Betty, neither forward nor shy--just ideally perfect behavior. The room was Stematz' favorite, maybe 15 ft. square & one side had the yearly exhibit of historical family dolls, perhaps a hundred or more on shelves. There were easy chairs & a sofa, a very low table on which was presently served many kinds of sandwiches, tea followed by strawberry shortcake. Then the Prince came in & visited with us--said "I am sorry to receive you in so mean a hut. We have material on hand to begin building a European dwelling." They showed me the family album & I found for them my picture in the '82 class group. The Prince then expressed his pleasure and gratification over the Oyama room & asked me to take to it Stematz' favorite picture--a Japanese scroll. The princess then gave me a picture of the four children in their school dress (American not Japanese since Japanese costume is not fit for the athletic training now in vogue). Shigi [sic] had told me that the Prince had become a great archaeologist (I should use the term paleontologist since he is comparing extinct shell fish with modern mollusks). He took us into his study or laboratory where he had two young men working under him, and showed me his mother's books mostly Vassar text books. The floors gave as we trod, showing how badly damaged even the Japanese dwelling was. In the corner of a passage was a basket with a Japanese-calico-shorttailed pussy with two kittens. I stopped to speak to mamma cat and presently when we had returned to the dining-room the trio were brought in by a servant and given the cream left from our tea. Betty & I were perfectly delighted. I did not anywhere in the big photograph collection see a picture of Stematz in her court-dress. There were large framed portraits of her & her husband hanging on the wall. When we left we went out backward, the family following us and bowing low as our car left. I had to go directly back to the ship so could not stop to see Shige's daughter and her granddaughter's trousseau--that was put off till another day a day that didn't materialize. Shige has had 7 children & now has 6, three boys & four girls--the oldest son instantly killed and Stematz's also by explosion on a naval training-ship years ago. The next day Mrs. McLeod, Mrs. Richardson, Mr. Rollins, Betty & I were to lunch with the Masudas. We met at Imperial Hotel and went in the cruise auto--again along mean narrow streets, almost losing our way, and again found ourselves in an enclosed park (perhaps 20 acres and to a modern house. Here lived Shige's nephew, the literateur and celebrated playwright and evidently a very rich man. His father Baron Masuda now about 80 owns one of the finest art collections in Japan. He must be the husband of Shige's sister. We did not see them--don't think they live in that part of the city. Taro Masuda, his beautiful wife daughter & 3 sons received us in a room furnished with soft chairs sofas and pretty tables, but only one picture. They said the meal was to be Japanese & I visioned Mr. Rollins trying to sit on the floor, but we were ushered into an American room--extension table & dining-chairs. This room also had but one ornament except that flowers trailed down the center of the long table. Two butlers brought in lacquered trays, one for each, with four or five little bowls or plates on each & new chopsticks which we were to split and use. The turtle soup one was to sip. I watched Shige and due to much practice in my youth with castanets, had little difficulty in feeding myself. One viand was of very large beans to be taken up singly, shelled in one's mouth and the hull returned to one's plate by chop stick. I found the bamboo shoots very good indeed--and suddenly our hostess said "Don't eat too much, an American meal is coming and so it was served faultlessly by two butlers. The ice-cream looked like pistachio but proved to be flavored with ground tea leaves. Shige sat next to me, and exchanged place cards with me. These were Japanese ladies in rickshaws passing under a torii. We adjourned to the drawing room where the Masuda daughter showed us the "tea ceremony" and all showed us over the Japanese dwelling--this with our shoes off. It was too wet to go to the various tea houses around the estate. Shige & I were photographed on the porch, the day was rather dark & rainy. Mrs. McLeod and the Masuda daughter were photographed also. Shige & I visited as much as we could. She asked particularly for Mrs. Home & Mrs. Wyman and was shocked to learn of Miss Phillips' death. She gave me a lovely Japanese parasol painted with tulips. I gave her the Vassar seal pin & some large photographs of the grounds. She says her husband is an invalid most of the time. Both were in the house when it fell at the first shock, injuring the Baron, but there being no fire at the time they were able to extricate themselves from the debris. When asked if he feared an earthquake Masuda said (like the philosopher Seneca) what difference. We might as well all go under at once as separately. When we left 23 servants bowed us out very impressively. The Masudas had three autos waiting to take all the guests tovisit first the new theatre, back stage, under stage, dressing rooms, foyer & wonderful revolving stage and then to another theatre to witness the Cherry Blossom Dance by Geisha girls. Shige remarked that the music was all melody & no harmony, said she no longer played a piano, but one of her daughters did. One son is in politics & his party was reelected the next day during considerable excitement. Another son, a business man I had just a glimpse of as we met by chance. When we left the theatre Shige darted back to claim her clogs which she had checked at the box office. Mr. Rollins was so delighted with his entertainment he said if I could persuade our Jap. friends to lunch on the ship the day we sailed he would pay all the bills, so it was arranged that the Oyamas, Shige & the Masudas were to come to the Resolute for luncheon & to see us off. Madam Masuda & the Prince had engagements but the Princess, her four children & three Masudas could come. But Sat. I was to go to Kamakura & be met by the eldest Masuda son, taken to his lovely country home, where also I met Mrs. McLeod & both of us & the Masudas photographed there, then to see the Great Buddha the [Kerannon] temple &c. & all of us back to Yokohama where we gave them luncheon at the New Grand. Sunday dawned very cold & rainy, but just the same Princess Oyama came in her J. robes & clogs, the little girl came in kimona & rubber boots, the boys in European school suits (see photo). We went to the Robbins [Rollins'?] suite to leave wraps & the little girl put on cleft hose & slippers. A Japanese man servant was with them to help. Strange to say the Masudas & Oyamas had never met--and to my great disappointment Shige telephoned regrets. We had much we wanted to talk about but I did not see her again. Betty Rollins picked out gifts for the children, foreach boy an "Old Misery" Hound about five inches long with glass eyes that could be moved and an adjustable tail for a dog's many moods; and for little Sikko, a flaxen haired dolly with two long ringlets. I never saw a child adore a toy so much. Between courses she would cuddle it and look up with a beatific smile, showing the loss of her first baby tooth. She bears the childhood name of Stematz. She was seven about the last of April. After a fine luncheon with fine wines we were photographed by flash-light--one of the boys is out of focus & head distorted but the rest are rather good. I had to arrange to have the party see this beautiful ship & the princess was very pleased, thinking it an educative experience for the children. We went first to my little cabin at the water line, then to the elaborate suites and to the charming library & beautiful "Winter Garden" which is the general lounge & is decorated always with potted white lilacs & the carpet is a delicate green. The Pompeiian swimming pool on the upper deck delighted the boys & the gymnasium apparatus they seemed perfectly familiar with. The greenhouse, gay with flowers and singing birds & doves was a surprise for all of them. The first officer gave our party a glimpse of the engine room & then we went to the pink drawing-room for our final chat. All the way around the Princess clung to my hand & when it came time to leave I had cordial invitations to come to Japan again & really visit them in their new home. It was a real disappointment not to see Shige again. K. Masuda laughs at her & says my aunt really speaks English better than she does Japanese. She doesn't speak her native language gramatically. I asked her if she kept many servants--she said with emphasis "No just one house-keeper and sometimes also a student helper. She told me that Martha Sharpe had died and had left to Vassar a Japanese stone lantern and perhaps some money. Shige has no gray hair (perhaps it is dyed). She wears no hat, nor do any Japanese ladies but all wear clogs & make a great racket when they hurry up steps. My white hair was so much admired that I was requested to keep my hat off when indoors and was always photographed that way. Stematz lived to see two grandsons, the other children were born after her death. Shige was ill at the time of [Stematz]'s death and hadn't seen her for some time previous. I will send you our luncheon flash-light photo and later have a copy made of the four children with their autographs attached to the print. Sea-faring people are hard worked just now. Many are leaving at San Francisco & farewell parties are being held all over the ship. We have been an unusually congenial lot. I found friends aboard and a group that I've cruised with before & since I was made Regent of the Dames & Daughters I have had a big family to look after. We are a gay set with athletic contests, bridge, balls etc. Something every day & night, including moving pictures of ourselves rushing around sightseeing. We have had amazingly calm seas, sunny days; always in port on time & we are I am hating to have the cruise end. Every desk is full to-day & writing paper is giving out. The table where I am writing is just one continual jiggle. If you want to pass this on as a contribution to the class letter you better edit it. Where is that class letter I mustn't miss it. I could receive it after June first. Your letters have been a great pleasure to me on this trip. I had the surprise of my life to find a letter in Formosa from [Lou Kountz]. She once said she was happiest on an island. Well my best joy is being on a cruise, especially one like this "luxury cruise." I have been perfectly well and in keen enjoyment of every day. Such weather & such seas couldn't happen again. "The Resolute" suits every one. Nobody pays an attention to the German on board, they are sufficient unto themselves and keep apart. Birthdays are celebrated on this cruise and as mine happened at another time of year somebody wished one on me, April 10th, gave me a fine dinner and a long string of carved amethysts to my complete astonishment. I didn't know until coffee, that it was my party. "But that's another story." Good bye for now. J.F.W. Copy of Baroness Uriu's letter to J.F.W. "in fine penmanship & faultless English" Odawara, Japan, March 20/28 My dear Miss Jessie Wheeler: Your long interesting letter giving minute details of Princess Oyama's room at Alumnae Hall was read with joy and I thank you and the class for remembering my dear friend so lovingly. Now again your letter from Java has come & I know for certain you are enjoying the wonderful sights of the world. I have written to young Princess Oyama of your intended trip and she was delighted at the news. She writes to know the date of your arrival, so that her sisters could all meet you. Mrs. Home kindly sent me this illustrated schedule-time of the "Resolute" and I have sent it to her. You already know my husband is an invalid & we are living in Odawara near Hakone mountains. He is a little better so I should be delighted to meet you in Tokyo and call on you at the Imperial Hotel. I think you reach Yokohama on the 17th and you must see Nikko with your party. Let me know the day you expect to spend in Tokyo so that I may go down to the city and meet you at the Hotel. Hoping soon to meet and greet you. I remain your friend Shige Uriu. Cablegram 18th April 28. "Mr. & Miss Rollins, Missis Jessie Wheeler and Missus Mcleod resolute dog Shronisaki radio. We invite you luncheon nineteenth Masuda will meet at pier to-morrow. Please answer to Taro Masuda Gotonyama [Gotenyama] Shinagawa tokio [Tokyo] baroness Uriu and Masuda." Mr. Rollins had a letter of introduction which had been sent to Admiral Uriu (an invalid but this was not known to Mr. Geo. Batchellor who gave the letter). Shige whished to honor Mr. R[ollins] & Miss R[ollins] the granddam. She was only 11 but that also was not known. Taro Masuda is the wife of Masuda, the playwright and translator of English plays into Japanese & I think part owner of the new theatre, a very wealthy man apparently as he has 20 acres of park surrounding his home in Tokyo--a fine modern house, a Japanese house adjoining & also tea houses on the grounds. Masuda's son, a prosperous importer was educated at Andover and Philadelphia, a daughter has also visited America and had been in Boston the guest of Mrs. McLeod. The Masudas had their 3 sons and one daughter (perhaps more). Masuda ... is nephew of Baroness Uriu. I think the Atlantic Monthly recently had an article about Mr. Masuda & his fine literary work. Mechanicville July 22/28 - Mary Barney I usually think of you on your leap-year birthday & did this year on shipboard where a prize was offerend anyone born on Feb. 29. Sad you could not have had one in 1900. If I had arrived on April 28, this year I should have had two birthdays in the same week. This year I shall have a year of 367 days - leap year too but no results. April 28 came Sat. followed by April 28 another Sat. The youngest boy on board ran down the deck yelling "Ain't it awful! Two baths in one week!" My natal day did not appear on the ship calendar, but one night I was asked to a special dinner and didn't know until it was over that it was a celebration for me when my youngest friend Betty Rollins gave me a long string of carved amethysts "Because she loved me so." Betty just invented a second birthday for me & chose it on Apr. 10. Met 5 ladies from Kentucky, widow, ... Florence Vassar 1925, ... Jessie, Miss Willie Kennedy & Miss Lucia Burnam her sister-in-law. D.A.R. Club chose J.F.W. Regent. She posted a notice that she would receive and pack books & reading matter to be given to men in the U.S. service in Honolulu or on battle-ships. 150 choice books new and expensive probably $350.00 worth were given. The Navy Y in Honolulu took charge of the distribution for me, saying it was the largest, finest and most needed gift of books ever received. Somebody put an item in the local paper and callers came to the ship to thank me but I was driving around the island & didn't see them. One left a native fan covered with forget-me-nots and lovely roses & 2 Troy tourists rushed down to see me off regretting that they hadn't known in time to entertain me. Also on "Resolute" were 8 persons I had cruised with before & altogether I was less lonely than for many years. In S.F. was stunned with the Rodins. I called up M.B.B. & she came aboard bringing plentiful pansies, mints and Laura's book. Mrs. Boothe, cousin of J.F.W., has a home in Pasadena called "Ninovan" Cherokee for "Our Home." Compiled a family history in [1923] which Mrs. B. has printed. [In margin:] Jan. 11/29 - Dear Miss Sanford. I thank you for your kind note of sympathy. It is truly the greatest loss to me and I am feeling very forlorn. I pray you may enjoy always good health. Very sincerely yours, S. Uriu.I wore knickers for riding camels, elephants and "all the little cattles" as old Hinkle used to translate. Properly clad my 14 mile ride to Darjeeling on a Tibetan pony was enjoyable & so was a journey to Amber on the Maharajah's elephant. Once were completely surrounded by the Japanese fleet that was "in formation" & most impressive. We were among the English fleet in Hong Kong. After seeing the bathing ghats of India & the very temple described in an early chapter of Mother India I can quite credit every word of that book. I hope it may start some reforms. I wish someone would reform the Empire State and make it unlawful to keep in office a man unmindful of his country's laws. I saw much of the Smith family while I was vice chairman of the Sesquin of Burgoyne's surrender. We had 220,000 guests, 42,000 cars on the battlefield, no disorder, drunkenness or accidents. I heard that Al. was drunk or so full he couldn't find the food on his plate at the banquet. I met that family again at Kingston. I was invited to most of those things and I hope never to meet them again. I had to be in several movies with them as I was receiving on the guests platform. I worked all of May, June, July, and Sept.-Oct. 8 on hat sesqui business. Aug. every one of the 6000 of us took a vacation. I went to Boston, called on E.M. Home & spent two days at Mrs. Wyman's paradise. Have you seen the slogan "Ale Smith of H2 over." I think I hear Abbie say she is like old Dr. Caldwell neglecting so many good places to stop. And yet I would like to start a discussion about "Steps to the Temple" and the rise of Eugene O'Neill & his "Interlude." About the Annuity Plan at Vassar, having assisted in its formation I intend to keep on parking money there. And as for endowing the Campus--since visiting Japan I realize even more fully what a valuable educational asset beautiful landscaping can be. [In margin:] Dec. 12 - From M. R. Sanford - B. Brittan has just sent me a letter from Baron Uriu "Your kind letter of Oct. 29th has reached me. Alas! My wife died on the third instant having been ill since last July. Her disease was cancer in intestine. After a few hours suffering she passed away peacefully. Herewith I thank you for your unchanging friendship towards her ever since her college life at Vassar. May you enjoy a long life, is my sincere prayer. Very sincerely yours, S. Uriu. Dow Much to my surprise I enjoyed reading The Education of Henry Adams. It is so true that we get adjusted to our environment & think we have found our right place in the scheme of being when everything is changed. Count [Keysurling] seemed to have the same trouble & I hope he will find that he is all wrong in his last theory of life. Suggests we wear white & pansy colored scarfs or shawls at 50th. Kountz As I have read each letter of this series I have become more convinced that I could never write anything worthy to dangle on that cord and have hesitated to add my ever poor epistolary effort--but I am no quitter as you all know so here goes. Bermuda in spring of '27. Sailed from N.Y. to England & took trip to North Cape. Totnes a little town on river Dart is a regular story-book sort of place with a lovely hotel that had once been the residence of Seymour family. Motored through Cornwall & had a few days at Broadway, very charming old spot in midst of lovely country. Took 3 weeks of independent travel after North Cape trip. Visited Ratvek [Rattvik], Sweden on Sunday so we could see the beautiful old costumes which peasants wear on that day. Then to Stockholm, one of the fairest cities of the world, often called the Venice of the north. Side trip to Visby, interesting medieval town, "Once the Queen of the Baltic," now city of roses & ruins. Gota Canal trip trip & cruised through Sweden 3 days till we reached Gothenburg. I think the cafeterias must have originated in Norway & Sweden for they havein most of the hotels what is called the (smorgusbord?) [smorgasbord] and the guests go to a long table & help themselves. Crossed to Denmark in cars on boat. 2 wks in Copenhagen etc. & went from Esbjerg to Antwerp. 3 wks. in Belgium, took a car & visited Malines (where Cardinal Mercier is buried) Louvain & there saw the new library America is giving, spent a night at spa at Hotel Britannique where Kaiser abdicated and where the armistice negotiatopm were held for 6 mos. Visited Dinant the martyred village, Namur, Tournai & battlefield of Ypres where we saw that wonderful Menin Gate built by England for those whose bodies were not found. Spent some days in Bruges went to see butter market in Middleburg Holland and stayed in a hotel called Abdy. Sailed for U.S. from Rotterdam. Came to Wash. & had charge of niece's family of three children while she was adding a fourth to the brood. Joined Woman's Club. My sister & I have a furnished apartment. Just now we have sister's 2 grandchildren with us as their small brother has scarlet fever. Sent Feb. 27th. [Semple]/ Chicago/ March 22'28 The class letter always finds me in a different place, as it does most of us; for do you realize what nomads we are? Or is it the age we live in? Clark U. went to Cambridge & visited Leonora House Booth 2 wks. Saw E.M.H. Her Julian is a winner - such mental grace & force combined. I had never met him before. Meeting a classmate is an event for me & Dr. H is the first class husband I've had the privilege of inspecting. 3 yrs. ago I saw B.B. in S.F. & before that not a soul since the Vassar Jubilee year, though I have spent the last six years largely within the holy precincts of New England where '82 is well represented. The wonder is that I've missed you or have I passed some of you on the street somewhere & been haunted by a familiar look from beneath my unfamiliar grey hair? Mine's headed towards whiteness. My last year's trip to Kentucky to rehabilitate Bonner Semple D. was crowned with success. She has taken hold of life again & next week E.S. goes to Louisville to see the production of Bonner's first play by the Art Club, an episode of the life of Caesare Borgia, entitled "The Minotaur" in allusion to the combination of prince & beast in the man. In Christmas holidays read a paper before Agricultural History Society & Am. Hist. Soc. A series of my articles on the eastern Mediterranean is being translated into Arabic for publication in Quarterly Review issued by Amer. U. Beyrout [Beirut], Syria & having a large circulation in Near East. I am now deep inHilaire Belloco Danton which I gratly enjoy after seeing Max Bhemhart's production of Danton's Tod in N.Y. in Dec. Have you seen Eugene O'Neill's "The Strange Interlude" 9 act play - 5 hrs. that keeps one's mind boiling with queries, theories, protests & shocks as one tries to formulate what the play writer is driving at. In the end one realizes it is a pathological study in feminine psychology. Dr. Fred Verhoe of Harvard Med. Sch. removes cataract at any stage. Mrs. F.E.B./ 915 4th St. S.E./ Minneapolis/ April 28/28 While in Cal. saw B.B. & M. Derby & [daughter] who came to see me at Los Gatos. Marion Derby is a dear & they tell me is making a great success of her work. Spent a few hours later in S.F. with B.B. who sent a gift of delicious candied fruit. On Feb. 29 I was 68 & have had 16 birthdays. Can you answer why not seventeen? I do not feel 68 though I look it. This snow white hair is a sure give away. A few nights ago there came in on radio a N.Y. program - the old song "The Little Brown Church in the Vale." The church is the church in Bradford, Iowa where I was born and where I attended church and S.S. until we moved to Charles City when I was 11 yrs. old. Bradford at present consists of three or four houses and the church. The church, I suppose, because of the song has become a sort of Congregational Shrine, is visited by thousands every year and is a favorite place for weddings. In that respect a rival of "The Little Church Around the Corner." In 1926 there were 429 couples married in it. The fee is $5.00 & this revenue has put the church on its feet. At prsent the pastor of First Con. Church of Nashua, a town 2 miles away also serves as pastor of Little Brown Ch. Song was written by a Dr. Pitts?, a Rush Medical graduate in 1857. The church was a long time in the building, the people were poor (the pastor's salary was $450 a year) the war came & the ch. was not dedicated till 1864. Dr. P. was present, the song was sung & no service is considered complete without singing the song. The bell a gift from a Mass. friend of Dr. Nutting the builder & first pastor is a Meneely bell*, & the church was the first church in the country to have a bell. It still hangs in the old belfry & its tone is as sweet and clear as ever. All of the above for your adult education so that the next time you hear the song you can visualize its setting. "Christina Humanism" by Dr. Stafford some of you may have heard him in Old South Church Boston. He is a [Minn.] boy, brilliant but very human. He was pastor here for a time & lived near us. He & his wife were friends of my children. "Giants [in] the Earth" made a deep appeal to me because of the familiar country described. Wonderful picture of a man's effort, hope & despair. I hear Rolvaag lecture not long ago, an earnest man with little use for the present day novel. Only two he mentioned as worth while were "Black April" by Julia Peterkin and "Grandmothers" by Wescott. When I get fed up with a lot of the novels of the day I take "Barnum" by Werner, have a good laugh over his Yankee shrewdness & feel better. W.C.A. Assn. building a new club for girls, costing $150,000 & housing 175. M.B. in building committee & soon a new settlement house is to be built for the colored group. E.M. White/ May 21/28 Last July my second nephew Edgerton Watling was married to a lady for whom he had waited ten yrs. Rose would not marry while her invalid mother was living. They are Texans. Thanksgiving Day John & I started for Redlands, Cal. My neice lives there. Going west from the Dalles, we admired the Columbia River Highway which some call one of most beautiful scenic drives in world. Farther south Mt. Shasta was an impressive sight. As we were to be 2 months in Redlands we two a three room apartment. We visited Mexico at Mexical [Mexicali] & Tiajuana [Tijuana] out of curiosity. The round table restaurant in Long Beach was new to me. The zoo in San Diego was very good *The Meneely Bell Foundry was established in 1826 in West Troy (now Watervliet), New York, by Andrew Meneely. Two of Andrew's sons continued to operate the foundry after his death, while a third son, Clinton H. Meneely, opened a second foundry across the river with George H. Kimberly in Troy, New York in 1870. Initially named the Meneely Bell Company of Troy, this second foundry was reorganized in 1880 as the Clinton H. Meneely Company, then again as the Meneely Bell Company. Together, the two foundries produced about 65,000 bells before they closed in 1952. My nephew, John, is much interested in art. At Berkeley he learned that the finest gallery west of Chicago is in Golden Gate Park, S.F. so we retraced our steps and made a leisurely visit at the Dr. Young Memorial Gallery & Museum. We took the coast road coming home making a different trip. Grand Coulee & Dry Falls. Took Sunset Highway on east side of Columbia via Pine Canyon, part of which is a hill six miles in length. In time we came to the Grand Coulee, wide & deep & in pre-historic time the bed of Columbia River. Presumably a glacier damned the river, compelling it to seek another channel so it left the floor of the Coulee dry except for a series of small lakes. The walls are of lava which constitutes a great deal of the soil of Wash. east of the Columbia. Much of the lava rock in the walls is colored bright red, green & some yellow. Dry Falls is the best known part, a lava rock formation over which no water is now flowing. Shape of wide horse shoe 3/4 mile across from end to end. Centuries ago water of Columbia River rushed over this rock making a fall 3/4 mile wide and 405 ft deep - more than twice as large as Niagara. This fall is said to be the only structure of its kind in the world. State will dedicate the area as a State Park July 15, 1928. Members of Princeton Geological Excursion under Dr. Richard M. Field will be present. Party will be guided by Dr. H.J. Bretz of Chicago Univ. who has already made a study of eastern Wash. Geologists from Europe & Canada will be present. Dr. B. says that Grand Coulee (50 miles long) is the greatest example of glacial stream erosion in the world. Ages ago eastern Wash. was filled with mountain peaks. Then the spaces between the mountains was filled with liquid lava. There were about 10 successive lava flows, ages apart. Not in streams but in wide sheets. So eastern Wash. is a plateau. A forest of trees (treat?)grew after one eruption & was afterward buried by liquid rock so we have something in the way of a petrified forest. In many places the lava is a mile in thickness and nowhere less than 1000 ft. About 15 miles from my home are found the picture rocks. Here the lava blocked the Columbia River making falls, and here there was a salmon run. Consequently the Indians gathered at this place to get their year's supply of fish and transact other business & recorded a part of their story in their own picture writings which are most important of any in U.S. Oldest are of the earliest inhabitants of America made by a tribe which antedates the Incas of Mexico. Also there are pictures between Incas & modern Indians. Latest were made after Spanish conquest and when Indians had obtained horses. I hope Mrs. Susan Miller Dorsey, Supt. of Ed. in Los Angeles will be first Secretary of Education in President's Cabinet SHe would have the work of that office in fine shape in a short time. I hope to vote in Nov. for a man who is dry, strong for law enforcement and otherwise capable. I think our Am. . . . School is one of the finest institutions here, and the deightful occasions when we have speeches a program & refreshments, & welcome into full citizenship those aliens who have pass their examinations. F.E. Conable I, too, am sorry compulsory chapel has been abolished. As Abby Nickerson says Dr. C could not hold our undivided attention so we could carry on our own line of thought, but there was an inspiration in just being together. Chapel & silent time did do something for us unconsciously. My son is stationed at Fort McArthur, San Pedro & I am there the greater part of my time. Minnie Hoyt Moses & Josephine Blake of '80 lunched here last week. Minnie is spending summer at La Jolla & *Susan Miller was born in Penn Yan, New York, the daughter of James and Hannah (Benedict) Miller. A graduate of Vassar College, Miller moved to Los Angeles in the early 1880s with her husband, the Rev. Patrick William Dorsey, who had accepted a position as minister of the First Baptist Church. In 1894, while teaching at Los Angeles High School, her husband left her with their young son. By 1902, she was working as a school administrator. In 1920, Dorsey became the first female superintendent of Los Angeles City Schools. She would serve in the capacity until her retirement in 1929. In 1937, Susan Miller Dorsey High School located in the Jefferson Park section of Los Angeles was dedicated in her honor. She died in 1946. Dorsey Hall, a dormitory at Scripps College in Claremont, California is named for her.came out on same train from Chicago with Thad Jones, nephew of L. Kountz. Pres. of Repub. Woman's Club of Monrovia & Duarte, called on all registered Republicans & checked names on election day etc. Senator Evans was guest of honor & increased enthusiasm with a . . . address. M. Derby/ I do hope some of you are admirers of the soul that goes marching on for I have something that may interest you. From our cottage porch we can see nightly a brilliant light beckoning us away up on the summit of our beautiful hills (the realty people call them The Hills of Happiness but I fear they have been hills of misery to many early settlers in the days when the name Cal. lured the worn & weary with visions of eternal peace, plenty & sunshine. One of these settlers was John Brown's widow. I have longed to climb the rocky, precipitous road but too far to walk & too rough for our machine. All that I could learn here was that the place belonged to the Supt. of the Oakland Technical School. Delighted to find recently in a S.F. paper notice that the owner was opening the place as a resort. Mr. D & I employed a red-headed . . . with an old machine that looked as tho Mary Ann Brown might have used it if such a thing were possible 50 years ago, and through beautiful woods with many a stop for drinks for the old conveyance & passing 2 or 3 intriguing deserted old homesteads we gained the summit with its glorious view of the entire Santa Clara valley & more and saw below us amid old cypress & pine trees planted many years ago the white cottage where Mary Brown sought peace after the tempestuous life & death of her husband. The old clover leaf windows are still in door & gables & the atmosphere in the old rooms tho' the owner had added a big fireplace even a Roman bath and this summer has put up screened cottages with electric lights & running water. In spite of this it seems to belong to an- other time, so far away from and above our modern noise and hustle. The wild flowers still linger & I do not wonder that Mary thought this her haven of peace & forgot the long & rocky climb like the road of her life. But it did not last, they mortgaged of course and even if they could raise anything, which I doubt, where were the markets & transportation in the then sparsely settled valley? She must have lived in vision too and been a congenial wife, his second to John. She certainly had courage for she married him at 16, a widower with 5 children, the oldest but two yrs. younger than herself & John told her that he had nothing but poverty and a wandering life to offer. Mr. Stuart, the intelligent owner of the place has collected everything in reference to their lives many days reading & I could only get a little in our day there but my interest is great & I should like soon to have one of the little cottages for a week filled with his pamphlets, books and photos of the stern visaged John & Mary - with glorious night views of heaven & earth. The folder enclosed does not give the atmosphere & the people spoil the effect of the old building. Poor Mary Ann got deeply into debt & had to accept help (which they say her indomitable spirit long refused) from liberal hearted people in her last days & is buried in the interesting old cemetery at the foot of the hill under old . . . and cypress trees. Mary Anne, widow of John Brown. I read and re-read COnrad's definition of art in the preface to Narcissus. Our dau. talks in her busy life of travel & it is an inspiration to know of Marion Elwell whom we all liked greatly. M.B.B./ July 4/28 Bernard Shaw a vegetarian. C. Macadam living on liver & fruit. Spent winter in Honolulu now in Michigan. "A son of Mother India" Dutton 1898 by D.G. Mukerji is good reading. Those who were "profs" when 78 was graduated may remember Minnie Botsford. She was one that [in margin:] [Less] Anatomical--Granddaughter (being lectured) "I seem to have heard that the girls of your period 'set their caps' at men." Disapproving Grandmother--"But not their knee-caps." Humorist (London)Elizabeth Foster, known as "Mother Goose" was born in Charlestown, Mass. in 1665/ married to Isaac Goose of Boston in 1693/ made a member of Old South Church in 1698/ left a widow in 1716./ The first edition of her "Melodies" published in 1719./ She died in 1757 AE. 95 yrs. Until her marriage she lived in Charlestown. Her husband owned the land n what is now Wash. St. (also) in and about Temple Place. She was a second mother to ten children. She had beside six of her own. Her daughter Elizabeth married Thomas Fleet a printer who lied in Pudding Lane. He wrote down her songs and published his accumulated notes under the title of Mother Goose's Melodies." Feb. 25/83 Reflect on your present blessings, of . . . every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of . . . all men have some. Chas. Dickens. The Only True Mother Goose. 103 pp. 60 [cent symbol] Lee & Shepard./ Exact reproduction of 1883 "dear little quarto edition" as E.E. Hale calls it in his preface. Mother Goose buried in Old Granary Burying-ground Boston. Semple, E.C. Influences of Geographic Environment./ 1911 Holt $4.00 Ratzel's theories of geographic conditions as chief factors in social, economic, moral, physical & intellectual development of man. Farrar/ Jan. 1929 Margaret & Reginald/ Katharine/ Ruth has adopted Anne and a little Ruth - 4 1/2 lbs. and known as "Peanut" in hospital. Caesarian baby between 8th & 9th month. At 6 mos. weighs 16 lbs. Two handed bridge. Samuel Anton Howard, Jr. left law for ... near N.Y. Celebrated 40th wedding anniversary Jan. [June?] 12. Nothing to Wear. An Episode of City Life./ Butler. Miss Flora M'Flimsey of Madison Square./ Pictures/ Alex. Smith./ "The lark is singing in the blinding sky,/ Hedges are white with May. The bridegroom sea/ Is toying with the shore, his wedded bride,/ And, in the fulness [sp] of his marriage joy,/ He decorates her tawny brow with shells,/ Retires a space, to see how fair she looks,/ Then, proud, runs up, to kiss her. All is fair--/ All glad, from grass to sun." Mary Howitt The Ballad of Richard Burnell. Cary Pictures of Memory Kingsley The Three Fishers. Holmes. The Last Leaf. The mossy marble rests on the lips that he has prest/ In their bloom/ And the names he loved to hear, have been carved for many a year,/ On the tomb. Leigh Hunt Abou Ben Adam/ Clement C. Moore A Visit from St. Nicholas./ Wolfe Burial of Sir John Moore/ Wordsworth The Old Oaken Bucket Eleanor Osborn, dau. of Laura Gross had a boy born Armistice Day 1928. Jan. 27/29 Dr. Howe was 80 in Sept. died of pneumonia Dec. 27/28. Mary King B's oldest son alone survives. He has lost right arm. Tennyson. "Break, break, break,/ On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!/ And I would that my tongue could utter/ The thoughts that arise in me. O well for the fisherman's boy,/ That he shouts with his sister at play!/ O well for the sailor lad,/ That he sings in his boat on the bay! And the stately ships go on/ To their haven under the hill;/ But O for the touch of the vanish'd hand,/ And the sound of a voice that is still! Break, break, break,/ At the foot of thy crags, O Sea!/ But the tender grace of a day that is dead/ Will never come back to me." Vassar, Room 39. May, 9/80. {ii/Paris} {Rik/America} {Hill/John/Mass.} A letter thus directed reached J. Underhill. Andover, Mass. What have you that others use most? Your name./ How long can a goose stand on one leg? Try it and see. One hundred and one by fifty divide,/ And then if a cipher be rightly applied,/ And your computation agree well with mine,/ The answer will be one taken from nine./ CLIO./ Can you prove that a cat has ten tails?/ No cat has nine tails, one cat has one more tail than no cat, so it must have ten./ KIND = "A little more than kin, a little less than Kind"/ Shakespeare./ I am, yet I cease to be when it occurs to you what I am./ Ans. Riddle./ Of what was Joan of Arc made (maid)? Maid of Orleans./ How far can a fox go into a wood? To the middle./ How many eggs can a man eat on an empty stomach? One/ What is the difference between the north and south poles? Ans. All the difference in the world./ Restaurant. Res = thing; taurus = bull [therefore] res-taurant = a bully thing./ Two ducks were standing one facing the north, the other the south, how could they touch bills without turning around? Very easily as they were facing each other./ What is there that is as old as the hills? The valley between them. "Adage by a young lady./ Man proposes, but mamma disposes." Punch. A sewing-machine -- A needle. I cannot shape your life; ah! if I could,/ This year should bring you nought but what is good:/ Blue skies above your head,/ Blossoms beneath your tread./ (harbor scene-picture)/ I cannot shape your life, but one who can,/ Long since hath hath framed for thee the year's fair plan:/ Go forward, gladly still,/ Trusitng His loving will. Valentine 4 1/2 x 6. Picture of boy with sailor suit, bearing flowers & wearing botany can. Kind group which included Mary Hill, Mary Bernard, Polly Freeman/ Sallie Dickey - she was a special friend of Stella Hunt (Mrs. Shattuck)/ Miss B. has been living with her brother at Williams since his wife died./ Eel River north fork, Eureka most western town in U.S. has Shakespeare Inn. Redwood Empire Highway on south fork of Eel River is magnificent. Stag's Leap in Napa County. I had a happy year at Napa Ladies Seminary before entering college; this and a couple of months at Mme. Talbot's in Paris (she had a little red Am. school house in her garden) constituted my schooling before V.C. except the governess of my childhood) ... Clear Lake Park Tavern Nat & Burt, Kendall Twins, admitted to Stanford U. 350 can enter out of thousands who apply - it seems quite an achievement. Character, a reputation for hard work and aptitude tests must count, for their marks have been nothing wonderful. High school & grad courses in calculus, blueprint work in design & type - writing & short hand & spelling! Youngest grand nephew Herbert Hewson of Los Angeles is in Harvard School. Thinks he will be an artist. [inserted below line] The other is on U.S.S. Idaho. [end of inserted text] A critic of Ludwig's last book on one more influential than either Bismark or Napoleon writes "Emil Ludwig will never wipe from his heretofore shining literary coat-of-arms the smirch this book smears on it" Eliz. H. dismissed Napoleon as "a Corsican peasant to the end." M.B.B. resented it. Spent first eight years of my life under the shadow of Napoleon le Grand & the lesser shadow of N. le Petit, they made life pleasant in Paris and under the sunshine of the Code Napoleon the same code now called Code Civil by the "Republique" and found satisfactory. Napoleon seems to have been the first encourager of canning processes (by Nicholas Appert) How grateful U.S. hotel owners should be? "Mother" fine study of Sardinian peasant by Italian author who won latest Nobel Prize in literature. Keyserling said U.S. was under rule of a matriarchate. Boulder, Col. U. summer school has 27 unmarried men & 2300 women! O'Neill's Lazarus Laughed interested me greatly. Pasadena citizens financed its presentation. Saw his father act L'Assomeir (?) [L'Assommoir] by Zola. That was a shocker, yet "respectable" audiences crowded to the theatre. E.M.H. & E.S. -- agreed with Mencken (?) or admired d'Anninzio's parnographic ... (he harks back to last century) written in such beautiful Italian they really are insidious - Arnold Toguble? "Nude woman show" & Captive 7 months in N.Y. - a jury acquitted the principals who were arrested, Mayor of Detroit stopped it after one night. [Nassar] might again use old name "Society for Religious Enquiry" & so attract Jew & Gentile as well as Christian. H. Hoover, quaker, ran true to form in his war work. When he is Pres. perhaps he will help greatly in bringing that so elusive peace to mankind "The Quakers, Ma'am, I've always held to be above par.["] [Trader Horn*] Mary Barney's next birthday will be in 1932. Can't we call her our most youthful? Sent July 10/28 *Intended placement of Trader Horn reference uncertain but believe it refers to preceding quote regarding Quakers.R.F.D. 3 - Clarkston, Michigan, Oct. 2/28, Care Mr. Arthur Stewart Dear ...:--I shall soon be in Cal. again. I spent June in Sequoia Nat. Forest with old friends but the altitude was too high for me & the mineral water--there was no cold water--did not agree with me. The trip was trying across the continent & by the time I reached my sister's I had another relapse. I was sent to the Simpson Memorial Hospital in Ann Arbor where only pernicious anaemia patients are nine in number--so each case is studied carefully. I learned nothing new after my experience in other hospitals. Little is known about this disease. Liver and its extract & hydrochloric acid being helpful but not curative. Remissions & relapses are to be expected. Climate has no effect so I may live anywhere. I expect to start for the west about 20th of Oct. I have a 10 day lay over in S.F. en route to San Diego. I have rented same cottage in La Jolla I had a year ago--the "Water Witch." Carolyn Macadam. Stella Flora Broadhead - world cruise on Franconia Jan. 15-May 31 S.F.B. & sister after a month or two in France & Italy will join cruise at Naples - Aug. 16/28] Did the Vassars come from Switzerland. I was interested in an item in our evening paper about a discovery made in the hotel where we go for winter sports. I enclose clipping. I don't suppose the plaque can be bought but I should love to have it as a fire back in the big room we are opening up in second floor. We play Bridge for two nearly every evening. Read 3 vol. book on 30 yrs. war by Ricarda Huch. My husband is a walking historical library. Ludwig's Napoleon will be a Xmas present for our old uncle 91 yrs. who reads all day without glasses. He admires Napoleon & reads chiefly memoirs & political history of that period. About a month ago we went for a week to a small summer village 4000 feet high in the Rhone Valley. Village comprises hotels, chalets and peasant huts each & all of which are abandoned in winter. We had an opportunity to admite the wonderful system of irrigation in the canton of Valais. The water from the glaciers is conducted along the mountain sides in parallel streams at altitudes 1200 ft. apart. The installation was a feat not unattended with danger. The workmen had to be suspended by ropes down the sheer Alpine steeps. The canals through which the water flows are like picturesque natural brooks, bordered by trees & forming delightful promenades. See opposite page. Miss Sanford writes Warden Norton's wife had a dear little girl born July 3, Anne Aston "they say" is a perfect child & lovely looking--Abby Elwell's "James" sounds so awfully worth-while. I'd like to know him. Stematz' court dress is now in a proper case. Oct. 13th '28/ 29 Washington Sq. N.Y. Tel. spring 5434. Nov. 2/28. Came to apartment Oct. 1 after 6 mos. in Europe. Dorothy in Summit has 5 children. Richard born in Sept. Crawford a year ago last April. Saw at bridge in Sarajevo where the great war began and near Paris the Peace Glade at Rethindes [Rethondes] where the armistice was signed. Motored up & down eastern shore of Adriatic. Ragusa we liked most. It has excellent Imperial Hotel. Motored through northern Apennines - settled down in Florence for 4 or 5 wks. Met Mr. C at Marsielles & visited towns in southern France & after a weekend at Carcassonne in the [cite] went to Barcelona. [Ms. P. & C.] Pyrenees & V. & L. - Paris - England - Wales. Constance [written vertically on bottom half of page] is Assistant Executive Secretary with Church Mission of Help in Newark. Mrs. C. Edwin Young. 124 Fairmount Ave. Chatham, N.J. mentions Daniel Hoffman Martin who is he? "The Hayloft" at Naples Maine is a "good place to eat" & filled with very fine antiques. Hooked rug made by Sheriff Jones' mother. Isn't that fame for you! Liked Northfield Hotel. L. Kountz going to Holy Land Dec. 5/28. Father's house in Newark demolished. Only two of the old brown stone houses left. [Kemekle] arm Windor [Windsor] chair. Mrs. [Colgrove] attended Bamberger Vassar tea. They had to go out & bring in others to make an audience for the distinguished guest. I heard Mukerji address at Bamberger Bookshop. He is an inspired speaker apparently oblivious of his audience. His word pictures of his beloved Himalayas are more beautiful than anything in his books. Miss Jane Perry Clark made an address at Conference of International Migration service of which every Vassar woman might well be proud. Dec. 11/28 Lydia Peck writes "E. Howe always used to speak of Stematz' little brown hands." Geo. N. Harvey obtained from Gov. Smith an investigation of proceedings of Phillips' "The Pipe King" ... [Maurice] Connolly's administration as Borough Pres. of Queens is her nephew & brought about Connolly's indictment. G.N.H. has been elected Borough Pres. for 1 yr. His slogan is "unbossed we bought [fought] & unafraid." Lloyd Upton Harvey is his son. A photo of him as an open mouthed laughing baby was enclosed. Flushing High School boy when asked who was Achilles replied, "Achilles was a Greek hero whose mother, when he was young dipped him in the river Stynks till he became intolerable." [written horizontally at top of page] Vand Sainte-Croix-Interessante deconverte. M.F. Stehle-Jaccard, proprietaire de l'hotel d'Espagne a recemment deconvert dans son immeuble une grande plaque on "taque" de cheminee, en fonte, du poids de 200 kg. environ, sans doute fondue a Mortean on au Locle ou des artisans creaient jadis ces ornaments de decoration pour les foyers. Cette plaque, de grandes dimensions, comporte de magnifiques armoires, sous la form d'un blason complexe et singulierement elegant d'aspect, Suivant la determination de M. le Dr. D. Galbreath (Baugy), le savant heraldiste, il s'agit des armes des epoux Nicolas de Hennezel, seigneur d'Essert et de Chavannes, et de sa femme Sebastienne de Gingins--La Sarra, dout le coutrat de mariage fut conclu le 13 janvier 1643. Nicolas de Hennezel e'tait fils de Louis de Hennezel et de Marie de Vassar. Sebastienne de Gingins, etait la fille et la seizieme enfant de Joseph de Gingins et de Barbe de Stein. On trouve dans cet ensemble magnifique les elements des armes des Hennezel, des Gingens des joinville et des Vassar.January 12th Tokio, Japan. Dear Miss Sanford, We just received your letter of December 22nd from Boston. We are very sorry for that we did not write you quite long while, since we came back to Japan. Last year was not happy one for us. We lost our father in March and [aunt] Baroness Uriu in November. But we are now getting well and living very peacefully near to our mother's and we expect to have a baby next month. Uncle Uriu seems very lonesome, but his children, grand children and all relatives and friends are trying to make him feel happy. We enjoyed ourselves very much, while we were in your country and wish to go back to see you very soon, though we are going to stay here for a few years. We hope you and Miss Stokes will have a nice winter in Boston and come back to New York with good health in the spring. Very sincerely yours, I. Isogaki This from the husband of Baroness Uriu's great niece. M.R.S.1 Masuda who is to be an artist great nephew of Shige 2 Mrs. McLeod of Boston 3 Checo Masuda 4 J.F.W. 5 Princess Oyama, dau. in law of Stematz 6 Mr. Rollins 7 Mrs. Richardson of Boston 8 K. Masuda - great nephew of Shige {rich importer unmarried but looking around Shige says} April 22 - 1928 Prince could not come nor elder Masudas on account of a wedding. [written vertically on right hand side of page] Agusa Oyama Katsura Oyama Mayumi Oyama Sakiko OyamaR.F.D. 3 - Clarkston, Michigan, Oct. 2/28, Care Mr. Arthur Stewart Dear ...:--I shall soon be in Cal. again. I spent June in Sequoia Nat. Forest with old friends but the altitude was too high for me & the mineral water--there was no cold water--did not agree with me. The trip was trying across the continent & by the time I reached my sister's I had another relapse. I was sent to the Simpson Memorial Hospital in Ann Arbor where only pernicious anaemia patients are nine in number--so each case is studied carefully. I learned nothing new after my experience in other hospitals. Little is known about this disease. Liver and its extract & hydrochloric acid being helpful but not curative. Remissions & relapses are to be expected. Climate has no effect so I may live anywhere. I expect to start for the west about 20th of Oct. I have a 10 day lay over in S.F. en route to San Diego. I have rented same cottage in La Jolla I had a year ago--the "Water Witch." Carolyn Macadam. Stella Flora Broadhead - world cruise on Franconia Jan. 15-May 31 S.F.B. & sister after a month or two in France & Italy will join cruise at Naples - Aug. 16/28] Did the Vassars come from Switzerland. I was interested in an item in our evening paper about a discovery made in the hotel where we go for winter sports. I enclose clipping. I don't suppose the plaque can be bought but I should love to have it as a fire back in the big room we are opening up in second floor. We play Bridge for two nearly every evening. Read 3 vol. book on 30 yrs. war by Ricarda Huch. My husband is a walking historical library. Ludwig's Napoleon will be a Xmas present for our old uncle 91 yrs. who reads all day without glasses. He admires Napoleon & reads chiefly memoirs & political history of that period. About a month ago we went for a week to a small summer village 4000 feet high in the Rhone Valley. Village comprises hotels, chalets and peasant huts each & all of which are abandoned in winter. We had an opportunity to admite the wonderful system of irrigation in the canton of Valais. The water from the glaciers is conducted along the mountain sides in parallel streams at altitudes 1200 ft. apart. The installation was a feat not unattended with danger. The workmen had to be suspended by ropes down the sheer Alpine steeps. The canals through which the water flows are like picturesque natural brooks, bordered by trees & forming delightful promenades. See opposite page. Miss Sanford writes Warden Norton's wife had a dear little girl born July 3, Anne Aston "they say" is a perfect child & lovely looking--Abby Elwell's "James" sounds so awfully worth-while. I'd like to know him. Stematz' court dress is now in a proper case. Oct. 13th '28/ 29 Washington Sq. N.Y. Tel. spring 5434. Nov. 2/28. Came to apartment Oct. 1 after 6 mos. in Europe. Dorothy in Summit has 5 children. Richard born in Sept. Crawford a year ago last April. Saw at bridge in Sarajevo where the great war began and near Paris the Peace Glade at Rethindes [Rethondes] where the armistice was signed. Motored up & down eastern shore of Adriatic. Ragusa we liked most. It has excellent Imperial Hotel. Motored through northern Apennines - settled down in Florence for 4 or 5 wks. Met Mr. C at Marsielles & visited towns in southern France & after a weekend at Carcassonne in the [cite] went to Barcelona. [Ms. P. & C.] Pyrenees & V. & L. - Paris - England - Wales. Constance
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Creator: Fales, Helen Augusta
Descriptor(s): Ditkoff, Andrea
Date: 1865 [TS]

Creator: Fales, Helen Augusta
Descriptor(s): Ditkoff, Andrea
Date: November 18, 1865
Text: Vassar College Poughkeepsie Nov. 18 th 1865 My dear Aunt Susan, As you well know how little 1 have been away from home, and the little acquaintance X have with school life, you can realise somewhat, how very strange all seems to me here. All duties must be performed at the specified time. Walks are restricted to certain limits, and 'thus far, but no farther" the rule of college life. Young men's college life is much freer, than this, they are not so bound and fettered by this...
Show moreVassar College Poughkeepsie Nov. 18 th 1865 My dear Aunt Susan, As you well know how little 1 have been away from home, and the little acquaintance X have with school life, you can realise somewhat, how very strange all seems to me here. All duties must be performed at the specified time. Walks are restricted to certain limits, and 'thus far, but no farther" the rule of college life. Young men's college life is much freer, than this, they are not so bound and fettered by this and that rule. I would like to know if young ladies cant be relied upon, as well as young gentlemen. But notwithstanding all this, life here is pleasant and improving, though one is not exempt from the "blues", by any means, occasionally. The parlors and bedrooms are very pleasant, affording us a far greater degree of privacy, than is usually enjoyed at boarding schools, these rooms may be made to look as homelike as one desires, with pictures, plants, rocking chairs and so on, and some look very prettily. The preaident. Dr. Raymond has a family, who live entirely apart from the school family. He has three daughters aad a son, the eldest daughter is twenty-two or three. Then there are three professors with families, each keeping house too, and having little children of various ages. Besides these there are other professors, and all the assistant teachers, who eat with the scholars. Then there are the housekeeper, and steward, carpenter and about sixty servants. This may give you some ideaof the great number of people under one roof. The chapel and dining room are in the central part of the building. An organ is now being put up in the chapel, quite a large one. The aisles and platform are carpeted, and the seats furnished with magenta cushions. There are twenty-five or thirty tables in the dining hall, each seating thirteen persons, and a teacher presiding at each, as far as the number will go. The bell strikes for any meal, we go and stand behind our chairs. Miss Lyman gives the signal for sitting, by doing so herself. She sits at the head of the first central table. Then when quiet reigns, she strikes a bell for a moment's silent prayer, and eating follows. From breakfast we may be excused at any time, but not from dinner or tea, we usually sit at those meals forty or forty-five minutes. We have very good bread generally, biscuit, coffee and tea, remarkably nice milk, corn bread sometimes, usually meat and potatoes for breakfast, and soup and meat, or meat and pudding or pie for dinner. Good butter and white sugar are freely supplied, and as you may Judge, used. So much for eating. I said something about teachers in Aunt E's letter. Miss Lyman, our Lady Principal, is a lady in every sense of that word, and earnestly seeks the welfare of those com- mitted to her care. She dresses a great deal, wears grey curls each side of her face, and white caps more than black, trimmed with bright colors and ends each side either of ribbon or lace trimmed. Mrs. Medcalf anassistant taacher here taught with Prof. George Fisher in Worcester about fourteen years ago and sends her love and regards to him if you think worth while deliver them to his sister. X dont know her maiden name. Walter and I can compare notes In regard to college life. The end of my sheet brings me to the end of my letter. Is the baby named? What are the people doing In Wrentham. X s the Episcopal church flourishing. Mrs. Vassar was dressed In black not In mourning wore a white straw trimmed with black. It is a lovely day. Do write soon to me auntie please and with much love to all X am Yours affectionately, Augusta This blot came auntie since my letter was finished and In some mysterious manner please excuse it.
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Creator: Faust, Frances (Patterson)
Descriptor(s): Ditkoff, Andrea
Date: 1888

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Descriptor(s): Ditkoff, Andrea
Date: 1870

Creator: G., Nellie
Descriptor(s): Ditkoff, Andrea
Date: 1866

Creator: G., Nellie
Descriptor(s): Ditkoff, Andrea

Creator: Gaston, Mary E.
Descriptor(s): Ditkoff, Andrea
Date: 1865

Creator: Hawes, Edith K.
Descriptor(s): Ditkoff, Andrea
Date: 1904

Creator: Hollingsworth, Ruth (Mann)
Descriptor(s): Ditkoff, Andrea
Date: 1895

Creator: Houts, Annie (Glidden)
Descriptor(s): Ditkoff, Andrea
Date: 1866-1874

Creator: Russell, Lucile (Cross), Janish, Jeanne (Russell)
Descriptor(s): Ditkoff, Andrea
Date: June 3, 1887 - March 1, 1938

Creator: Ladd-Franklin, Christine
Descriptor(s): Ditkoff, Andrea
Date: 1869

Creator: Mansfield, Adelaide (Claflin)
Descriptor(s): Ditkoff, Andrea
Date: c. September 1893 - November 27, 1901

Creator: Markwick, Marjorie (Anthony)
Descriptor(s): Bielat, Isabel, Ditkoff, Andrea
Date: 1914
Text: Monday eve. My dear: I want to thank you for your very thoughtful remebrance of me and I assure you I appreciate the kind thought which prompted it. We had a veryquiet Xmas and -- what ... without Harry. He is in Texas ... and ... goes over with old Mexico expecting to be back to ... next Sat. ready to begin school Mar. May you have a very happy 1915 - is the wish of ... Aunt Mollie 212 July Friday 31 1914 Peter came up. Talked over Pleasant Lake and Tupper Lake trip.213 1914 Saturday 1...
Show moreMonday eve. My dear: I want to thank you for your very thoughtful remebrance of me and I assure you I appreciate the kind thought which prompted it. We had a veryquiet Xmas and -- what ... without Harry. He is in Texas ... and ... goes over with old Mexico expecting to be back to ... next Sat. ready to begin school Mar. May you have a very happy 1915 - is the wish of ... Aunt Mollie 212 July Friday 31 1914 Peter came up. Talked over Pleasant Lake and Tupper Lake trip.213 1914 Saturday 1 August Pleasant Lake in Hugh's car. With Harry, George C., Mr. Starbuck and Peter. 214 August Sunday 2 1914 A swim - a row - a talk!215 1914 Monday 3 August Fished all day but had no luck. Peter and i explored mus bay in the "gebstar". Nancy caught 1 pickerel and one bullhead in Loon Island. Peter and I talked till late. Poor deluded Peter! He will insist upon forcing his affections on me and i just can't make him realized that I'll never marry him.216 August Tuesday 4 1914 Germany's reply to England's ultimatum demanding that the integrity of Belgium be respected was unsatisfactory and England declared war on Germany at 7 o'clock to-night. Almost simultaneously Germany declared war on England. Pleasant Lake. -- Swim. Mother came for me this afternoon but I didn't go home. She took Peter, Katherine and me as far as "Breezy" corners and we walked back from there. Went fishing with Peter at 7:30. He caught a bass and a bullhead and I slept. He made me tired bossing me around and I got a grouch and refused to talk. Served him right! He takes too much for granted. There is one thing certain I'll never marry him and he needn't think that I'm going to.217 1914 Wednesday 5 August Went in swimming twice to-day. Went fishing in the evening and Peter got 5 bullheads, Nancy two -- Becky and I sun fish! Peter and I had a long talk afterward. I know that he is very much in love with me and he knows that I'm merely a good friend of his. I know that I will never be anything more than that. He is not the kind of a man that I will fall in love with. The man I marry must first of all be honest, true and good - no bad habits - and he must be masterful - Peter is not. He lets me be master of the situation always. That's why I don't love him. The man I love must be one I look up to - not one who bows down to me!218 August Thursday 6 1914 Home from Lake at 6 p.m. Band concert with Peter and Wonderland afterward. Got a letter from Cac in which she said that there was no room at Aunt Gay's for me. I don't know whether I can go or not. It all depends on how the thing works out.219 1914 Friday 7 August Ed Mills came up to see me and we went for a long walk. he is the queerest man I ever knew. Everything he says has a double and deeper meaning. From what I should judge he is a man of love or hate - no medium between the two. if he likes, he likes - If he dislikes he dislikes - But I like him because he is different and interesting to be with because he is always trying to veil his own thoughts and feelings thereby making them all the more interesting to study. So much for first impressions and 8-7-14220 August Sataurday 8 1914 Left Gouverneur at 10 A.M. Arrived at Malone about 1:30 P.M. Dinner at the Flannagan Hotel. Started for Tupper. Stopped at Paul Smith's and at Saranac Lake. It is the most beautiful ride up the mts that I've ever seen. In some places we road [rode] right through forests for miles along the most twisty beautiful roads. Went past "Pine Hurst", "Bull point", Camp "Ihi", "Camp Iroquois" etc. Got to Tupper about 7 P.M. In the evening we went to "The Palace" and got some soda water. In bed about 11:30 P.M.221 1914 Sunday 9 August Con and I got up at 7:30 A.M. - had breakfast at 8 A.M. and waited for the boys till about 10 A.M! Went to Hiawatha Lodge for dinner - a lovely spot on Spectkle [Spectacle] lakes. Harry Bockus and I slipped out while the rest were singing and got a canoe and went exploring. Found loads of water lilies and got back to find that Pete has lost his Beta pin. Got home about 6 P.M. and started right off again toward Litchfield park on the most beautiful road - all twisting and turning. Had supper at a Wakeska Lodge, where we broke the bridge but had a good laugh. Home about 9 P.M. Went up to [Ormiston's]. Had a grand fight all around and parted on none too good terms. So much for 8-9-14 222 August Monday 10 1914 Left Tupper Lake at 9 A.M. Had a beautiful ride down arriving in Saranac Lake at 10:30 A.M. Left the car in the garage and Hugh and I wandered around the town while Pete and Harry fixed it. Peter and I had lunch at the St. Regis. Left Saranac lake about 2 P.M. - Had a puncture just this side of Paul Smith's and were held up on the road by construction work. Ran into some rain the other side of Malone. I sat in front with Harry while Hugh and Peter composed "ballads" for our benefit. "We're going to Malone!To Flannagan's Home!" In Malone had dinner with the boys and then went up to Aunt Mollie's till 9 P.M. when we started home. Got on bad road but finally got as far as Potsdam when bang! and thereby hangs a tale! I curled up on the front seat and slept while the boys fixed the puncture. We were held there 2 hours and just as we all crawled in223 1914 Tuesday 11 August and went about 200 yds. Bang! went the tire again! Hugh and I walked in to town hunting for a telephone. Finally we saw the policeman and he let us in the hotel to telephone Mother. Just after that the boys came along in the car. We waited till about three then the Baker came and let us have some eats. After that we all went back to the car and curled up and slept. Hugh on the back seat, Peter in front, Harry on the Wonderland step. Hugh and I took the 6:28 train here and I went to bed till 4 P.M! Went to wonderland with Mother and Charles - and I'm going to bed now.224 August Wednesday 12 1914 Went on a cornroast with Tom Marshal's cousin whom I did not like! It was the stiffest affair that I ever attended. The people did not even sing with half a heart. Everyone was there. Jess Mc D. Murray H. Helena Bob Gert Babe Issy Tom Ruth Abbott Poke Bun Harold Miss Hatmaker Ed. Mills V. Fuller Mr. Bacon Peg Mr. Marshal Eats Corn Hot dogs Marshmellows [marshmallows]225 1914 Thursday 13 August Washed and ironed all the A.M to get ready for the river. In the evening Ed. Mills came up and took me down to hear the band concert. Then to Wonderland, the Tea room and home- Pat was up to see Con and they seemed to be having a scrap all the evening. In the afternoon, Nancy, Mrs. S, Con., Mother, Charles, Robt & I went up to Sylvia for a swim. I learned to do side stroke.226 August Friday 14 1914 Busy all the A.M. getting ready for the river trip. in the afternoon Ruth came to take me for a ride with Tobe and Gert- In the evening I stayed at home except for a trip down town after some of life's necessities! I got a dear letter from Bob to-day and feel like a criminal to think that I've not written him before- He is a dear and cares a lot about me and I am not agoing to hurt him again. If I can help him I will do so. Pete never called up to say good-by- I shall tell him a few things Tuesday if I see him.227 Left Gouverneur bag and baggage on the 8 A.M. train for Ogdensburg. Ogdensburg 11-2pm. Visited Mrs. irving and Frank store. On the boat down met Bad. And he stuck the rest of the time. Took me to the dance in the evening where I had a good time with Howard Potter. Walked home over the sticks and stones and 1 A.M. In bed about 1.10![228] Trimmed all day down at Brown's. The House looks awfully pretty now that it is done- A big screen of Vanity and Queen Anne's Lace as a background- And holihocks [hollyhocks] up the stairway. And Vanity on the lights from which we hung a shower of Balsam blossoms. Gert looked adorable- white satin- a little castle cap trimmed with orange blossoms. They were adorable during the cermony [ceremony] and when he kissed her and turned around- Then we went in to supper. Pat Mason-ring. M. Babesek-money. Mrs Smith-thinble. We followed Gert w A's car and sang "Here Comes the Bride". M.B. and Das were up to see ... & I afterward- Played '21!231 1914 Wednesday 19 August Got down the river about 2 p.m- And went up to Jone's Creek and Bay with the Potters in the White Otter. In the evening Tunk was up to see me- Sat on the rock and talked- and talked- and talked- I don't see why men have to spoil everything by getting serious about me right off almost as soon as they know me at all. It's almost a cures- this love- summer love, "love of Spring' Still I'm happy in it- I love my friends dearly- without them I'd never be happy - especially men friends - Men are so much more wholesome and honest in their friendship. Girls are always looking out for rivals -- 232 August Thursday 20 1914 picnic at Allee's Dock. Tunk and I went for a canoe ride for about an hour- He likes me- I can see it in his eyes and it makes me glad and sad - I want him to like me because I like him but I don't want to fall in love yet for a while and i don't want him to do so either. In the evening Tunk and Morris came over- We got stuck on a shoal coming home from the picnic and Turk had to get out and shove the boat off. Tunk and I talked- and talked and talked - out on the rocks right near the water and the moon paths.233 1914 Friday 21 August Loafed all day- In the evening Tunk was up- I like him more all the time - He's so good and big and blundering - and honest - He couldn't fib if he tried - We sat on the rocks right out in front of the cottage until about twelve o'clock - looking at the starts and exchanging confidences - He like me - almost love me now but will he later? That is the question - and a big one - I hated to see Tunk go to-night for it means the end of all our good talky times to-gether - tomorrow will be different --234 August Saturday 22 1914 Staid in all day- Tunk, Helen and Mrs P were over for a minute to say good-bye. In the evening we all dressed for the big dance, Marion, Constance, Dot, Helen and myself. Constance as an Indian, the rest as gypsies. Tunk and I had a talk before we started, a talk during the dance on the same old rocks where we spent such a happy evening in June -- and a talk afterward sitting on the bow of the "White Otter" -- He told me that he was not going to tell me anymore about his dreams and wishes until he know how I felt toward him-- He wants to see me every night that I'm home before he goes away-- My conscience hurts me-- Poor Pete!235 1914 Sunday 23 August 23,'14 Up about 12 A.M to find Kit Douglas, Ned, Murray McGregor and Cy Sammons stranded down on the front porch-- They staid until about 1:30 and then started back as soon as the river calmed down a little. A hamper came from home and I got a letter from Bob -- a business like affair with no thrill in it at all-- Played cards all the P.M. and evening-- In bed about 10:30 P.M. [Hump] - quite tame for Sunday night. 236 August Monday 24 1914 Up about 11 A.M. - Over for mail at 12 A.M where we saw Maurice, Mr. Taylor, Blanch and Edity - no mail - Home for dinner - In the evening Dot, Constance and I went for a row - Ran on a shoal - Came home. In the afternoon - Family squabble over bathing suits after which Const., Mother and Cha. left [in] state while Dot, Marion and I talked -- So says G.S.B's wedding cake after seven nights! E.L.M.237 1914 Tuesday 25 August 25 Big late breakfast- Dot and I rowed over to the hotel to get the mail - Dot's letter from Paul did not seem to amount to much when Clady and Morris paddled right up to Harris's dock and didn't stop to talk with her. Poor Dot, there was deeper gloom yet when we met them on the way back to the hotel and Morris did not stop to say good-bye to her. The Aldrich's car drove in about 1:30 P.M and Dot departed bag and baggage for Gouverneur. Played "21" all the evening and then went out see "Maud" - a horrible rattle, and bag and we came back - Much scare - Much heels-!238 August Wednesday 26 1914 Got a letter from Tunk saying that he might be over for the dance and no sooner got back to Atlanta Camp than Mother arrived with the news that he and Helen were here- Later we found them over at the store and Tunk and I sat around and talked while the rest went in swimming- They came over for supper - and Tunk and I were sent over for milk when lo! and behold there was Peter on the dock. I said "Hello". Peter said "Hello". Tunk said "Hello"- Then we got out and shook hands- It seems Peter, Bab, Woof, Toad, Blanche H. and Brownie had all come over for the dance- It was a pickle for me! Finally I made H.P. come over to supper and then went to the dance with Peter-- Had a peachy time in spite of difficulties between Peter and Tunk- Jennie Laidlaw, Bill D. Martha Johnson, Wainwright, Cy Sammons, and his bunch and a big crowd was there.239 1914 Thursday 27 August Up early to keep my promise to meet Tunk at 11.A.M. We sat on the dock and talked - and talked and talked - Then ate dinner to-gether -- got some ice ice the "White Otter" Ten went for a walk- Found a wonderful spot on Sucker's Creek -- an abandoned river bed -- where we looked at fossils -- and smiled at each other -- and watched the rest of the bunch looking for cottage sites! We girls had a supper with Helen and Tunk at the Hotel -- a ride to Hammond, Tunk, Blanch, Helen, Marion, Constance and I, after hot dogs- a corn roast in front of the cottage- ate, then lay on the rock & talked- Blanch, Helen, Clady, Morris, Tunk, Helen, Lillian, Ed--sat there till 2 A.M. Tunk and I disagreed and he went home with Blanch. Br-r-r-r-r-r-r- Helen staid here all night. In bed about 3 A.M.240 August Friday 28 1914 Got up about 3 A.M. Had breakfast then went over to the dock where Helen, Marion and Constance were in swimming- Clady, Morris, Tunk and Ed came over too and we sat and talked on the dock. Finally everybody left but Tunk and myself and we sat and quarreled on the end of the dock till about 12. Helen and Tunk left about 2 P.M. for Hammond. Constance and I, Clady, Morris & Ed. went over in the car for films and ran into H & H at the ice cream parlor. "Good-bye" again and we left for O.P. in swimming at 5 P.M. In bed at 10:30 P.M241 1914 Saturday 29 August Up at 7 A.M - packed - Swept and mopped the camp - Girls left on the none oclock boat and we came later in the car picking them at Morristown. Got stuck in mud on the [Richville] road - So did Hugh who came to our rescue. Home about 3 p.m- In the evening Constance and I went up to the Station for our baggage and found Harry, Pete and Tom C there. Said good-bye to Peter. Then went to Wonderland with C.E.A Saw Tunk standing on the corner with T. Caufield. home about 10 p.m. Printed pictures until about 12:30 A.M.242 August 30 Sunday 30 1914 Got up about 11 a.m. Read and loafed all day long - Ruth A and Spencer Crane were in to see us about 1 a.m. Tunk was up in the evening. had a rather dry time I'm afraid. Talked all the evening - Mostly in explanation of some of the incident things of the River. I hope that I can go with him to-morrow. It will be lots more fun to be with someone whom I like. In bed about 12.a.m.243 1914 Monday 31 August Tunk - Barn dance.244 September Tuesday 1 1914 Tunk245 1914 Wednesday 2 September Tunk246 September Thursday 3 1914 Tunk247 1914 Friday 4 September Tunk - Corn roast248 September Saturday 5 1914 Tunk - Mary Bush's249 1914 Sunday 6 September Pete250 September Monday 7 1914 A.M P.M Soir - Tunk251 1914 Tuesday 8 September A.M. Sewed P.M. ditto Eve - Zeb252 September Wednesday 9 1914 A.M - Sewed P.M - Sewed Eve Ed Mills253 1914 Thursday 10 September Got up about 10 A.M. and set to work. Cac came up unexpectedly-254 September Friday 11 1914 Picnic Coopers T.C.255 1914 Saturday 12 September Ed Mills and excitement256 September Sunday 13 1914 Zeb and ["Oaty"]257 1914 Monday 14 September Brownie1914 Wednesday 16 September Miss Marjory AnthonyMy dear Marjory, I am very glad you've come back to do the work I am staying at "Two Pine Villa" and I will be there at 8:30 if you come over then. It will be nice to see you again- Mary Nourse271 1914 Monday 28 September "Cabiria"278 October Monday 5 1914 Constance and I went down to the Movies "One Wonderful Night" with Francis Bushman in the chief part. Had a wild time with a wild man who visited on making acquaintances in a most unseemly way in the Movies. Edith and I picked out stuff for the curtains for the reading room - Blue $.98 per yd. To-night I've been studying and talking to McCarthy. Mostly talking to McCarthy. A letter from Cac and Brownie! Please let me hear from you again "soonest" will you? Please. "Brownie"283 1914 Saturday 10 October Dear Peggy, Wouldn't you like to work with me on the comic page of the Vassarian? Polly Abbot asked me to. I think it would be fun to work to-gether. I'll tell you more about later. ... B.290 October Saturday 17 1914 Congratulations on Reading Room. It is very pretty. K. Brewster292 October Monday 19 1914 Junior Party Rehearsal Entire Cast!! New Gym Monday 7:30294 October Wednesday 21 1914 A nice surprise by Mrs Coye in the shape of an off campus dinner party. Mrs Coye Irene Bessie Dorothy Guckenberger Katheryn Remington Gertrude Tenley and myself. For eats we had Oyster Cocktail Tomato Bisque - Turkey - French Fried Potatoes Celery - olives bread. Salad - coffee Tomato Scalloped. ice cream and cake. Opened Reading room to-day. Everyone likes it very much indeed.295 1914 Thursday 22 October Sick in a.m. Cut Ed and English297 1914 Saturday 24 October At 10 A.M. left for down town- Lunch at Smiths - 12:01 A.M, boat for New Paltz. Gert has a darling home - a little white house second from the corner - We arrived to find Howard colorless so we took a walk to give him time to get ready. The "At Home" was a huge success. Bunny, Constance and I helped serve the coffee and tea etc. The Color scheme was yellow and white and even the cakes carried it out. We arrived home about 6 P.M. in time for dinner in Davsion. No chapel on account of Sophmore [Sophomore} party - Gertrude and I went over to call on Mrs Coye who was over in Irene's room.298 October Sunday 25 1913 Chapel on A.M. Tea at Irene Coyes in P.M. Supper at Carys Gertrude Tenley (Hostess) Mrs. Coye Bessie Irene Peg299 1914 Monday 26 October Economics written.301 1914 Wednesday 28 October My hardest day! Six out of eight hours of work.302 October Thursday 29 1914 hard work all day - Junior party rehearsel [rehearsal] at night. Please come to new gym Tuesday 8:30 P.M. Costman ch...303 1914 Friday 30 October Dead tired all day. Hockey game '16 vs 18. 5 to 3 in favor of '18 such is life Turkey has entered the war. Junior party rehearsel [rehearsal] Eats in Gertrude's room. Talked until about 1.A.M!304 October Saturday 31 1914 Junior party! It was quite good especially the side shows-- Nine p... etc.304 Junior party! It was quite good especially the side shows-- Nine p... etc. Each day we rush in crowds to Main We push and shove but all in vain We scramble madly in the door With visions of the mail we store. Keep to the right Don't duck the rope! With box in sight There still is hope. At last the boxes open wide We find our letters right inside.306 November Monday 2 1914 [Prex] is here -- After chapel we all made a great line on either side of the walk and as soon as he appeared all began Oh! There is man- Who is known in these parts His name is [Prexy] Taylor! And he's won our hearts!, etc He walked bareheaded down thru the rows and rows of girls to the soap palace. And after we cheered and cheered and called for speech! "Speech!" Speech!" He spoke- Of his happiness at being again among the "blessed memories" at V.C. - Thrills - Thrills - Thrills! It was heart rending when he said that he was "homeless" even "trunkless". - Oh! he's the most wonderfullest man ever, ever, ever lived!307 1914 Tuesday 3 November Sick. At chapel!308 November Wednesday 4 1914 Classes all day - Rose at 7 A.M. Breakfast at 7:30 Chemistry 8:30 to 11:30 English ... 11:30-12:30 Lunch 12:45 - 1.10 Song practice 1.10-1:30 Study 1.30-2.30 Philosophy 2:30-3:30 Art 3:30-4:30 Rest 4:30-5:30 Dinner 6 6:30 Chapel Study in Lib. 7:30-9:30309 1914 Thursday 5 November Straits here! Went to Art! Here for dinner and now we are writing to Ted's [Rieley]. Suffrage sale at Inn to-day. Got a suffrage button. Written in J. English - A Dear letter from Peter, Hans, Bob, Tunk -- It is nice-- O -- the deuce. What fools men are! So much for 11-5-14311 1914 Saturday 7 November First Hall play - The Piper.329 1914 Wednesday 25 November Left on the 5:25 train with Bessie, Lucy and Constance - Carrie met us and we went to Daddy-Long-Legs336 December Wednesday 2 1914 Rose at 7.00 Breakfast 7:30 Chemistry 8:20-11:20 A.M Englis 11:30-12:20. Lunch - Chemistry 1:30-2:30 Study 2:30 : 3:30 Art 3:30 : 4.30 Dinner Chapel. Dancing 8:30 : 9:30.340 December Sunday 6 1914 Miss Thallon was taken dangerously ill with convulsions in Miss Smith's room a little after three this afternoon. Four doctor and two nurses worked over her all the after noon and evening. She had a very bad night and was taken over to the Infirmary about 9 A.M the next morning.352 December Friday 18 1914 Left Po'kie [Poughkeepsie] at 12.19 - Utica at 6 p.m - Met Mr. Potter at Utica - and Polly and Margaret Marshall on the train- Also [Glene] Dowling. Home at 12 A.M- All the family up to meet us-358 December Thursday 24 1914 Christmas eve- Got loads of presents and had just a good happy time with my family - Zeb sent me pink roses- Bob was up in the afternoon a minute just to say hello- He is going very well and happy -- I like him packs. He certainly has cultivated a very gentlemanly appearence [appearance] and actions since he left Gouverneur- I don't know of a boy whom I'd be prouder of to have as a friend- He is true blue if ever a lad was true blue and as good and gentle and true as he is good looking.359 1914 Friday 25 December Tunk? Bob in the afternoon. Talked and talked and talked.360 December Saturday 26 1914 Tunk- Bob came up in the afternoon and oh! dear- It was the same old story in the same old way. I just can't make him see that he must not plan so much on the future- He asked me again and again if he could bring me a ring next summer and when I told him that he could not-- and couldn't even see me to-night he went all to pieces. I wouldn't let him say good-bye but told him to telephone to-morrow. Tunk here all the evening. I heard much about "Jim"-- more about last summer and -- my failure to write this fall. I know Tunk likes me - loves me - (so he says) but I don't believe it will last for very long- He is apt to be fickle-- He is a peach too and the only one of the boys that I could think of marrying - except maybe [R].361 1914 Sunday 27 December Turk -362 December Monday 28 1914 Dance at the Inn with E [Lin] -363 1914 Tuesday 29 December Athenian Dance with [Elin].364 December Wednesday 30 1914 Ed Mills-365 1914 Thursday 31 December Zeb.Notes for 1915 This has been a nice year but I feel lots more than one year older than last year - The things I have gained have been first, friends and a wider outlook and understanding of life - secondly a deeper realization of my own incompacity [sic]- The happiest times of the year have been the River Trip. Tupper Lake Trip. Pleasant Lake --August--Cash Rec'd Paid Tupper Lake Trip 4.00 1.00 Date Book .40 12 Candy etc .26September--Cash Rec'd Paid flash light .75 Englis Books 1.00 con sumers L. .25 Senior Parlor Tax .25 gloves Slosh collars .25 Chemistry Book 2.50 " " 1.50 Lab Book .25 Wordsworth .50 Ed. Outline .35 Philosophy Ed Book 1.80 Stunt party .50 9.90 Board 3.00 Meals 3.00 Chair 3.75 book case 1.00 _____ 23.65 October-Cash Rec'd Paid Oct 16 10.00 Maud Adams 1.50 .50 paper .30 [ain atee's] .15 car fare .10 candy, cookies .25 Smiths .20 Movies .10 pay Day 5.50 Candy .10 New Paltz Flowers 1.00 Car fare .80 Smiths .60 Stamps etc 1.00 Roses .50 [Canley]-apples .25 Car fare .10 Stockings 1.00 pencils .05 Smiths 14.35 car fare .10 Ribbon .06 papers .04 _____ 14.55 November-Cash Rec'd Paid care[sic] fare .10 scissors .55 shields .25 Buttons .10 .10 candy .10 stocking 1.00 hair pins .10 collar .29 .49 ribbon 1.10 Book .25 covers .25 crepe de chine 2.44 Rose .25 21 pens .25 car fare .10 frame .25 fasteners .10 Salt fords 3.00 Incense .15 _____ 11.32 December-Cash Rec's Paid Moor Bros. 7.85 Lingerie clasps .25 Jewel case .25 nail case .25 pens .25 Ling. clasps .25 Ribbon .25 Ribbon .24 coat hanger .10 paper .10 Candy .15 Icicles .05 Harvard note .15 pen 2.50 Theme pads .40 13.19
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Creator: Martin, Elma G.
Transcriber(s): Pulver, Bonnie
Descriptor(s): Bielat, Isabel, Ditkoff, Andrea
Date: 1892-1907
Text: Elma G. Martin. spec. '92 - '931 Journal 1892. Sept. 22. Started for Poughkeepsie at 11:00 A.M. Thursday Sept. 22. Arrived in Syracuse between two and three o'clock in the afternoon and started to find McBride St. By dint of questioning small boys and wandering about for some time I reached 212. I found Inez and Nellie there, but aunt Het had moved back to Watkins the Saturday before. Had a very pleasant visit. In the evening Nellie, and her girl, Inez and I walked down town....
Show moreElma G. Martin. spec. '92 - '931 Journal 1892. Sept. 22. Started for Poughkeepsie at 11:00 A.M. Thursday Sept. 22. Arrived in Syracuse between two and three o'clock in the afternoon and started to find McBride St. By dint of questioning small boys and wandering about for some time I reached 212. I found Inez and Nellie there, but aunt Het had moved back to Watkins the Saturday before. Had a very pleasant visit. In the evening Nellie, and her girl, Inez and I walked down town. Syracuse seems to be a very pleasant city, though I do not think I would like it as well as Elmira. On Friday at noon, met Grace on the train bound for Poughkeepsie. There was a girl on the train also, named Odell who was going to Vassar. Grace had never met her until she saw her on the train. She seemed very pleasant. She was going to the "Winsor", but was afterward transferred to the college. Arrived in Po'Keepsie about seven o'clock. After giving our checks to a man to bring our trunks to the college (for the small sum of thirty cents) we took a car for the college. Of all street cars I have ever had experience with, the cars here are the worst. Rattling along as if they were unacquainted with 2 springs and were being drawn over the stones, without rear platform, they are anything but pleasant. When we arrived at the college we found Mrs. Kendrick, Lady Principal, was at the Winsor and some one else left in charge. We were directed to a number and having found it after much search, found it to be a single room. In despair, we started again for the office, and Mrs. Kendrick having returned, were at last directed to our room No. 207 fifth floor, center. Tired and dirty we were glad to use water plentifully and get to bed as soon as possible. Sept 24 The next forenoon was spent in a fruitless search for our trunks. They came after some time and we had the pleasure of unpacking them before dinner. My box containing some things which I needed most, did not arrive until Monday. This year meals have been changed and we have lunch at 12:45 and dinner at 5:45 P.M. Sept 25 My first Sunday in Vassar. Breakfast half an hour later, at 8:00A.M. Preaching services in the chapel. Dr. Taylor preached an excellent sermon from Math. 12-30. Spent the time after dinner before supper3. in writing letters. After chapel attended the Y.W.C.A. prayer meeting. Sept 26. et seq. This morning went to the chapel to find out about classes. I have 4 hrs. each Latin and German, 3 hrs. Mathematics and Rhetoric and 1 hr. Hygiene in a week. Math. and Germ. come in the morning the others in the afternoon. German will be pleasant after I can understand all the Fraulein Neef says, but she talks as if she had too many teeth. Mathematics will be the bane of my existance, for Miss Richardson, the teacher, sets my nerves on end. She is of medium height, rather slender, has iron gray hair and steely eyes, a nose which is an acute angle, her dress fits without a wrinkle, and, to quote Miss Freeman, when she bends she makes a right angle. She is Mathematics personified. Miss Green, teacher in Latin, has sparkling black eyes, white teeth, and a pleasant smile. I shall like her. Dr. Thelberg, in Hygiene, which we had for the first time Wednesday, gave us plenty of good advice about the "toilette". She has a very pleasant manner. Expect to like her. Miss Perry the teacher of Rhetoric has piercing black eyes, black hair, and a quick manner. She is excellent.4 Sept 28 Wednesday. Exercised with Miss Peckham. Took a walk past the flower gardens and through the pines. Miss Peckham is inclined to be a bit loud, but is very pleasant. Sept 29 Ex.ed with Miss Freiman. She is quiet and pleasant. Like her very much. Sept 30 Have four recitations on Friday which makes it a very hard day. Did not go for ex. but wrote a short Theme on Han's Disappointment. Had to skip prayer meeting last evening to study in advance for today. Sat Oct 1 Did some settling in the morning and went with Grace to town in the afternoon. Walked both ways. It is about two miles. We were both quite tired. Sun. Oct 2. As it was the first Sunday in the month and communion Sunday, there were no church services here. Grace and I went to the Baptist church in town. Heard Dr. Sampson of Buffalo preach on Rom 11-33. Rode into town and walked back. Sermon not as good as Dr. Taylor's of last week. In the afternoon wrote letters and went to Y.W.C.A. in the evening. Mon. Oct.3. Lessons and study of course. Tue. Oct. 4. Went rowing with Miss Higman. (Nellie) The lake was lovely. My easy day, but did not accomplish as much as I expected. 5 Fri. Oct. 7 Lessons all the week of course. Yesterday I had an extra German translation to write because I had not written the right one. Two hours wasted. Had to stay away from prayer meeting. Wednesday is my day for ex. with Miss Peckham. We tried to get a boat but failed as they were all full of water, so went to the orchard instead. Got some good apples. Thursday ex.ed with Miss Freeman. Took a long walk to Sunrise Hill by the glen path and back by the laundry. Wednesday received an invitation to the C.A. reception to be given tonight, from Miss Childs. Accepted. Our table in the dining room has been decreased by the transfer of Miss Barneth. She was extremely interesting. I took a strange dislike to her on the St. car coming to the college. She is rather ill mannered. (or rather lacks polish) Her table manners are not perfect. Our table now is very pleasant. Miss Underhill, assistant Librarian, sits at the head. She is very pleasant, but quiet & hard to talk to. Grace sits on her left. Next Miss Brown, a freshman from Brooklyn, then after a vacant place,6 Miss Freeman, the Misses Higman, Miss Learned, Miss McCauley, Miss Mary Howett and myself. I sit next Miss Underhill on the right. Miss Howett is very talkative and witty and we have excellent times. The maid who waits on our table is an old woman who smiles a great deal. Miss Howett smiles at her occassionally and she comes directly to see what she wants. She hurries around so that Miss H. suggested that we call her "the hustler". We found out that the girls last year called her "Smiley" so now she is "Smiley the Hustler". Sun. Oct. 9 Spent yesterday forenoon in clearing drawers, etc except one half hour's ex. with Grace on the lake. Our stroke is very different but we shall soon learn to row together well, I think. After lunch we went out for a walk. Came back through the orchard and got some apples. Grace walked to town and back with Miss Foster, her senior friend. I spent the after-noon digging into German, except about one-half hour spent in going with Miss Peckham to the flower garden. She gave me some beautiful flowers. Spent the evening on German and Mathematics. Hope I am "caught up" on German. But I am forgetting last Friday evening. 7 Miss Childs came for me about eight o'clock, and we went to the Gym, where the reception was held. Met Miss Barry, Latin teacher, who was also to be escorted by Miss Childs. Miss C. is a New York girl, and I should think a child of very wealthy parents. She told Miss Barry and I of her Summer home on Long Island where they frequently entertained thirty guests at one time. It must be delightful. We were fully twenty minutes in getting from the hall to the place where Miss Croft and Mrs. Kendrick received. The crowd was immense. There were fully five hundred there. We afterward went upstairs where there was dancing, then down to have our ice cream, then up again to listen to the glee club, which sang the College songs. Ther girls sang very well together. Our verse was "Who than our "Prix. more noted? Who than our "fac." more wise? Than our "alum." more quoted For wit and anterprise?" Came home about ten o'clock, tired but had spent a very pleasant evening. Yesterday Grace and I went out directly after lunch for ex. Went to the orchard after apples and then to the lake for a short row. We will soon be able to row together quite well, I think. We also took a walk after breakfast for half 8 Saturday Oct. 9 1892 an hour. The rest of the forenoon was spent in making the curtains to the book-shelves and clearing up the rooms. After lunch, after our row, Grace and Miss Foster, her senior friend, walked to town. I studied German all the afternoon except a half hour about five o'clock, when Miss Peckham asked me to go with her to pick flowers. She is a member of the floral club. This morning Dr. Richmond Wayland of Philadelphia preached. He is a very tall man, inclined to baldness, with dark hair sprinkled with gray, a short beard and is altogether a very peculiar appearing man. He read as the scripture lesson Mark VI 34-45. His text was from I Timothy 2-5 "The Man Christ Jesus". He preached an excellent sermon on Christ as a man. After lunch, Miss Durant, a former room mate of Grace called. As Grace was out, she did not stay long. Wed. Oct. 12. Yesterday had to go & make appointment for physical exam. Am to go next Tuesday. Today learned that we were to go to Lake Mohonk on an excursion. Mr. Thompson, who has given the new Library, gives the excursion each year at a cost of about $500. Freshmen and seniors go Sat. next. "Rah for Mr. Thompson. The Y.W.C.A. missionary meeting was held tonight instead of 9 tomorrow, as usual. Mr. Forman a young missionary from India spoke to us on the need of workers in the foreign field. He returns to India Saturday. Sat. Oct. 15. Last night the Republicans held a mass meeting and parade in the halls and lecture room and the Democrats a meeting in Philalethian hall addressed by Prof. Whitney and others. The Republicans formed on first south and marched upward. There were two hundred ten girls in the parade, dressed fantastically and carrying all sorts of banners. Miss Bartlett acted in the capacity of drum major. She was excellent. One banner representing Cleveland at the altar with D.B. and [Taimmany] on each side was comical. "No Free Trade", "McKinley and Protection", "Don't forget to register", were features of the parade while the girls shouted "No! No! No! Free Trade!" The musical instruments comprised banjos, mandolins, and combs. The parade marched to the lecture room where it was addressed by some of the girls and the glee club sang. Some of the songs, composed by the girls, and sung to old tunes were "taking" in the extreme. Each speech and song was vociferously cheered. Studied until nearly ten o'clock and retired. Rose at 5:30 A.M. this (Sat.) morning, dressed, 10 Oct. 15 and went down to breakfast at 6:00. Miss Freeman, Belle, and I rode to Mohonk in a four seated wagon with a girl from S. Carolina, another one named Nellie Stone, Miss Mace, who is a fellow, a senior whose name (Miss Williams) I have forgotten and one other girl, a friend of the senior. Started about 6:20. It was a lovely morning, but quite chilly. We had to wait for the second ferry as there were more than enough wagons to fill one boat. That made us almost a half hour behind the first wagons but we caught up with them. The scenery was beautiful. The Hudson looked beautiful as we crossed the ferry. The hills in their red and yellow robes were georgeous. We could see the mountain near Mohonk a log way off, but the ascent was so gradual that it did not seem high. It is about fifteen miles from Poughkeepsie. We passed throught Highlands, and New Paltz. Saw the New Paltz Normal at a distance. Met Miss Freeman, Belle's sister, and Miss Dennison, a friend of hers and a teacher in the Normal, beyond New Paltz. The were walking to Mohonk 6 miles, to meet Belle. When we had to get out to walk up a hill, they overtook us, and showed us some short cuts. We walked on quite a way, hearing the shouts of the girls below on the mountain and of the parties of Mohonk people who11 Oct. 15 passed us. The girls sang the Vassar song "Hurrah for the rose and the gray". The Mohonk people would shout M-O-H-O-N-K, Mohonk , 'rah, 'rah, 'rah, and the girls would reply with the college yell, 'Rah, 'rah, rah,-'rah, 'rah, 'rah, V-A-S-S-A-R- Vassar. We walked on so far that the wagons, taking another road, got beyond us, and we continued to the Lake. The lake is not large, but clear as crystal and its waters were of a deep green color. It is very deep, in some places has never been sounded. The cliffs rise abruptly from its shores, so that it may be said to have no beach. The Mohonk Lake House is built upon the rock without blasting the rock, and nestles among the irregularities in a very picturesque manner. It is unobtrusive in color and is not like a Summer hotel usually is. The little summer houses that dot the landscape are quaint and charming. They are of diverse shapes, rustic, and have thatched roofs. We had lunch soon after our arrival. Saw ex-President Hayes. Belle met him, but did not get a chance to present me. After lunch we invested in some views12 Oct. 15. of Mohonk and went to Sky top. The view is grand, indescribable. Went by the bridge path. There is another way, through a narrow cliff in the rocks called the Labyrinth, but that was longer and as we had little time, we did not take it. We then went to the Eagle cliff and beyond to Artist's rock. Eagle cliff tower affords a grand view of the surrounding country, as does the Artist's rock. On one side the Lake, like an emerald, and beyond it rocks piled in fantastic masses, high cliffs affording strange profiles. One of the strangest of these, seen from Eagle cliff path, is called the "Old Man of the Mountain". It is a perfect human profile. On the other side of the tower the country stretches away, hill beyond hill, the Catskill melting away into the sky in the distance. The "traps" in the middle ground are quaint in shape. Returned to the hotel in time to depart for Vassar at 2:45. The day seemed much too short. The ride home was beautiful. Left Miss Freeman & Belle and Miss Dennison, at New Paltz. Took the 5:15 ferry and reached home at 6:20. Had to stop in town and wait for some of the girls to do some shopping. Not as tired as expected to be. Studied all the evening. On a clear day from Sky Top six different states can be seen - New York, New Jersey, Vermont, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts.13 Oct.16. Heard Bishop Spaulding of Denver Col. preach from Luke 14-10 this morning. Episcopal service. He is quite an old man, looks something like Rev. Freeman without the pleasant expression. Did not like him very well. Oct. 23. Went to prayer meeting Thursday evening. Miss Parker lead. Didn't like the meeting as well as those at home or in Elmira. They are not bright but dull. The Juniors and Sophomores went to Mohonk yesterday. Grace did not go. She and I took a walk for ex. and rowed some. We are getting so we can row together quite well. Miss Peckham took me to the flower garden and gave me some flowers. Arranged them. Miss Freeman had two baskets of grapes come Saturday. She has been very generous to Grace and I. Mary Lynch has slept with Grace Friday and Saturday evenings and is coming tonight. Wrote to Emma and Ora today, good long letters. Heard Rev. Dr. Marion Vincent of14 New York preach this morning. His text was Rom. I-14. He preached a grand sermon. One thought which he emphasizes was "I can therefore I must", our obligation to the world. He looked very much like S.C.Keeler. Went down to Belle's room after prayer meeting tonight. Oct. 30. Last Monday Miss Green gave us a lecture in Latin class about taking cuts and studying when we ought not. In consequence I have not done so this week. Have gotten along just as well and felt very much better. Shall continue so doing, for the present at least. Monday Belle Freeman, Nellie Higman and I took a long walk to Sunrise Hill. We came back across the fields, after asking an old woman to direct us. Tuesday we three went to Richmond Hill for hickory nuts. Got a few. Organized the "Rambler's Club". Saw a cow of which Nell was afraid & Belle too so I had to drive it up the hill before they would pass it. Rowed with Miss Peckham Wednesday, and alone Thursday. Friday Belle and I rowed part of the time and then went to the museum. The statues and paintings are grand. A statue of Venus de Melos and one of Apollo Belvedere are those which I particularly admire. Belle liked best15 a collosal head of [J...]. Saw also the Laocoon, and the dead Christ by Michael Angelo. Two of the paintings, water colors by Turner with pencil sketches of dogs by Landseer about 12 X 8" cost $500 each. There were innumerable beautiful paintings but we had little time and it was getting dark. Went through the Museum hastily. Saw the mummy of a Patagonian. It was a shriveled brown horrible looking thing. There was also a head, I think from S. America or Australia, from which the skull had been removed by some secret process & the features preserved. It was about the size of my fist. The hair was long. It is very rare. Saw also many rare things. Yesterday we had the privilege of seeing and hearing Rev. John Peyton the man who for nearly thirty-five years has been a missionary in the New Hebrides. He is a man of medium height, has snow white beard and hair which gleams in its silvery whiteness almost like snow. It is beautiful. He has searching black eyes and a personality which strikes one as that of a thoroughly consecrated man. He talked in a very interesting manner of his work in the New Hebrides. He showed us one idol to which the natives sacrificed their babies. It was 16 a hideous black head with arms and hands clasping an infant's head which it was carrying to its mouth. He also showed us some small smooth stones which were used as idols. This morning wet to Dr. Trise's lecture of course. Heard of scientific discourse by Dr. Townsend of Boston University from Romans 8-19, I. Cor. 3-22,23. Did not like it as a sermon very well. He is a peculiar looking man with dark eyes, hair and a beard which covers all the lower part of his face, being parted in the middle at the chin. This afternoon at 4:45 heard Bishop Hare of S. Dakota talk on the Indian problem. He is excellent and gave a very good idea of the needs and spiritual state of the Indian. Heard Dr. Townsend was a Methodist. Nov. 1. Last night was Hallowe'en, which fact was celebrated according to the long established Vassar custom, by the Sophomores playing a joke of the Freshmen, and the Juniors on the Seniors. The Junior committee dressed up an old women, putting prunes all over her dress, and prisms in her hand and were about to place her in the Senior parlor at midnight when they were met by a deputation of the senior class. Much disconcerted they retreated leaving the figure of the woman "to represent us" as they said, thus17 turning the joke upon themselves. The Freshmen heard that the Juniors were to place mock diplomas tied with green ribbon at their plates at dinner, so the whole class stayed away from dinner. The Sophs. tied their diplomas then upon the door knob. They were very unique, being [invitations] of diplomas written in a mixture of Latin and Enlish, conferring the degree of A.B (artless babies) upon the Freshmen. McKinley spoke in Po'Keepsie yesterday at 2:00 P.M. Grace went to hear him, but I had a class and could not. Nov. 6. The girls of the Senior class sent a communication to the Juniors saying they had adopted the maid of the prunes and prisms into their class as an honorary member. Yesterday Belle and I went down town in the afternoon to do some shopping. We had Charlotte Russe at Smith's. Friday evening the Juniors gave a party to the Sophomores, and Saturday at 4:30 the Seniors gave a tea to the Freshmen. Went to Bible class this morning. As it is the first Sunday of the month18 there was no service in the chapel. Niether Grace or I went to town. Last night I called on Miss Mann. Met her two Junior room-mates. Had a very pleasant call. Nov.10. Went to prayer meeting this evening. Miss Bartlett lead. I do not enjoy the meetings here as at home. 12. Belle Freeman and I went to town this morning soon after breakfast. Got a gas stove and a basin to make cocoa. Studied in the afternoon. Grace went to town to make some calls with Miss Foster. Worked a little before dinner on Edna's slippers. They will be very pretty. They are pink and gray. Studied some after dinner. Grace and I took a cut. Made some cocoa. 9 Went to W.C.T.U. after dinner & before Chapel. Heard account of Frances Willard and rec'd a souvenir in the shape of a quotation from F. Willard enclosed in the gilded shell of an English Walnut and tied with a narrow white ribbon. 11 Had Prof. [Druman] in Rhet. for the first time. Drew his picture. Heard a concert by the Beethoven Quartette of New York city. It consisted of first and second violin, viola & violincello. It was grand beyond anything I had ever heard. 13 Heard a very good sermon by Rev. Dr. DeForest of 2n Conj. Ch. Detroit, Mich. this morning. His text was I John 5, 21-22. Went to an organ recital at 9:00 P.M. Miss Young called this afternoon, and Miss Morrissy19 while I was at Belle's this evening. Mon. Nov. 14. Went with Belle & Nellie Higman for ex. Took a long walk and got some apples and hickory nuts. Was gone two hours. Tue. Nov. 15. It rained so did not go out doors. Made some candy my ex. hour. Belle was up. My home letter said Mr. Shearer was buried Sunday. Wed. Nov. 16. Another rainy day. Mrs. Kendrick, Lady Principal, called this evening. Grace was out and I in my wrapper. She is very pleasant. Studied until nearly ten. Work for tomorrow and Friday is hard. Thu. Nov. 17. Had Miss Nettleton in Rhetoric, Miss P. joined Chris. Assoc. was ill, I think. The weather is very warm and pleasant. Went to row for my ex. this P.M. Took a short walk with Miss Morrissy after breakfast. Sent to Wanamakers for some visiting cards. They were $1.50 for 50 + plate. Fri. Nov. 18. Did not ex. today. Had to write a theme after Rhet. as mine was lost, so did not have time. Went down to Belle's room after chapel. Went to the Lecture with her and Nell Higman. The lecture was by Mr. Percy Reese of Baltimore on "Early Christian Rome and the Catacombs", illustrated by stereopticon. It was fairly good but I have heard better and seen better views. Grace did not go. After I returned I made a cup20 of cocoa which we drank before going to bed. Sat. Nov. 19. Studied German all the A.M. After lunch studied Latin and went for ex. with Miss Foster and Grace. Returned and studied Latin until dinner time. Read a little in Hypatia after dinner. Went out from chapel as early as possible, rushed directly to the Gym to secure seats for the "Hall play". Got an excellent seat. Held it for Grace, the Higman girls and Abbie Learned. The play was "Sunlight and Shadow". It was, for the most part, well acted. The best characters were "Helen" and "Maud" the Dr's. daughters, and "Adolphus Barnfield". The vocal solos between the acts were excellent and heartily encored. Had a cup of cocoa after our return home, and retired. Belle did not attend the play. Stayed home and studied. Sun. Nov. 20. Wrote my letters this P.M. Dr. True preached this A.M. Dr. Hill of Rochester was going to but could not. Went to the Reading Room between breakfast and Bible class and after dinner. Read a series of articles in the Mag. of Christian Lit. by Arch Bishop Farrar on London Charities. They treated of the Salvation Army, Dr. Bernands's homes, and the Royal Polytechnic Institute. The text of Dr. True's sermon was St. John IV 29. Good sermon. This P.M. Miss Chase a teacher of Packer who is visiting a Senior here, sung in the chapel. 21 She sings beautifully. This P.M. there was no chapel but Miss Wood a Vassar Alumna who is connected with the College Women's settlements spoke to the girls. It was a very interesting talk. A chapter is to be established here. Mon. Nov. 21. Had an oral exam in Germ. this A.M. It was very easy. Nell H. and I were going to Boardman place but it rained so Nell came up the 6th hr. and stayed most of the P.M. She dressed a doll for the C.A. and I drew a pattern of oak leaves on a glove case I am going to paint for Grace. Studied Latin all the evening. Tue. Nov. 22. Studied part of the A.M. Painted for one hour on the glove case, and again an hour this P.M. Had an exam in Rhet. this P.M. Not hard but long. Took a walk with Belle just before dinner. Last night Grace received an elegantly bound Whittier from a friend. I do all my painting in Belle's room so Grace shall not know it. Wed. Nov. 23. Grace decided this morning to go to her cousin's at West Stockbridge. She will start at 4:00 P.M. A good many of the girls are going away to spend Thanksgiving. College closed at noon. Belle went to visit her sister at New Paltz. Grace and22 I went down town. I did some trading and she went to the depot after doing a little shopping herself. I got some photos of the college buildings for Emma, Ora and Delia for Christmas, and one of Dr. Taylor for myself. I came back alone, and was reading (about 5:00) when there came a knock at the door. I opened it and there was - Grace. She found she could not reach W.S. before midnight so came back. Will go tomorrow noon. This evening we went to the library for an hour, finished reading Hypatia and made candy. It was a date candy and very good. Thu. Nov. 24. Breakfast at 8:00 this morning. Grace and I took Miss Foster some candy, & selected a book to read aloud. Got "That Lass o'Lowrie by Frances Hodgson Burnette. Had short service in chapel conducted by Dr. Taylor. Went for a walk with Grace before she went to West STockbridge. Came back and ate lunch in my room with Miss Foster. Lunch was provided at breakfast to be taken to our rooms. Went Went with her for a walk afterward and to the Reading room. Had dinner at 3:30 P.M. Miss Foster having invited me to sit at her table, I did so. Miss Kirscher (:) a senior, Abbie Learned, Miss McConley, Miss Haughwit, Miss Williams ('93), Miss Bishop and two others whose names I don't know, were there also. We had an excellent dinner and a good time. Left the dining room at 6:00. The Winsor girls23 were all here. Miss Bishop called in the evening and I went with her to the reception in the College parlors. Dr. and Mrs. Taylor received. Had a very pleasant time. Met Miss Madieria, president of Class of '96 of whom Miss Chase spoke. She is very pleasant. Had ice cream and fancy cakes. Fri. Nov. 25. Got up at 7:30. After breakfast spent some time in changing the furniture in the room. Painted Grace's glove case, after lunch sewed on buttons, fixed my dress etc. This evening called on Fraulein Neef. Had a very pleasant call. Have studied Latin and German since. Sat. Nov. 26. Went and got my Gym hours. They ar Tue. and Wed. mornings and Fri. afternoon. Gyms commence Monday. Darned stockings, took the ruffle off my red dress and studied. About 4:00 o'clock Belle F. brought me an express package which she found in the lower hall for me. It was a box of lovely candy from Elmira. Grace returned from West Stockbridge about 5:30. Sun. Nov. 27. Had no Bible lecture this morning. Not all of the girls are back yet. Episcopal service. Rev. Hart, rector of St. Marks, Rochester, preached. It was a good sermon. Text St. Math. v-I. Praise so nice in the evening. Mon. Nov. 28. Snowed a little today. Still snowing at bed time. 24 Tue. Nov. 29. Quite a little snow on the ground this morning and still snowing. Had Gyms for the first time this morning. Think I shall like the work fairly well. Wed. Nov. 30. Went to Gym 1st hour. We have not been able to get any steam at all today and are most frozen. Thu. Dec. 1. The weather is warmer, but the snow has not all melted yet. Stayed to prayer meeting after Chapel. Fri. Dec. 2. Philaleathean day. Classes all the forenoon. Dinner at 12:30. Studied most of the afternoon. Went to room A for lunch at 5:00 P.M. Belle, Grace and I ate it in our room. Had a cup of cocoa with it. Went with Belle to the lecture in the Chapel. It was by F. Hopkinson Smith. He toook us "under the white umbrella" to Spain, Holland, Venice and Mexico. The talk was witty and interesting. He is noted as an artist, writer, lecturer and story teller. After the lecture the orchestra, stationed in the rear of the gallery, played, as they had, also, before the beginnig of the program. The glee club sang before the opening address which was made by the Pres. of Phil., Miss Whitcomb. The chapel was very prettily decorated with palms and wreaths of smilax. The girls who had gentlemen with them went in the main hart of the chapel while the girls who were alone or with other girls went to the gallery. The girls in light or bright colored evening dresses made25 chapel and gallery look very bright and pretty. The halls, lecture room and dining room were cleared and very prettily decorated with palms, drapery and furniture from the girls' rooms. All the building except the dormitories was thrown open to visitors. On second floor where the orchestra was stationed and the promenade took place, there were two little lemonade stands where lemonade was served during the evening. On third, bouillion and sandwiches were served directly after the lecture, and later during the evening, coffee, ices and cakes. Belle and I had several promenades, took refreshments and came to our rooms a little before 11:00 P.M. Sat. Dec. 3. Studied during the forenoon. Grace and I went to town during the afternoon. Went directly after lunch and came back about 4:00. Did some Christmas shopping and had an ice-cream at Smith's. Studied a little before dinner. Helped Belle on Mathematics during the evening in consequence of which I have not all of my Latin for Monday. Decided to go home Christmas. Sun. Dec. 4. Grace did not go to breakfast, so brought her some. We both cut Bible Lecture and are not going to Church. Wrote letters, read Lowell's poems with Belle and read The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountain by Chas. Egbert Craddock (Miss Murfree). Grace did 26 not go to dinner so took her some. She forgot to dress (was reading) until too late. Miss Learned & Miss McCauley called this evening & stayed quite a long time. It was a lovely day, bright and pleasant and not too cold. Mon. Dec. 5. Grace had a cold and did not go to Gym so we took ex. together. Had a very pleasant walk. Tue. Dec. 6. Made and important decision. Hope it can be carried out. Wed. Dec. 7. Had a cut in Hygiene. Thu. Dec. 8. Had a very interesting missionary talk after Chapel by Miss Helen Richardson of the Woman's Refuge in Bombay. She was a short, dark, square-faced English woman, dressed in deep mourning and talked very earnestly. Fri. Dec. 9. Had a lecture on Democracy this evening by Dr. Wilcox of Princeton College. We were obliged to make an analysis of it for Rhetoric, so I did not enjoy it very much. Dr. Wilcox is rather a young man, has smooth face and very black hair & eyes. Went with Belle. Grace got her dress today and a box of hickory nuts & some apples. Had first class work in Gym. Sat. Dec. 10. Worked on German this A.M. and Latin this P.M. Made out travelling list. Seems like going home. Sun. Dec. 11. Had an excellent sermon on I.Cor. 9-25 by Rev. Raymond Presbyterian of Albany. Had to make and analysis for Rhetoric. Was difficult to analyse. This evening heard and excellent decription of the slums of New York, illustrated by 27 stereopticon, by Mr. Riis author of "How the Other Half Lives". It was very pathetic and interesting. He spoke of Kings Daughters' and other work among the poor. Mon. Dec. 12. Miss Green was ill, so we had a written lesson in Latin. Not very hard but I am afraid I did not do well. Tue. Dec. 13. Miss Green still ill, had a cut in Latin. Went to Belle's room & worked on glove case most of P.M. Wed. Dec. 14. Winsor girls go tomorrow. Miss Brown came up and I showed her about making some slippers. Thu. Dec. 15. Another cut in Latin. Fri. Dec. 16. Cut in Latin again. Lecture this evening on Southern Literature by Mr. James Allen of Louisville, Ky. He was tall and thought himself very graceful. Struck the most imposing attitudes, but failed to interest his audience. Met with Grace & set in gallery. Sat. Dec. 17. Worked all the morning on German, except the time I was finishing the glove case. In the afternoon worked an hr. on Latin then finished my story for Rhet. It is a story for boys. Don't particularly like it. The second hall play took place this evening. Went out of chapel early & reserved seats for Grace, Belle, Miss Foster and a friend of hers. It was "Prince Karl" & was very good. Sun. Dec. 18. Had an excellent sermon this morning by C.R. Hemphill of Louisville, Ky. The text was Phil. I-20. Had to make analysis for Rhetoric. The chapel was28 prettily decorated with evergreen wreaths, & a star on the organ, and palms & roses. In the evening (8:30) Belle, Grace and I went together to hear the Christmas music. It was grand, beautiful. Mon. Dec. 19. Finished my story for the magazine. Had Miss Barry in Latin. Tue. Dec. 20. Went to town in the fornoon. In the evening decided to go as far as Rochester with Grace, starting at 8:05 P.M. tomorrow, because I can get home then at 9:08 Thursday morning & cannot before 3:00 P.M. if I go the other way with Miss O'Brien as I intended. Wed. Dec. 21. Had German this morning. Went to see Nell Higman afterward. Miss Brown came up the second hour to bid us good bye. The following is one of the Vassar songs composed by the Pres. of '92, Miss Reed. An institution once there was, Of learning and of knowledge, Which had upon its high brick front A 'Vassar Female College'. The maidens fair could not enjoy Their bread and milk or porridge, For graven on the forks and spoons Was 'Vassar Female College'. Tra la la la, Tra la la la, 'Twas Vassar Female College'. 29 A strong east wind at last came by, A wind that blew from Norwich; It tore the "Female" from the sign That was upon the College. And as the faculty progressed In wisdom and in knowledge, They took the "Female" off the spoons, As well as off the College. Tra la la la, tra la la la It now is Vassar College". In the afternoon Grace and I made fudges and molasses taffy. Started early for the depot and stopped at Smith's for an oyster stew. Train 1/2 hr. late. Started from Po'keepsie about nine. Reached Rochester Thu. Dec. 22. about 4:45 A.M. Grace left about 6:00 and I about 6:30. I reached home at 9:08. Folks not expecting me until later. Grace gave me "Lorna Doones' before we started. Sat. Dec. 24. Went down to Aunt Catharines with Edna in the afternoon. Rec'd a lovely book mark from Alice. Sun. Dec. 25. Christmas. I received a lovely pin & a glass jewel-box from mother. Dicken's "Our Mutual Friend" from father, a white silk neck-handkerchief from Edna. Went to Church and S.S. in the morning. Did not feel well. Could not go in the evening. Mon. Dec. 26. Went to the church to a supper in the evening. Called on Sarah Pike in the afternoon. 30 Dec. 27. Went to express office with Edna and got package from Mr. B. for her. Wed. Dec. 28. Went over to Mary William's to a social in the evening. Thu. Dec. 29. Aunt Het spent the day with us. Fri. Dec. 20. Went down to Aunt Catharine's this evening. Sat. Dec. 31. Went over to Mary Williams with mother. Cora Bailey was there. Sun. Jan. 1, 1893. Went to Church morning and evening & Y.P.S.C.E. Rained all day, a cold rain. Has been very cold ever since I came home, but no snow. Mon. Jan. 2. Lutie Yost came on 3:00 o'clock train, came to our house staid to supper & Mr. Coleman & Mr. Becker spent the evening, going to the Acad. very early. Lute came down on the 6:36 train. Staid until the 12:30. He gave me a very pretty cup, saucer, & plate. Tue. Jan. 3. Started for Syracuse at 11:00. Reached there at 4:00 P.M. Changed at Canandaigua. Found Nellie easily. Wed. Jan. 4. Met Grace and Miss Haughnot on the train in Syr. at 12:35 (ought to have been 12:35 but was 1 hr. 30 min. later). Reached Po'keepsie 45 min late. Went to bed early. Tired. Found an express package containing a pin cushion, two cologne bottles, all pink & gray and a [...] little tea cup & saucer, from Emma. Thu. Jan. 5. Work again. It is hard work too. Sat. Jan. 7. Went to town this P.M. with Belle. Got some skates. Had some ice-cream at Smith's. Came back & went to the rink to skate with Grace & Miss Foster. Sold skates to Miss Brown & am. Made next Sun. elections. 31. 1893 going to buy Miss Learned's club skates. Miss B. was up to our room until 9:00 P.M. Jan. 8. Sun. Heard Rev. Dr. Saunders of New York on Math. 8-27. He has a niece in Freshman class who told him about our having to analyse the sermon so he made it easy of analysis. Jan. 9-11. Nothing unusual happened. Weather cold with snow. Splendid sleighing but no rides. Miss Carbutt, '96, lead the prayer meeting Wednesday evening. Thu. Jan. 12. Snowed so I did not go to skate as I intended. Yesterday spent an hour helping Belle with her Geometry. She wants me to help her until after exams. Fri. Jan. 13. Heard of Anna Sackett Whalen's death. It seems so sad. Went skating for a little while after Rhetoric & Gyms. In the evening attended a lecture on "The Public Schools of England" by Mr. Geo. Fox of New Haven. It was very good. Was illustrated with views of the principle public schools such as Shrewsbury, Eton Rugby, Harrow, and Oxford and Cambridge. The views connected with the colleges however were mostly the boating crews. Had to notice Intro. Concl. & transitions for Rhetoric.32 Sat. Jan. 14. Studied all the A.M. in a desulatory fashion on German. Part of the time was in Belle's room and the rest of the forenoon Annie Brown studied with me. In the P.M. studied Geom. and went to the rink to skate with Miss Morrissy. In the evening studied a little on Latin and went to the Chapel with Grace to hear Miss Chase of Packer sing. It was grand. Sun. Jan. 15. Have carried out my resolution made before the holidays. It was hard, but am glad it is finished. Heard a sermon by Rev. Wm.H. Smith, D.D. a Presbyterian minister of New York. He was not a large man, rather slight, having brown hair, light complexion & light mustach. Rather a young looking man. The sermon was one of the best I have ever heard. It was an impassioned appeal to the unsaved to come to Christ. Grace and I took a short walk late in the P.M. Did not stay to prayer meeting. Wed. Jan. 18 Heard by mother's letter of the death of Annie Sackett Whalen. Fri. Jan. 20. Grace and I attended a piano-recital given by Mrs. Fanny Bloomfield-Geisler. She was dressed in a light blue satin dress with a lace front, sleeves and trimmings on bodice. She had very black hair and eyes, was 33 thin, seemed nervous, and near-sighted. She reminded me when at the piano of Eleanor Burge. She made such queer gestures. Her music was beautiful beyond description. Sat. Jan. 21. Studied Latin Prose this A.M. except the hour before lunch when Grace & I went to the rink and skated. Finished Latin and studied German in the P.M. Miss Peckham and Miss Dillo called in the P.M. Belle Freeman's sister Mary is spending the afternoon & night with her. I called on her between dinner & chapel. Studied some more German & a little Geometry in the evening. Sun. Jan. 22. No chapel this evening. Had a talk on Foreign Missions by Mr. Speers, Sec'y of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Pres. Ch. Grace went to the New Hall to supper with Anna Higman. The sermon this morning was by Bishop Poltes, Pres. of Hobart College. Mon. Jan. 23. One week from today - exams. Attended a lecture (illustrated by stereoptien) by Prof. Van Ingen at 8:30 P.M. It treated of the early growth of art. Tue. Jan. 24. Went down to Annie Brown's room after chapel to "erzahlein" in German. We talked after reading over the translation until the bell rang for the art lecture, which we attended. It was about Dutch Art and very good. 34 Thu. Jan. 26. Belle is sick & was yesterday afternoon. Have taken her meals, made tea for her, went for the doctor, sat with her, ordered meals when I did not take them from the dining room, and tried to do anything I could for her. Fri. Jan. 27. Belle still sick. She went down to dinner however. Had a lecture at 8:00 P.M. by Barrett Wendle of Harvard, on American Literature. It was good but his delivery was poor, voice not good and talked too fast. Sat. Jan. 28. Belle wished me to go to town with her in the afternoon. We went to an occulist, Dr. Dobson, and had to wait a long time. Then I bought some oysters & crackers, and she bought some cookies, cakes, and rolls and we are to have our supper in our room tomorrow night. Belle stayed all night with me as Grace took a cut with Mary Lynch. Sun. Jan. 29. Day of prayer for Colleges. There was a prayer-meeting at 9:00 A.M. I could not go as Mrs. Hendrick thought I had better go to town with Belle to see Dr. Dobson. It was pleasant at 9:00 when we started but sprinkled before we got there. Had to wait a long time, then it took some time to examine Belle's eyes. When we started back it rained hard. The Dr. loaned us an old umbrella. We went over to Main St. and waited a long time for a College car. It was going the wrong 35 way but we took it and soon came back toward the college, which we reached just in time to change our drenched garments for dinner. Belle, Grace and I had supper in our room. Had oyster stew, cocoa, rolls, cookies, cakes and jelly. All tasted very good. We asked Miss Brown to come up and she at first consented but finally refused because of scruples of conscience. Evidently thought we were to have a "spread". Attended a prayer meeting at 5:00 with Grace. No chapel. Mon. Jan. 30. Exam in Rhetoric at 10:45 A.M. Consisted in analysis and comparison of two essays, one on Dickens by Lang, another on Wm Hazlitt by Barrett, which Miss Perry read to us. Went to the rink for a short time this P.M. Attended an Art Lecture by Prof. Van Ingen in the evening. He told of the sketch, "motif", and labor on the picture. Tue. Jan. 31. Exam in Solid Geometry. Hard, but fair. Skated some in the afternoon with Belle. Art Lecture on Michael Angelo in the evening. Wed. Feb. 1. Exam in Latin. Nice exam. Quite hard, but not as hard as I expected. Skated some36 with Belle this P.M. Grace came down after a while and skated too. On coming to my room yesterday noon I found a note asking me to go to Mrs. Kendrick's office. I did so and she gave me a Balcony ($1.00) ticket to the Seidl concert in town Saturday evening. It was presented from the "Good times fund". Belle has one too. Thu. Feb. 2. Exam. in German. Very fair. Skated this P.M. with Belle and Annie Brown. Mrs. Taylor, baby and Mary were at the rink part of the time. Ice on the lake was soft. Skated a little with Miss Kirchner a Senior. Went to prayer-meeting. Miss Stebbins lead. Fri. Feb. 3. Exam. in Hygiene. Met Fraulein Neef in the corridor and she told me I passed a very good paper in German. I could have embraced her. Read Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde 2 hrs. to Grace in the Museum. Skated some in the afternoon with Belle. Grace stayed all night with Mary Lynch so I had Helen Peckham stay with me. I went over to the Hall and called on Misses Dillow, Broad, Beach and . Made a cup of cocoa just before we retired. Helen thought it delicious. Sat. Feb. 4. Had an interview with Miss Loomis on my last essay at 8:30 A.M. Then Belle and I went to town. Took the car in and seperated. She went to the occulists and 37 I did a little shopping and walked back. In the afternoon went and got my Gym hours, painted our white chair and skated one-half hour with Grace & Belle. Grace made fudges after dinner, thinking to get them done before chapel but as she did not we did not go to chapel. My first chapel cut. Went to the Seidl concert with Belle. It was grand. Grace stayed all night with Mary Lynch and Belle stayed with me. Sun. Feb. 5. Belle did not go down to breakfast. I brought her some bread and butter and made her a cup of cocoa. It was town Sunday and neither Grace or I went to church. I read and destroyed some old letters and wrote a new batch. In the P.M. went over to Helen Peckham's room, then for a walk with Grace and Mary Lynch. In the evening went to the Reading Room for a time after prayer-meeting. Mon. Feb. 6. Begin work again. Paleontology the first hour. We have it in the basement of Art & Music Hall. We have Prof. Dwight. He is an old man. I like him very much. Have German and Latin to the same teacher as last Semester. Tue. Feb. 7. Have four recitations Thursday. Went to Art History (Prof. Van Ingen) for the first time. It is held in38 the Hall of Cacts. Shall like it very much. Grace is in my class. Wed. Feb. 8. Only one recitation, Latin today. Had a lecture by Prof. [Greenough] of Yale. It was illustrated, subject, "Roman Wall Painting". Not very good. Prof. G. is short, has black hair, is bald, black eyes & a peculiar appearance. Thu. Feb. 9. My hardest day, five recitations. Got along very well however. Stayed to prayer-meeting in the evening. Prof. Drennan in Rhet. today. Fri. Feb. 10. Only two recitations today. Went for a short walk with Miss Foster first hour in the afternoon. Had a concert by the pupils in the music class this evening. Miss Cardzdaphner, from away, sang a solo and took the part of the "Lady of Shallot" in a cantatta by that [...] which formed the second part of the program. The whole concert was excellent. Went with Grace. Sat. Feb. 11. Studied all the forenoon. Read some to Grace in the afternoon over at the Museum while she was at work. We are reading "Capt. Blake" by the same author. Wrote [...] in the evening. Sun. Feb. 12. Went to Bible Lecture. We still have Dr. [T...] of Rochester. Had a very good sermon by Rev. Wood of Germantown, Philadelphia. Text Mark I, 37. He was a young looking, smooth faced man. The maid heads of the sermon were somewhat as follows. I. Introduction - (Ways different persons came to Jesus.) - Motions II. Seeking 1.Man always a seeker a.For things b.For knowledge about things c.For knowledge about the creator of things.39 2.Why we should seek Jesus. a.He knows himself. b.He knows us. c.He knows the way of salvation. III.Conclusion - (Exhortation to seek Jesus.) Attended prayer meeting this evening. Had quite a good meeting. It was about "doubts". Dr. Taylor spoke longer than usual and Rev. Wood spoke. Mon. Feb. 13. Helen Peckham stayed all night with me. We took a cut and wrote valentines. I wrote several. One for Grace with the little German poem from Heine "Du list nie eine Blume", one for Mary Haughenout, a parody on Break! Break!, one for Belle Freeman, made in the shape of a Belle, one for Mary Lynch, Miss Henderson, and Miss Peckham. Tue. Feb. 14. Sent my valentines and received three, one from Belle, one from Helen Peckham I am quite sure, and one from Mary Houghenout I think, although she denies it. Wed. Feb. 15. Had a lecture or talk after chapel by Miss Jane Addams, one of the originators of Hull House, Chicago. It was most interesting. She is a woman of medium height, with hair, dark slightly tinged with gray, brushed back from her forehead slightly parted in the middle, and an open, earnest attractive face. I am so glad to have heard her. Thu. Feb. 16. Five recitations. Got very tired. Skated, instead of walking, with Belle. The ice in the rink was 40 watery & inclined to be soft but fairly smooth. Fri. Feb. 17. Was excused from Gyms. & skated with Belle the last hour. We went to the lake and Miss Wood skated with both of us. Enjoyed it so much. Attended a lecture this evening by Prof. Herbert Tuttle of Cornell University. His matter was fairly good, his subject "Rome Aspects of 18th Century History", but his delivery was slow and not good. He is a fine appearing man. Sat. Feb. 18. Studied all the A.M. and part of the P.M. Went for a little over an hour with Grace to the Museum and read "Schouberg. Cotta Family" to her while she worked. Belle came up in the evening & I made taffy and studied Latin. Grace attended a class spread at the Gym. She reported a fine time. Sun. Feb. 19. As the Self-gov't comittee had requested us, we took our Chapel seats in Bible lecture this morning. Had an excellent sermon by Dr. H.M. King of Providence. His text was P2. 36-6, his theme, the Righteousness of God. The following was something like the outline of his sermon. I.Introduction - God is righteous in dealings although sometimes seems not. II.His Righteousness like the mountains. 1. Sublime and powerful. 2. Stable. 3. Restful. (Digression comparing it with the ocean in density of judgement.) 4. Unchanging. III.Conclusion Went to prayer-meeting in the evening. Called on Miss Learned and Houghenout. 41 (Tue. Feb. 14.) This page should have been included under Valentine's day but was forgotten. The Senior girls decorated their tables very prettily for dinner. One had three gilt paper hearts fastened together suspended above it, one had a large red cloth heart, stuffed, and another a cupid about 2 ft or 3 in size above it. At one table the girls all had the head of an arrow projecting from their backs and its shaft from their breasts, thus looking as if it had pierced them. One table was beautifully decorated with similax and violets. The senior girls who received the largest number of valentines is the "Queen of Hearts". Miss Cobb received forty-seven, but a bundle of twenty found Wednesday morning gave Miss Whitcom fifty-six and brought her out ahead. As it was Miss Underhill's mother's birthday she gave her table the treat of ice-cream and fancy cakes for dessert. Anna and Nell Higman were over to dinner. Ther girls gave her, Miss U., a bouquet of carnations. Wed. Feb. 22. A holiday. Studied hard all day except two hours when I read to Grace at the Museum. The girls dressed in colonial costumes for dinner and the tables were decorated except one or two, ours was not. Some had Jerusalem cherry trees, in honor of G.W's tree, one had his picture about six inches in height, dressed in uniform, surrounded with quite small flags fastened in a base, many tables were decorated with red, white and blue, one or two had a hatchet suspended over the table, flowers, candles42 and pretty china were everywhere. One table (3rd senior) had a large caldron in the middle of the table with sticks under it, and a large black cat with bristling fur and raised tail cut from paper suspended over it. At this table the girls were all dressed as witches with black skirts, red capes, tall black hats with a black cat on the peak of each, and each carried a broom, on the first broom was the word Salem. The girl at the second senior table each dressed in colonial costume and had one of the letters of Washington's name on their back, so that when seated the name was spelled. Most of the girls were dressed in costumes. Miss Bartlet as Gen. Lafayette in uniform was fine, one girl represented Geo. III and one an Indian, another Mrs. Gen Putman with curls down each side of her face, several were Geo. W. & many Marthas. After dinner Grace and I went to Room J. for a little while and saw the girls dance. Then we called on Belle, who was sick, and I went to the Gym. to see the tabeleaux but Grace was too tired. They were good and represented "A scene from Evangeline", "The Reception of Marquis de Lafayette", two scenes from "The Stamp Act", "Why Don't you Speak for Yourself John!" "A Dutch Dance". Fri. Feb. 24. Attended a lecture this evening on "Our Currency" by Prof. Tanssig of Harvard. Went with Grace. Had our first written lesson in Art Hist. yesterday. Was only 10 min. long and not hard. 43 Sat. Feb. 25. Studied most of the day. Darned some in the afternoon. Made fudges after dinner. "Cut" chapel to get a good seat at "Trig. Ceremonies" for Grace, Anna H., and myself and then found that the classes could not sit together. The "Trig. Ceremonies" were very good. There was an orchestra of girls dressed in masculine upper garments, which produced strains of entrancing (?) music before and between acts. The entertainment consisted of a play, the scene laid in different parts of the college building. The first scene was in the room of Sophie More (Sophomore) on the 3rd day of Fall term. Sophie returns and finds bare rooms, and then some of the girls rush in and welcome her, college fashion. A freshman, Olivia Lattice Sage-Green, is introduced. Many excellent "hits" are made, especially on the freshman class, who, hearing they were to be alluded to as "green", decided to wear College caps and gowns of bright green. The sophomores learned of this and sent a request to the class not to appear in insignia of class. They wore them until inside the doors, then took them off. Olivia has the cap and gown like that worn by the freshmen. Sophie looks out of the window and sees "the Faculty on wheels", in allusion to the bicycle fad which broke out among the ladies of the faculty last fall. The frantic cries for "Mr. Wheeler" sound natural. The next scene is on 3rd Maid corridor, in front44 of Lecture room. Prof. Elyson (Math) who is in love with Sophie More meets her as she with a glass of milk in hand attempts to take possession of a step ladder. Result, the glass drops & breaks & milk is spilled. A maid comes along with a meal order & while she assists Sophie, Prof. holds the tray. As he is relieved Prof. de Labratoire (Chem.) enters and Sophie departs. Prof. E. declares his love for S. to de L. who, after his departure declares that he will circumvent E. and marry Sophie himself. The third scene is 2nd corridor, Phil. night. Victor Boreall bores Sophie, is introduced to Olivia and they part in a little huff. Mr. Ebenezer Brown Clipping, Sophie's guardian is also introduced. The stage represents the corridor nicely, fire-wall, stairs and all. Mr. Elyson has a dance with Sophie, afterwards Prof. de L. tries in vain to get Sophie to believe something about E. Then, in the College parlor Olivia writes a note to Boreall & seeing him coming, hurriedly rushes out, dropping it. She is seen by Miss Nina Tew, who is concealed behind the curtains. De L. enters, finds note & shows it to Sophie More, who enters as one from Prof. E. to Miss Eighty-seven, one of his old loves. The wording makes her think it his, and as he brings in her name, she is angry. The guardian enters and also becomes very angry. The 3rd Act is Sophie More's room in Exam.45 week. She reads questions in trig. and is overcome. The next scene is in College parlors again. Prof. E. sends his card to S. who has shunned him of late. She appears & he demands an explanation. She refuses, her guardian comes, & on demand of Prof. E. he together with De L. explain charges, which E. denies. Then Olivia & Boreall enter & she claims the note. Nina Terr declares she saw her drop it, E. is cleared, and De L. going out in a passion explodes. Sophie then has to choose whether she will marry E. N.T. says "elections must be in by noon" & S. says "I elect Mathematics". The next scene begins with a dance around a priest wearing a black robe covered with mathematical figures, by some girls in evening dress and an equal number inside huge balls, only head and legs projecting. Then the bridal couple enter and kneeling before the priest repeat the ceremony, promising to take each other "for better or for worse" "in flunks and exams" "in Bible lectures and chapel exhortations", in "tombstone and rice pudding" etc. The whole talk of Prof. E. was full of mathematical phrases and the entire play full of "hits" and "grinds" on Faculty and college. It was very good. Sunday Feb. 26. Had a very good sermon this morning by Dr. Brown of Philadelphia. His text was from Luke 19-5. His sermon was after somewhat46 the following plan. I. Introduction. Zacheus and Christ. II. Man's Human Nature. 1. There is always a best side to it. 2. Christ appeals to the best in man. 3. We may trust to & appeal to it also. III. Conclusion. Let the best in us conquer and trust Him as He trusts us. Fri. Mch.3. Went with Grace to a lecture on "Sociology" by Prof. Dike of Auburndale, Mass., one of the best authorities on Sociological questions and especially on divorce. Sat. Mch. 4. Studied most of the day. Had an essay interview at 3:15 P.M. Miss Nettleton. Went to a Hall play in the evening with Grace. It was "All the Comforts of Home" and very good. Sun. Mch. 5. Went to church in town with Grace. Heard Dr. True. Text Luke 14-18, Acts 10-22. I. "Have me excused". 1. Request of scribes & Pharasus. 2. Request of Sual at first. II. "What wilt thou have me to do, Lord?" 1. Paul's Question. 2. The Christian's Question. III. How the question is asked. 1. Without the disire to follow instructions. 47 2. With a desire to sin as much as allowable. 3. With a true desire of service. IV. Conclusion. Exhortation to follow Christ's commands, giving ourselves wholly to his service. Thu. Mch. 9. Stayed to prayer-meeting. Miss Samson lead subject, "Inward Strength". Fri. Mch. 10. Nothing going on this evening. Mary Lynch was up to study most of the evening. Sat. Mch. 11. Studied most all day. Read Paleon in the Museum for two hours this P.M. Grace was there at work. Grace and I made fudges and taffy in the evening. Mary Lynch was up. We also read "Dou Desiro" by Marion Crawford. Not very great success with our candy. Sun. Mch. 12. No Bible lecture today. Went to Reading Room a while after breakfast. Episcopal service conducted by Rev. Phelps of Wappinger's Falls, a small place near here. The sermon was not particularly brilliant, and the delivery poor. He was a young man, and will probably improve with age. This evening heard Miss Stella Bradford, Pres. of Smith Col. Assoc. for Christian work, talk on the work at Smith. It was very interesting. Wed. Mch. 15. Attended an Art Lecture by Prof. Van Ingen in the chapel this evening. It was on painting. Thu. Mch. 16. Prayer meeting in Lecture room tonight, lead by Miss. Coman. It was much more interesting than in the chapel. Fri. Mch. 17. St. Patrick's day. Several maids wore green ribbons. 48 In the evening was a lecture on "Whittier" by Mr. Horace E. Lendder, Editor of the Atlantic Monthly. He was a friend of Whittier. He is an elderly man with grayish beard and hair and looks like a business man. I did not attend the lecture as I was invited to a "Sugaring Off" at Miss Peckham's room in Strong Hall. It was a very pleasant affair. About twenty-five were there. Mary Lynch staid all night with Grace and I last night and tonight. Miss Moody, one of her roommates has gone home with the scarlet fever, and the other one because her mother is ill. Mary does not like to stay alone, and I think is afraid of the fever. There are three cases and four or five have been sent home. The papers state that there are twenty-five cases and there is quite a great deal of excitement. Sat. Mch. 18. Finished my essay for next week. Studied. Went to the last Hall Play in the evening with Grace and Mary Houghenout. Went early and got seats for them. It was "On Probation" and very good. The parts of Jonathan Silsbie by Miss Hastings and Lenhor Pedro Oliveira Y' Duarez by Miss Cobb were especially fine. Mary Lynch also staid tonight with Us. I got some oranges thes P.M. and we ate one each just before we went to bed, sat and talked until nearly 11:00 P.M. Sun. Mch. 19. Had no Bible class. At church had and extremely beautiful solo by Miss Perkins, an old girl who was here last night also & sang between acts at Hall play. Rev. Smythe of Hew Haven preached a very interesting49 sermon. Text was Heb. 11-13. I. Introduction (Greeting from Afar.) II. Greeting promises. 1. From near. 2. From afar. (Ex. polititian and statesman. Light of near Dec. light prevents seeing stars above.) III. Aspiration. 1. 2. IV. Faith. 1. What is it? 2. Effects. V. Conclusion. The chapel was prettily decorated with evergreens, potted daisies, and Easter Lillies. Thu. Mch. 23. Last recitation before vacation as College closes tomorrow at 3rd hr. Grace goes tomorrow. Mary Lynch is still staying with us nights. Fri. Mch. 24. Went to the depot with Grace and to town with Belle in the P.M. We went to a little art store down town where they had quite a few casts, some very pretty. Mary Lynch is to stay with me nights. We took a long cut to read. Sat. Mch. 25. Belle Freeman has gone to Albany to meet Mr. Miller who is to stay with her this week. Sun. Mch. 26. Went with Helen Peckham, Miss Henderson, Ernist Bush, Barnes, Dillow and an other girl to the Quaker church in the city. Had a very good talk50 by a man who looked very much like Mr. Burris. Walked home and it was very muddy. Mary staid in the room all day with a badly swollen face, caused by "La Freckla". Mon. Mch. 27. Went with Belle & Mr. M. to the Museum and Hall of Casts in the A.M. Read & wrote two letters in the P.M. Miss Pierce was up in the evening. Miss Foster called. Mary and I made fudges. They were good. Went down and took Belle a cup of cocoa after she was in bed and asleep. Tue. Mch. 28. Took a short walk in the morning, painted some sweet peas on a slate in the afternoon, then called on Miss Odell. IN the evening Mary, Miss Pierce and I made molasses candy and made a candle shade of pink paper for Mary. Wed. Mch. 29. Got a letter from Grace this A.M. Finished my white shawl. Had worn it before. Spent the evening with Miss Pierce & Mary L.in Mary's room and took quite a long walk. Did Art Hist. in the P.M. Thu. Mch. 30. Mended during the forenoon. Went to Room J a little while in the evening. Miss McCampbell called with some peppermint candy in the evening as I finished washing my hair. She was alone in her room & so staid quite a long time. I made fudges afterward. Belle went to the theatre with Mr. M. Came up and staid all night with me. Did not get here until about 11:00. I had made fudges earlier in the evening. Fri. Mch. 31. Went to town in the afternoon. Walked both ways. Read some. Miss Pierce came up in the evening and staid a long time. Belle staid all night with me as Mary is still in town. Sat. Apr. 1. Wrote some letters, one to Dr. Ball. Mary L. came in from 51 town this A.M. but is going back. Miss Pierce & I spent most of the afternoon in her room with her. In the evening I made orange taffy and fudges. Lucy Pierce came up after ten O'clock. Belle staid all night with me. Sun. Apr. 2. Went to the Baptist church. Met Nell Higman just after I started and walked in and out with her. Prof. Braeq preached. He preached an excellent Easter resurrection sermon. His text was Math. 28-7. I. Introduction. II. Effect of Resurrection. 1. In Art. 2. In Poetry. 3. In History. III. The Resurrection. 1. Triumph of Good over Evil. 2. The Apostles always preached the resurrection. 3. A proof of our resurrection. IV. Conclusion. In the evening went to the Reading Room where Miss Foster asked me to go to the service in the Lecture Room with her. After that I went to her room and staid until nearly 9:30. Belle staid all night with me. Mon. Apr. 3. As I was waiting for the mail Nell Higman asked me if I did not want to take a tramp and as I did, Miss Henry, Nellie and I started at about 9:15. We walked to the ferry (about 3 mi.) took the ferry across the river, then went by a winding, round about road to Highland Station (about 2 mi.) then started to West Park. We walked 52 about four miles then took a short, steep path to the river and came by the R.R. track to the ferry. Then we took the ferry to P., took the car to Arlington and walked out to the college. We walked between 12 and 14 miles. Got to the college just in time to take a bath before dinner. In Highland we bought some crackers and cheese for our lunch & asked the clerk in the store how far it was to W.Park. He told us 4 mi. A little farther on we asked a boy and he told us 4 mi. or 4 1/2. One or two women told us 3 mi. or 3 to 4. At last it grew to 4 or 5 and we knew we had walked 4 miles from Highland. Mary Lynch said she had been up 7 or 8 times for me during the day without finding me. I went to her room about 8:00 o'clock after Belle had finished making fudges in my room for Mr. Miller, and staid all night with her. We did not go to bed until about 11:00 P.M. Lucy Pierce was in, in the evening & staid until almost that time. Tue. Apr. 4. Mary did not get up to breakfast but I did. The girls said Nell was very tired & Miss Henry said she was, but I do not feel badly at all. Walked to town and back in the afternoon. Grace came on the 4:00 o'clock train. Had a tood time, she says. Wed. Apr. 5. At work again. I only have Latin on Wednesdays and as Miss Green has not returned we had a cut in that. Had only Gyms. in all day. Nell Higman and I went nearby to Cedar Ridge just before lunch. Late to lunch in consequence. New library opened today for the first. Thu. Apr. 6. Another cut in Latin but a lesson to prepare. Mrs. 53 Kendrick had the prayer-meeting, subject "Love". Fri. Apr. 7. Belle, Grace and I went together to hear Paderewski. Our seats were not together. I sat near Miss Young. I never appreciated music so much before. It was grand. I never thought there was so much music in a piano. I can see now what is meant by a musician's interpreting the feeling of the composer. Paderewski seems to me, when compared with the others I have heard, like an excellent elocutionist compared with a stumbling reader in a reading class in a country school. He responded to several encores. I am so glad to have heard him. This year, and indeed my whole life, seems full of blessings. Sat. Apr. 8. Studied most of the day without accomplishing as much as I ought. Had a snow storm last night and several thunder-storms today. Weather quite warm in the P.M. In the evening went down to get the German from Miss Phinney and stayed a long time. Then copied it, took my book down to Annie Brown and staid there until 9:35. When I returned Grace was in bed. Sun. Apr. 9. Had an excellent sermon today by of Atlanta, Ga. His text was Col. 2-9, 10. I. Intro. 1. Animals & vegetables form equation with their constituents. 2. Man does not. II. Completion of Man. 1. Christ an atmosphere. 54 2. Christ vs. Religion. 3. Christ solves of all problems. 4. Christ all in all. 5. We never outgrow Christ. III. Conclusion. (I omitted to describe Paderewski in the proper place and will do so here. He is a trifle above medium height, rather slender, has a slight, brown mustache and long auburn (almost red) hair. His hands are very small for a man and fairly fly over the keys. His manner is not at all affected. He plays entirely without notes, and seems to forget himself while playing. He responded very kindly to encores, but seemed bored by applause. I have heard that he was married when quite young but soon lost his wife, and is now engaged to a young girl who has not yet come out in society.) Belle and I took a walk after dinner. Went up on Sunset Hill and sat down on the bench there. We each told the story of our life as we might imagine it to be. Mon. Apr. 10. Had my second physical exam. Have gained in everything, especially chest expansion and strength of legs. Wed. Apr. 12. Had an illustrated art lecture on the galleries of Europe. Went with Grace and Mary Lynch. Fri. Apr. 14. My birthday. Twenty-three today. It does not seem possible. Got a letter from home stating a box was 55 on the way. Got the box in the afternoon. It contained a very pretty dress of printed muslin from Edna and mother and some cake and cookies. I also received a lovely bunch of carnations from Grace. After chapel I had Mary Lynch and Belle Freeman come up and Florence Foster came in and we had a cup of cocoa and some cake. All thought it delicious cake. Belle, Grace, Miss Foster and I attended a concert together. It was a recital by Prof. Bowman and Mr. Sauvage. The organ music by Prof. Bowman was grand and the vocal music by Mr. Sauvage was excellent too. His son played his accompaniments. Took Miss Henderson some cake when I returned her spoons which I had borrowed. Sat. Apr. 15. It rains. Studied in A.M. Went to town with Belle in the P.M. It rained part of the time we were in town. Studied in Belle's room until 9:15 in the evening. Then came up & made fudges. Mary L. was up. Sun. Apr. 16. Heard Rev. Mr. Beckwith of , Maine, preach this morning. Text was John I. I. Introduction. Character of Peter. 1. Before he became a "man of rock". 2. After he became a "man of rock". II. Change of name & change in character. 1. In several Bible characters. 2. Possible in all characters. 56 3. Christ sees good in all warrant change. 4. To see faults necessary to effect change. 5. Change possible by the power of God. III. Exhortation to change by the help of that power. Tue. Apr. 18. Belle and I walked to town & back last hour in the afternoon. Late to dinner. Wed. Apr. 19. Belle and I again walked to town and back in the afternoon. Thu. Apr. 20. Attended prayer-meeting with Grace. Miss Jones talked on Robert Moffat & his work in S. Africa. Fri. Apr. 21. No more Gyms. Hurrah for Ex. out of doors. Sat. Apr. 22. Nellie Higman and I started a little after nine o'clock for flowers. We had a lunch which the housekeeper of the Strong, "Mrs. Barbour", gave Nell. We took the ferry to Highland and then walked about two miles, perhaps more, up the track, climbing the hills for flowers. We found hepatica, blood-root and a great deal of Dutch-man's breeches. Got back to the ferry at 2:15 and walked from the city home, taking the car from the ferry up into the city. Had a lovely time. After dinner took Miss Underhill some flowers & stayed until chapel time. Miss Learned, who is a member of Beta, could not go to the social meeting tonight so asked Grace to go in her place & take Belle and me. We enjoyed it, though I was never in 57 such a crowd in my life. The play was "The Blue & the Crimson", composed by Miss E.K. Adams. It is a college play and very good. Sun. Apr. 23. Had Dr. Riggs first Bible Lecture. It was very good. Dr. Riggs is from Auburn Theological Seminary. It was on John XIV. He is fine. The sermon was by Dr. Gregg of Brooklyn. It was on the differences of position in Heaven. The text was I. Cor. 3. 14-15. He holds that there is a difference, not in social position exactly, but in capability of enjoyment, and in the brightness of the crowns of the saints, that while eternal life is the gift of Christ, by faith in Him and by grace, that the reward will be porportional to the goodness of the person while on earth. He reasons from analogy and from the scriptures. While I agree with him in the main, I do not believe, as he seemed to, that we should strive for reward. A Japanese, Mr. Narusee [(?) am not sure about the spelling, that is how it sounds] spoke to us this evening at 7:30, on the Progress of Christianity in Japan. He gave a very interesting talk. Wed. Apr. 26. Between dinner and chapel Mrs. J. Wells Champney, whose daughter is in the Freshman class, addressed the students on the subject of the Messiah Home in New York. Mrs. Champney is quite a prominent writer and her husband is an artist. She spoke58 of the origin of the work, it being stated by the girls of a S.S. class in Dr. Crozier's church (the church of the Messiah) who wished to do something to help the children. They made fancy articles and held a fair at which they made $600. They then made their mothers directors of a day nursery, which was not a success because it was not what was needed in that part of the city. Out of this grew the home for children whose mothers had to work and could not care for their children. The mothers now pay $1.00 per week for their children's board, the board really costing about $3.25. There are 34 children in the home and over 100 applicants. The directors desire to enlarge accomodations. At 8:00 o'clock I attended a spread given by Miss Gallaher in Miss Scott's parlor. Misses Scott, Moore, Albright, Ethridge, Thornton, Perley, Bainbridge, Latham, Jarnagin, Strait (Specials) & Miss Cobb, (senior) were there. We had a conversation party, then (Smith's) ice cream & fancy cakes were served, and we had to depart soon after, having spent a delightful evening. Thu. Apr. 27. Got up at 4:45 A.M., dressed and went down for breakfast at 5:25. Had to wait so long for a maid that had no time to eat. Swallowed a cup of coffee & a few mouthsful & started. Were to have started at 5:45 but it was after 6:00 when we left the college. The steamer (Mary Powell) was late, so we were in time. Of course it rained and was cold. 59 Enjoyed the scenery going down very much. It is grand. Sat on the after deck most of the time. Was with Miss Henderson, Smith, Wood and some other girls. Mr. McLean, Miss Henderson's friend, was on board and with us most of the time. We landed at Newburg and West Point, going down. Arrived at the dock at 125th St. New York about noon, I think. Stayed there until about three, after the Pres. passed up the river, when we went down to 22nd St. thus passing the whole length of the fleet. There a great many landed so the boat was not so crowded after that. Then we passed the whole fleet again on the other side, and on back to the college. It stopped raining a little after noon but was not very clear. The ships were all grand and terrible. We saw some ocean steamers at their docks as we passed down. The river was full of boats of every description and the shore was lined with people, especially where there was a little hill, there would be a sea of heads as far as the top. The three Spanish caravels made in imitation of Columbus' ships were very interesting. They were an exact imitation of the Columbian ships except for oars & the ships were painted to look as if there were oars. The British ships, especially the Blake excited much interest, as did the French, one of which had an ugly looking beak on 60 the brow. The Brazilian ships were fine. The French were painted black, most of the others white. Our own "White Squadron " was not inferior to the others. A small white vessel which was low in the water and had terrets fore and aft, was very interesting. Ten nations were represented. The sailors of the Sea Adler and the Kaiserin Augusta two German ships cheered enthusiastically as the boats passed. We did not get back to the college until about 9:00 P.M. Were very tired but so glad we went. Fri. Apr. 28. Founder's. Studied most all day. Attended the lecture in the evening with Miss Peckham, Grace and Miss Foster. The lecture was by Helen Davies Brown a former student and a graduate. The subject was Geo. William Curtis and the lecture excellent. After the lecture we went to Art Hall where the Hall of Casts & museum were beautifully decorated and a promenade concert took place. Lemonade was served at stands in the museum and tea, coffee, biscuits and salad, cakes and ice cream in the Hall of Casts (North room). The rooms were beautiful and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. Ed. Lewis was there, a guest of Miss Pellet, but I did not meet him. Grace looked beautiful in her new dress. Sat. Apr. 27. Studied & copied Paleon most of the day. Went rowing in the P.M. Boats put out yesterday for61 the first. Sun. Apr. 30. Bible lecture as usual. Dr. Riggs is fine. Enjoy them so much. Sermon (Episcopal service) by Rev. Joseph Blanchard, Rector of St. James, Philadelphia. Text was "Lord, I believe. Help thou mine unblief". Mark IX - 24. I. Introduction. II. Struggle between faith and doubt. 1. In the world. 2. In the heart. III. Effect of the Struggle. (Great benefit of struggle from doubt to faith) IV. Conclusion. (There is ground for faith) It was an excellent sermon. Tue. May 2. Am elected at Keuka. Am very glad. Thu. May 4. We dissected lobsters in Paleontology. It was very interesting. Fri. May 5. Went to an Art Lecture by Prof. Van Ingen. It was on Gothe's architecture. Had one also on Wednesday evening on Renaissance architecture. After lecture called on Misses Scott, Odell, & Sill, but Miss Sill was the only one in. Sat. May 6. After chapel called on Miss Galaher but she was engaged. Made fudges, good. Sun. May 7. Had Bible Lecture as usual. Dr. Biggs is fine. No services in college. Did not go to town. Neither did Grace. Wed. May 10. Art Lecture on "Master Pieces". Very good. Prof. Van Ingen's last this year. 62 Sat. May 13. The class in Paleontology was to gave gone to Rondout on the excursion for fossils today but it rained all day so did not go. Annie Brown is ill. Stayed most of the P.M. with her. Belle was taken sick at dinner. I spent most in the evening. Read some from Walt Whitman to her. She was prejudiced against him, so I did not tell her the author until after she had comfessed she liked him. Made fudges afterward. There were excellent. Sun. May 14. No Bible Lecture this A.M. Dr. Riggs could not be here. Am sorry. Sermon by Rev. Bruce, a M.E. clergyman of New York city. His text was Gal. 2-1. I. Introduction. 1. Christ has a work for each of us. 2. Fusion of work and self. II. Personality. 1. Influence of. 2. Use of. 3. Result of. a. Self prominence. b. Self suppression. 4. Union of self-prominence and self-suppression necessary. a. To true charity. b. To true living. 5. Christ possessed this union. III. Conclusion. Exhortation to unite these qualities. 63 Had an excellent talk by Miss Butler of Yonkers on the Yonkers Institute. It was very interesting. Sat. May 20. Have been out twice this week to ride with Annie Brown on her wheel. Rode quite a way alone. Have rowed quite a little too. This afternoon Grace, Florence Foster and I started, after I had attended part of the May concert, (which, by-the-way, was good but quite long) for College hill. We went first to town where I got a College pin, then went to Smith's for ice-cream, then to the hill. The view from the top of the hill is beautiful. The R.R. bridge can be seen plainly and the mountains around are beautiful, especially those across the river. The building on College hill is in Grecian style, mainly. It has Doric pillars. Returned too late for dinner. I cut chapel. Felt a little tired and it was so warm. Sun. May 21. Had Bible Lecture. I like Dr. Riggs more and more every time I hear him. The sermon was by Rev. Robinson, ex-President of Brown University, now Prof. of Ethics, Chicago Univ. The class in Ethics here uses his text-book. He is a fine old man, bald, with a fringe of white hair and a few white burnsides. Quite tall and slender. Hist text was Math. 13-54, 57. The sermon was quite good. Last night the Sopho. had their tree ceremonies in the Gym. All was kept secret before. They paraded from the south64 over to the gym. dressed in white, some of them to represent ghosts. "There was levity by night". Wed. May 24. Walked to town and back this morning. A cool, lovely morning. Fri. May 26. The Greek play at last! Belle Freeman and I went together as Miss Foster has invited Grace to go with her. Prof. Leach asked the girls to wear evening dress and remove their hats. Although it rained some a great many of the girls did, so the Opera House looked very pretty. The programs were printed in red, with the seal of the college, and tied with red ribbons. They were printed in Greek. The play was grand. The music was by members of Seidl's Orchestra. Miss Bartlet as Creon, and Miss Slade as Antigone were the stars. They were fine. The costumes were as nearly like the original Greek as could be made after the most research. The expenses of the play were about $2000. It was a success in every way. The papers are full of it. I am so glad I attended. It is part of an education. Although it was given in Greek (for the first time in this country) the acting and intonation was so good that I could follow it, having read the play before in English. Sat. May 27. Belle's sister, Mary Freeman, is here for the forenoon and she, Belle, and I went over to the Gym. and had a good swim. Of course, as it was very first attempt, I could do but little swimming, but I gained 65 confidence and can take a few strokes alone. Sun. May 28. Our last Bible lecture by Dr. Riggs. I am so sorry. I like him so much. The sermon was by Rev. Ludlow of Arlington, New Jersey. It was an excellent sermon on the power and education of the will. Fri. June 2. Recitations over for the year. I do not know whether to be glad or sorry. The year has passed very quickly and pleasantly. It is probably the pleasantest year I shall ever know. I hope I shall do better service for it. Sat. June 3. Went bathing in the swimming tank with Belle in the morning. Studied Paleontology. Grace and I went out on the lake and studied Art Hist. part of the afternoon. In the evening I attended the senior "Side Show" in Philaleathean Hall and afterward the auction down stairs in the Gym. Sat near Miss Beers and she asked me to go to the cafe on 3rd and have ice cream with her afterward. Sun. June 4. Neither Grace or I went to town to church. As it is my last Sunday with Grace I want to see as much of her as possible. Grace, Belle and I read "Beggars All" by Dougall all the morning aloud. No Bible lecture. Read again in the afternoon, then grace and I sang and talked after dinner. Grace sat with me in chapel. We staid to prayer meeting. Prof. Dwight lead. Mon June 5. Exam. in Latin. Not very hard, fair. 66 Tue. June. 6. Exam. in Paleontology in the afternoon at the Geo. Lab. Miss Foster asked Grace and me down to her room between diner and chapel to eat stawberries. We had a very pleasant time. Wed. June 7. Exams in English and Art History. Grace goes tomorrow night. She has been packing tonight. Thu. June 8. Grace went on the 8:05 train tonight. How I hated to have her go, knowing that we will never meet again as we have, never be together as we have been this year. I never can find a friend I shall care for as I do for Grace. How I would like to come back next year. I am afraid I should be a little jealous to have her rooming with someone else. Florence Foster and I went to the lodge & there she met some other girls who were going and they took a carriage to the depot. She expected to take a car, but it did not come and the carriage did. I went to chapel afterward. Dr. Taylor presided and gave us such a good talk. I felt quite mournful & sad to think I was not coming back. I came upstairs and found Grace's trunk keys. I wrote to her and sent them. Fri. June 9. German exam. was long but fair. Was invited over to the Hall to Miss Mitchell's room to a spread at 8:30 P.M. Took my n.g. and staid all night. Had a very pleasant time. Misses Henderson, Wood, Agne, Bush, Brown, Delaney, Peckham, Cornell, Dello, Mitchell (of course), Smith & I were there. Helen Peckham, Miss Cornell, Carrie67 Brown & Marion Mitchell gave the spread. We had strawberries & cream, cakes & candies for refreshments. Misses Wood, Delaney & I had a parlor together for the night. I am forgetting. I went with Belle Freeman to the depot. She went very early. Annie Brown had not succeededin getting the train she wanted and was still at the depot, so I saw her again. Waited some time for Belle, then came back and ordered some Greek play pictures at Vail's. Sat. June 10. Went with Miss Beers, '94, to Smith's for dinner. There we met her friend Mr. Halff and Mr. Martin. I should have felt guilty if Miss Beers had not been a junior & an old girl & so a fit chaperone. Had a lovely dinner then went for a row on the Hudson. The river was beautiful. Mr. Martin and I rowed first then Miss Beers and Mr. Halff. Miss Beers and I could both row better than the gentlemen. Mr. Halff blistered his hands badly. Miss Beers and I were each presented with a pound box of chocolates. They are excellent. Got back to the college at 8:45 P.M. about. Was very tired, but had had a good time. Miss Beers, Miss Henderson, Miss Kirschner, & Helen were in my room the rest of the evening. Helen staid all night with me. Next Saturday I will be home. How good it seems. Sun. June 11. Helen did not get up to breakfast. Tried to make up the sleep I made her lose by getting up Sat. morning at 5:05, thinking it was 7:05 and going down to her room. I brought her some breakfast. 68 The Baccelaureate sermon was by Pres. Taylor. The text was Luke 13-20, 21. It was a fine sermon. He spoke of the unrest, seeking for self-glorification and tendency toward organization of the present hour in contrast to Christ's more personal and self-forgetful methods of spreading the truth, introducing it like [learn] in the lump & leaving it to [learn] the whole lump. In the evening we had an Organ Recital. I called on Miss Foster and Miss Underhill before supper. Mon. June 11. Helen, Miss Brown and I had a Kodak taken in a boat in the morning. Then I packed and sent my box by freight. In the afternoon Helen and I went to town. Had some ice cream at Smith's for the last time. Attended the commencement concert in the evening with Misses Smith, Foster and Beers. Miss Beers and I made fudges after the concert. Tue. June 12. Class day. The exercises took place in the afternoon. Sophomores & Freshmen sat in the gallery, Juniors and Seniors down stairs. As the classes formed the Sophs were given small silver pencils by the seniors and the Freshmen slates, pencils & sponges. On the slates in gold letters was the following, A Problem given X = 96 (X + 3Yrs) g > 93a + 94b + 95c to find value of z As no place was reserved for the specials, I went 69 with the freshmen and secured one of the slates. The girls senior class wore beautiful dresses. The exercises consisted of music, an address of welcome by Miss Cutting president of '93, and the class history. This latter included the singing of many songs by the class. Then the procession of classes in their order went to the class tree near the door of the north wing. A matting was spread from the door of the south wing to the tree and a platform built at the tree. The exercises then consisted of the presentation of the spade by the seniors & its acceptance by the juniors and the burial of the class records. I stayed at the Strong to supper with Helen Peckham. Wed. June 13. Commencemewnt day. Exercises at 10:00 A.M. Sat in gallery with Helen Peckham. The procession consisting of Marshall, President in cap & gown & Pres. of Trustees, Faculty, teachers, alumni, Marshall '93 looked very pretty. The girls of '93 were in simple white muslins. The exercises consisted of music, essays, presentation of diplomas by Prexie. Thu. June 14. Got up early and took the 5:45 car. Started from Poughkeepsie at 7:00 A.M. Got in Albany about 9:20. Prof. Ellis met me a the depot and took me first to the capital. We spent some time there & I enjoyed it very much. Saw the sword which LaFayette presented to Washington, the original Emancipation Proclamation, and the papers found70 in Maj. Andre's boots. Went to Mrs. Ellis'. They have a very pleasant home on Elm St. next door but [...] to the [Governor's] mansion. Stayed until 2:35 P.M. & went on to Syracuse. Helen Peckham & Mrs. & Miss Henderson were on the train & went as far as Utica with me. Cousin Nell met me at the depot. Had a very pleasant time at her house. She wanted me to saty over until Monday. Met Mr. Van Vechton, formerly of Elmira, there. Was very much surprised to see him. He boards next door to Nellie's St. Sat. June 16. Started for home at 9:10 A.M. Saw Charlie Fisher & Prof. Woodland at Canandaigua depot. Got home at 3:00. Sun. June 17. Went to Ch. & S.S. Had to teach a S.S. class & lead Y.P.S.C.E. Thad Henderson [N.]B. is home. Tue. July 11. Went to Elmira Saturday the 24th. Was sorry I did not go Friday as it was the closing day of School no. 4 and I could have seen the teachers and scholars. Went to the photograph gallery in the afternoon with Emma & the children, Ora & Mrs. Newman. Emma & the children had their pictures together. Sunday went to church and S.S. also Junior, A.C.F. and church in the evening. Saw a great many peple I knew. Mr. Denney asked Miss Bishop and I to take charge of the Junior meeting and when we refused, made the announcement that we would. We did go, but did not take71 charge as we used. I was asked to read the lesson and did so. Mr. Denney called upon both of us for speeches. I said a few words but Miss B. said she made her speech when she first came back. Monday morning June 26 Lute called for a little while and stopped, again, in the evening. Monday afternoon Emma and I went down to the Westside St. R.R. took a car and rode to the Industrial grounds. Before we got there it was raining in torrents and [...] me in and open car. Just after we started back we had to transfer to a closed car, Emma dropped her handkerchief into a mud puddle, and we both got our feet wet. By the time we got back to Water St. the sun was shining again as brightly as ever. We did some shopping, had some ice-cream and started to walk back. When we had about reached Freedman's Market it commenced to rain again and we took shelter under his awning. After a time we took a car and reached home wet as rats. Tuesday P.M. went down to uncle Charles. Stayed to supper. Tuesday evening Lute called and spent the evening. He tried to get some ice-cream but failed, so got candy, oranges and bananas. Wednesday evening went to prayer-meeting. Spent most of the day at Ora's. Mr. & Mrs. Carey were baptized after prayer meeting. Thursday afternoon Ora & I went over to72 Mrs. Vernoy's and stayed to supper. John came over to supper. Lute spent the evening with Emma and I. Friday went to the Church & S.S. picnic. Had a very pleasant time. Intended going to Hattie Crane's on the 7:00 o'clock motor but did not. Came home Saturday. Sunday had to teach a S.S. class. Mr. Streett preached in the evening at Pres. Ch. Union services. Tuesday, July 4th Lute spent the day here. We went through the glen in the afternoon. Lute went home at 12:02. Thursday evening went to prayer meeting with mother. Sunday went to church and S.S., C.E. and ch. in the evening. Services in the evening were at the M.E. ch. Mr. Kellogg preached. Monday mother went to Elmira on the 3:00 P.M. train. After that Edna & I went rowing in the canal in Frank James' boat. July 13. Yesterday morning at 8:25 Edna and I started for Watkins. Stopped on our way at the P.O. and I got a check for $25 from Dr. Patterson. Got to Watkins Court House at 9:10. Spent the day at Aunt Hat's. Inez was there, & Carrie too. Started back at 7:00 P.M. and got here at 7:45. Walked. Had a very pleasant day. Have baked bread & cleaned the floor today, & hemmed Edna's white dress, skirt. It is very warm. Fri. July 24. Emma, Ora and the children came down on the eleven o'clock train. Edna went down to Lutie's on the same train. Father went down the lake73 with her, because she did not feel very well and had a large satchel to carry. It was well he did for the boat did not stop at Dey's Landing and he had to say all he could to get them to. They finally did and Lutie was there to meet Edna. Father walked back from Watkins. In the evening, yesterday Ora, Emma and I went down the canal for a row. Had a lovely time. Edna and I were down Wednesday night and found the boat full of water which had rained in. Mr. Jones baled it out for us and locked up the boat for us again when we came back. Tuesday I went to Watkins on the 6:27 train & came back on the 8:00 in the evening to get some graining color for father. Went up to aunt Hat's for a few minutes. Today Emma, Ora and mother have gone to Watkins on the 11:00 A.M. train & will come back at 8:00, leaving the children with me. This afternoon I took them up on the hill for a little while. Fri. July 28. Delia come at 3:00 P.M. & stayed until morning. Sat. July 29. Emma & the children went home to Elmira today. Sun. July 30. Had to give a short talk on Geography of Greece illustrated by map. Thu. Aug. 3. Am going to Horsehead & Elmira at 9:00 A.M. Sun. Aug. 13. Went to Horseheads the 2nd at 9:00. Hattie Craver met me at the depot and we went to her house. In the evening went down town. Hattie had the tooth ache 74 badly all the evening. The next day, Friday, I took the car in the afternoon for Elmira. When I got there I found Emma was to go to Elgin Saturday morning if she heard from John. She & I went down town and I did a little shopping. She got a telegram from John about 7:00 A.M., telling her to come and she had to pack her trunk and get ready to go. John and I were pulling on her trunk-strap to get it tighter when it broke and it took John until nearly twelve o'clock to fix it. I made fudges earlier in the evening. (Aug. 5) We got up at 4:00 A.M. Saturday morning and went to the depot with Emma. John Vernoy and I went and Ora went back to bed. Emma started at 5:40. In the aforenoon Ora and I went down town and did some shopping. In the afternoon we laid down & Ora did not get up until 5:00 o'clock. In the evening Lute came in and we made fudges. He is working in Corning & came home for Sunday. The fudges were better than those the night before. (Aug. 6.) Ora invited Lute to dinner Sunday. He came and in the afternoon invited me to take a drive. Had a very pleasant time. Taught Mr. Stuart's S.S. class in the morning. Lute came home from church with us in the evening & sat on the porch a little while. (Aug. 7.) Ora and I went over to Mrs. Vernoy's to dinner. After dinner I went down to Uncle Charlie's a few minutes, then took the 5:50 train home. Ora went to the depot with me. 75 (Aug. 10.) Went down to Keuka to Association (Young People's Day) and Assembly. Was elected Secretary of Young People's Association. In the evening read a paper on the "Arms of the Junior Work". Mrs. Thompson invited me to stay with her while there and I did so, enjoying myself very much. The next morning at 8:00 o'clock I attended a meeting of the Execution Board in Dr. Ball's room. The exercises of the day were very good. The services in the morning were conducted by Rev. Dixon of Brooklyn & in the afternoon was a speech by Col. L.F. Copeland on "Seeing the Elephant". I came away on the 6:00 o'clock boat. Rev. & Mrs. Denny came at the same time. They also went at the same time I did. Aug. 17. Gave Mina Maderis her fourth, and Edna her second lesson in painting. Went to Watkins Monday and took a lesson in painting of Mrs. Hughey. The Saturday before started to walk down to see her in the morning. Got a ride with Mr. Hamilton. Coming back rode with Henry Jackson & got home before nine o'clock. Fri. Aug. 25. Edna went to Elmira yesterday. Lute came on the 6:27 P.M. train tonight and went home at 12:03. Mon. Aug. 28. Edna came home at 6:00 o'clock. Fri. Sept. 1. Got my books & lamp packed and sent to Keuka. Mattie Slauson came last night. She & Edna have gone to Watkins today. Mon. Sept. 4. Started on the 6:38 train for Keuka. Mr. Richardson76 met me in Penn Yan and we soon started for the College. Arrived there, but found my room not in proper condition to move in yet. Decided to take a 3rd floor room because it was larger and had two windows. Went over to Mrs. Thompson's and stayed to dinner. Unpacked and settled all the afternoon. After supper walked with the Misses Ball, went to their room where we had teacher's meeting later. They were kind to me. Tue. Sept. 5. Had chapel at 9:00 A.M. The day is taken up in registering, so I settled all the forenoon, attended teacher's meeting at 1:00 P.M. and started for Penn Yan on the 2:00 o'clock stage. Went to see Helen & Mrs. Goldsmith and did my shopping. Came back just in time to get some supper. Then went to Mrs. Thopmson's and she and I went in bathing. Had a very pleasant time. Fri. Sept. 8. Work is very pleasant and the week has passed very quickly. I have Elementary English, U.S. History, Geography, Spelling and Penmanship. Went to Penn Yan with Prof. Spooner, stayed at Helen's until the 7:05 train and went home. Sat. Sept. 9. Canned tomatoes, helped do up plums, ate fruit, went down to Aunt Catharine's. Sun. Sept. 10. Went to Church & S.S. In the evening read a paper at the 6th anniversary of the founding of our C.E. Society. Mon. Sept. 11. Came to Pann Yan on the 6:38 train. Train 1/2 hour late at Havana. Prof. Spooner came to77 the Knapp house for me and I rode with him to the college. Mrs. Marsh called again this P.M. for her matting. Brought me a beautiful bunch of geraniums. I gave the Misses Ball some of the peaches I brought from home. Wed. Sept. 13. Went with the Misses Ball for a walk at 4:00 o'clock. We walked as far as Mrs. Merritt's (she is one of the college trustees) and called on her. She is a very pleasant, motherly, woman, and gave us some peaches when we came away. Thu. Sept. 14. Attended a reception this evening given to the students. Had quite a pleasant time. Sat. Sept. 16. Went to Penn Yan on the eleven o'clock boat. Did a little shopping and came back at half past one. The Misses Ball took that boat up the lake to visit friends at Pultney. Took the 3:30 P.M. boat and went up as far as Crosby's and came back on the Mary Belle at 6:00 P.M. It was cold and rainy coming back, but I enjoyed it quite well. Sun. Sept. 17. Went to church. Mr. Taylor, who is supplying the pulpit in Dr. Ball's absence, preached. The services were nearly an hour and a half long. Neglected to say that Thursday, as the Misses Ball and I started for a walk we met Mr. Richardson, who asked 78 us to take a ride. We had a very pleasant drive, came back and took a row on the lake. After supper took quite a long walk. Tue. Sept. 19. After four o'clock the Misses Ball and I took a delightful row on the lake. After supper we went for a walk, then I went to Mrs. Thompson's for a short time. Thu. Sept. 21. Had a half holiday to allow the students to attend the Penn Yan Fair. In the afternoon I went over to Mrs. Marsh's, to Mrs. Thompson's and rowing in Mrs. Thompson's boat. Miss Stevens went with me, and we went up a little above Scofield's. Had a lovely row. Fri. Sept. 22. After 4:00 o'clock the Misses Ball and I rowed down to Mrs. Merritt's to return a basket. She gave us some excellent grapes. Got back just in time for supper. Sat. Sept. 23. Edna came on the afternoon boat. We took a short row in the evening. Sun. Sept. 24. Went over to Mrs. Thompson's for a walk with Edna. Called on the Misses Ball. Mon. Sept. 25. Edna & I took breakfast at Mrs. Thompson's, as Edna had to start by our breakfast time. She went to Penn Yan with Mr. Inghart. Sat. Sept. 30. Went rowing yesterday afternoon, this forenoon & this afternoon with Miss Ella Ball. Had a very pleasant row. In the P.M. went & got some grapes at Mr. Brewster's & Mrs. Marsh packed a ten pound basket for me to send to Grace. There were 5 different79 kinds and the basket looked very pretty. Mr. Thompson brought the frame for my screen this P.M. while I was out on the lake. It is very nice. Stayed to tea at Mrs. Marsh's and spent the evening with Miss Ball. Sun. Oct. 1. Dr. Ball is home & preached today. Communion Sunday. In the afternoon Miss Ella Ball and I took some books and went down by the lake in a sunny place and read. Then we took a long walk and did not return until almost time for supper. I lead the A.C.F. meeting. Tue. Oct. 3. Had a faculty meeting and suspended Mande Walker indefinately, Marie for two weeks, and Miss Gardner from certain privileges. At the meeting yesterday Mr. Smith appeared before the faculty and answered charges made against him. He presented his resignation. It was referred to the proper authorities. Fri. Oct. 6. Heard my Physical Geography at 8:00 A.M. and took the one o'clock stage for Penn Yan. Took the 2:07 train and went up to Elmira. Got me a dress and went down to Ora's. Lute was over and we made fudges in the evening. Took Sat. Oct. 7. the early morning train for home. Was at home until Sun. Oct. 8. Sunday morning then took the train for Penn Yan. Walked up from Penn Yan. Got to the college just as they were finishing dinner. Went for a walk in the P.M. with the Misses Ball. Lute gave me "The Prince of India". Thur. Oct. 12. Examinations in Elementary English this P.M. Went for a row as usual afterward.80 Tue. Oct. 17. Went directly after dinner to Penn Yan to Maggie McMaster's funeral. She was killed in the R.R. accident last Friday, at Jackson, Mich. Drove down with Mrs. Mitchell's horse. Got back a few minutes late for Physical Geography recitation. The class was waiting for me, however. The funeral was held in the Pres. church. It was largely attended. The flowers were lovely. Fri. Oct. 20. Expected mother tonight on the stage but she did not come. Sat. Oct. 21. Mother came at 2:30 P.M. Was very glad to see her. Sun. Oct. 22. Did not go to church. Mother didn't care to. Went to A.C.F. but she did not. Mon. Oct. 23. Mother took the stage this noon for Penn Yan, from there the boat for Aunt mary's. Fri. Oct. 27. Intended to cross the Lake to Aunt Mary's tonight but it was too rainy. Prof. Bean returned. Sat. Oct. 28. Painted some this A.M. The Misses Ball called in the evening, also Miss Effie Jones. Fri. Nov. 3. Took the 1:00 o'clock stage and went home. Met Lutie Yost on the train. She was going to our house. Sun. Nov. 5. Lutie stays over Sunday. It rained yesterday almost all day. Mr. Becker and Mr. Frank Miller called and we went to church with them. Heard of Belle Freeman through Mr. M. Mon. Nov. 6. Took the 6:38 A.M. train for Penn Yan. Rode up to the College with Prof. Spooner. Wed. Nov. 8. Went rowing with Miss Ball last night & tonight. The weather is lovely for November. 81 Fri. Nov. 10. Intended to take the steamer "West Branch" this P.M. for Finton's, but as we were to have an important faculty meeting at 4:00 P.M. decided to wait until later. Frank Bengler rowed me across to Finton's after four o'clock. It was a lovely day, not cold, lake smooth. Uncle Elias had been to the landing for me but went home after the last boat came. I walked up and got there about 6:00 P.M. Aunt Mary had hardly given me up. How I enjoyed my visit! Aunt Mary and Uncle Elias were both lovely, and I had Jersey milk and good things to eat. When I came away Aunt Mary gave me a can of milk, besides the Sat. Nov. 11. gingham for an apron for mother. I had to come back Saturday. Got to the landing (Uncle brought me) and found that maybe the boat wouldn't stop, so Lora, at whose house I stopped, got a boy to row me across the lake to Northrup's where I waited a little while, then took the "Lulu" home. Went to the grocery, got some crackers and had crackers and milk for supper. Fri. Nov. 17. Painted a little this P.M. Took a long walk with Miss Ella Ball. Sat. Nov. 18. Painted in the A.M. Went to Penn Yan in P.M. Got an oil stove. 82 Sun. Nov. 20. Heard Mr. Griffin preach this A.M. Went with fifteen others to the Country House to a meeting this P.M. Myself and nine others rode in Mr. Richardson's stage. Mrs. Milspaugh, father and daughter, the two Smith girls, Aileen Mitchell, Lora March, Mr. Richardson and myself. Mr. R. lead the meeting. Had a good meeting. The view from the hill this side of the country house is fine, since a lake can be seen. Didn't go to A.C.F. this evening. Thu. Nov. 23. Last class exercises of the term today. Class exams. today and tomorrow. Rejents' next week. This evening Myra Smith came to my door and handed me a plate, saying that the girls were having a little supper and wished me to share it. The plate contained bread & butter, salmon, jelly, cream puffs, two kinds of cake, fudges and some canned peaches. I enjoyed it very much. It also contained a card with the names of the four girls, Misses Coleman, Gardiner, Smith and Van Worner. Sat. Nov. 25. Painted owls' heads all the morning. Miss Julia Ball and I went down to Mrs. Merritt's soon after dinner (she sent her carriage for us) and spent the afternoon. We met Mrs. Stuart of Penn Yan. Had a very pleasant time and came back about seven o'clock in the carriage. Had music. Called on Miss Coleman this evening. 83 Wed. Nov. 29. Have had Rejent's all the week. Elementary English today. My classes have all done well. Went home tonight. Rode down to Penn Yan with Prof. Spooner. Thu. Nov. 30. Thanksgiving Went to church in the morning. Our whole family was invited to Col. Clanharty's to dinner to meet Capt. Robert Clanharty and his wife, our Scotch cousins. We all like them very much. He is Captain of the vessel Wray Castle, at present in New York harbor loading with case oil for Shanghai, China. They will not reach there before May. They called at our house. Went back to New York on the 8:00 P.M. train. Sun. Dec. 3. Col. Clanharty and Mary Williams were at our house to dinner today. Wed. Dec. 6. Gave Mina Madieris another painting lesson. Thu. Dec. 7. Went to Elmira on the 3:00 o'clock train. Did a little shopping and went to Ora's. Fri. Dec. 8. Ora and I went down town shopping in the morning and did not get back until after 12:00. In the P.M. went over to the school house. Was glad to see teachers and scholars and they seemed glad to see me. Lute came in in the afternoon and stayed a little while. In the evening we took a sleigh ride. The sleighing was not very good but we had a very pleasant time. Sat. Dec. 9. Came home at 11:00 o'clock. Had the picture84 of our family taken in the afternoon. Tue. Dec. 12. Took the early train for Penn Yan. Prof. Spooner met me there and took me to the college. Found a great many new students. Wed. Dec. 13. Have about completed the organization of the school. I have classes in Physiology, U.S. History, Physics, Botany and Drawing. We expect a new teacher of English next Saturday, a Miss Myrtle Gray. In the meantime Miss Julia Ball takes the classes. I have changed recitation rooms and have Room C, a front room. Sat. Dec. 16. Our new teacher of English, Miss Gray, came tonight. She seems very pleasant and we hope to like her very much. Sun. Dec. 17. Miss Gray went to church with me, wrote letters in my room after church and in the afternoon Misses Ball, Miss Gray and I walked around the triangle. Miss Julia Ball and Miss G. were in my room in the evening so I did not go to prayer-meeting. Fri. Dec. 22. Went to Penn Yan with Mr. Spooner and did some shopping before train time. Met Mary Goldsmith on the street, she invited me to go home with her and I did so and stayed until train time. Mon. Dec. 25. Mother is sick. Has not felt well since church yesterday. Think she has grippe. I received a very pretty needle book from Alice Carman Saturday, and today Dante's Poems from Edna, some silver fruit knives, a coffee-spoon, a pocket-book from mother85 and father, a china tea-cup and saucer from Edna, a pen-wiper from Ora, an Elmira souvenir tea spoon from Lute. Tue. Dec. 26. Lute came down on the 3:00 P.M. train and stayed until the 12:00 train. Mother is still sick. Sun. Dec. 31. Edna was taken sick this morning. Mother worse. Mon. Jan. 1, 1894. Edna and mother both better. Father is not very well. Came to Penn Yan at 3:00 o'clock train & to the college in the stage. Found a new principal in Mr. Bean's place, Mr. Gardiner. He seems very pleasant and an excellent man for the place. Thu. Jan. 4. Prof. Spooner has not been here this week on account of sickness. The boys have organized a military company. The weather is quite warm yet. It was so warm on Christmas day that we had the doors open. The Misses Ball went rowing with Miss Gray. over (p.86) Fri. Jan. 19 Had a reception this evening. There were three lady & three gentleman ushers. We had a promenade for which Miss Julia Ball furnished the music, a fancy march lead by Miss Gray and Mr. Stuart, majic music, charades and a general good time. The girls and boys changed partners often enough so that no one was slighted. Some of the boys offered their arms very gracefully, some were very awkward. Miss Gray & I each promenaded quite often. I promenaded with Misses Clancy, Debenham, Watrons (twice), Van Wil86 Capt. Hodges & Mr. Mersellis. (Jan. 12. Fri.) Quarterly Meeting convened here. Miss Gray & I attended the meeting this evening and I was very much surprised to be seated next to Lute. (Sat. Jan. 13.) Attended the L.M. business meeting this A.M. Had a meeting of the Ladie's Missionary Society in my room at one P.M. Was elected vice President for Keuka Park. Did not attend the afternoon meeting. Had a call (H.) at three o'clock. Attended evening service. It was A.C.F. & not very good. Lute sang very well. The Elmira people left tonight. (Sun. Jan. 14.) Rev. Langworthy preached this A.M. Attended A.C.F. & service in the evening. Mon. Jan. 22. Miss Gray & I went rowing in Mr. Thompson's boat after school this evening. Had a very pleasant time. Thu. Jan. 25. Some of the girls wanted to go to Penn Yan to a Teacher's institute lecture, and, as they could not go alone asked me to go with them. It was quite cold. We started about six o'clock and reached Penn Yan quite early for the lecture. Had to stand outside and wait quite a time for the doors to be opened. The lecture was by Dr. Schmits of Normal school, subject "The Aesthetic Side of Our Nature". Fri. Jan. 26. Attended a reception given by the ladies of the Park to Prof. and Mrs. Gardiner. Went with Miss Gray and we asked Mrs. Potter, the Misses Ball's aunt to go with us. Had refreshments, sandwiches, coffee cake and oranges. It was a bore. Miss Gray skated a few minutes after supper before the reception. 87 Sat. Jan. 27. Miss Gray and I went skating a little while this forenoon and also in the afternoon. In the evening went to the parlor until seven o'clock and called on Mrs. Gardiner afterward. Sun. Jan. 28. Mr. Gardiner preached today. Mon. Jan. 29. Miss Gray and I went skating at 3:15 although it was snowing hard. Got so wet we had to change our clothes completely when we came home. Skated until my ankle was so tired I could hardly stand on it. Tue. Jan. 29. Mrs. Gardiner called about 15 minutes before supper time. Tue. Feb. 20. The military reception took place this evening. The drill was fine, but the remainder of the evening seemed dull. Several Starkey boys were here. Thu. Feb. 22. Went home. Stopped in Penn Yan at Helen's until train time. Washington's birthday was to be celebrated on Friday instead of today so I go tonight. Fri. Feb. 23. Very cold. Sat. Feb. 24. Coldest day of the winter. Thermometer below zero. Sun. Feb. 25. Thermometer 16 degrees below zero this morning. Warmer in the afternoon. Mon. Feb. 26. Came back with Prof. Spooner this morning. Somewhat warmer. In the P.M. went across the lake & skated. Coming back we met88 Joseph Bullock & Mr. Gilder with an ice-boat. They asked us to ride, & we had a delightful ride. It was quite cold and we went to Mrs. Thompson's to warm afterward. Tue. Feb. 27. Went skating after school. Delightful on other side of lake. Mon. Mch. 12. Miss Ball left on Saturday for Crystal Springs, leaving me in charge of the girls. I received a letter by the afternoon mail telling me that mother had been run over and hurt. Started for home on the 7:00 P.M. train. Tue. Mch. 13. Mother has no bones broken. She was crossing Main St. about 7:00 P.M. on Friday evening when a boy driving Fanton's horse & carriage ran over her. The thill struck her in the left side, throwing her over half way to the next cross-walk. The wheels ran over both legs, cutting clothing and skin but not breaking the bones. Thu. Mch. 22. Lute came down this evening bringing mother a bunch of beautiful carnations. Sat. Mch. 24. Edna and I worked hard all day. Sun. " 25. Easter. Went to church in the A.M. Mother came out and sat at the table in her big chair for dinner. Mon. " 26. Started for K. C. at 6:32 A.M. Met Mr. Spooner at Penn Yan. Classes arranged in the P.M. I have N.Y. Hist., Drawing, Botany, Roman Hist.,89 and possibly U.S. Hist. or Physiology. Fri. Mch. 30. Miss Gray, the Misses Ball and I went to walk about 8:00 P.M. We saw a most beautiful display of Aurora Borealis. It commenced with a light streak in the north west, extending toward the zenith. It spread until the whole heavens were covered. The most beautiful shades of reds were shown as well as the white light. It was beautiful beyond comparison. The zenith seemed the center of the display and streams of light extended in all directions. Sat. Mch. 31. Went to Penn Yan on the stage this A.M. Quite windy. Sun. Apr. 8. When we got up this morning the ground was white with snow. It snowed some Friday and Saturday. The snow soon melted and it was quite comfortably warm in the afternoon. After dinner the Misses Ball, Miss Gray, the Gardiners and I went to the parlor, sang some hymns and talked. Afterward Miss Ella and I toook a walk. Later Miss Julia and Miss Gray joined us. Wed. Apr. 11. It snowed quite a little yesterday, all last night, and all day today so that the snow is quite deep. It was a foot deep this morning. It is not very cold and the snow is quite wet. Dr. Ball told me a few days ago, Sat., I think, that I would be wanted next year so I expect to stay. 90 Thu. Apr. 12. The Misses Ball, Miss Gray and I, beside quite a number of the students went to Penn Yan to "The Old Homestead". The "Urbana" came down the lake about half past seven and we got there about eight o'clock, just before the performance began. It was good, everyone said, there was nothing objectionable, the singing was good, but upon the whole I did not enjoy it so very much. There was little that was elevating. Got back to the college about 11:30 P.M. Fri. Apr. 13. Went home on the 7:15 train. Sat. Apr. 14. My birthday. Edna, mother and father each gave me a very pretty china fruit plate for a birthday present. Twenty-four today. And yet I don't feel any older than I did when I was fourteen. Not so old sometimes. Sun. Apr. 15. Went to church in the morning. Edna and I went to aunt Catharine's in the P.M. Mother seems to improve slowly. She is able to sit up most of the time. Mon. Apr. 16. Came back to college. Had to wait from the 7:00 o'clock train until 10:15 for the stage. Fri. Apr. 20. Went on the 2:00 train to the L.M. at Elmira. Ora and Alice Bishop met me at the train and we did some shopping before going to the house. Did not attend church in the evening. Lute came in and spent the evening. It was a sermon by Dr. Ball. Ora & Allis went. 91 Sat. Apr. 21. Attended church all day. Had dinner at the church. Allis B. and I went down town after the afternoon service. Sun. Apr. 22. Attended church in the A.M. Went with John for a walk before breakfast, and over to his mother's after church. Charles Vernoy came in, in the P.M. and so did Lute. Went with Lute to the 1st Baptist Church in the evening, although it rained. Mon. Apr. 23. Started on the 6:32 A.M. train for K.C. Lute came to the depot with me. Mr. Ward met Mr. Mersellis, Lora Marsh, Mr. Denney and I at Penn Yan. We got here just in time for chapel. I was elected I.M. clerk while at Elmira. Received a book "Phillips Brook's Year Book" as a birthday present from Lute. Sat. Apr. 28. It has rained all day. We have been rowing a great deal this week. The weather had been very pleasant. Sat. May 26. Went over to Aunt Mary Week's. Mr. Thompson, Mrs. Thompson, Miss Hewett, Miss Spencer and I rowed over. Mr. & Mrs. T. and the others went on to Crosby's & I stopped at Finton's & walked up to Aunt Mary's. Delia came up on the afternoon boat, and Vi & her husband came over Sunday, so we had a very pleasant visit. Mr. Thompson come over to Miss Hewett's for Eva, Delia and I. Sunday night Eva rowed back with a boy & girl who were over too, 92 and Mr. T. brought Delia and I. It got quite rough before we got back. Delia stayed until Monday morning & went back on the stage. Sat. June 9. Went to Penn Yan on the afternoon stage and stayed over Sunday with Delia and Helen. The McMaster boys, John and Will, came Sat. eve & stayed until Monday morning. That partly spoiled my visit, but I enjoyed myself very much with Delia. June 7. Received a box of delicious candy from Lute. Sat. June 16. This P.M. Miss Ball, Miss Gray and I went rowing although it was very warm. After supper we went out again, taking some onions and bread & butter and ate them out on the lake. In the evening we all went to the entertainment given by the military company. Sunday June 17. Rev. Mr. Walworth of Penn Yan (Baptist) preached an excellent sermon to the graduating class this morning. Mon. June 18. Miss Julia Ball & I took a row after supper. We crossed the lake & had a lovely time. Went to the Philaleathean society entertainment & later to the reception & banquet. Tue. June 19. Commencement day. Worked hard in the chapel all the A.M. Exercises were very pleasant in P.M. Started at about 6:00 for Penn Yan. Stayed home all the evening. Wed. June 20. Went to commencement at Cook, & later to Alumni93 1894 dinner. Prof. Hill's last year. The classes of '94 & '5 gave him in the chapel a bunch & a basket of beautiful roses. At the dinner he was presented with Emerson's complete works & a solid silver berry ladle. He was quite affected. Everyone spoke nicely of Prof. Hill. Thu. June 21. Miss Gray called this A.M. & we went through the glen. She went on the 3:00 P.M. train. Lutie is here. Sat. June 23. Edna & Lutie went to Elmire this A.M. Lute came down & spent the evening. 9495 Denison University, Granville, Ohio. 1906 Sept. 12. I hardly thought when I last wrote in this book, that I would ever continue it at all, surely not from this place, but here I am, and here I hope to stay for this year. As I had written an account of my experiences at Vassar I thought it might be interesting some time to be able to look over my college experiences at Denison. I am to teach a class in beginning Algebra in the preparatory department of Shepardson College, take charge of Shepardson Cottage and have all college expenses and the amount to pay for my board on the club plan for these services. I think myself quite fortunate. I have a year's leave of absence from East Liverpool and may go back there next year. Sept. 10. I started from home Monday evening at 8:07. Mrs. Van Duzer and Ed Skinner were at the depot to see me off. So, of course, was mother, but father, as usual, refused to go. I left Elmira at 10:45 P.M. on the Erie. Wanted to get a mileage but found it would be good only to Meadeville, Pa., and I would have to have another from there so got a ticket to Newark, O. paying $11.80. Reached Manchester, O., my first Sept 11. change, at 9:30 A.M. after a hot, dusty night. Had to wait there about an hour, then took the B & O. to Newark, reaching there about 12:30 noon. My trunk was not brought promptly to the St. R.R. station, so I had to wait until the 2:00 o'clock car to come to Granville. Found Miss Barker who brought me over to the club House. My trunk soon came and I unpacked some. Only one96 girl, Miss Sefton of Pittsburg, was here but Miss North came later. They are room-mates and seem to be very nice girls. Miss Sefton is subdued, Miss North (from Wis.) breezy. Sept. 12. This morning I went to breakfast at Burton Hall, as we did to supper, then went down town for shopping so we could have dinner, then to see Miss Barker and to register. It took me almost all the morning, running from one to the other, to register. We got lunch, Miss Dickerson having been added to our number in the meantime, and the girls washed the dishes. I have to make some more purchases. I am to study Mediaeval History, French, Pshcyology, and German. That will give me 14 hrs. of work per week, which, with my teaching will be enough. Sept. 16. Thursday (13th) registration continued. I visited the Treasurer, etc. Friday I settled my room a little more as my box had arrived by freight, attended classes and kept busy. Was invited by Mrs. Henry Green, who called on me Wednesday with her daughter (Mrs. Wright I think her name is) to supper. Mrs. Green teaches with Frances Rose in Leland University, New Orleans. She is an elderly lady and seemed very pleasant. I liked her very much, and her daughter too. Mr. Green & Mr. Wright (if that is his name) were also very pleasant. Mr. W. is the dentist here. Mrs. Green wanted me to run in and call at any time, and seemed very cordial. Yesterday (15th) I got my curtains up, pictures, and my room in fairly good condition. Shall have to 97 passepartout some more pictures if I have enough. Brought some along for that purpose. Have to make cover for a little stand and bureau as it (the [...]) is and old-fashioned one and has little boxes on the sides so I cannot use my scarf. I didn't say that after I came home from Mrs. Green's I had to attend a faculty meeting at Burton Hill. Had to come home early purposely, although I hated to. Later in the evening the Y.W.C.A. gave a reception in King Hall. It was very pretty. They served punch but the teachers got there too late for that. It was all gone. The room looked very pretty. The girls sang and we left at an early hour. Studied Saturday evening. Hope I have my French lesson. Got past of the psychology. Must get up early and finish that as it was too late to do it last evening. Sept. 16. Today (Sunday) we all went after breakfast to prayers in King Hall, then later to church and Sunday school. I am to be in Dr. Colwell's class in Evidence of Christianity in S.S. That subject appealed to me. Got a letter from Mr. Bamden yesterday in which he spoke of the way things are going in the E.L. church. He thinks he will have to leave unless Dr. Rose's promised visit puts an end to the mischief done by Chas. Brown and Mrs. Malyn. We have six girls in the Club House now. Lily Bell Sefton is from Pittsburg and has taught quite a little. She is older than the other girls but doesn't look it. She has light hair, blue eyes & is very pretty, a very sweet girl. She has been very homesick & nervous and fainted yesterday. Her room-98 mate, Grace Young, is also pretty, a bright, lively girl, a little thoughtless, but seemingly a nice girl. Orza Dickerson is a music special, a very sweet, kind girl, thoughtful and lovable. She was here two years ago. I like her very much. The two Tracy girls are preps, dear little girls, Joy and Jennie. Jennie was homesick, but is getting over it now. Rahme Haider, the sixth one, is a Syrian girl, dark & pretty. She is 2nd yr. prep. and I think intends being a missionary. I like all the girls very much. Attended B.Y.P.U. and church service this evening. Heard an excellent sermon by the pastor, Dr. Baldwin, in which he made prominent the life and work of Aaron. Feb.3. '07 I didn't intend waiting this long to write again, but it seemed to be impossible for me to find time when I ought, so I will go back and write what I think of now. I have a distinct recollection of the first general (Sept.) reception in Drane Gynmasium. It was, I think, the Friday of the second or third week of school. I went with Orza Dickerson. The gymnasium was very prettily decorated and there was a crush there. Orza had to leave to go down to the Conservatory at the end of an hour to let another girl come up. She introduced me to some whom she knew, in a quick little bird-like way she has, flitting from one to the other, then had to leave. I was alone after she went, a great deal. Served punch a while & was glad to have something to do. At last I found a young boy, a Mr. Means, who seemed as lovely as I was and talked to him the99 rest of the time until it was time to go. I was not sorry when that time came. Miss Jones, one of the teachers came & talked to us a few minutes before we left. I don't think I ever felt more lonely in my life. Late in September or early in October I had the privilege of listening to a talk in Sherman Hall by Dr. Timpanny, a medical missionary to India. He was fine. His theme seemed to be "A missionary must be an all-around man" and it would do a world of good to the student volunteers. Through the fact that no chaperone was provided, there were none of the girls there. One of the young men introduced himself to me, & Dr. Field did the same. I also met Dr. Timpanny, Dr. Field and Mr. Bamden had spoken of me to him. I enjoyed the talk very much. My class-work was somewhat changed for the first semester by Prof. Goodell advising me to drop Mediaeval History, Sophomore work, and take U.S. History, Junior. I told him I wanted credit for that & he said he would give me some work outside of class & would give me an exam & I could make it up in that way. I did so and he gave me credit, partly on work he gave me and partly on my teaching record. Then Prof. William's told me I could make up the required English & after getting permission of Dr. Hunt & Prof. Spencer100 to make up the Logic required, the second semester, I found I could graduate this year, which delights me. I have the English about ready to take an exam. in and expect to take one the first of the week. Events have flowed very smoothly this first semester. I have attended the Monday evening Y.W.C.A. meetings part of the time, the Thursday evening church prayer-meeting regularly and the morning church service. I go to Sunday School part of the time, rarely to B.Y.P.U., usually to evening service. During the first month of college I was invited to a reception given the faculty by Dr. & Mrs. Hunt. Sept. 18 (?) I believe it was Tuesday evening, Sept. 18. I went with Miss Barker as I didn't know the way. Had quite a pleasant time. Met Prof. and Mrs. Carney who were at Keuka College after I left. I liked Mrs. Carney very much and found out that she was a very dear friend of Mary Barnes. Shes said she was coming to call on me. Dr. Hunt told me that he had called the attention of the faculty in a meeting they had held the evening before to an outline he had had me put on the board in Psychology. He said it was well arranged and substantially correct and showed a trained mind. I felt better for his words. I am taking five hours of Psychology with Dr. Hunt, five hours of French with Dr. McKibben, three hours of history (U.S.) with Prof. Goodell and one hour of Methods of Modern 101 Language Teaching with Prof. Willis Chamberlain. Wed. Nov. 28. Had our final exam. in Psychology. It was not hard after Dr. Hunt's review. Nov . 29. Thanksgiving Day. The Club House girls were invited to the dining hall to dinner and we all went except Orza, who was invited out. We enjoyed our dinner very much. After dinner the girls played "Going to Jerusalem" in the Dining Room, then went to Burton Hall and heard Miss Montgomery recite "The Little Strawberry Girl". Then Miss Barker & her niece Juliet, Miss Adams, Misses Walker and Steelman, Rahme Haider and I went for a walk. We walked around a triangle of four miles and came back feeling finely. After Thanksgiving Mrs. Carney called on me and invited me to Sunday dinner. I accepted, of course. Mr. Scheffel, a senior boy, was also there and we got pretty well acquainted. In the afternoon Mr. Lee, a Chinese student, came in. The Carneys had to go to the photograph gallery as Prof. Carney had made arrangements with Mr. Tresize to go before he knew I was coming to dinner & we stayed alone while they were gone. I enjoyed being there very much. Dec. 12. College closed at noon. All but three of us cut Psych. but Dr. Hunt excused us and we were glad we hadn't cut. Miss Alderson, a girl from W.Va. who has recently come to take music, and I started on the 12:30 car for Newark, then took the train to Mansfield. We got there about102 four o'clock. Her brother was there to meet us in his auto, and took us to his home where we had supper, and I had a pleasant little visit until train time. I took the 7:35 P.M. Erie train east and arrived in Elmira the next morning (Friday) at about eight o'clock. Went over to the city to do a little shopping and met Ora. Joined forces with her & we met Mary, Mrs. Carey, Minnie Vernoy or Nettie(?), Leona & her mother-in-law at different times. Ora went to the station with me, hoping to see Edna & Donald whom I was to meet and go on home with. The train came in, as we thought, but no Edna, so Ora went home. I waited for my train and in a few minutes another Erie train came in & Edna & Donald got off and came into the station. We went on home, getting there about 2:00 P.M. I got my Christmas presents ready and sent them off and helped trim a tree for Donald. We had the parlor darkened and lighted the tree up Christmas morning after breakfast. It looked very pretty. It was quite a large tree. Father got it away up on the hill. Donald looked at it then clapped his hands and danced. he said "O, isn't it pretty?" We all had our presents on it. I got so much, a couple of plaid waists & some aprons from father and mother, cloth for a dress & a colored under skirt from Edna, a five dollar bill from Will, that I am going to get my cap and gown with, a picture of Donald, a very pretty collar from May Dixson, a handkerchief, a [...] & a calendar from Miss Flo., a travellilng bag of denim & rubber from Mary Andrews, a picture from Mary Dunham, a 103 handkerchief bag from Miss Campbell, a Keuka College pennant from Mrs. [Durfee], a beautiful center piece from Mrs. [Durfee], some yoke or collar pins from Mrs. Spaid, a book, "Cranford", from Mrs. Harvey, a very pretty china bonbon dish from Clyde, a booklet from Miss Bushong, a Denison banner from my Club House girls, a collar from Miss Alderson, a sachet from Miss Barker, a burnt wood frame from Maude Arnold, two handkerchiefs from Ora, a picture of Mr. & Mrs. Bamden, a button bag from Miss Norton, a chamois, & scissors guard from Mrs. Lumbey, & a gold & white dish from Mr. McCoy. I think I got more than my share. We were so glad Edna and Donald could be with us. It was so good to have them. Will Martin was down for Xmas dinner. Edna and I were invited up to Miss Brigg's one evening for supper. I went but she didn't . Mrs. Van Duzer, Grace Ford, Mary Barnes, & Maude McClure were there. We had a very pleasant time. Mrs. Van Duzer invited us for Dec. 31st. for the evening to a reception. I went, but Edna didn't. Had a very pleasant time. Got home a little after 11:00 P.M. Mary Goldsmith was there and told me about the resignation of Pres. John Chester Ball of Keuka College. At midnight the Episcopal bell tolled Jan. 1, 1907. 1907 times by actual count and ten times that by calm (!) estimate. Ed. Skinner called twice while we were home, and it seemed as if all our friends called. I tried to see some. Made an outing flannel gown, two waists, a skirt & tucked the yoke of a waist mother made for me. 104 Jan. Dr. Eubank, one of our medical missionaries, spoke in Sherwin Hall. I went up with Miss Barker. A lot of the girls went. We had a fine, inspiring talk. Dr. Hunt, in introducing Dr. Eubank, said: "We measure a man by the height of his ambitions, by the depth of his convictions, and by the breadth of his interests and sypmathies." Judged by that standard he thought we were to hear from one of the greatest men of the time. Jan. 27. A little before Thanksgiving I was invited to Sunday evening lunch with Miss Montgomery, Fernald and Chaffee so I returned the invitation and had them here. I had fried oysters, celery, brown & white bread & butter sandwiches, cocoa, cherries (canned) & cake. We had a very pleasant time. After they had gone I took my chafing dish & some oysters I had left up to Lily bell Sefton's room, where the girls were & fried the oysters for them. I had turned a pail of hot cocoa up my sleeve early in the evening & it had blistered my arm & rubbed off the blister so it was quite sore. Spilled the cocoa down the front of my new brown skirt, too. (Dec. '06) Just before the holidays I had the girls come to my room for a chafing dish supper one Sunday evening. We had a Welch rarebit, the first I had ever made, & it was good. I was so glad it was. The girls enjoyed it, too. Jan. 28-30. Exams. from Monday until Wednesday. I had French each day, German Tuesday, History the Friday previous, Hist. of Phil. Wednesday. I know I didn't do well in Phil. for I simply couldn't thinkg at all. My brain was in a [muteled] condition. 105 1907 Thursday, Jan. 31. Dr. Woelfkin was to have preached to us at 10:00 A.M. in the chapel but his train was delayed and he didn't get here so Dr. Hunt preached, and he gave us an excellent sermon. Dr. Woelfkin talked in the lecture-room of the church at 2:00 and preached in the evening. Feb. 1. Friday Dr. Woelfkin had a meeting for the boys at 10:00 A.M., one for the girls at 3:00 P.M. and preached in the church in the evening. I enjoy every one of his talks. He looks like a plain business man, but he gives such helpful sermons. He is fine. He met the girls just before prayers in King Hall Thursday evening. Feb. 2. Saturday there was only a meeting at 4:00 P.M. in Recital Hall. I didn't go, for I had so much else to do. Feb. 3. Heard Dr. Woelfkin preach this morning. Had an excellent sermon. Did not stay to Sunday School but came home and started dinner. There was a meeting in Recital hall at 4:00 P.M. but I did not go. In the evening chaperoned the girls to B.Y.P.U. in Miss Chaffee's place, but didn't have to come home before church as all the girls stayed. It was Dr. Woelfkin's last sermon. He spoke of the outward repulsion and inward attraction of the Christian life. He said that nothing really good is outwardly attractive, everything has some repellent feature, something we must give up to get it. He spoke of education as an example. Nov. 10. 1906. We heard a fine lecture by Dr. Geo. E. Vincent. It was at the Opera House. I sat next Miss Montgomery & came back with her and Miss Barker. The Opera House is a little stuffy place.106 Dec. 13, 1906. We heard Mr. William Harper, a basso, this evening. Miss Ferrar played his accompaniaments. He has a fine voice and I enjoyed the evening very much. 1907, Jan. 22. Dr. Chas. Eastman the Sioux Indian lectured, but I didn not go as I chaperoned a part of girls to Newark to see "The College Widow". It was quite good and I enjoyed it. About 200 went from Granville, many of the faculty. There were two st. cars crowded. ? During the first semester I attended a sonata recital by Prof. Judson that was delightful. He played the violing and Miss Dorothy Kibbler the accompaniment. I enjoyed it immensely as I did an impromptu recital later by Miss Emily Ferrar who was here visiting her sister. Miss Ferrar has a fine voice. Mrs. Wilson, our vocal teacher also gave a recital which was delightful. She has a rich, sweet voice of great power, but I liked Miss Ferrar's evern better. We, that is some of the teachers, are meeting each Sunday morning at 8:15 for Bible study. I enjoy it very much. We are studying Sanders & Kent's "The Messages of the Lating Prophets". It gives me many new ideas. Feb. 4. Registration day. I have registered for Philosophy, 5 hrs, French, 4 hrs., History, 3 hrs., and Logic, 4 hrs. Went to a prayer meeting in Recital hall at 6:00 o'clock, then to the faculty prayer meeting in Miss Barker's room. One girl in the prayer meeting quoted a remark of Dr. Chivers in his talk here last year. It was, "The brave of the world in care, the cure for care is prayer, the end of prayer is peace". Have 107 written to Frances Ross & Cousin Maude, and am going to write some more letters while I have time. Heard Friday of the death Wednesday (Jan. 30) of May Dixson's father. They will miss him sadly. Tue. Feb. 5. Dr. Ira M. Price of Chicago University spoke to us this morning in chapel. He is a D.U. Alumnus. He left two thoughts with me., "We cannot get away from our record", and "What we think will soon be what we are". His talk was fine. Went down to Prof. Williams' at 7:00 P.M. and took an oral exam on Junior English. That finishes my required English. It wasn't bad at all. Glad to be through with it. Wed. Feb. 6. Miss Benedict gave an organ recital in Recital hall at 8:00 P.M. Mrs. Wilson was to have sung, but had a severe cold and could not. I enjoyed the recital very much, especially the first number, Otto Malling's, "Githsemane, Golgotha, Calvary", and Felix Borowski'sl "Menuet". She plays beautifully. The last number, Carl Piutti's Sonate in G.Minor, Finale, showed a wonderful amount of pedalling. Fri. Feb. 8. Attended Enterpe Society this evening and was one of the judges on debate. Wanted to go to Philo. as Grace North debated there. This is preliminary to the debate between the two societies. Attended the Language Association at 3:30 P.M. Sat. Feb. 9. Went to Elsie Wright's room after supper then to Mary Montgomery's. Stayed until 9:30, then pressed my gown. We are to wear them to chapel Monday for the first. Invited Miss Ferrar to lunch with me tomorrow evening, but she couldn't come as Mrs. Wilson & Sam would be there [one]108 1907. Sunday and she felt she ought to stay with her. Samuel is sick, has pneumonia and is very bad. Sunday, Feb. 10. Went to church in the morning and in the evening. Heard two good sermons by Dr. Baldwin. Wrote some letters in the afternoon. The girls all came to my room for evening lunch & I gave them some creamed oysters cooked in my chafing dish. They seemed to enjoy them. Grace North didn't come as she was invited out by one of the girls in one of the dorms. Mon. Feb. 11. The seniors wore cap and gown for the first time today. We met in Prof. William's recitation room and put them on then all marched up to chapel, girls ahead, across from the boy's stairway to our places. The others cheered. Cut in Ethics today & tomorrow. Prixy is away. Rahme Haider heard today that her mother is dead. She feels very badly broken up, of course. I feel very sorry for her. Heard an excellent talk on Chinese girls at Y.W. by Mrs. Sweet of Hachow, China. They are here on furlough & are to return next year. It was very interesting. After that went to faculty meeting. Got a picture of Maude this evening. Tue. Feb. 12. The first "Senior Circus" this evening. The boys of the Junior class had liberally spread handbills advertising "Willie's Wonders", minstrels, and distributed them through the audience. The "Circus", which was an oratorical exhibition of the senior boys taking part, was attended by most of the class in cap and gown, the class being seated in the rear middle seats in Recital Hall. After the performance, Elsie Wright, Ida Wickenden and I went down town and had a Sundae.109 The Juniors dressed in fantastic attire and sat in the middle front seats. The hall was crowded, many went away. Rahme Haider heard of the death of her mother in Syria. She is almost frantic with grief. Fri. Feb. 15. Went over to Mrs. Carney's after supper and borrowed a coat and vest of Prof. Carney's to wear tomorrow evening in the Senior "Stunt" at a fancy dress party to be given. Came home and washed my hair. Rahme Haider was in my room until nearly 10:00 o'clock. Sat. Feb. 16. Wend down town, studied French and went to the Gym. to practice for the Faculty "stunt" for this evening. They have changed it. After dinner did some errands. At 4:30 practiced for the senior stunt. Had to be at the gym. at 6:45 to take in money at the gallery. Two girls helped me. After most of the people had come we went down stairs. Those who wore fancy costume were on the first floor, those who didn't dress in costume, in the gallery. I was dressed as a witch with my college gown, short black cape and hight pointed cap. Wore my hair down my back. We had a grand march, then the "stunts", then they danced. I marched with Miss Adams. The Senior stunt was first. We had a minstrel show. I was interlocutor. I wore Prof. Carney's dress suit, a derby hat, a pair of gym. bloomers. The girls of the class were blackened and dressed in fantastic garb. Mary Montgomery was to have taken a prominent part, but she was called home at the last minute by the death of a friend and the illness of her mother so we had to do the best we could without her. We had very little practice. We had songs & a song & dance by110 1907 by Laura Beitler, jokes and a cake-walk. It was quite a success. The conservatory stunt was a music lesson given to the daughter of Mrs. Wiggs, with her mother's assistance. Mrs. Wilson, vocal teacher, was Mrs. Wiggs. The conservatory also gave the "Kitchen symphony", played on a glass, a pitcher, a frying pan, a tin pan and two tin kettle covers. Ethel Reese was conductor, with a large kitchen spoon for baton. It was fine. The Senior Preps came in in a procession in night dresses carrying candles. Then followed the "Semi Stages of Womanhood", by the town girls, then first was a mother with her children about her, saying their prayers and playing with dolls, next was a childrens tea party, then followed school girls about 16, then the college graduates with books, tennis racket, basket ball, etc., fourth and fifth a wedding, sixth, the first child, seventh the widow. The faculty stunt was "Registration Day", with Miss Peckham as Dean Barker and Miss Barker as Mrs. Raymond, a lady who brings her daughter, Geraldine May, to college. Eleanor Chaffee was her daughter. The costumes were fine. Eleanor Chaffee had a real Scotch Highland costume, Mrs. Altrugy a Mexican costume, Miss Barker was a Greek lady, Misses Peckham & Stanton two English Lords, Miss Jones a negro valet. Mrs. Baldwin, the pastors wife, dressed as a man, Mrs. Hunt, a nun. There were two Little Bo Peeps, a Queen of Hearts (Jennie, Gracy) paper dolls, Indians, Japanese, Kitchen girls, men, women & children. We all enjoyed it very much. 111 Everything passed off very pleasantly. It was a great success. Sun. Feb. 17. Went to church morning and evening and heard two fine sermons by Dr. Baldwin. Asked Miss Ferrar to lunch with me this evening. Had creamed oysters, cooked with my chafing dish, Waldorf salad, bread & butter sandwiches, celery, cocoa, cake, and ginger pears I brought from home. Wrote my home letter this afternoon but no others. Wed. Feb. 20. Lecture course entertainment, The Philharmonic String Quartette, of Cleveland. I chaperoned. It was very good. Thur. Feb. 21. I read my paper on "The Elementary Course in German in Secondary Schools" in the Language Association. Profs. McKibben and chamberlin ("Dutch") said some very kind things to me about it. Patrick and Thomas of our French class were there, I think because Prof. McKibben spoke of it in our French class this morning. Went to prayer meeting in the evening. Fri. Feb. 22. Holiday. Senior banquet in the evening. I didn't go, neither did Elsie Wright, as she came to supper with me. Studied, read and served in the evening, also wrote some letters. Sat. Feb. 23. Studied some, served some, read & wrote a letter or two. Sun. Feb. 24. Heard Rev. A.S.Carmare preach this morning in behalf of the Ohio Educational Society. His theme was "The Master Key" and he plead for life lived in every part of the Palace of Life not in two or three rooms only. As the Master Key to open the doors he offered godliness. The thought "A rut is only a grave with both ends extended to infinity" I liked. 112 1907 Feb. 28. Went to the dentist's (Dr. Davis) in the afternoon to have a tooth filled. In the evening attended a lecture in Recital Hall by Mr. Jackson, Secretery of the Associated Charities of Cleveland. His subject was "Organized Charity" and his talk was very good. When asked by Dr. Hunt to distinguish between poverty and pauperism he said, "Poverty is a matter of the pocket-book, pauperism is a matter of the mind". He quoted in regard to charitable work "First plan your work, then work your plan". Studied until 1:30 A.M. as I had a hard lesson in Ethics, & was behind. March 3 Sunday. Went to church in the morning but not in the evening. It was communion Sunday. We have had snow flurries all day today. It seems quite a little colder tonight, though not seven yet. Ordered my commencement dress, or rather the cloth, yesterday. It is to be white point d'esprit trimed with white satin ribbon. Shall make it myself. Mch. 6. Took a long walk in the afternoon, walked four miles. It was a beautiful day, just cool enough to make a walk enjoyable. Went alone. In the evening attended a lecture by Prof. Judson in Recital Hall. He give a brief lecture, illustrated by stereoptism on Bach and Handel, and illustrated their works by pianola. I enjoyed it very much. The cloth for my dress came. Monday I received a package from mother, containing my black & white check dress that I got the cloth for Xmas. It's made very prettily & she has trimmed the front with eyelet embroidery. Her eyes have been so bad I am sorry she did, but it is very pretty. March 8. Friday The Philo-Enterpean Literary contest took place this evening. The societies occupied different sides of Recital Hall, the boys were wearing different society colors, and most of them 113 were, standing in the side aisles, for there were not seats enough to accomodate all. There were songs from both, cheers etc., before the contest began, and while the judges were out. They were out a long time, then it was declared that Enterpe had everything. It didn't seem a just decision. Eveyone objects, and Miss Barker went over the markings again and awarded a tie to the essay. Sat. Mch. 9. Went to supper with Bertha Heacock and spent most of the evening with her & Elsie Wright. Came home and found a letter from father and one from the Fisk Agency informing me of a vacancy at Bloomsburgh,(Pa.) Norman School. Wrote a letter there and copied testi normals, and didn't get to bed until after 1:00 o'clock. Sun. Mch. 10. Heard Dr. Ketman, the Secretary of the Western Section of the A.B.P.S. this morning. He gave us an excellent talk. Mon. Mch. 11. Heard an illustrated lecture on "Bismya, the oldest city in the world", by Dr. Edgar J. Banks, director of the Babylonian Expedition of the University of Chicago. It was a rare treat. He described the expedition, methods of work, treasures found and showed many interesting pictures. It made me crazy to take a course in ancient history with him or some one else who had gone to the sources. This year at Denison is a privilege, even outside class-room work. Wed. Mch. 13. Cut in ethics today. Received an invitation from Mr. Patrick to attend the lecture Monday evening. Attended a lecture, illustrated with stereoptism & pianola by Prof. Judson in Recital Hall. 114 1907 Thur. Mch. 14. Attended prayer meeting in the evening. Fri. Mch. 15. Attended Philo and was judge on a debate between Elsie Wright and Ida Wickenden. The subject was rediculous. It was "Resolved that if it takes 36 yrs. of yellow calico to make an elephant a slink waist, it will take a corresponding length of time for a cockroach with a wooden leg to bore through a cake of Sapolio". The affirmation (Ida) won. It was a lot of fun. Mon. Mch. 18. Mr. Patrick called this P.M. Miss Ferrar was here when he called. He took me to the lecture in the evening. It was by Senator Dolliver of Iowa and was very good. Tue. Mch. 19. Got a letter today telling me that Edna has a little girl, born Sunday, St. Patrick's Day. Am so glad she is a girl. Thur. Mch. 21. Heard a lecture by Prof. Judson on Schubert & Beethoven, illustrated by stereoptism & pianola. It was very good. It was the third and all have been excellent. Fri. Mch. 22. The Philomatheon Society gave their extra this evening. It was "The Princess" and was well given. The costumes for the principal characters were rented in Columbus & were good, of course. The girls all did well, especially Mary McKibben, the Princess. I went with Elsie Wright & Bertha Heacock. Mon. Mch. 25. Exam. in History. Began at 1:00 & lasted until 3:00. Quite hard but fair. Mch. 26. Exam. in Ethics. It was not hard nor long. I was through in 35 minutes. Hope I get a good grade.115 Mch. 27, Wednesday. Started on the 11:30 A.M. car for Cambridge. Mr. Samuels came to the Club House and carried my suit case to the car for me. It was raining. We got to Newark and found the 12:30 B & D train which we were to take later. It still rained. The train didn't come until 2:55. Mr. Theodore Johnson & his cousin Effie were to take the same train. Mr. Bamden was at the station in Cambridge to meet me. It had stopped raining and we walked home. Went to prayer meeting in the evening. Mch. 28-30 Sewed most of the time on my graduating dress. Mch. 31. Sunday. Mr. Bamden being with the Salem church, Mrs. Bamden & I attended the First Baptist Church, after going to Sunday School at the Mission. Heard Rev. David Carman, the pastor, a younger brother of Mr. Augustus Carman of Granville. It was a pretty good sermon. Tue. April 1. Mrs. Bamden received a telegram that Mr. McCoy would be here on the 12:15 train. Mr. Bamden left for the Minister's Conference at Granville yesterday, so I went to the depot to meet Mr. McCoy. Wed. Apr. 2. Mr. McCoy took Mrs. Bamden and me through the glass factory. It is one of the largest in the world. It was very interesting. The men gathered the molten glass on the end of a rod from the furnaces, put it in a mould and pressed it into shape. Then the dish or pitcher or whatever it was, was reheated by boys & passed to men who turned it, shaping it with a stick dipped in water. Some things, such as globes for gold-fish, were blown. That was interesting too. They were not116 1907 engraving when we were there, so we couldn't see that process. Mr. McCoy got a little glass dish for each of us as a souvenir. Thursday, April 4. Started home on the 12:15 train. Mr. Bamden came in from Granville while we were at the station. He had started on the 5:30 car from Granville to get that early train home, then found in Newark that the train was there hours late. Mr. Samuels was on the train and was very kind to me, carried my suit case home, etc. He seems a fine young man. Went over to practice with the Senior girls for the play in the evening, or rather to see Miss Eckhart, who is drilling them, about my duties as business manager, and was pressed into taking two unimportant parts. It isn't hard, but will take some time for practice. Fri. Apr.5. Classes today. Rahme Haider hasn't come back yet. Sat. Apr.6. The Senior Class and some others are invited to Prof. Spencer's Tuesday evening. They are to dress in costume, and I am asked to represent some nation. I counted on Rahme Haider's helping me to get up a Syrian costume but she isn't here. Miss Parsons told me Ruth Carlin has a Chinese costume which she thought she would lend so I asked her and she lent it to me. It is a beauty. There are brocaded silk trousers in light green, a cherry colored skirt, handsomely embroidered, a coat of light yellow with sleeves, another sleeveless one of red, all embroidered, & she said she would get shoes & hair ornaments for me. The costume is beautiful. 117 Sun. Apr. 7. It rained this morning so I couldn't wear my Easter gown & hat. Well, nobody much did wear them, so I didn't care. Hope it will be warm next Sunday. Tuesday, April 9. Went to the Senior Reception given by Prof. and Mrs. Spencer, chaperoned though I didn't care to. I wore the Chinese costume Ruth Carlin lent me. The shoes were such as Chinese men and the women who do not practice foot-biding wear. They had high soles (pencil drawing of the chinese shoe) and were of green, red and maroon-colored satin, embroidered with gold & colors. I had seven hair ornaments, two of gold shaped like birds on spiral wire springs which went on each side of my front hair and the others of colors with had fringe, some of them and little springs of gilt wire with a bead on the end projecting from them & moving as my head moved. Mrs. Carlin said the blue of the decorations of the ornaments was made of the feathers of the King bird. At the party each one was given a little booklet in which to write the names of persons present and what they represented. Latin prizes for best & worst record were given. Then we had a little puzzle made of card-board to solve. We had refreshments consisting of egg salad, creamed chicken, pickles, lemonade, pineapple ice and two kinds of cake. We reached home about 11:00 P.M. Mr. Schoeffel took me to supper and came home with me. It was a rainy, unpleasant evening. We. Apr. 10. There was a Faculty recital at 4:00 P.M. in Recital Hall in which Prof. Judson and Miss Kibler took part. Miss K. [writing in left margin] I forgot to mention a silver article with colored enamel shaped something like this, worn on a bottom of the coat. (1) is used to clean the ears, it is an ear spoon, (2) is a pointed instrument used to scratch the head and clean the teeth, (3) is a small pair of tweezers to pull out hairs on the face, (4) is a small blade to cut sweetmeats, (5) was broken off. I also wore on another button a small now hand-mirror. I carried a fan & maroon silk embroidered handkerchief. [the numbers in the description match the numbers on the drawing in the margin] 118 played from Mss. for the first time, an original romance from an original sonata by Prof. Wood. At 7:00 o'clock there was a lecture on Musical Appreciation by Prof. Judson which was also good. Thursday April 11. Attended prayer meeting then a lecture by Prof. Bowen of Meadville Theological School, Allegheny, Pa., on "Charles Wagner and the 'Simple Life'". It was fairly good. Friday, Apr. 12. Attended Enterpe Extra this evening. It consisted of a drill, a short play entitled "Ladies of Athens", music, and a pantomime. The last was the best. All was good but the whole not up to the Philo. extra. Sat. Apr. 13. Cleaned my room and put up clean curtains, got my French lesson, went down town, studied in the library in the afternoon & finished my history thesis, ironed, called on Mrs. Orcutt and wrote to Mrs. Bamden in the evening. Sun. Apr. 14. My birthday. How fast they come! Stayed at home from church this morning and read to Rahme Haider, who is still sick. Am invited to Elsie Wright's to lunch this evening. Mon. Apr. 15. The Senior Girl's Prize Essay contest took place this evening. The essays were all fairly good, but not scholarly, not more than one might expect of an unusually bright High School pupil. Mary McKibben got first and Bess Wilson second prize. After the contest all the girls went down to Case's and had ice cream Sundaes, or something else. We got back about 11:00 P.M. I led Y.W.C.A. prayer meeting at 6:00 P.M. Subject "Position Living". 119 Tue. Apr. 16. The Glee Club concert took place in Recital Hall at 8:00 o'clock. It was very good, the solos by Mr. Fox (basso), Mr. Possons (trombone), Mr. Legler (with harp accompaniament), duet by Mary Montgomery (cornet) & Mr. Possons (trombone) were the features of the performances. Wed. Apr. 17. Prof. King of the Pittsburg School of vocal expression gave a lecture in the Opera House. I didn't go but he gave a short Thur. Apr. 18. chapel talk Thursday morning which was very good. I didn't go to prayer-meeting nor to Mr. Legler's recital this evening. Stayed home and worked. Fri. Apr. 19. Went to luncheon at Mrs. E.W. Hunt's. Had a delightful time. The table was decorated with an immense bunch of crimson roses in the center & a rose at each plate. The place cards each had a crimson rose painted on them. The table was set without cloth and the doilies were very pretty. The first course was grape fruit with two red marachino cherries on each half. Then we had bouillion with whipped cream on it, saltines and celery. Then came creamed chicken in bread cases, bread sticks, potato cakes which looked like gems, and olives. Then we had ice cream in the form of red roses with leaves & a stem on each plate so that it looked quite natural, fruit cake, and lastly coffee and macaroons. We had as favors at each place a clothes-pin dressed like a college girl in cap & gown carrying a diploma tied with red ribbon. The diploma contained our fortunes. Mine read, "I married for money, but I lead a good life And my millionaire husband secured a nice wife I ride in my Auto. & loook very grand, There's no finer lady than I in the land."120 1907. I went directly from Mrs. Hunt's to class (History.) The Chi Psi girls entertained the senior girls in their sorority house from 4:00 until 5:00. We enjoyed talking with the girls & had cocoa & wafers for refreshments. At 8:00 o'clock the Shepardson faculty gave a reception to Dr. & Mrs. Cole, & Dr. & Mrs. Herrick. Dr. Cole was formerly a prof. in the university & is now going to Vassar as asso. prof. Dr. Herrick goes to Chicago University as Professor on Neurology in the Graduate School. It was in Stone Hall Reception Room and was a pleasant function. It was quite informal. The Denison Professors & wives, the trustees & their wives from Granville & Newark were there. After refreshments, which consisted of coffee, pickles, & sandwiches, oranges cut up with grated cocoa-nut on top & seved in slusht cups, & wafers, we had speeches by Dr. Hunt, Dr. Cole & Dr. Herick, Mr. Davis, Prof. Hendly, Mr. Burton Case & others. At a late hour (12:15) we came home. Sat. Apr. 20. Had the D.U. boys who live in Hubbard to supper. Harold Tray didn't get here until we were through supper as he worked & thought they were invited for the evening. After the boys went home we, that is Grace, Lilybell, Joy & I, went to the B.Y.P.U. social. There were magazine names to guess, little bags of candy which we were to give one from each time we said "yes" or "no" as a forfeit, a march refreshments (ice & wafers) & we came home at 9:30. Sun. Apr. 21. A beautiful day. Jennie is ill & I didn't go to church. Rahme went for the first time since vacation. All the club house girls were invited to dinner by girls from other buildings. Jennie was sick and couldn't go. I went with Elva Blakeman.121 Sat at Miss Peckham's table. Had a very pleasant time. Am invited to lunch at Mrs. Carney's. Later: Had a very pleasant time at Mrs. Carney's. Miss Hoover the English teacher at the High School was there also. I stayed until almost nine o'clock. Thur. Apr. 25. Went to prayer meeting. There were several baptized after meeting. It was a very pretty service, and very impressive. Practiced for the senior play after meeting. Fri. Apr. 26. Went over and stayed with Bertha Heacock while Elsie went to society. Bertha had to stay in the hall. Sat. Apr. 27. Elsie Wright & I went out & took our books this P.M. It is quite warm & sunny for a change. Sun. Apr. 28. Elsie, & Bertha were over to lunch with me this evening. It is a lovely evening & has been a lovely day. Wed. May 1. Went to the Shepardson Glee Club concert in Recital Hall. It was fairly good. They had some good local hits. The leading part was "The Lady of Shalott" sung by Blonda Watt and the Glee Club. Thur. May 2. Went to practice with the Senior girls. When I came back I found that Lily Bell Sefton had been taken sick suddenly & Mrs. Hunt, Miss Barker & the Doctor were here. It was a form of hysteria, brought on by over-work and not taking care of herself. Mrs. Hunt stayed until 11:15, when she was asleep. I stayed in her room on a cot, but didn't sleep much. Lilybell slept until 2:31 when she waked up & didn't go to sleep again, although I got a few cat-naps. Miss Barker wanted me to stay out of classes the next morning and rest, but of course I didn't. 122 1907. Fri. May 3. There was a reception in Doane Gymnasium but I didn't go. I stayed with Lily Bell. Didn't care to go anyway. Sat. May 4. Went to the reception, or rather tea given by Miss Ferrar at 4:00. Had a pleasant time. Refreshments consisted of tea, strawberries & whipped cream in pastry cases, wafers & mints. In the morning attended a reception given by the Juniors to the Seniors and Faculty. Had a very pleasant time. Wore my white dress & red roses given me by Lily Bell. Sun. May 5. Had Harold Tracy, Misses Samuels & Hazen to dinner. In the afternoon Lily Bell went for a drive with Miss Fernald and Rahme, Grace, Elizabeth Johnson & I went for a walk. Picked a few violets. It has been a cold, wet spring and the flowers are late. We had our last Faculty Bible Class today. I have enjoyed them very much. Sat. May 11. In the afternoon Mrs. Carney and Miss Worth, (Franc) who is at O.S.U., Columbus, & spending Sunday with the Carneys, came over and I took them through the Shepardson buildings. Then I went to Carney's to supper. Had a lovely time and stayed until 9:00 o'clock. Misses Lin and Tan, Chinese students, the former at Denison and the latter at O.S.U. came in during the evening. Mr. Tan, whom I had never seen before, has a fine face. Sun. May 12. In the morning Prof. Carney and Miss Worth called for me to go up to the Geological department. We saw the department and Prof. Carney explained what was of interest to us. It was fine. It has unusually good equipment, being123 one of the best equipped geological departments in the county, much finer than Cornell. I was too late in getting back to get ready for church, so didn't go until evening. Went for a walk in the P.M. with Elsie Wright and Bertha Heacock to Columbus Bridge, then back through Lover's Lane. Got some beautiful violets. Mon. May 13. Sent some violets to Edna and to Mrs. Harvey. Wed. May 15. Senior girls conducted chapel in Recital Hall this A.M. We all wore cap and gown. Ida Wickenden presided. We read the scripture lesson responsively one of us reading a verse then the school next, etc. I led in prayer, Clara Roudebush sang, Mary Montgomery playing the organ and several of the girls gave notices, Elsie Wright making a little speech about the care of the campus. Thur. May 18. Got up at 5:00 A.M. Elsie Wright, Bertha Heacock and I took the 6:30 car for Newark. Did some shopping then took the 8:05 limited electric for Ganesville. It rained hard at 5:00 o'clock, but was bright and clear at 6:30 so the girls didn't take an umbrella, although I did. It rained by fits and starts all day, but not hard when we were obliged to be out, so we didn't get wet. We took a car for the Weller Pottery, Putnam Avenue and went to the sales rooms where we found Miss McDowell or something like that who formed that we were from Granville and knew Miss Barker, Miss Parsons and the others who go there often, she was very nice to me and gave us great bargains. I have 16 pieces of pottery, Lonelsa ware, green, dark & light, & French ware, part124 1907 of them for Edna, who wanted me to get her some to give away for Christmas presents. I think them beautiful. All who have seen them think I got great values. We got home on the 1:30 car, much earlier than we expected. Sun. May 19. Mrs. Reed and the Misses Southwick of Martins Ferry who are visiting her, her two sons and Mrs. Samuels called this afternoon. I took the ladies through the Shepardson buildings. Tue. May 21. May Music Festival began today with a lecture on the music of the various programs by Prof. Gantroot of Cincinnati. It was very good. I went with Bertha Heacock. In the evening Elsie Wright and I attended the "Stabat Mater", by the Chorus, assisted by Mrs. Genevieve Wilson of N.Y., our Mrs. Wilson, Mr. James, tenor, and our Mr. Legler, bass, soloists. It was fine. The Stabat Mater was the second part of the program. Wed. May 22. Attended the Artist's recital at 3:30 P.M. with Elsie Wright. It was fine. The "artists" were those who assisted last evening. Thur. May 23. Attended the Children's Concert in the forenoon and the Orchestra Recital in the afternoon. The Children were interesting and did well. The Chicago Orchestra was to have been here, but the Columbus Orchestra took its place. It was very good. Tue. May 28. Agassiz Day. Was celebrated at Barney Hall. Elsie Wright, Lilybell Sefton and I went. The program, consisting of talks by Drs. Hunt, Herrick, Prof. Carney and Stickney, was very interesting, after which we examined Science Hall.125 The Seniors who are doing the Science work wore cap and gown and conducted people around. Mr. Forsythe took us. We had tea and wafers in one of the rooms and stayed so long that we were late for supper. Thur. May 30. It was a beautiful day. Grace North, Joy Tracy and I went go Alligator Mound in the afternoon then took our supper & we all, with two friends of Rahme who are here for the day from Columbus, went to Spring Valley. Had a delightful time. The visitors were Miss Willoughby and Miss Smith, the latter only 13 yrs. old. Fri. May 31. Maude Bruce gave me a dozen beautiful carnations and the Club House girls gave me a D.U. pin for a graduating present. I was delighted. It was lovely of them. Lilybell presented it with a speech, then Orza sang a song composed for the occasion. Sun. June 2. I gave the girls at dinner each $3.00 I had saved from the money given me for provisions. They were delighted as well as surprised and at once went over and got Mrs. Hunt and told her. Lilybell was in my room all the afternoon and Elizabeth Johnson came in part of the time. Mr. Sweet, of Hangchow, China, preached in the evening an excellent sermon. Mon. Jne. 3. Got a beautiful and dainty shoulder shawl of white point d'esprit and wool from May. Charles Warner gave me a picture of a Mound Builder's mound. Last Y.W.C.A. meeting. Faculty meeting after it and then Senior practice. Went to the Faculty-Senior ball game at 3:30. It was 10-7 in favor of Faculty.126 1907 Wed. June 5 Got a beautiful cut-glass dish from Mr. McCoy. It is my first piece of cut glass and I am delighted with it. The Senior girls entertained the Junior girls at Stone Hall from 3:30 until 5:00. On papers provided for the purpose the Juniors wrote the names of the Seniors, then an appropriate nick-name, then their future vocation. Many were very funny. The Pres. of the Senior girls gave the Senior Parlor to the Juniors, gift to take effect at the beginning of the next school year. Sherbet and cakes were served and after a social time, the Juniors left. I went to Mrs. Rose's to supper and met Mrs. Dye, wife of one of our foreign missionaries, Miss Brooks and a friend of hers. After supper I went to Mrs. Orcutt's to see Mrs. Bamden who came at 3:30 and then to the gym. where the Seniors had a "stunt". It was a "childrens party". We blew soap bubbles, played marbles and had for refreshments lemonade in a wash tub with tin cups, bread & milk in tin cups & on paper plates & gingerbread. We spent quite a pleasant evening. Thur. June 6. Received a pretty tea spoon from Grace Thompson. Charlie Warner gave me a picture of an Indian mound near Newark. Mrs. Bamden came to supper with me and stayed until 9:15. I then went to practice for the play. She gave me $4.00 to get something for a commencement present. I think I shall get a Denison spoon. Fri. June 7. Last exams. today. All the girls but Grace and Rahme left. It seems quite lonely. Got a beautiful white fan from Clyde. Sat. June 8. Senior Girl's Play, the "Taming of the Shrew". It went off finely & was a great success in every way. I took the part of the [...] which Elsie Wright was to have had, because she was 127 not well. After the play all the girls but Elsie, whom Miss Barker wouldn't allow, went to Mrs. Light's for supper. Miss Eckert went with us. Had a good time. Clara Roudebush's engagement was announced by Mary Montgomery. Decided to have a circular letter. Sun. June 9. Baccalaureate Sunday. The sermon was by Dr. Hunt, who gave us an excellent sermon from the text John 10,10. Dr. Hunt is an inspiration. I believe each one longed for the "abundant life" of which he spoke. In the morning the seniors all went down into the church together and wore cap and gown. In the evening we had an excellent sermon again, this time by Rev. Raymond M. West, of St. Paul, Minn. I went with Mrs. Bamden. Mon. June 10. Settled up most of the Senior Play Bills. Was over to Mrs. Orcutt's to supper with Mr. & Mrs. Bamden. Tue. June 11. In the A.M. attended the Academy commencement & had to sit on the platform. Quite a large class of boys & a few girls graduated. Didn't go to the other things. Was at supper at Dr. Herrick's with Mr. & Mrs. Bamden. Had a deligtful time & didn't get home until almost 9:00 o'clock, then went over to Carney's to tell Mrs. Carney that I would accept her invitation to stay over Sunday with her. Wed. June 12. The Class of '07 had breakfast at Mrs. Mitchell's instead of the campus as it rained last night & again this morning. Had a very nice breakfast, then toasts, then organized & are to have a class letter & a reunion every 3 years. At 10:00 o'clock I made my report to the girls & turned over the money left from play to the Treas. Clara Roudebush. At a little after 10:00 we had Class Day exercises in Sherwin Hall, as it rained. Mr. Cowell had the class history, Mary McKibben read [...] from which she & Laura Beithen had written, 128 1907 Mary Montgomery had a very bright prophecy, and the Pres., Mr. Beatty, presented the class shoe to the Junior Class. Mr. Lloyd, '08, responded. Then we went down to the church and Prexy told us where we must sit tomorrow. Elsie Wright and I came up with Dr. Hunt. Went to Doane Gymnasium when we attended the Shepardson College Alumnae luncheon. After some toasts and speeches Miss Hines, the President, welcomed the class of '07, and Clara Roudebush responded for the class. I did some errands after lunch, and ironed some. After supper went to Mrs. Orcutt's but Mr. & Mrs. Bamden were not there, then went to the kitchen window & talked to Maud, then made some fudge and took some to Elsie's room. Stayed until 9:00 o'clock, ironed some, packed some & am going to bed. It is raining. Hope it will not rain tomorrow. Thur. June 13. Commencement day! This has been a beautiful day. After breakfast went down to Stone to take a photograph to Mary Montgomery and exchanged also with Bess Wilson and Ida Wilkenden. Clara Roudebush had brought hers over before. About 9:30 or a little after, the procession, headed by the Denison Board descended the hill and passed through the campers. As it formed the band came first, then the Alumnae and friends, then the students, then seniors, girls then boys in each course, then faculty & trustees. At the church all stopped formed in double line & the last passed in first, 129 then those next, etc., until all entered, the faculty and trustees leading. Dr. Hunt was in cap & gown, but the gowns for the rest of the faculty didn't come, so they couldn't wear them. The seniors wore theirs, of course. After the program & awarding of diplomas, prizes were awarded. Went to the Alumni dinner with Mr. & Mrs. Bamden. We had a good dinner and some excellent toasts. Mr. Marsh, son of a former professor & himself a graduate of Denison, was toast master. Mr. & Mrs. Bamden left on the 7:30 car. Went down to the car with them. The Orcutt's went too. Came up & stopped in Elsie Wright's room. The Club House girls had a dozen American Beauty and six white roses sent me this morning. They were beautiful. I carried the red ones. Elsie and Bertha gave me a pretty spoon. Fri. June 14. Elsie Wright left on the eight o'clock train. I went to the depot with her and so did "her shadow" and her sister Chloe. After I came back I went to the drug store and Miss Hunt & Mr. Runyan came in. They asked me to have a "dope" with them and afterwards walked with me up to the Club House. I stayed alone, as I had since the first of the week. Sat. June 15. Finished packing, got trunk and boxes off, and went to Carney's. In the evening Mr. Runyan called and we went for a walk. I was very much surprised. Sun. June 16. Went to church in the morning & over to Rev. Reed's a little while in the evening. 130 1907 Mon. June 17. Said good bye to Miss Barker. Started home on the 12:30 P.M. car. Tue. June 18. Reached home at 2:00 P.M. Wed. June 19. Mrs. McKy gave me a pretty spoon & Miss Campbell sent me another one. Thur. June 20. Sarah Pike gave me another pretty spoon. Sat. June 22. Went to Keuka Park on the 6:00 P.M. train to spend Sunday with Mrs. Durfee. Got there about 7:30 or 7:45. Attended the commencement exercises of Keuka Institute. Saw the Ball girls, Lora Marsh & her mother, Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs. Thompson, Arthur Thomas & several others I knew. Sun. June 23. Went to church & heard baccalaureate sermon. It rained in the P.M. so we stayed in & visited. Mon. June 24. Started home on the 7:30 A.M. car. Got here at 9:00. Tue. June 25. Delivered the Alumni Address at the Academy. Subject was "The Gift of the Penniless". It was very well received and I had many compliments. Ora was down. Frank Johnson came home with me. Fri. June 28. Went to the Pres. ice cream festival with Ed Skiinner and Miss Crosby, who is staying at Van Duzer's. Frank Johnson joined us and stayed with us until the 9:15 car. After that we came home & Ed called for a time. 131132 133192g. Marion (Grieve) Baker, '29 1 Mar. 1961
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Text: 1910 make the best of it. Agnes and I walked around the lake. I stopped in Miss Rivenburgh's room and helped her move furniture. We went to class meeting together. Frances Jewell presided for first time. Chairman for Sophomore party and Soph. golse(?) book were elected Ruth Valentine and Rebecca Lawrence respectively. Mary Bliss gave the report of the silver Bay conference and Hazel Hoserman of the Mt. Lake park conference. Frances gave us a little speech on standing as a class and doing...
Show more1910 make the best of it. Agnes and I walked around the lake. I stopped in Miss Rivenburgh's room and helped her move furniture. We went to class meeting together. Frances Jewell presided for first time. Chairman for Sophomore party and Soph. golse(?) book were elected Ruth Valentine and Rebecca Lawrence respectively. Mary Bliss gave the report of the silver Bay conference and Hazel Hoserman of the Mt. Lake park conference. Frances gave us a little speech on standing as a class and doing our best not to beat some one else but just to do our very best. Lucy Rogers spoke about cheering and Delphina about singing. Mrs. Kendrick held forth in chapel. I translated my first ode tonight. Retired 11 PM. Bessie Rector said I look tired. Met B. Vandergrift at 12:30 noon. Thurs. Sept. 29 Rose at 6. Tried to do Physics but had no metric tables. Enjoyed Latin and survived Physics. Agnes and I attended Dutchess County Fair and saw and heard Colonel Roosevelt at close range. He came at 12:59. We were there from 11:45 till 3PM. After Roosevelt went we saw the Midway, poultry exhibit hens with feather hoods which hens marked with black }}}}} so they were new to me. Laura 1910 97corn reaper, grain binder, apple picking shute, cows, pigs, sheep with that long wool (Dorset breed) and the exhibit. Enjoyed it but am completely tired out. give me home. Of course I missed my lunch. Had Bessie get me some bread, butter and milk. Sent a postal of the 4 dormitories and Rockefeller hall to F.B. 320 Central Bldg. Rec'd card from Minnie Cole. Ate some lunch. Invited Pauline Allen to go to Students' & Christian's reception with me. Went to Library. Walked home with Frances Valiant. Asked her why she didn't come over. "You have never called on me" Dressed for dinner. Prexy prayed that we might not tempt ourselves & others. Got Arn book from Lillian Lee. Pegged away at Physics. We sampled pancakes at the Fair. Rec'd yard stick, pencil, map of U.S. etc. Wrote letter home. Card to Mrs. Robertson.Fri.Sept. 30.Rec'd card from Yamaguchi. My 2 problems on metric system which I reworked by myself last night were correct. We had to translate some old English lines from Beowulf in Soph. Lit. Miss Fiske is so interesting. Found letter from home awaiting me. Delivered morning mail. Then read home letter. Found in it a check for draft98 1910 fifty dollars from Aunt Jennie. Papa advised me to return it so I can get interest on it during October. I endorsed it, wrote a short letter to papa enclosing the draft. Also wrote a letter of thanks to Aunt Jennie. Mailed them for the noon mail. Studied Arg. in the Lib. Delivered noon mail. Miss Yost discussed Convention system and Primaries. I tried to find some one to ride to Poughkeepsie on a wheel but in rain. Waited for Alma to finish a letter. She put in my blue card for me. I stood in line at the express office and signed for my box of books. Had to pay $.50 delivery charges. Signed for E. Horton also. Alone I rode to fair Grounds on my wheel and bought popcorn fritters for Irene (our elevator maid). Did not go to the free tea at the Inn from 3-5. Wish I had. Had twice of choc. ice cream. After chapel went to 426 M. and got names of 10 Freshman whom I asked to go to church Sunday. Found only one home. Agnes came over after 9 PM and Pauline Allen came up and she staid till after 10:15 PM. I bought new my Adv. German Prose Composition book and my Sellar's "Horace and the other Elegias poets."1910 99Sat.Oct. 1Sent a card to Yamaguchi also one to dear little Claire. Went on wheel to Whittocks cottage to see Miss Butler about church. Delivered morning mail. Spent an hour copying into notebooks my various notes. Clara Hill saw me on my wheel and exclaimed why I didn't know you could ride! Took the noon mail. Finished article on "the Albany Gang" in Library. Went to Main several times. Told Maud I had asked several girls to go to church with me. "Where are you going? she asked. To the Presbyterian church. Are they all Presbyterians. Certainly. I answered. She talks as though she thinks I know very little compared with her superior wisdom. Wore white dress to the Christian Assoc. reception in the Athletic circle at 4PM. Took Pauline Allen. Met Marjorie McCoy, Julia Lovejoy, Prexy and Mrs. Prexy. I introduced her to several girls. The glee club sang some splendid songs. We were served with tricolored ice cream and cakes. My box at last was delivered. Pauline A. and I went to college singing in Soap Palace. Heard old "Solomon" for first time. Charlotte Burnett led. chapel. Prexy said there are two reasons for our having 100 1910 an opportunity to go to town to church. 1. For communion. 2. To mingle with other than college people. Spent over two hours on Ode 2 in Horace. Tried to do some German. So sleepy I retired 11:45 PM. Sun. Oct. 2 Was late to breakfast. Drank coffee and ate cereal. Forgot to say that Lousie Boynton gave me some luscious grapes last night. I unpacked my books. It seems good to see my dear Bible lying once more on my table. My new Shakespeare set looks fine on the top shelf of my book case which is now well filled. I straightened up on house, read in my Bible, dressed. The girls stopped for me and at 10:15 I with my five charges, Ruienburg 1913, Ball 1914, Butler 1914, Moffat 1914 and Brown 1914 started for church. Walked via College Ave. Sat in front. Dr. Hill preached a fine sermon on II Cor. 5:17 "Making our own world." He alluded to Carlyle, Hamlet, (good or bad only as we think so), Captain of a fleet which failed to enter Charlestown harbor and a famous evangelish through whom an old man was brought to see his "old Bible in a new light." Dr. H said "Faith is cooperation with God." He spoke of the importance of the will." Nothing succeeds1910 101like success." Took car home but conductor did not collect my fare. Nice dinner pleasant social time. Then I had Mary MacNoughton dictate to me the songs the Glee Club sang yesterday. She paid me $.15 for the rent of my wheel for one hour yesterday. Staid in my room a few minutes and visisted with me. I called on Eliz. Hibble. ("Don't you know what your collar is?"" She told me about the old Library, old Infirmary, and the 1909 celebs" (celebrities.) Had a nice visit with Helen Scobey who told me about the party they gave to the Freshman last night. The Lathrop family, Mrs. Yale, Harvard, Wet Point, Cornell, Princeton. Chanticlier dance, dance & refreshments and 1 scene of a Freshman and her mother buying ornaments for her room. I opened a bureau drawer for Albertina this morning. Figured up my money accounts. Chapel. Christians. Made some paste for Mary [Main]. Called on Helen Simpson & Winifred Dutcher. They fed me. I had a good call. Wrote up the reception yesterday for the Miscellany and took it to Main. Wrote to Margaret Clarke enclosing $.15. Wrote home. Pasted some things in street book. Retired 11:15 PM. 102 1910Mon.Oct. 3Rose early. Latin was interesting & I survived. No. Eng. Didn't finish my German. Delivered morning and noon mail. Had Lab 5th & 6th. Did some Horace 7th. Went to Soph. Lit lecture 8th. Miss Fiske. Wore waist & shrunk cotton skirt to dinner. Did my Horace all but reveiw, scansion and 7 hills of Rome. Tried to do German but fell asleep over it so went to bed after 11PM. Tues.Oct. 4Rose at 5:40AM. Did German and tried to do Physics problems. Was late to breakfast and the day has gone all wrong. Miss Haight called on me for the review of Ode to Augustus oh-it was awful. I didn't have my problems done and made mistakes in my German sentence on the board. Miss Stroebe talked to me about my Summer Reading. Reread "Albany gang article.". Rec'd postal from Mrs. Yergin and letter from mama. Brunette & Uncle Enoch are there." Claire is doing finely in school, has had two or three stars and several 100% and she is just delighted." Her big sister will have to hurry up or get beaten. Arg. was fair. I took the noon mail & was late for lunch. 6th hour I spent rowing with Dorothy Hood and Lottie. Very delightful. Read1910 1035 pages of German in 40 min. Wore pink dress to dinner. After chapel finished from 8.15-10.15 my German for tomorrow in "Duhtung and Wahrheit" and read 16 pages which I couldn't finish for yesterday while Eliz. McShane, in whose room I studied to keep awake, did her Horace and Greek. Was ist mit mir? I had my mind fixed on my work too. Rec'd letter from Ellen Sergeant who is very happy at Elmira. Read one English lyrie. Retired 11:30PM. Rather downhearted. Am, however, thankful that I can still, I hope, immediately prove myself A no 1.Wed.Oct. 5Rose at 6:45. Was on time for breakdast a good omen for the day. Read old English lyrics. Had a 25 min. written in German. Looked up the authority for an article for Arg. Delivered noon mail. Was on time for lunch. After Arg. Agnes & I walked to Arlington down to Heston's drug store. Her father was once assistant to a Yale Mathematics professor. Did 45 lines Horace before dinner. Finished Horace. Had first interview with Miss Fiske. "You're an awfully nice member of the class, you know" she said. Warned me to be specific and 104 1910Charlotte Rieney was elected Hall President, condense. (Do as I am told no more no less (?)) Did Physics acceleration till 12 PM. Then retired 12:15. By [govey] my problems are worked. Hooray. I signed up tonight for Mrs. Hill's Bible class. Eliz. McShane has charge of the cards. I was on time for dinner. Today has been pleasant, very warm outdoors. Put on a pair of my new Marmheim stockings today.Thurs.Oct. 6Rose at 6. Reviewed the odes we have had. Kathryn Upson came over to have me help her with her Physics problems. I verified instead of proved law S=1/2a(2t-1) on the board today. Delivered morning mail. Read some Physics. Noon mail. Corridor meeting. Lab 5th and 6th. I finished my first experiment of the Vernier Caliper. My room was swept today and looks fine. I borrowed $1 of Dorothy Hood and paid my Phil. dues. Did Physics problems. Agnes R. borrowed my wheel to go to Seaman's. Wore white dress. On time for lunch & dinner. Heard Luius H. Miller Prof. in Princeton on Bible & Mission Study. Read 40 pages of Andreas. Retired 10:45. Just like summer out today. Delightful to be outdoors. Knocked my clock off my desk and bent. Acted as usher at request of Lucy Pennaman. 1910one foot. Lilias Wheeler invited me to go to Senior parlor with her. (today.)Fri.Oct. 7Had 8 hours sleep last night and enjoyed it. Rose at 7. Wrote a card home. Went to Physics recitation. Then to Soph. Lit. where I said in answer to a question, that I did not see a difference between the Andrew of the Apocrypha and the Andrew of the poem Andreas. Another (?) brilliant recitation. Read article on cheap amusements for Arg. delivered noon mail. Studied Horace. Got names of Soph. Lit books. Elevator [her] stuck between 3rd & fourth and we had to crawl out on 3rd. I stopped in Florence Hopper's a minute. Albertina Pitkin & I viewed a large rainstorm in the eastern sky, and a wonderful sunset from my window. Prexy told us about the installation of the new Pres. of Smith College. He said that he wondered as he saw the degrees given to 6 women why more do not aspire to and attain scholarship. He has been looking in vain for the subjects which shall better fit the needs of the college for women than the present curriculum. I have no place here for domestic science for training in motherhood. "Make the best of what you have and the most of yourself".1061910Went to Phil. meeting. Party given here to Freshman at 8:30. It was fine. 1. Chorus, 5 instructors: Thelberg, Patton, Cummings, Ellery and Miss Swam, athletes, maids and Junior ushers. 2. Puppet show. 3. Dance. 4. A melodrama. Hobble Skirt or Does he eare. Ice cream & ladyfingers. It went off splendidly and everyone did excellently. I helped Eliz. Page get some bread from Mrs. Curtis after 10PM. Have received no letter from Home today.Sat.Oct. 8Went to Main for Helen Simpson's Soph. Lit. books. Got 2. Worked in Library on Bede's Ecclesiastical history. Delivered morning mail. Rec'd letter from home containing draft for $14.00 of which $8. belongs to Yamaguichi. $4.50 to me what I advanced for Miss Brainard & Mrs. Plane and $1.50 from papa for my college expenses. I cashed draft. Delivered noon mail. Worked more on Bede. I do not read him fast so it took me some time. Lilias Wheeler gave me Chaucer's complete works. Did some patching. Emilie Davis rented my wheel for an hour. I left here at 4:40PM for downtown & returned at 6PM. Rode wheel & did some errands stopping at a drug store for my handerkerchief. Went to college singing. Chapel. Studied German. Goethe's "Dichtung und Wahrheit"1910 107(vol.13.) It took me 3 hours to do it. I kept quite awake tonight. Studied my Bede notes & looked at Horace. Sewed 10 min. Retired 12:30PM. Mama writes "Claire recited this morning before the Assembly and Miss Hinderland told her she was proud of her. She just came home with 100% on her Arithmetic paper and she feels very proud." My waist is beautiful, fits like a glove. $5.34 for making. Brunett and Uncle Enoch left Thurs for home. I had a pitiful letter from Ella. She keeps hinting for money. Uncle Chas. fell over a wagon wheel." Papa says "Claire is getting stars and 100% right along."Sun.Oct. 9.After breakfast Dorothy Hood, Narola & I took a delightful walk of an hour to Sunset by Pine walk, tennis courts, bridge (why didn't I jump the gap as Dorothy did) Sunset, glen, chestnuts and pine walk by chapel. Dressed for church. Anson Phelps Stokes. Sec'y Yale preached a fine, clear, helpful sermon on "That Christ may be formed in you." Episcopal service very pretty. He said 1. it is possible because we are God's children. If we gather together the divine courage, the divine love, the divine humility which we find in separate1081910individuals we have a mosaic which gives us some idea of the Christ life. 2. The power resulting from having the Christ in us is a sense of freedom and responsibility. Free from fear of death. The truth shall make you free. What a responsibility rests on us as children of God. 3. Process. We must have a yearning for the Christ life. When Peary had decided that he wanted to discover the North pole more than any thing else in the world his battle was more than half won. When we have made up our minds to do anything then our battle is half won. We must have a knowledge of Christ's life. Cannot know him as he is unless we know him as he was. At Northfield Henry Drummond said in answer to a college student's question as to what three Bible courses he would recommend, The Life of Christ, the life of Christ and the life of Christ. Finally to attain our goal we must initate Christ's life as much as possible. Live up to his teachings ......Agnes & I walked around the lake, it is perfectly magnificent out today. Warm, ideal. The autunmal tints are very modest and soft but so soul satisfying and harmonious. It is grand1910 109to live today. Dinner. Changed my fine white dress for shirtwaist and skirt. Agnes wanted me to go walking. We went to 5 mi. post on Hackensack road. 2 1/4 hours. It was delightful. Found some apples. Helen Lockwood called. She is to tutor this year in English and Latin. Wake up Gretta. I went to chapel & Christian's. Dorothea Romer made a good speech on studying on Sunday. I thanked her for it. Paid for my tea table. Wrote to Lorane Rogers, Lois Yergin who is at Thomas Manual Training School, Detroit Mich. this year. and then wrote home. Did up Claire's little kid gloves which I carried off by mistake. Kissed them.Mon.Oct. 10.Rose at 7. Studied more on Latin. Went to Latin. Had to write Ode 38 & mark scansion. Miss Fiske did not give us a 10 min. written. Miss Stroebe handed back my test paper with "Ziemlich gut" written on the first page. Found a letter from Ida waiting - she thinks of selling Japenese pictures at Holyoke. I wrote a letter to Yamaguchi and a postal to Ida. Mrs. Kendride called me up. I got the Oxford book of English verse from Marjorie Hoard. Noon mail. Mrs. K. gave me some off campus notes to deliver for her. Physics Lab 5th & 6th. Got Sanborns Classical Atlas from Ethel Curley 402N. Rode my wheel1101910to deliver the 5 notices. Studied Latin. Pauline Allen came up for 15 min. & interrupted me. Chapel. Got Tribune address in Library. Spent three hours on Horace. Hope to know something tomorrow. Worked a little on Physics. Retired 11:45PM. Wore my Scotch mixture today. Tues.Oct. 11.Rose or rather studied in bed at 6AM German and Physics. Got laundry ready. Made bed as usual. Was very late to breakfast. Had to write Sapphic meter in Latin today. Knew it this time. I had to translate. Did fairly well. Hesitated a little. Problems handed back in Physics were correct & I had to put one on the board. Began "Gotz von Berlichingen" today. Rec'd. postal from Cecelia Poler who has begun her music course in New York City. Letter from Home on time including one from mama and one from Claire. Christine Uta has infantile paralysis. Mrs. Robbins is just alive. New door pad came for Saltfords. Also an ad for a sale of brass ware at Vose cottage Oct. 12-19. Began Asser's "Life of Alfred." Took noon mail. Paid hall dues $.95. Song practice. Arg. paper returned. Capitalization & puntuation critized. Finished Asser. Sent card of Library to Christine Utz. Subscribed to N.Y. Tribune for 2 mo. Went to class meeting 4:45. Reports of Soph. party con. & joke book con. Tables assigned today. I am again at Mrs. Curtis table1111910with Pauline Allen, Dorothy Hood, Florence Ackermann, Mildred Terry. Spent 1 1/2 hr. hunting up magazine references in indexes. Did some odds and ends. Retired 11:10PM.Wed.Oct. 12Rose at 6:15 AM to study German. On time for breakfast. Knew some specific things in Lit. I do have the weakest most inadequate vocabulary in German. It must be corrected at once. My English vocabulary will bear enriching too. Behold a golden opportunity. Worked on Arg. Took noon mail. Paid for my Morris chair $1.50. Miss Yost outlined our work in Arg so we can plan ahead. Agnes & I went to Sloshs and Cannon's. I made an appointment for 7th hr. tomorrow. Agnes & I studied on the lake afterwards. Then went to Senior Parlor song practice. Walked to Lab. with Alma. Agnes Wilson voluntarily came to me at song practice & looked over with me. Studied more on Latin (Prexy talked about making better use of our time, not having courage enough to put out an Engaged sign, difference between the way the older and younger girls plan their work, necessity for generous amount of sleep, enough excercise and fun. But we mustn't play when we ought to be working. Work hard while you work. The greatest joy you can have in college is to 1121910do your college work well. This world is so made that unless we do our duty we can not have a feeling of satisfaction. Put your emphasis on the important things. In his prayer he said it is the spirit that counts and so does faithfulness.) We are not to send flowers to 1911 for Senior Parlor. Helene Kingsley came up to find out Horace lesson & Miss Cushing came up for graph paper. I worked examples for Tues. over to see if I had them right. Made graph. Retired 11:45PM. Thurs.Oct. 13Rose soon after 6. Morning mail. Worked on Arg. Rec'd card from Yamaguchi. Noon mail. So late to noon song practice. Lab 5 & 6. Had Mrs. Gannon shampoo my hair 7th. Read in Anglo Saxon Chronicle before & after dinner. My first New York Tribune came today. Worked more on Arg. Wrote up my comments in PM. Retired 11:45PM.Fri.Oct. 14Rose a little early. Studied Phsics. Wrote a card home. Miss Wick did two interesting experiments this morning 1) with the jet of water and 2) with the nickel thing with spring & rod. Miss Fiske had me read again today. Morning mail. Rec'd home letter containing money order for $5. also letter from Bertha Loder. Worked on Arg. Seemed to have lost my grip on myself today. Couldn't write a clear concise1910 113accurate statement of the contents of an article without wasting several sheets of paper. Couldn't find out anything about my authorities. Oh my Arg. paper was horrible. I was ashamed of it and told Miss Yost so. Rode my wheel when going between halls with mail today. Yesterday when Maud saw me riding she said "Oh, how nice for you to ride a wheel." I don't like that patronizing tone. Noon mail. Report was on Portugal today. Lay down a few minutes, then dressed for Senior parlor in white sicilian and went to Lilias Wheeler's. We stood in line to meet the committee of 3. Then strolled about the parlor which is beautiful. The color scheme is Japenese pink. The paintings are few and rich 1. court of old church, 2. ocean scene. 3. golden autumnal trees in an irregular forest through which a delightful path passes. 4. mother's portrait. The desk set and tea service bear 1911's monogram. The parlor is simple but very harmonious and restful. Seniors sang to us and we to them then went into South transverse where ice cream & cake were served. I left at 5:45 and delivered 4 off campus notes. Paid Dorothy Hood the $13 borrowed of her to pay my Phil. dues. Rec'd letter from Yamaguchi and a convenient1141910daily memorandum pad from A.V. Haight Co. Chapel. Changed my robes and delivered 3 more off campus notes with Narola Rivenburg for company. Visited with Agnes in her room. Wrote my diary. Agnes borrowed my bicycle this afternoon & rode almost to Poughkeepsie. I retired 10:15pm. Lilias, Helen Brewster and Caroline Hall each invited me to come often to Senior parlor. My name is on the Tribune now so I'll get it regularly.Sat.Oct. 15Rose at 7. Read Tribune for Thurs. from 8:30-9:30. Studied German till 10:30. Delivered AM mail and Miss Thallon complained of its being late. I ought to have taken it at 9:30. Studied German. Took noon mail on 3rd North Main and my own route. Told Miss Thallon I would see to it that the mail came earlier. Lunch. Figured up income from morning mail and noon mail each day. A.M.=$.0952 and noon =$.0476. Eliz. Baldwin of Main rented my wheel in AM. Two girls wanted it in afternoon but I used it myself. Rode down College Ave. when almost to Cherry St. My back tire was soft so I walked. Saw a man on Cherry St. and asked him about a pump. He walked with me to his house and used an auto pump but the tire leaks so he put some1910 115tire binding on for me. I rode downtown. This fellow knows Pauline Allen. Bought coat hangers, washcloths and a $.33 towel rack. Tire was soft when I got back to Luckey's so I took wheel to Bauer's to be fixed and walked home. Spent 1 1/2 hrs. going downtown 2:20-3:50PM Went to Main & got Physics Manual $1.25 and paid M. Hoard $1.27. Agnes Campbell came to talk over the mail. I went to the Maid's Club House tea. Bought fudge, coffee and sandwiches. Then it was dinner time. Chapel. Went to see Consumer's League Exhibit in Assembly Hall and there were but two lights. Finally the place was illumined and then a woman began to talk. I saw her watch 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and I had to go. Worked hard from 8:20-12:15 PM on English. Made out careful notes and wrote my theme on [therne] paper the first thing. Am ashamed to record that I worked after twelve o'clock. This day has been a big fizzle. I hate K. Gretta Ordway for she doesn't accomplish what she ought.Sun. Oct. 16Had fine raisin buns for breakfast. Vainly looked in bound Miscellary for article about the true students of a class not going to many things which the class as a whole attends. Wore1161910graduating dress to chapel. Pres. Richmond of Union preached a written sermon on "Be of good cheer I have overcome the world". Christ was stubbornly optimistic. Agnes Rowlands asked me over for dinner. Reread my six Home letters of this college year. Wrote home for 1 1/2 hrs. Started letter to Ida. Eliz. Toof came and we walked for 45 min. around Sunset. She is specializing in English. Doesn't want to get ideas quickly. Miss Ellery has changed her sense of proportion. Astonished Agnes R. by walking in the parlor after dinner and playing La Madonna and Titania on the piano. Donned pink dress & played on our own piano for 15 min. Dorothy Van Allen came in and turned a page for me. Had some candy in Pauline Allen's room. Went to music. oh it was wonderful. The moon shone so charmingly in the east window as we sat in the dark. Chapel. Prexy prayed that we "may not waste our time but make the most of the opportunities offered us here for our own good and the good of the world." I put on an ad for a mail girl for Tues. & Thurs. Christian's. Prexy spoke on Cheerfulness. It means hilarity. It is a duty. We can be happy and cheerful if we 1.think of others and stop being self centered. It will react upon us. To show friendliness is to be friendly. We 1910 117know the type of girl who is ready to lend a helping hand, always has a cheery word, doesn't yield to moroseness, doesn't let herself be discouraged, knows she will overcome. Finished Ida's letter. Wrote card to Ellen and Cecelia. Finished home letter. Retired about 11PM.Mon.Oct. 17Rose at 4:35AM. Studied till 6:05 then went back to bed will 7. Rec'd postal of Pittsford Fire Hall from Christine Utz, also a letter from Margaret Clarke's assistant. Took noon mail. Song practice. In Lab are using Jolly balance. A Junior in our Physics class asked me to help her with the problems. (Miss Harris). Studied for quiz. Went to chapel then to hear John R. Mott on Missions. He was just wonderful. I had never seen nor heard him before. His personality is magnetic. What power lies under his control. His voice is rich and powerful. He speaks calmly and with absolute conviction and certainly. His theme was the Student world in Japan, China and Russia. In part he said that Japan is the most brilliant nation and the most patriotic. Tens of thousands of students are in Tokio attending government schools and are exposed to all kinds of temptations the Chinese combine all those qualities which have made nations of the world famous. 118 1910 Thousands of professors in all subjects are needed to teach the Chinese millions. They are coming to America for education on scholarships from the Boxer fund paid by the U.S. But the students of St. Petersburg are the most interesting. 10,000 in one institution. These are graduate students. They came to hear Mr. Mott for 1 hour 1/2 at a time thru [through] an interpreter and came on the afternoon of his departure. But he had to leave them to grope after the light alone. There was no one to whom he could turn them over for guidance in their Christian belief. I sat spellbound. Wouldn't have missed it for a good deal. It was a rare opportunity. Studied Physics. Helped Dorothy Hood do prep in solid Geom. Did German. Retired 11:15PM Tues. Oct. 18 M. Rose at 5:10 AM and did Horace. We didn't get a quiz in Physics. Miss Stroebe said "We have been struggling all semester Miss Ordway with Goethe und Gotz. (unlant). Rec'd letter from Mrs. Robertson who is now in Nutley N.J. My dear home letter came. Claire wrote me too. She says she loves school. Read some for Arg. Noon mail. Song practice. Agnes R. and I went out on lake 6th & 7th and studied Miss Fiske passed and said to me "Are 1910 119you reading Geoffrey?" "Yes, I am" "You looked as though you were". Read some more 8th hour. Dressed for dinner. Had Agnes R. over. Chapel. Julia Whitney answered my ad for a mail girl. She will take it each AM except Saturday. Wed.Oct. 19Retired last night early. Was in bed at 10:01PM. Rose at 7. First good sleep in several nights. Studied English and German prose. Miss Fiske had us write 4 min. on that sermon she read us about Bartholemew didn't have to hand it in. I brought the N.Y.Times up from the newspaper room and put it on the "ARG" table. Read part of Roosevelt's Osawatomie speech. Took noon mail. Julia Whitney begins AM mail route today. Arg. came next and we had to write a sentence outline from our bibliographies & memories on the subject we chose. Mine was incomplete and a failure. Read the newspaper. Studied Arg. finished Osauwatomie speech. Read chap 1. "Fathers Mothers and Freshman" in books that Prexy spoke about. Spent evening doing Horace. Retired about 11PM. Thurs.Oct. 20Rose at 6. Studied Physics (gravity) and meters of Horace. She gave us three selections to scan. I made a botch of that. Handed in only two of 3 problems in Physics. Read in Layaman's Brut with Miss Inbush. Noon mail. Rec'd letter from120 1910Margaret Clarke. (P.M.C.) Lab. 5th & 6th. I spent a whole period trying to draw a picture of the Jolly balance. Had to stay half an hour overtime to get my experiment completely written up. Dorothy Hood took me out rowing. I signed up for basket ball. Handed in schedule at gym, specifying fancy dancing. Visited Albertina Pitkin in the Infirmary. Spent the evening working on Arg. in magazine room. Did two Physics problem. Retired after writing this shameful history at 10:48PM. My room ws swept today and for the first time thoroughly dusted by the maid. Mama's birthday.Fri.Oct. 21Physics was very interesting this AM. Miss Wilk did 2 experiments in class. 1. the inclined plane, 2. marked a prepared glass with pin on point of vibrating tuning fork. I enjoyed English too. Read for Arg. delivered noon mail. Rec'd home letter. First entertainment of the course "Jubilie Singers" came Mom. P.M. Oct. 17. Mama has worn her new dress and hat and even Mrs. Reynolds admired it. She saw John Sharpe at Synod & he wished to be remembered to me. In Arg. I had to become a Democrat. Read the rest of "Brut". Attended T.&M. debate on Resolved that intercolligate debating be established1910 121between Vassar and other women's colleges of equal standing. Walked downtown alone via College Ave. Took pump down to be fixed. Paid for having a plug put in my hind tire and rode my wheel home. After chapel I explored the Main magazine room and the Raymond Reading room. Dressed up as a man. Went to 417 and had refreshments. Spent a few minutes in Dorothy Hood's room & in Hull's room. Retired 10:15PMSat.Oct. 22At 8:30 attended Miss Monroe's lecture to the Argumentation sections in Assembly hall. Took A.M. mail at 9:30. Read newspaper studied Horace. Took noon mail. Started Horace when Agnes R. stopped for me & we spent an hour around Seaman's hunting clothes for Soph. party. I borrowed a coat of Mr. Seaman which I went back for at 5:15PM. Signed up for more Soph. Lit. books. Finished my Latin. No chapel. Danced the Virginia Reel. Dressed in man's suit & went to Sophomore party in Phil. hall. Passed Mr. J. Baldwin as I went in. The program was a circus in which figured, clowns, a monkey, wild man, snake charmer, fat woman, elephant, tall woman & dwarf. Then followed a beautiful scene on the 1221910stage 1. three swings the ropes of which were covered with roses, in each swing a girl in white and an adoring lover at her side, boquets of roses completed the picture. 2. Dutch dance. 4. Piece of chalk 3 5. Girl in Freshman English. 5. What she had hoped to be. 5. The English tutors. 7. Hobble skirt girls. 8. General chorus. Then 1913 sang and then 1914. Refreshments were passed by spotless waiters and consisted of kisses, Cracker Jack, ice cream cones and lemonade. Many of the 1913 costumes worn by the plain onlookers were very funny. Got home before 10. Studied Bielschousky's Life Goethe Will 12 P.M. retiring 12:20P.M. Joke book was fine. Awaited 1914 at dinner.Sun.Oct. 23Rose at 8. Got down in time for breakfast. Returned my coat to Mr. Seaman. Pauline Allen went with me. Wore Scilian to church. Rev. Vance of Newark, N.J. preached on "Duty". Duty merely asks Is it right? His illustrations were from Carlyle "Do the duty lying nearest at hand.", Duke of Wellington, 1. answer to a soldier who didn't want to go to Africa 2. tho his private life was scandalous & he had his shortcomings yet he did his duty, drummer boy who wrote to his1910 123mother that he must/would do his duty even if he died, a Dean who told his student's "Nobody is thinking about you, make yourselves comfortable", the monk who left the vision of christ in his cell and administered to the poor at the abbey gate, and some quotations from poetry. The gospel makes us see our highest duty and unless we are true and faithful to our highest duty we cannot know & fulfil our duty to our fellow men. Duty and boastfulness run in opposite directions. Doing one's duty involves forgetting self. The gospel combines duty and privilege in its promises. The first part of any Bible promise is a duty, the second a privilege the gospel not only shows us our duty but helps us to do it. It matters not how humble the place we will to do therein our duty is to merit the approval of our fellew men and the praise of God. I read in "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine." Mary Hubachek wanted to rent my wheel today. At first I said yes then I went to her and told her I'd let her take it any day but Sunday. I would not rent it on 1241910Sunday as a matter of principle. Read chapter on "Honor" in Prexy's recommended book. Went to 408 N. to Lousie Roblee's and Ruth Burn's Mission Study class on "Africa". Called on Georgia Stilson of whom Mrs. Robertson spoke. I undressed and went to bed for an hour. Didn't sleep but rested quietly. Wore Copenhagen to music. Went to chapel & Christian's. Prexy talked about faithfulness in small things being approved by God not because the things are little but because of the spirit in which we do them what the world needs today is people who can do anything well. We must guard against the danger of becoming so engrossed with the little things of life that although we do them well we lose our sense of proportion, of the real largeness of life. It is possible to do little things in a spirit of largeness. What powers and talents others possess is no matter what concerns us is what use am I making of the powers I have. There is a girl who could be a leader if she only would.Agnes R. spoke on the necessity of giving one's self with his gift. Dr. Hill said the 3 requirements for finding out what our duty is are first 1910 1) an intellectual weighing of the facts. 2. careful study of God's word. 3. prayer. We never should take a step in life without praying. Mrs. Tillinghast spoke about getting the proper view of life when we are young, then is the time to learn the relative importance of things. Katherine Forbes spoke about the wisdom of stopping to think now & then why we are so busy here, what our purpose is. Helen Zobrisky spoke about the admirable way in which Prexy's talk last Sun. PM fitted in with the sermon today. Duty of cheerfulness. Mr. Vance prayed today that we might be kept from the sin of despondency. Agnes told me I looked fine last night like a college professor. Maybe it was my immagination but I thought Prexy was looking at me several times during his talk tonight. Wrote home. Retired 10:30PM. I met Mrs. Kelsy last night. Mon. Oct. 24 Rose before 6. Read in the "Pearl". Enclosed a clipping from courier of Soph. party in my home letter. Miss Finke forgot our class so we left after 5 min. I studied Latin for tomorrow. We discussed Fragen on Gotz. Took noon mail and morning mail together as the AM mail was late and heavy. Enjoyed Lab. Finished Latin. Advert 1910 tized for mail girl having 2nd & 3rd vacant on Mon. Went to Lib. & worked on Arg. Did some German. Had grape fruit in Eliz. McShane's room. Retired about 11PM. "Let them prune" (Horace) Tues. Oct. 25 Rose at 6 AM. Finished German. Did some Physics. "Gu vil Fehler, Miss Ordway" Worked on Arg. again. Noon mail. My home letter came this AM containing money order for $5. Also a card from Yamaguchi. our speeches were not called for today. I now am a member of the bulletin board committee. Advertised for a Mail girl for all week 2nd & 3rd. Called a minute on Helen Brewster and Eliz. Hubble, Paid .50 to Kathryn Upson for "Phoenix" Bought a popcorn ball.05. Studied German in Reggy's room by her droplight. Rented my wheel to her 7th. Did Arg all evening. Read rest of German & gurg zu Bett 10:50PM. I bought my class pin today. Wed. Oct. 26 Carefully did German prose, finished "The Pearl" Went to Soph. Lit. We discussed the question whether the Pearl is primarily an elegy or an allegory. German was interesting. I was quite satisfied with my today's preparation for it. Worked on Arg. reading more in Republican misrule. Noon mail. Stump speeches were given in Arg. today. Irene's was the best. She gave 5 reasons for for being a Republican. 1. Platform 2. Adminis 1910 tration, 3. Mr. Stimson. 4. Mr. Roosevelt 5. Condemnation of Tamany Hall. I draw lots & our section has to be Democratic in the inter-section debate. Irene & I discussed the Rep. & Dem. sides 6th hr. I walked over to Main with her. Math & Goethe are her easiest courses. She takes Physics A, Shorter course Horace & Arg. She advised me not to tell that I am ignorant of basket ball when I go out. I worked 1 hr. 40 min on Horace. Prexy told us about the 25th anniversary exercises at Bryn Mawr. I studied another 1 hr. and 40 min. on Horace. Said goodnight to Pauline, Dorothy, Gladys and Margaret Cushing. Rented wheel to Peggy and lent it to Gladys Sutton this afternoon. Today has been an ideal fall day. Thurs. Oct. 27 Had to write some meter in Horace. I marked it but omitted to give the names of the lines. Read some in "Sir Gauain & the Green Knight". Rec'd letter from Water Color Gift Co. (Bertha McGonegal) containing bill for goods she is sending. Took noon mail. Miss Warner and I did experiment with inclined plane. Spent 7th & 8th on Arg. working in "Republican misrule". Worked after chapel until library closed on Arg. getting newspaper material. Worked out my subject in part staying up 1910 until 1:40 AM. Jerked and had argumentative contortions a good share of the night. I never have been worked up to such a pitch over anything before. Fri. Oct. 28 Got up and did some Physics. We had a quiz of 5 problems. I made a grand fizzle. Couldn't do the last because I hadn't studied it and got the first wrong by wrong formula. (so much for looking in your book at a formula after teacher has begun to write on the board). Discussed meter & form of "Pearl". After breakfast Ruth Robinson gave me some good hints for my debate. I finished outlining my debage 3rd & 4th and said it over several times. Took noon mail. Carefully recited my speech twice at noon. Was late to Arg. Rec'd home letter and card from Margaret Clarke. Rachel Whitcomb's speech on the affirmative was splendid. She had it written out and it went smoothly. I was too much concerned in the outcome of my own speech to take notes on hers. I held forth more smoothly than I feared I do. Forgot to say that electing Dix would check Roosevelt's power. Criticism - favorable. I gave my authorities. Adverse - 1. not enthusiastic enough. 2. didn't let my audience know in advance my outline. 3. Too flexible. 1910 4. Didn't meet other side. 5. Does Neg. accept main issue. 6. Didn't show relation of tariff to State govmt. 7. Should have given a summary in different words from those which I used in my outline at beginning. (I didn't outline at begin). 8. Neg. made tariff a main point in spite of fact that affirm. said it was a minor point. Both speakers showed evidence of fresh thinking. Agnes complimented me. Told me we both spoke too fast. I got an express package, my goods from Bertha $65.82 worth not counting my commission. Took my Physics problems which I worked for today and forgot to hand in over to Miss Wilk. Donned suit and left on wheel for town at 4:05. Rode via College Ave. Had pedals fixed. Got pump. Visited all the gas places in search of a tube. Went even to the Poughkeepsie gas co. A very nice tall young man waited on me. Finally I succeeded at Stockholm's. Am to have the metal end of my old tube cut off and soldered in my new tube. Left town at 5:40. In turning back into road from car track which was a few inches above the pavement my wheel slipped because I didn't turn square enough and I fell flat on the pavement with my arms outstretched. It was so 1910 sudden. A man rushed up to me to see if I was hurt but I wasn't & rode home in safety. Had Agnes Rowlands to dinner. In PM. I staid away from the Damsreuther Quartette concert. Sold 4 water color articles. Counted my stock. Read part of my German & retired 10:30 PM or nearer 11PM. Sat. Oct. 29 Worked hard today. Studied German all first hour. Took AM mail. Went to Miss Monroe at 10:30 in Assembly Hall. Just Rachel & I were there and she had us debate. Her criticism of me was 1. standing too still 2. Speaking too rapidly. 3. Incorrect breathing. 4. Saying too many words on a breath. 5. Hesitation, 6. Mispronunciation of "tariff", "character", last, during, because, duties, supervision. Studied German & took noon mail. Sophs. of Raymond met in 305 to discuss Soph. Halloween party. Spent 1/2 reading the paper. Worked on Horace for 2 hrs. Finished "Garwain & the Green Knight" read Brownings "As I ride, as I ride". Wore my pink dress to Helen Simpson's Halloween party in honor of her sister. Apples were hung from the gas fixtures, we bobbed for apples in the washbowl, had our fortunes told by 4 plates. I am to travel. Eliz Toaf read my hand & said I have capacity for a 1910 Rachel Whitcomb said today, "Your know so much and I know so little." Good imagination and good reasoning powers. My fortune line isn't developed. I ought to be a good student. On decorated cards we had to write a piece of advice intended for some one present. Refreshments were peanuts, cider, pumpkin pie and doughnuts. Left about 9:30 to watch the Junior & Freshment "spook dance" around 1912's tree. A spook called on me. Spent from 10-11:30 on Horace. Ruth Robinson told me then it was time to go to bed so I went. Sun. Oct. 30 At 9:45 went to Mrs. Hill's Bible class. Took a short walk. Right Rev._______ preached a dramatically rendered oration on Japan. We should be happy to get into the spirit of prophecy more happy to live in the time of the fulfillment of that prophecy and still more happy to be coworkers with God. His descriptions were very beautiful but did not belong to a sermon. Read some in Mission study book "Daybreak in the Dark Continent" Heard Alma Leslie sing several songs after dinner. Her voice is clear and full. I enjoyed it greatly. At 2:15 went to 408N. to Mission class. Louise Roble led. I am delighted with her. She had us draw a map. Showed 1910 us two splendid maps and talked enthusiastically and intelligently. I am quite taken with her. Wrote up my diary and did some little odds & ends. No chapel. Went to hear minister speak informally on Japan. His descriptions are certainly fine. He spoke about the American fleet to begin & close with. We do not have to teach the Japs. how to worship that they can teach us. But in our Christian religion each nation can satisfy it's national longing. China- a mediator- Japan-a captain. He told about their famous Shinto temple which is regularly rebuilt every 20 years. He gave us the story of the two foxes. We are to control the Japanese not by our warships but by Christian kindliness and gentleness. He told us how an American admiral had brought on board his flag ship the old fisherman who first took Commander Peary to shore. The U.S. band played the Japenese national hymn and the admiral honored the fisherman. I retired early at 9:35. Mon. Oct. 31 Slept fine. Took AM and M mails. Tried to subscribe to the Miscellany but found no one in the office. Studied Horace. Just before dinner Irene came in with a package for me. It contained 6 beautiful large yellow chrysanthemuns 1910 card which came with them merely said in print "A bit of autumn sunshine" who can be the sender? Attended Christian's meeting where it was voted to send $1000. to Japan making that our one foreign mission field. Studied Horace--Physics. Retired at 10:45. Prexy talked to us tonight about a compliment he heard for Vassar "the women who go out from here are efficient" Prexy said in short that he wants the women who go out from here to be not only efficient wherever they are placed but also to be efficient in scholarship. He wants us as teacher and professors not to be content with what most teachers and profs. are content but to keep on learning all the time. In college now he would have us create--further a spirit of "scholarliness". There must be no envy and jealousy of those who are ahead of us. We must have greater respect for scholarship. Tues. Nov. 1 I hope this month will see me actually accomplish things. My time so far at college this year has yielded me nothing. I have not gotten ahead but lived from day to day. My work is absolutely disgusting. It is totally unsatisfactory to me. I am not excelling and I am ashamed of it but it is a glaring truth. I rose at 1910 5:40 and did some good concentrated work on German. Mrs. K. called me up. I went and found that someone in Davison has complained because the AM mail was not delivered Oct. 24 till noon. Took noon mail. Section debate in Arg. Good but not as good as I expected. Affirm. Searle, Hagerman & Peeples (fine). Neg Barrett Pratt and Quackenbush. Put up notices on Hall bulletin boards for a girl having 2nd & 3rd vacant on Mon. to deliver mail. Read Chaucer's "The Parlement of Foules". Class meeting 8th. Prexy was unanimously elected honorary member. Helen Lathrop gave us some advice which the Seniors might have liked to know as Sophs. 1. Keep some of your enthusiasm stored up. 2. Don't criticize the powers that be including both college officials & student officials. 3. Folow precedent as far as possible. If you have occasion to break precedent follow it out completely. 4. Strive to excel as a class. Go beyond what 1911 attains. This was the most interesting class meeting we have had yet. I spent the entire evening on German and arrived nowhere. Mind as too dulled by sleepiness. Eliz. & Mima came in at different times. I received regular home 1910 letter today. Mama writes "oh I wish I could see you this afternoon. I miss you so much and Xmas seems a long way off yet." Claire wrote me this time. She was sick last Friday & had to stay out of school. I retired 10:20. Wed. Nov. 2 Spent 1st hour reading 10 pages in the wrong volume of "Dichlung and Wahrheit", We had in German a written test". I told Miss Stroebe what I had done and she said "my dear that is very foolish." I made a perfect failure of the questions on Werther. Went to Mrs. K. again. Did some Physics. Took M. Mail. Cheerpractice at 1:10. Discussion of yesterday's debate in Arg. Rec'd express package from home containing my black & white waist, spotted white one and my gingham in which mama has put a new yoke. 6 slices of bran bread were also sent. Gladys Sutton & I spent 6th translating Horace. I worked on it alone 7th. Attended Frederick Weld's concert or better recital 8th. Enjoyed it greatly. His voice is full & rich. Mrs. Curtis looked at me approvingly because I was on time to dinner. 1 meal out of 3 today. Spent 1/2 hr. in Library after chapel trying to find "Firth". Worked 2 hrs. 3/4 on Horace. Have reread now all the odes we have read so far. Wrote up this Chronicle of my follies and joys and daily life, retiring at 11:40. 1910 Thurs. Nov. 3 Finished Physics problems & copied them. Some of the Special topics were given in Horace. It is a rainy, gloomy day. Read "Second Nun's Tale" glanced at Tribune, took noon mail. Wrote letter home. Lab 5th & 6th. Qui Vine(?) debate 7th. It was conducted like a political mass meeting & was funny. Heywood & Robinson were the Republicans and ____________ & Williams the Democrats. All wore men's coats. The audience cheered & hissed. No chapel. I reread "The Parlement of Foules". Went to Christians we just sang because so few came. I invited Lilias Wheeler to our Soph. Halloween party. Spent a few minutes studying exhibtion of Roland statues. Read more Chaucer. Ate candy & peanuts in Narola's room. Wrote up the Roland exhibition for Miscellany. Reread Leonard Nun's Tale and retired 11:15 PM. Cold & disagreeable out. Fri. Nov. 4 Rec'd sorry letter from home telling about Uncle George, and Aunt Ella. Worked in Lab 3rd & 4th. Rainy. Had a nice visit with Miss Wike(?). Noon mail. Song practice. We had a cut in Arg. so I studied Mon's German. Went to gym to Pay DAy $.50 Christians, $.50 Japanese missions $2.00 Miscellany. Then spent a delightfull hour in Louise Roble's room.408N. I mended stockings.__________read aloud Kipling's "The Man Who Was." Louise mdade some splended tea of 1910 which I drank several cups. Raisin crackers and little marshmallow cakes were served. Maud, _______ and I were the only regular members there. Dined with Agnes R. I do not like that table one bit. From 6:40-8pm I fooled in Davison. Played games & made a bluff at dancing the Virginia reel. Read 1st article of a series of "Working Girls' Budgets" for Arg. in Lib. instead of going to Junior party rehersal. Finished German. Retired 11:15. Sat. Nov. 5 (criticism) Worked on Arg. topic. Miss Monroe had us debate informally. "Don't sound as if you were going to knocks them down" Did Horace. Noon mail. Song practice in J. Students meeting ---suggest that a dance be held Mar. 4 or Apr. 15 instead of Founder's. Bang--the meeting is adjourned. Agnes Campbell came over and I made out my bill for the mail. she bought 4 W.C. Read Firth in Lib. Cut out mark for tonight. Spent another hour on Horace. Read clip 3 in Drummond's the Heart of Africa". Chapel. Dressed in sheet, mask & pillow case. I was one of the screaming terrors in the "Chamber of Horrors" to which the Senior guests at our Soph Halloween were brought. 2nd place Trix's room--games 3.my room with Trix as fortune teller 4. Albertina's room with Gladys B., Babs and Kit Dunham 1910 Rec'd letter from Lorraine Rogers. Refresments were served in 419 and consisted of loly-pops, cider crullers and nuts. We sang in the downstairs parlors. Dancing. Bessie Rector was a black cat with a tail and Eliz. Ingersoll was a fine witch with a gray cardboard hat. I read the "Prioress's Tale" and the "Pearl". Sponged my blue suit which I so grimed with the dirt of Pokeepsie Main St. pavement & retired at 12:45pm. Lilia's Wheeler was my guest. Sun. Nov. 6 Ruth Robinson told me about Junior party and Louisa Myers invited us down to drink coffee from Mme. Mounier's individual percolators. (drawings) It was fine. I straightened my room. Dressed for church. Took car down & got there just as they began the Doxology. Wore my lace waist and new black hat that mama sacrificed to get for me. Looked nice. went, sat and came home alone. Mr. Swartz spoke on the Partnership of Jesus with man. Limited & unlimited partnerships in the business world. If we are to be Jesus partners we must put our all into the firm and sorrow and trouble as well as joy and glory will come to us. I met a Mrs. Matthews wife of one of the N.Y. State hospital physicians who cordially invited me to sit in her pew. She introduced me to some ladies who also were very cordial. One said 1910 "We would like to speak to the Vassar girls but they go out so quick" Walked home by College Ave. Lonely out. Mission class at 2:15. Called a minute on D. Hood who looks ill today. Started Home letter. Lay down from 5:20-6:35 and slept part of the time. Gladys B. got me some milk. I heard Miss Katharine B. Davis speak on "The International Prison Conference." She was instructive, humorous and interesting as before. I took 3 crullers from 419 on which to make a lunch. Finished Home letter and retired about 10:30. Mon. Nov. 7 Regular classes. Did Horace. noon mail. song practice. Lab hours in which I did not finish my experiment. Found a little envelope on my desk under pencil holder (ie. empty ink bottle) containing a card which reads "Fraulein Ordway ist zum mitglid des Deutschen Vereins erwahlt worden." Happy? Surprised? yes. class meeting 8th in which Miss Thallon was chosen faculty member. H. Adler had invited me to dinner. I was 10 min. late & she had gone down so I wouldn't go in late so came back to Raymond. Chapel. Studied Horace and Physics. Spent an hour on problem "where must a stick be placed under a log so that the load shall be equal for 3 men if one carries an end of the log. Retired after 11PM. 1910 chapel. Studied German. Brain is tired so I can't study fast. At 9:30 in 305 Norma Wright was elected Hall song leader. Retired 11:15 after spending about 30 min. more on German & writing my diary. Wed. Nov. 9 Watchman called me at 6 but I didn't rise till 7. Had cut in English. I spent 1st & 2nd on Arg. report. Didn't know much in German. Read chap. III in Foster. Noon mail. Dix was elected Gov. Reported on Working Girls' Budgets no. 1 from Oct. McClures. It was too long and everybody looked bored. It unused them. Adriana Tappan spoke nicely about it. Marie Pidgeon did too. "The fact is dear breth(...)" Walked a little way with Miss Yost. Looked at paper. Was called to Messenger Room to get a note. It was my bill for the mail. "Go to Mr. Polk". I did, as Vassar college, not Mrs. K is debtor, and rec'd $3. Did some Horace. Went to College Song practice for 1913 in "J" 8th. Ice cream with grape nuts in. College singing. I finished advanced Horace translation and did my Physics. Saw Peggy & Louise a min. in their room. Retired 11:25PM. Thurs. Nov. 10 Revised my Arg. report & went to Miss Yost with whom I had my first conference. She gave me an apple. Told me my bibliography showed careful, hard work. She said come to me when 1910 chapel. Studied German. Brain is tired so I can't study fast. At 9:30 in 305 Norma Wright was elected Hall song leader. Retired 11:15 after spending about 30 min. more on German & writing my diary. Wed. Nov. 9 Watchman called me at 6 but I didn't rise till 7. Had cut in English. I spent 1st & 2nd on Arg. report. Didn't know much in German. Read chap. III in Foster. Noon mail. Dix was elected Gov. Reported on Working Girls' Budgets no. 1 from Oct. McClures. It was too long and everybody looked bored. It unused them. Adriana Tappan spoke nicely about it. Marie Pidgeon did too. "The fact is dear breth(...)" Walked a little way with Miss Yost. Looked at paper. Was called to Messenger Room to get a note. It was my bill for the mail. "Go to Mr. Polk". I did, as Vassar college, not Mrs. K is debtor, and rec'd $3. Did some Horace. Went to College Song practice for 1913 in "J" 8th. Ice cream with grape nuts in. College singing. I finished advanced Horace translation and did my Physics. Saw Peggy & Louise a min. in their room. Retired 11:25PM. Thurs. Nov. 10 Revised my Arg. report & went to Miss Yost with whom I had my first conference. She gave me an apple. Told me my bibliography showed careful, hard work. She said come to me when 1910 ever you feel like talking over some point about your work. Noon mail. Rec'd card from mama stating that Annie Toor is dead. Song practice. Lab. Found a note from Miss Bordon asking me if I still wish to do shelf work. to see her this afternoon I went but she wasn't there. Dressed in sicilian for "Der Deutsche Verein" whose first Versainm--lurig(?) was held in Senior parlor 8th hour. We met the Pres. and the German faculty. All conversation in German. -------and lady fingers were served. Miss Hofer spoke on Dresden and two pointers she had known personally. This is the Dammereng stunde als man an seine Heimat deuht. I enjoyed it very much. One of my collge ambitions has been realized. I went to Christians to hear Louise Roblee's account of the "Edinburgh Missionary conference" Studied late. Fri. Nov. 11 Rec'd letter from Bertha Loder. Saw Miss Borden. Spent rest of 3rd & all of 4th in Lab. Walked home with Miss Wick. noon mail. Rec'd letter from that grand place "Home". Mama wrote it. Annie was buried at 2:30PM from the Centenary church on Thurs. Nov. 10, 1910. Mabel Case & Edna Steve are married. Money order for $5. was enclosed. Mrs. Toor asked after about you today in the midst of her sorrow & so did many others. 1910 speaking of the chrysanthemums mama says "someone loves my girl". I worked all of 6th & 7th in Lab but thank goodness my experiments are done. Miss Borden explained the shelf work to me and I put some books away in Bible, Ethics & Philosophy alcoves. Went to concert by "Euterpe" Glee Club. Retired 10:15pm. Sent card Home. Sat. Nov. 12 Went to Lib at 8 and began my labors as shelf assistant in the Greek & Latin section south wing, east gallery. Went to apparatus room & drew for 1st Hall play seats. Then took AM mail. Studied Horace from 10-11:45. Cashed money order. Paid Hazel Ware .$33. Bought Gospel Harmony Song practice. Noon mail. Pressed dickie then donned pink dress & went to "Arms & the Main" Sat in K.(?) Play was splendid. Worked in Lib. from 5:25-6:20. Had to put out the lights and lock up the Lib. I couldn't find the switch governing the lights in the central part so left them burning. Chapel. Returned Lib key. Studied English (Chaucer) and German. Retired at 11:45PM. Sun. Nov. 13 Woke Mimma up. Lib. at 9. Studied Bible class lesson. Class 9:45 Chapel. Rev. Bliss test "if ye know these things happy are ye if ye do them". Enjoyed his straight-forward earnest address every word of which 1910 was distinctly spoken. Walked to Seamen's with Agnes Dimer. Read Mission lesson. Mission class at 2:15. I was a missionary and Maud and ________were heathen. Called on M. Glessmer. Wrote in here. Started Home letter. Went at 5 to Freshman parlor where Dr. Bliss talked to us in a very fatherly, practical way about mission work and our duties as Christians in Vassar. Read after lunch in "Transition from school to college" finishing that section. Went to Dr. Bliss's talk in Assembly Hall on "Turkish Revolution". Enjoyed it very much. Finished Home letter and wrote a letter to Mrs. John Toor. Retired. Mon. Nov. 14 Started work in Library at 8AM. It took but a few minutes this morning. Ruth Robinson came in after 10PM and made me go to bed. "You dont have to know those German poems tomorrow and you can do that Horace in the morning. (?) went to bed like I should. Took noon mail. Lib. at 5 PM. Tues. Nov. 15 Rose early. Lib. Rec'd letter from papa. Uncle George Parsell died about 7 PM at Uncle Henry's Friday Nov. 11, 1910. The funeral was held Sunday Rev. Yergin read the Serysture and offered prayer and a male quartet sang Nearer my God to thee and "Jesus Loves of my soul." Papa spoke a few minutes. Burial in Owasco cemetery where papa officiated. Mama came home at midnight 1910 to conduct the thank offering service Sun. AM. Papa says "So for the last few days we have indeed been busy and have had no chance to be lonesome" Noon mail. Miss Yost allowed us to get a little glimpse of herself today in class. She seemed more like a person than a teacher. I had apparatus work with Miss Burns 6th hr. She made us work and I enjoyed it. Jumped string, horse, swing from ladder. Lib. Wed. Nov. 16 Lib. Rec'd letter from Claire written nicely in ink-her first one in ink to me. She enclosed a beautiful Persian jabout with which I am delighted. Mail. Discussed subjects for next debate, Prohibition and suffrage are in the lead: Ordered 1/2 doz. bran muffins from Mrs. Cary. )Prezy spoke Mon. PM about the danger of fire caused by letting the wind blow the gas." If your fathers haven't been able to in(?)lcate economy in you it is hopeless for me to try.") Lib 5 Studied as usual. Ruth Robinson again put me to bed soon after 10. I have some real enemies which I must overcome at once. They are slowness, lack of concentration, uninterestingness and unathactiveness coupled with a failure to see the essential point and think deeply and thoroughly to the bottom of a question. I am not doing my duty to papa, mama, claire or to 1910 Vassar college. I had fancy dancing at 7:45pm with Miss Ballentine. Wore white & my new jabout tonight. Thurs. Nov. 17 I spent just 4 hrs. on my today's Horace. Lib.8 Spent 3rd & 4th working on bibliography for Prohibition, Local option and High License. Noon mail. Barely got the first experiment for this week written up today. What is the matter with me? Miss Warner is up-to-date but I am not. Wore my copenhagen blue dress & called on Miss Haight. Good eats. Lib. English & Physics. Fri. Nov. 18 Lib. I knew something in English today because I had reread the story about the cock. class drill 4th Miss King. Mail. Rec'd letter from mama. She bought Claire a new cloak. In Auburn she wrought a transformation in Aunt Lilie's house. "We received your lovely letter and were so pleased that you had been selected as a member of the German Club. Just as it should be of course." I went to Main after Arg. Then wrote a letter to Claire (to her alone) and one to Aunt Jennie. Did some Horace. Lib. Papa enclosed a program of the Layman's Missionary Movement Convention. Had Florence Hopper to dinner and I enjoyed it exceeedingly. My tongue was loosened and I felt free to talk. Spent a few minutes after chapel in Raymond Reading Room reading Kipling's. Had a nice visit with Peggy in Bessie's Room this afternoon. 1910 "Just so" stories. heard Mr. Hamilton Holt managing editor for the Independent lecture on the Federation of the World's Splendid. He showed a number of fine slides at the end of the lecture. Sat. Nov. 19 Lib. at 8. Started Volbrecht's Macenas for my Latin topic. Mail at 9:30. Revised part of my shelves. Studied German. Am so tired. I feel just as if I were mentally asleep. Noon mail. Did some more German. Was in town from 2:30-4:30. Rode my wheel. Bought a bell for it & had the front tire fixed. Took my clock and watch down. Lib. Read some more shelves. did Horace. Sewed for an hour. Learned 8 more lines of German poetry. Retired 12PM. Gladys Sutton came up & asked about Horace. Sun. Nov. 20 Woke at 6 and tossed till 7:30. Lib at 9. Read Bible lesson Bible class 9:45. Dressed for chapel at which Rev. Slocum Pres. of Colorado College preached on ________________and underneath are the everlasting arms". We must lay our emphasis on the eternal rather than the external what is it in our life that forms the foundation. Read Mission class lesson & some in newspaper. Dinner. Finished the paper. Went to 408N but as just 2 of us came I sugested we postpone Mohanmedanism until later. Went to Lib and finished revising my books. Cut our newspaper clippings. Went to bed from 4:45 to 5:30 but didn't sleep. Supper. Music. 1910 chapel. Christians. Prexy spoke on the attitude of mind with which we view life. "Now the darkness is passing away." Agnes R. gave a fine talk based on an article "The Galilean Vagabond" in the Independent and a few sentences from Prexy's Baccalaureate sermon. I wrote up this diary. Ruth Robinson gave me some rarebit with tomatoes which Helene gave her and invited me in there to eat it. 10:55. Mon. Nov. 21 Slept fine & rose at 7. Was on time to meals. Lib. Miss Fiske spoke decidedly about Chaucer's not denouncing the evil he saw by trying to reform it. Rec'd letter from Water Color gift Co and a package containing more goods. (see bill). I counted them. Did Horace. Went to Infirmary leaving a note for Maud Kelsey as I couldn't see her. Noon mail. Lab 5th & 6th and 7th for me. I was working with that glass enclosed balance and had hard work making it balance. It isn't done yet. O'dear "the best laid plans etc." Studied more Horace. Lib. Dinner. 15 min. on Horace. Chapel. Two hours in the Library on Argumentation. 1 1/2 hrs. on German. 1/2 hr. preparing laundry. Retired 12pm. Tues. Nov. 22 Spent 4th hour in Lab. Miss Yost was not there but we had to stay & study. Gym 6th. I did the stunts very well. Stood on my head for first time (drawing). Spent 7th in Lab & finished. 1910 my notebook. Class meeting 8th. Miss Haight was chosen faculty member. Took noon mail. Library. My somersault efforts so affected my head that I couldn't study & as a result retired early. Heard from home. Mama says (Claire was so pleased with her letter. Mrs. Carpenter asked about me & mama told her I was doing finely. Howard Bacon is home having been temporarily blinded by a kick in football. Mr. Zormow hit I Hoplinds & broke a tear duct. Harold Todd has left school & starts in R.B.I. Mrs. Robbins is dead & Ella Bonhurst is married. Think of it so Pittsford Presbyterians attended Laymen Convention Sunday.) I spent two hours on my Horace for today. Wed. Nov. 23 Rose a little early. Miss Fiske discussed ballads & read us several. Rec'e home letter. (when I got to where you spoke about a box I just said I would get one ready & get it off tonight. Mama" led the great meeting Mon." It was grand 825 ladies sat down to luncheon. She enclosed a copy of Claire's first report card. It is fine.) Miss Yost thanked us for the flowers we sent her yesterday. I saw Dorothy Hood & Narola Rivenburg off. Helped Peggy R and Agnes Rowlands. Carried a suit case for Mary Bliss & took Sophia Le...s' books home for her. Found my name on the Express 1910 list & brought my box home. Wrote a card to Claire Woolston and a grateful card of acknowledgement home & mailed them at once. Ruth Robinson opened my box which contained pineapple and currant sh(...), jelly, salted peanuts, cheesed wafers, salad dressing, a can of salmon and a lovely fresh chocolate layer cake. My guests were --- Ruth Robinson '12 Marian Tallant Louisa Myers Gertrude Ryan M.H. helped me prepare Eliz. Mc Shane '13 Mary Hubacheck Mary Fisher Margaret glessner Louise Boynton Janet Golden Agnes Wright Mima Soule '14 Ann Ryan Before the party & right after dinner I played several pieces on the piano. Wished I knew if they really thot I did well or were laughing at me. After the guests had gone Ruth Robinson & Mima Soule & Mary Hubacheck & I staid & talked about religion, symbols, beliefs, Christ, "deserving", creeds, laws, Bible & other books as well revealing God's will until 12:45. Ruth & I did the most of the talking. Rec'd W.H. Companion Thurs. Nov. 24 Thanksgiving. Went to service. Pres Taft & Gov. White's proclamations were were read. Hymn, psalm, prayer, America & benedictions. Then 1910 list & brought my box home. Wrote a card to Claire Woolston and a grateful card of acknowledgement home & mailed them at once. Ruth Robinson opened my box which contained pineapple and currant sh(...), jelly, salted peanuts, cheesed wafers, salad dressing, a can of salmon and a lovely fresh chocolate layer cake. My guests were --- Ruth Robinson '12 Marian Tallant Louisa Myers Gertrude Ryan M.H. helped me prepare Eliz. Mc Shane '13 Mary Hubacheck Mary Fisher Margaret glessner Louise Boynton Janet Golden Agnes Wright Mima Soule '14 Ann Ryan Before the party & right after dinner I played several pieces on the piano. Wished I knew if they really thot I did well or were laughing at me. After the guests had gone Ruth Robinson & Mima Soule & Mary Hubacheck & I staid & talked about religion, symbols, beliefs, Christ, "deserving", creeds, laws, Bible & other books as well revealing God's will until 12:45. Ruth & I did the most of the talking. Rec'd W.H. Companion Thurs. Nov. 24 Thanksgiving. Went to service. Pres Taft & Gov. White's proclamations were were read. Hymn, psalm, prayer, America & benedictions. Then 1910 waited an hour for the mail. Carried 1 & 2 Lathrop for M. Terry beside my own. Got home at 11:45. Straightened my room thoroughly. Read 1 hr. on Vollbrecht. Eliz. Cramer called over a half hour then I dressed for dinner. wore copenhagen blue. Sat at Miss Taylor's table with Eliz. Cramer, M. Pidgeon, ______and ______ in full view of Prexy's table & facing J...nny. Discovered I have mistaken Miss Saunders for Miss Palmer. Menu-1. bouillon 2. fish scallop with mushrooms creamed in a paper dish served on a plate with three potato balls. 3. turkey, mashed & sweet potatoes, creamed onions, peas, gravy, rolls, olives, cranberry jelly, almonds 4. fruit salad with ball of cream cheese & a wafer. 5. mince & pumpkin pie 6. ice cream & fancy cakes. 7. fruit 8. nuts, raisins & coffee Prexy, Jimmy and Mrs. K. & Alpha Robbins gave toasts. Songs about turkey. St...ts. 1. Mrs. Tillinghast gave a reading of an Indian legend. 2. Lilias Wheeler gave several Dago brogue selections. 3. melodrama in three acts "The Old Mill". 4. Helen Locwood (.....)or Hobble Chorus. A Fashionable. 2. poor hobbles. oh--what a contrast. dancing. I virginia reeled & came home. Very pleasant Thanksgiving. I thoroughly enjoyed it. 1910 and Ideals" by Le Baron Russell Briggs. Went to chapel & Christians in Assembly hall. Eliz. Page asked me to sit with her. Prexy spoke on the Samaritan woman's "Come & see him who told me all things that ever I did" showing the 1) influence of our personal experience on others and 2) the necessity for personal experience. (Few days have influenced me as today has. 1. I liked Mira Luie very much at breakfast this AM. 2. Walked downtown & Christ Church service. 3. Tolstoi. 4. Tea in 413. 5.Finishing of that book. 6. Christians. 7.Agnes return.) I found Agnes writing on my door pad when I came home at 8:15. She was supperless & hungry and I fed her. Made some salad & gave her the best I had. She ate it with a relish as people usually do Ordway vituals. Finished home letter. Retired 10. Sat. PM Eliz Page described vividly the production of "Bluebird" which she saw Fri PM in New York. Mon. Nov. 28 Rose at 6:30. On time for breakfast. Lib. Miss Haight said "I hope you are going on with Horace next semester you are doing so nicely with it now" She seemed very much please to hear that I have finished Vollbrecht. Oh - she gave us 1910 and Ideals" by Le Baron Russell Briggs. Went to chapel & Christians in Assembly hall. Eliz. Page asked me to sit with her. Prexy spoke on the Samaritan woman's "Come & see him who told me all things that ever I did" showing the 1) influence of our personal experience on others and 2) the necessity for personal experience. (Few days have influenced me as today has. 1. I liked Mira Luie very much at breakfast this AM. 2. Walked downtown & Christ Church service. 3. Tolstoi. 4. Tea in 413. 5.Finishing of that book. 6. Christians. 7.Agnes return.) I found Agnes writing on my door pad when I came home at 8:15. She was supperless & hungry and I fed her. Made some salad & gave her the best I had. She ate it with a relish as people usually do Ordway vituals. Finished home letter. Retired 10. Sat. PM Eliz Page described vividly the production of "Bluebird" which she saw Fri PM in New York. Mon. Nov. 28 Rose at 6:30. On time for breakfast. Lib. Miss Haight said "I hope you are going on with Horace next semester you are doing so nicely with it now" She seemed very much please to hear that I have finished Vollbrecht. Oh - she gave us 1910 four passages to scan--I signed my name G.Ordway. I was ashamed to own. Rec'd letter from Ida. Miss Haefer was her instructor last year. Miss Haight read to us from the Rubjiat. Noon mail. Mass meeting of college in front of Rockefeller. Julia Lovejoy talked about noise in Library & making paths across the grass. Bicycles too were brought up. Rec'd invitation to Margaret Glessner's to tea Sat. 3-4 Experiment didn't check in Lab & tow of the three I finished last week are marked incomplete. Lib. Prexy announced in chapel tonight that the college has received a generous gift-a new dormitory from Mrs. Russell Sage to be called ___________in honor of her ______. Eliz. McShane gave me some fine fruit cake. We had a good apple pudding with mourange. Had planned Actually did 4th dr. & lunch. Entirely do German Read 351-3 D & W paper Finish Lab. exp. Unfin & incorrect 7th on Latin Left Lab at 4:15. Ate cake 8th on Latin & Lab. 15 min on Lat. Lib PM Arg. & Physics did Horace & German fix laundry and retire at 10 no laundry retired 11:55p What a disgraceful record! Tues. Nov. 29 Rec'd card from Clare Woolston and home letter & one from Claire which was written with two difficult pencisl. Mamo just packed all the vacant space with love for her girl. You can write Agnes Rowlands.. 1910 this morning (Nov. 27) I made a plea for $50. for the chapel at Aguadillia and only think of it I got $38.50 and the rest all in sight." Wed. Nov. 30 Worked 8:20-9:20. 11:20-12:20 1:45-5:30 on Argumentation on Latin. 7:20-8:40 pm, 10:15-10:30. and on Physics 8:45-10:15. Louise Roblie wrote me a note about the extra meeting of the Mission class 8th hour today when she talked on Mohammedarism. I didn't find it till too late. Thurs. Dec. 1 Woke up early & tossed. Argumentation 10:30-12:30 am, 4-5:30 6:20-6:50 7:30-9:30 10:12PM Fri Dec. 2 Woke at 2 AM. Got up & worked at Brief from 2 AM- 7:10AM. Gladys Bassett rose early too and came in about 5 AM. Worked on Brief 10:30-12:30AM and 1:20-1:35PM. Told Miss Yost I think it a poor Brief. Studied a little Physics. Rec'd Home letter. "Papa says don't bring home a lot of books." Miss Roach & Young Zormow got the Institute prizes. I am to be leader of the affirmative side in the section debate. After chapel Agnes, and I met with Ruth Tuttle in her room & discussed debate (...) Ruth did most of the talking with Agnes. We called on Marian Ives a few minutes. Retired about 10. 1910 Sat. Dec. 3 Card from Bertha Loder & ad from Bestor. Have taken the noon mail this week & took the AM today. Worked in Lib. 8:15-9:15. Mail 9:30-10:20. Read Chaucer's life 10:25-11:25. Reread Parlement of Foules 11:25-12:25. 1:45-3:30 Argumentation-history of P(...) 3:30-4. dressed. 4-4:30 attended at Home in 202N at which Margaret Glessner announced her engagement to John Brown. The decorations were pink & the refreshments were pink. It was a beautiful affair. On each paper dish which was head shaped & contained candy hearts sat a little white Cupid holding two little pink ribbons on the end of which were two tiny hearts with the names of the happy souls. 4:30-5:30 Eng. 5:30-6. sold W. C. Gift Co. goods 7:30-8:15 debate. 8:15-1:15 English paper on comparison of Chaucer and Piers Plowman. Sun. Dec. 4 Bible class. Went downtown on car to Pres. Church. Walked home with Sophia Lewis' roommate. Mission class. Mr. Fields of Alabama spoke on the work of the school for Negroes there. He is a pokey teacher but I enjoyed it. The slides were good and particularly cute were those of the little colored babies. Wrote home. Mon. Dec. Rose 6:30AM Retired 11:10. 1910 Tues. Dec. 6 Rose 6:30. Rec'd letter from Ellen Sergeant. Chain letter from Margaret Becker and Home letter. "We are just counting the days. Dear little girl she has her piece all learned for Christmas and is going to do it beautifully. Then my girl was leader of the debating team, that sounds good. Apparatus 7th. Sent 12:03 to Yamaguchi. Wed. Dec. 7 Woke at 5:30. Rose at 7 AM. Retired 10:25PM. Rec'd letter from Yamaguchi. He has sent 21 small panels and 2 B & W home. Debated at 8:30 PM in Miss Yosts room. She came to me before I went and with her hand on my shoulder said "You had some good points." Thurs. Dec. 8 Rec'd letter from Yamaguchi containing receipt for all the money I have sent him. $105.86. Went to fancy dancing 8th hr. Woke up & lay awake for hours. Retired 11:45. Fri. Dec. 9 Rec'd home letter containing money order for $7.00. Papa wrote me a red letter epistle. Didn't sleep last night. Rose at 6:15 AM. Retired 10:30PM. "I have just filled the fountain pen that my little girl won for me in Sodus when she corresponded for a paper. Now do not bring all Vassar College Library home with you. My sheet is full and I must stop. So here I go flipperly flop" much love Papa. 1910 Borrowed Dr. Hill's Encyclopedia to read about Stanley. Had Louisa Myers to dinner. Went to Mission class, our last one on Africa. Stopped in to see Ethel Curley & Margaret D. Ate an apple in D. Hood's room. Eliz Dodge called on me. She looked very nice in a brown suit. Margeri Davenport came. Figured up my accounts. Christmas music at 8 PM. Very nice. Had some sugercane. Wrote diary. Wrote home. Retired. Mon. Dec. 12 Got up early and did Horace. Regular work. Lab 7th hour inter-section debate in Room ___. Affirm. Prudden Lossen and McKee. Negative. Heywood, Pidgeon and King. Question "In solving the liquor problem Prohibition is a wiser method than High License." A splendid debate. Prudden, Lossen, McKee & Heywood were particularly good. 8th hr. Miss Beckwith lectured on Mystery plays. I went over to Faculty parlor to attend the 2nd Deutche Verein meeting. a Wechnachstabend Fest. Everyone had gone as it began at 4:30. But Miss Stroebe, Mierendorf and Whitney were there so I went in and Miss M. gave me some punch and cakes and a little book so I 1910 did have some of the celebration. Tues. Dec. 13 Rose early and studied Experiments on which we had a quiz. I was the only one who did not answer the third question. I wrote right along and got just to it. had a cut in Arg. Rec'd Home letter - the last of 1910 and also one from Aunt Jennie who writes "Please don't bother about your Aunt Jennie. I know your circumstances, and your struggle, and would really appreciate a Christmas letter more than all else. Wed. Dec. 14 Puttered on Arg. 1st & 4th. Miss Stroebe sprung a written on us in German. Write from memory the gist of the last exercise in German and also one question about Goethe's Freundschaft mit Schiller. Had my Arg. criticism all written but not copied before 4th hour. Went without lunch. Handed it in after class during 6th hour. Asked Helen Green to get my watch pin for me downtown. Helen Simpson and Fred Dutehes came over & purchased some W.C. Goods. I walked home with them and saw their grocery store, dolls clothes etc. had some cakes. Thurs. Dec. 15 Packed trunk and sent it off. Several came in for my fancy goods. I finished up my experiement in Lab. Got $1.54 from Library. Bought Soph Lit books. Riding my wheel on the errands. Mrs. K. led chapel tonight. Prexy led last night & talked about the disturbance (among the chefs) being made known to the majority of the girls largely through the 1910 newspapers. Studied in Ruth Robinson's room. reading "Ralph Royster Doyster." Miscellany out. Fri. Dec. 16 Rose at 6. Took room to pieces. i.e. what I didn't last night. Packed suit case. Went to Physics and English. Took AM mail. Found a package done up in white paper & red ribbon lying on my suit case. Bade Agnes goodbye. Had just time to get my car and left Poughkeepsie at 12:20 for "home". Had a fine trip. Eliz Hubbel, _____Ruth Garretsee, D. Hood, Alma & others took that train. Arrived in Rochester about 30 min. late Papa & Claire met me and I was delighted to see them. We walked to the R & E. station where Eliz. (?)_____ bought apples, (one of which she (E) offered to papa and me after she had taken a bite out of it.) and chocolate. Arrived home at 9 PM. Mama had a grand hot oyster stew waiting. The Main street looks very different now with Wm Agates house and (..lt) house & Hutchinson's warehouse & Mattie Wadhams house gone. It is fine to be home again. Claire hasn't changed. Her tongue runs fast. Sat. Dec. 17 Claire and I went to city and found Santa Claus in Duffy's. Visited all the toylands. She said "Sister, is there really a Santa Claus? His beard looked false". Papa brought up my truck 1910 from the station on Claire's sled and I unpacked. Mrs. Woolston and Willie were first people I saw from Pittsford. Met them in Rochester. Unpacked my trunk in afternoon and mama unburdened her heart to me about Uncle George's death and her care of him. Just what was her duty? Aunt Ella is in trouble too. Made choc candy. Sun Dec. 18. Papa preached fine sermon from Galations 5. 25. I was in his class. Glad indeed to hear papa preach again. Played for family & read to Claire. Had popcorn & milk for supper. Attended evening service. Matt IV 12. Mon. Dec. 19 I did my shopping today. Rec'd postal from Yamaguchi. Mailed letters to Eda Haischer, Ellen, & Ida. ordered 2 black & white pictures. Tues. Dec. 20 Mama went to city and I kept house. Ironed. Aunt Jemie sent us each $1 for Christmas. Mama & papa went to rehearsal in PM. Miss Brainard came this afternoon. First cutter ride with papa to Todds. Wed. Dec. 21. I hunted up things for the Salvation Army. Visited Claire in Miss Hinderland's room. She is in the second grade & told the story of Cindrella before the grade. Others told "The Little Red Hen", "The Three Bears", "Woochausen", "The Three Pigs". I saw them in Resting period, writing number work, story telling and spelling. Went upstairs and saw Mr. Zormow new Lab. Found that 1910 from the station on Claire's sled and I unpacked. Mrs. Woolston and Willie were first people I saw from Pittsford. Met them in Rochester. Unpacked my trunk in afternoon and mama unburdened her heart to me about Uncle George's death and her care of him. Just what was her duty? Aunt Ella is in trouble too. Made choc candy. Sun Dec. 18. Papa preached fine sermon from Galations 5. 25. I was in his class. Glad indeed to hear papa preach again. Played for family & read to Claire. Had popcorn & milk for supper. Attended evening service. Matt IV 12. Mon. Dec. 19 I did my shopping today. Rec'd postal from Yamaguchi. Mailed letters to Eda Haischer, Ellen, & Ida. ordered 2 black & white pictures. Tues. Dec. 20 Mama went to city and I kept house. Ironed. Aunt Jemie sent us each $1 for Christmas. Mama & papa went to rehearsal in PM. Miss Brainard came this afternoon. First cutter ride with papa to Todds. Wed. Dec. 21. I hunted up things for the Salvation Army. Visited Claire in Miss Hinderland's room. She is in the second grade & told the story of Cindrella before the grade. Others told "The Little Red Hen", "The Three Bears", "Woochausen", "The Three Pigs". I saw them in Resting period, writing number work, story telling and spelling. Went upstairs and saw Mr. Zormow new Lab. Found that 1910 Yamaguchi had sent me 4 small b & w & 12 Large beautiful b & w. He enclosed a handsome picture on velvet paper for my Christmas. Also a pretty poinsetta postal. He wtote me a letter too. Claire & I delivered Mrs. Herzberger's and sold two to Ada Barnard after stopping at school to see the teachers. Sold one to a teacher at Ida Crumps. Attended prayermeeting & played the organ. I helped papa get the piano in auditorium & see if it was tune with organ. Card from Eda Haischer. Thurs. Dec. 22. Mailed Miss Willis' pictures to her. Went to Colgan's & Smiths at noon in vain with panels. Claire, Marion Colgan & I went driving in afternoon Mo(...), Clover & East Ave. Cold. I enjoyed it & she seemed to. Stopped at Strowgers & talked a minute with Jessie's father. Mama as a member of Mr. Todd's class was over to the church winding griens & had her supper over there. Pap came home & ate with us. Card from Helen Scobey. Claire rec'd a pencil and orange from Christmas tree which Miss Hinderland had for them. Fri Dec. 23 I cleaned the pantry. Salvation Army wagon called for our things. I went to city at 2 PM & carried box from trolley freight office to stations. Bought some paper & ink for papa & did a few errands. Rec'd letter from Miss Willis con- 1910 taining money for her pictures. Rec'd a sweet letter from Mrs. John Toor containing a $1 bill for both Claire and me. The box held our turkey ordered from Richard Toor and a nice chicken, a gift from Mrs. John. card from Aunt Mamie & packages from Marian H. and Ida. Claire rec'd a buttercup spoon from Seward. It was registered and she signed for it all alone in her own handwriting. Pretty good for a 6 year old. Mama sent off gifts to the Parsells. Papa & mama met me at the station with cutter. Claire & I attended Methodist exercises. Martha Roe has a fine soprano voice. Saw Santa on our way home. Sat. Dec. 24 Helped papa print programs. Worked. Sent off my presents. Papa drove me to Mrs. White's who took a picture then I rode with him to Halpins. Went to our SS exercises in PM. Claire spoke splendidly "Merry Christmas" beginning "Tis the night before Christmas and safe in their bed, the children are sleeping and dreaming. Outdoors all is quiet, the moon overhead & bright stars are twinkling & gleaming. Elmer Welch's three children sang beautifully. Papa rec'd a box of candy, mama a book, I a towel with embroidered O. and Claire a work basket or handkerchief box containing a handkerchief. I helped Claire hang her stocking & did what 1910 Christmas 1910 Papa Aunt Jennie Dec. 20 card Camerons " 22 chicken Mrs. J. Toor " 23 box candy 20th Cent. class " 24 Apron Christmas muffler " "The Perfect Tribute" " necktie " card Mr.& Nrs. Shaw " Mama $1 Aunt Jennie Dec. 20 handkerchief Miss Brainard Dec. 22 card Camerons " 22 handkerchief Eva Corterille " 22 _____ Aunt Marmie " 23 2 doilies Auburn " 24 paper Wadhams & Wiltsie " 24 grapes Mary Thorme " 24 book Mrs. Ryenolds " 24 2 collars $.25 Xmas perfume pincushion & picture Claire card Mr & Mrs. Shaw " Miss Tappan card Aunt Ella 1910 Claire $1 Aunt Jennie Dec. 20 pencil & oraNge Miss Hinderland 22 card Aunt Marnie 23 $1 Mrs. Toor 23 Spoon Seward Hendricks 23 dolls set Auburn 24 ribbon " box paper " candy church " handk. & handkf box Needle Book Mrs. Barker " card Bertha Loder " " Baldwins " doll (big) Santa cat "King Arthur" (Children's) "Tanglewood Tales" "A dog of Flanders" Alice in Wonderland Miss Brainard Drawing book Santa drum of candy Mrs. Willsie sweet grass box .10 orange Rands card Dorothy Todd shells Aunt Jennie Dec. 27 doll cab robe Miss Gaskin 1910 I could to fill them. Sun. Dec. 25 After prayers we looked in the parlor & found that Santa had been here. Claire was delighted with her doll and we all were happy. Went to church. Chorus "Arise Shine" Mama was in the choir so Claire and I were alone. Claire & I stopped at Miss Hilhnise's & Mrs. Myron Smith's. I gave a puzzle to Franklin and a book "Tanglewood Tales" to Christine. Attended Christmas cantata in PM at our church. 25 voices. It was perfect and I gladly will put Mr. Gow and papa side by side as successful chorus directors. Claire knows much of the cantata by heart and she had hard work not to sing out. Marion Loughborough, Beatrice Ginn, Mr. Foster, Mama, Dr. Doane sang beautifully. It was a grand service. After service we had a birthday cake with 7 candles for Claire who today completes another year of life. Uncle Enoch Ordway as 77 today. This has been a lovely Christmas. We had chicken & biscuits and pumpkin pie for dinner. Mon. Dec. 26 We had a holiday. Mama fixed the turk to a perfect model. He was roasted to golden perfections. We had a grand dinner, oysters (raw) etc. etc. Read some of "Malory". Claire had a birthday party for Elizabeth her new doll. One candle in a patty cake. 1910 Tues. Dec. 27 Cleaned cellarway. Sewed on buttons etc. Mended old gloves & a pair of papa's for driving. Uncle Henry walked in for dinner. I went down to car with him & sent in by Miss Martin for 1 yd. plaid gingham so mama can work on Claire's new dress. Claire & I took Ollie Smith out for a sleigh ride. Went to Wm Woolston's & invited Clare Lew and Clarence over for Thurs. PM. Wed. Dec. 28 I played for Mattie & Beatrice while they then practiced a duet. Went to prayermeeting & played the piano. Papa spoke splendidly. Claire attended Episcopal exercises at Parish house. Rec'd letter from Mrs. Paine saying that McClure's had failed to appear. Thurs. Dec. 29 I finished an underwaist which was all done but finishing. Mama had a fine supper. Clarence, Clare & Lew Came at 5:30 and went at 10:40PM. Had a fine time. They enjoyed it & I know I did. I never enjoyed playing the piano more. Had a nice visit with Clare. Fri. Dec. 30 We overslept. Had dishes from last night to do. Auntie Burholtz called. Conversed long at supper. Down nearly to zero. Very cold. 1910 sewed. Called on Una Hutchinson and Mrs. Loder and Bertha whose presents I saw. Retired early. Sat. Dec. 31 Rose in good season. Cleaned the lamps. Worked the vacum cleaner for an hour. Took car to city at 12. Returned at 3. Got shoes for Claire's doll and returned & changed my slippers as they are too small. Sewed a little. Called on Mrs. J.J.Birdsall who seemed glad to see me. Also on Mrs. Barker. Mrs. Parsons & Lew were in there. Gave Claire her bath. Retired about 11 after mending my stockings. Rec'd card of thanks from Marian H. and a nice letter from Ida. 1911 Sun. Jan. 1 Went to church. Good sermon on ___________. Papa used Orpheus and Ulysses as one illustration. Sunday school. Mattie and Beatrice sang a very pretty duet. Had nuts, candy and oranges for dessert. Wrote up my diary for last two weeks in afternoon. Had popcorn for lunch. Evening service. Quite good attendance. Played some music. Had a confidential chat with papa & mama. He gave me a good hint about dividing my work up. Miss Brainard's aunts called. Mon. Jan. 2 Got money. Sewed. Packed trunk. Ironed. Attended first meeting of week of prayer. Good meeting. I quoted that poem "There are loyal hearts, there are spirits brave". James Stuart spoke about a little boy holding his father's hand while looking in the Christmas windows. Mr. Little, mama & I prayed. Mr. L Mr. Ford & Miss Cole spoke. Packed suit case. Retired 11. Mama hugged me tight. Tues. Jan. 3 Rose at 6. Finished suitcase. Had breakfast & left for 8 o'clock car after holding both mama and Claire very close. Waved to them as I neared the market. Papa went on ahead. We walked over to the N.Y.C. station. Train left 8:58. Kissed papa good bye and waved to him. Sat with a man to Utica 1911 a woman who recommended me to read "Crittenden" and "The Web of Time" from Utica to Schnectady and a portly man the rest of the way. He conversed with me. Arrived in Po'keepsie 4:25. Wrote card to mama. Took H. L. car. Got key and in an hour quite straightened my room. Was on time to dinner. Looked at West Point 1910 book in Eliz. McShane's room. Finished unpacking. Wrote cards to Aunt Mamie, M. Hendricks, Ellen S, Marian Case, and cousin Dick and short notes to Mrs. John Toor and Ida. Helen Knapp was on the train & talked to me. She said "I suppose you are taking all the honors at college." Oh not I replied. Bed 10:10pm Wed. Jan. 4 Read some poems from Wilhelm Muster in German. Took morning and noon mail. Arg. was very nice. Each had a slip of paper on which was written a subject which we had 10 min to prepare a 3 min. talk on. Mine was Elections for second semester but I didn't have to give it. Walked with Agnes Wright & Janet Golden down road to county fair grounds turning across (a drawing)Fair...Bungalow on College Ave. Read in Gorbiduc. Mapped out my English reading to Jan. 18. Went to chapel. So good to see Prexy again. Only 5 at fancy dancing. I was 1911 happily surprised to receive 3 letters, one from Marian Case, one from Ellen S. and one from papa. Trunk came over tonight and I unpacked. Bed. 10:05. Thurs. Jan. 5 Miss Haight lectured on Maecenas. Finished Gorbidue. Noon mail. Lab in which I did my experiement in the required time. Finished reading for Latin topic. Did Physics. Margaret Cushing came up to see about the problems & showed me a formula for the 3rd. Mirina came in & asked Ruth Robinson & had some cake. & crackers. Rec'd letter from Wilhelmina. Bed 10:40 PM. Fri. Jan. 6 Had oral recitation in Physics. Miss Fiske went for us about attention & good behavior in lectures and reverencing what we don't under stand. She had us write for 5 min. Had a very short interview with Miss Haight about my Latin topic. Class drill 4th. Noon mail. Miss Wick carried one of my packages for me. Enjoyed Arg. because I had had to make out questions for an hours written on it so knew it. Spent all the afternoon reading Utopia. Rec'd letter from papa. "I wore the new tie a nice girl gave me for Christmas and mama said I looked fine. I hope you will get things started in a harmonious way & that everything will work good." Found a little envelope on my desk. 1911 Bed 10:20. That's a flunk note. I opened it & found "Miss Frances G. Wick at home Sunday afternoon Jan 8" from four to six. Davison house no 203." Had Agnes to dinner. Saw .. Tried to .. Mrs. K. about some girls to take the mail. Attended concert by Mr. George Harris Jr. Tenor from New York He is son of Pres Harris of Amherst and gave us gratis this splendid concert. I went with Agnes. Sat. Jan. 7 Did see Mrs. K. today. Worked all morning after taking AM mail on Latin topic outline. Wrote card home. noon mail. Finished copying the outline & put my opinion at the end. Read Utopia to the end from 3-5. Then asked H. Lockwood's opinion of Arg. second semester. "By all means take it". She spoke of graduate work and the worth of a Vassar (...)M degree. Handed in my schedule for continuation of present courses. Studied German till 9:30. Washed my hair. Did Horace 10-12 pm Bed 12:10pm Sun. Jan 8 Bible class, took notes from Dr. Hill's notes. Chapel. L. Mason Clark preached from Matt 26.9. Reverence. I looked at Miss Fiske when he spoke about having reverence for what we do not understand. Social work among men must be done for God. We must take time to worship. If we aid people only by soup and tea & give them nothing higher leaving them practically where we found them. 1911 alma Leslie sang after dinner. "grato" fire in parlor" our work is a failure. We seek to find the causes of mysteries by scientific investigation. Stopped at infirmary to see Gladys Bassett and Albertina. P(..)tlsin but couldn't Started home letter. Dinner. Wrote some more also in diary. Called on Miss Helen Maxfield from Naples (lives opposite Norris) then on Marie Gold. Went after a delightful call on Helen to Marie's to see about her taking mail. Then at 4:45 went to Miss Wick's tea and had a splendid time. She is a dear. Regular stories were told. It was most informal. At 7 in Assembly Hall heard Mr. Cloud a Yale graduate on conditions among the Indians. 1. Columbus 2. Pilgrims fell on their knees, then on the Indians. 3. Rations 4. Government schools. He spoke about education and Christianity, Mrs. Johnson his teacher (birds, pledges) Great Spirit. Indians are taught that Great Spirit sent one after the other to them to teach them four (...) 1. Courage. 2. Philosophy of life. 3. Good cheer 4. Religion. Each part of the Indians dress has some religious significance. Uncle taught him to worship spirit of the Missouri river. A missionary brought before him the personality of Jesus War party - glad he didn't win. Fixed up 1911 record of mail delivery. Finished home letter. Bed 10:20pm Mon. Jan. 9 Handed in Latin topic outline. Miss Haight asked me two minor questions. Miss Fiske was delightfully interesting today. Began "Tasso" today. Received letter from Una. Started Ger. for Tues. Noon mail. Waited till 1:50 at Dr.'s office & had to send my lotion bottle in. Was late to Lab. a disgraceful performance. Did experiement with concave mirror by the light of a candle. Finished German. Read 8 pages of Spencer's Faerie Queen. Chapel. Did Horace all evening. Fixed laundry. Retired 10:40PM Lucy Alexander called about mail. (...) Clark's daughter stopped me this noon said that her father when at Wolcott knew papa. Tues. Jan. 10 have awakened every morning except Wed. Jan. 4 before 6 and lain awake till 7. It's got to stop. Outline handed back with "Excellent work" written on first page in red ink. Refraction was experimently shown in Physics by clear and green water. Did Arg. Rec'd home letter mama wrote me, so did Claire, appending a poem on Jack Frost. A clipping about sleep was enclosed also. Didn't read my nice letter till I had taken noon mail. Miss Yost had us write answers to each other's questions today. I had Hilda Pratt's. Walked around lake with Ruth Robinson. Saw ice cut for first time. Girls skating. Read German. Heard Prof. Fletcher of Columbia on "The 1911 Four Hymns of Spenser. and their Ancestry". Chapel. Finished German. Ruth Robinson invited me to have a cup of tea. I did & staid a half hour. Bed 10:45. Wed. Jan 11 Woke about 5 but slept an hour before 7. Did Arg. Spenser. Had cut in Eng. went to class in German. Started Horace. Noon mail. Had to answer our own questions in Arg. Today. Agnes prevailed upon me to walk downtown & back I did from 3-4:45 PM Had Marion Ives to dinner. Finished Horace. Marjorie Harris came in to do Physics problems. I did my Physics. Margaret Cushing came up a minute. I read in Todd's "Student's Manual" which is a great book. Bed 11 PM. Thurs. Jan. 12 Was well prepared in Latin & then wasn't called on to translate. Miss Wick praised my Phsics class notebook and said she wished some of the others had kept theirs as well. She like my correcting the problems and drawing diagrams of the apparatus used by her in illustrating the lectures. Wrote 6 pages home at noon. Lab. Allie Burroughs asked me to carry night mail in Raymond & Davison I did. Went to Christians in evening. "Abbie" Leach led. Subject "rejoice" I quoted that poem "There are loyal hearts, there are spirits brave. There 1911 are souls that are pure and true, then give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you," etc. ________spoke about a remark I made one day when she had been talking to ___________. I said Well I am surprised. Retired 10 PM Fri. Jan. 13 Miss Fiske discussed the practical problems of today which more treats in Utopia. Rec'd nice home letter, one from mama and one from Claire containing slippings about Wm. H. Sherwood's death on Jan. 7, 1911 and about Samuel A. Devan a student at Rochester Theological Seminary who will go to Oxford as Rhodes scholar from New Jersey. "No dear I do not accomplish all I plan but I do just as much of it as I possibly can." Rec'd a very interesting letter from Cecelia at noon. Had an informal joint discussion on proposed rule of faculty that no team member shall have conditions. Worked on Latin topic. Attended Mr. C. Rams Kennedy's lecture in pm. He read from the Bible & it was very impressive but I do not like to have Christ's part acted out as a drama. It seems sacreligious. Bed. 10:40. Sat. Jan. 14 Got some pills from Dr. Spent rest of morning on Latin topic which I finished. 1911 two hours after lunch. Took noon mail. Did German for Mon. Went to Student's and Athletics meetings in PM. Officers for Soph. and Junior Dance Com. elected & members of Founder's Day com. nominated. Retired 11. Rec'd letter from Margaret Clark. Sun. Jan. 15 Eliz. McShane asked me to take her S.S. class downtown but I secured Gladys Hull as a substitute because of my cold. Bible class. Mrs. Hill gave us each a copy of Dr. Hill's "A guide to the Lives of Christ for English Readers" and said that Dr. H. writes very concisely. The highest compliment you can pay an author is to read his book. When in college he used to write the funny papers and his classmates thought he ought to be a writer. Hugh Black preached from Psalm 119. 59. Where are you coming out if you continue as you now are going Do not read so much but think. Consider your ways. It was a powerful address. Called on Peggy at infirmary. Read "Duty of Imitator" by Brander Matthews in Outlook of Jan. 14. Slept an hour lunch. Music. Chapel. Christians, Prexy spoke on Christ's attitude toward the "least" Christ identified himself with his followetrs. The test of our Christianity is our attitude. 1911 toward the least. Retired about 10:30 after I wrote home. Mon. Jan. 16 Went to H.M. White's at Wilcox's right after breakfast. Studied Utopia. Cut in Latin. conference with Miss Yost at 1:30 "Lack of Clearness". Did German & Physics. 8th hour went to Miss Haights lecture on "Nature in Greek and Roman poetry." Chapel. Studied in Agnes's room in PM. Retired 11 PM Tues. Jan. 17 Translated very poorly in Latin. Had to set up apparatus to determine the position of the principal focus of a double convex lens. Finished Tasso. Read some in Erskins defense of Gordon. Had to tell what kind of argument was used in IPon proving that the cause of Jacobinism is the giving of 3 names to people. Also tell method and fallacy. I wrote about a page of theme paper while Irene Beir wtote 2 pages of large math paper. Did some German. Rec'd home letter which said that my letter had a good healthy ring and sounds as though I were doing things. Keep right on. Papa has been ill & couldn't attend annual meeting because of a hard cold. Claire got her Bible Sunday for being present every Sunday during 1910. 1911 Deliberately read for 1/2 hr. in Student's Manual. She again wrote me a little letter. Went to class meeting. Officers for 2nd semester were reduced to 2. Had apparatus work 6th hr. Read some Bielschofsky in Trix's room. Came home and studied. Read 18 p. Spenser and outline my work in Latin and partly in Soph Lit finishing the German outline which I began some time ago. Retired 12:10 pm. Mama sent me a 10 yr. calendar on which is quoted that verse "Count that day lost whose low descending sun, sees at thy hand no worthy action done." Wed. Jan. 18 Spent 1st hr. on German. Miss Fiske read us some sonnets. I had to make my speech in German first. It was horrible but I used no notes. Alma Klippel was fine. Miss Stroebe said our German is no better than it was Freshman year. We can at least put the verb where it belongs. Read in Lib. on Erskine & started outline Miss Yost spent the hour going over the chapter we did for Tues. (Jacobinism) Did 16 lines Latin. Wrote to Miss Clarke about Miss Brainards subscription. Skated from 4-5:10 with Pauline Allen. Did more Horace. Prexy gave a long talk on the Hist of Education before 1861 when on Jan. 18 the Legistrature 1911 of New York state chartered Vassar Female College. Did Horace. finishing ode 4 which Gladgs Sutton & I reread together and also studied the meters. Saw M. Cusing a minute. Gas man says tube leaks. 10:30 Thurs. Jan. 19 Rose at 5:30 and studied Physics for 2 hr. Had to write a meter of ode 4 in class and I wrote it wrong in spite of the fact that I had just studied it. What is the matter with my brain. But I wouldn't alter it after I had seen others. Had to have that incorrect meter for my mark today. Told her I couldn't read both Sellar & the ode. She asked me what Metaurism was & I said a noun which was wrong. What does she think of me. Nothing. how can she. It is what we actually do that counts and if we can answer correctly what is required of us good and well, if not we flunk. In Physics had to derive a formula which I did correctly until the very last step when I failed to multiply Vo by t. to make the formula s=ro+1/2 at 2. I didn't notice my mistake till Margaret Cushing spoke of it. Then I wouldn't change 1911 it. Now Gretta Ordway it is high time you wake up. 19 day of 1911 have passed and you are still as careless as ever. From the time you can first remember papa has told you and warned you not to be "Careless" and apparently it has made no impression. It is up to you to reform at once. Stop being careless and master your work Learn it once and for all. and have always when you have finished studying a piece of work the feeling that you know it. and are sure of it. A word to the wise is sufficient. Plan your work and instead of spending hours writing up minor details have spent your time doing things which are worth while. Be abreast of the times and let your classmates say Ask Gretta Ordway -- she knows. Spent 3rd hour writing from Tues. here at Eliz McShanes desk in 409 Raymond Hall Vassar college Poughkeepsie N.Y. Jan. 19. 1911. Forget self in excelling for the sake of whose who are making it possible for you 1911 to be in college. Make yourself live up to it. Do your share and that supported by divine aid will bring about victory. Read in Shepherd's Calendar. Spent 3 hrs. on Physics. prayer meeting. Lilias Wheeler led. Eliz. Page spoke about a deeper spiritual life in college and the great results a few could accomplish. Did Erskine in Gladys Bassett's room. Eliz McShane said yesterday "I wish I were as interested in my welfare as you are in yours." 10:30 Fri. Jan. 20 Rose at 6 to write answers to question on Erskine. Had to dance a jig in class drill. Talked about Erskine. Home letter. Papa is still sick and was unable to attend prayermeeting. The teacher to take Miss B's place is to board with us. Mama is worried about my cold for she says "now tell me just how you are and don't hide the worst from me." "I hope you will do finely in your examinations, now don't leave out or skip any question but be calm and do yourself justice. Conference with Miss Fiske Evolutionary idea current of development. Wrote home. Conference with Miss Yost. 1. Clearness. 2. Make questions of equal value. 3. don't pull up corn after you plant it to see how it is growing. She walked over to Ray 1911 mond with me. Spoke about Mr. Copeland being erratic and about Mr. Kennedy. Said she like represssed and controlled power. In Arg. today she spoke about meeting our appointments wtih Miss Monroe and making the most of them. "Juanita Husband". We walked to Arlington. Studied Horace in Agnes room. 10:40 Sat. Jan. 21 Did Carmen Saiculare to end. Went downtown & bought rubbers and drop light into which I had attached. Did German for Mon. in Lib. Spent evening on Sellar and 6 meters. Ruth Robins gave me some candy in her room and remarked thus "I don't believe you ever do anything for fun." Sun. Jan. 22 Did Bible class lesson. Mrs. Hill said she rec'd a letter from a Mission Board Sec'y asking for 3 Vassar girls to to to India. She spoke after class about my taking part in prayermeeting. (So she has noticed it) Rev. Powell of Northampton spoke on Peter's first rejecting Christ then falling at his feet. A queer discourse. He was earnest but monolonus & said serious things in a funny way. "Naughtiness is repelled by the goodness of Christ. Picture girl bought & hung among her banners. A college girl died. Beautiful only as all women are beautiful to good men. The girls hung upon her smile. Vassar girl is noted 1911 for her "sweet serenity." Studied S.S. lesson & taught Eliz. McShane's class of boys in the Hold Comforter Church. going down on the car with Gladys Bassett. Went to chapel & Christian's. Pres. Frost of Berea college gave a telling address on the "mountaineers." He spoke as I imagine Lincoln spoke. Was perfectly facinating. I heard him afterwards in Senior parlor. "Lincoln Feetcherized his six books." Wrote home. Mon. Jan. 23 Are reviewing Goethe's poems by questions. Did review Physics. Did Horace & German. Tues. Jan. 24 Arranged mail for 2nd semester. Did part of Ode 1 Bk. II. Skated(?) with Ruth Robinson 6 & part of 7th. She made me work hard. We were on the south end of the lake. Class meeting at which Pres. Lucy Penniman. V. Pres. Meliny Avery, Sec'y. Gladys Carr Treas. Eliz. Ingersoll and Chairman Tru Ceremonie's -----------were elected. I saw Lucy as she was going home from the Lib. and announced her election to her. Rec'd letter from home papa wrote 4 pages. while Mr. Strayer preached for him. He is weak and has throat trouble. "You would enjoy reading my Lincoln clippings very much when you get the time. If only one can manage to 1911 drive them ------ instead of letting their work drive them it is a great victory. You will find a great relief in having your work ready a day or two ahead instead of needlessly wishing you had a day or so more to get ready in. I tell you Gretta it can be done all OK if it is managed right. That is the whole secret from start to finish. I certainly hope for your own sake that you will get hold of how it is done soon. Let "Do it now" govern your life more fully and you will be all right. You know how the Porta Ricans say "Never do to day what you can put off tell tomorrow". That is the wrong "idea". Do you see" How I wish you could eat breakfast with us now and then and help us take care of the sausage." Mama writes that Aunt Mary is to move to Auburn in the spring. Good luck to you in your examinations. Miss Frances B. Toracy of Flushing N.Y. wote me Jan. 15th 1911 about selling Easter cards for her. She said Mrs. Ward who was Miss Julia Bishop of the school of applied Design where she studied recommended me to her. Was -----at class meeting. Wed. Jan. 25 Read some of debate in Appendix VIII. Did Physics. Went to Drs. to see about my feet. Thinking the arches are getting broken. Went downtown on car after Arg. which 1911 Helen Haywood conducted to which we discussed an "open marking system" at Vassar. Got pair arch supports $2.50 at Gildersleeve's. Heard Felix Hughes sing 8th hour. Cut fancy dancing as I walked home from town. Thurs. Jan. 25 Drew diagram for convex mirror then went to Lib. & started to work on Soph Lit papers on which I spent 3 + 4 all the afternoon and some of the evening. Miss Haight read us from a book on Horace's love poems by some woman. She handed our topics back this week. Comment on mine was "You have done very good work on this topic. You must strive in all your work for the best possible English words." Eliz. McShane gave me some ice cream which I shared with Albertina. Fri. Jan. 26 Had a delightful recitation in Lit. Miss Fiske was very amusing. copied Soph Lit. paper & took it to her room. Class drill. Wrote home. Rec'd home letter containing money order for $5. Your letter was mailed from Arlington, where is that? I am glad Miss Yost spoke so nicely to my girl and seems to like you so much: cultivate her friendship all you can and learn just as many good points from her in teaching as you can to help you in the future. I hope you will do finely in your examinations. get your sleep 1911 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- and ------ g--- (h)trim for business. -------d 12 odes of Book II in p.m. Read Soph Lit notebook thru. Sat. Jan. 28 Finished Book II and started Bk. III. Reveiwed Soph. Lit. by reading notebook thru again. Evelyn Noble recommended a fine short history of English Literature by Halleck. which I read in 2 hrs. in p.m. Indexed Physics notebook. Adriana Tappan asked me to dinner. First time I have been in Main dining room this year. Was delighted to go and had a good time. Finished the first 6 odes of Bk III and retired 11:20 PM. Sun. Jan. 29 Bible class 9:45. Dr. Thompson Sec'y of our Home Board preached on "Eternal life". He said eternal life begins the minute we entrust our lives to God and live in close contact with Jesus. Read Ludwig Fulda"s play "Chums" in Lib. Went to Christians in p.m. Prexy spoke about "Little things". Every Christian girl ought to enjoy her work. Do all to the glory of God. I introduced to Dr. Thompson who was friendly & introduced me to his wife. She is cold. They talked 1911 about Aunt Jennie. Wrote home. Mon. Jan. 30 Studied soph. Lit in which I took an exam at 10:50 in lecture room of Saunders Lab. (fair) First time I ever was in the building. In afternoon I studied Physics with Margaret Cushing in my room. Worked on Physics in PM. Tues. Jan. 31. Took B Physics exam in recitation room in Vassar Lab. Did German prose and many Odes. Letter from Home. Mama entertained Prof. Sias of West High & Mr. Pialle who spoke on young People's work. "Be careful, say what you mean & look carefully at your question & don't let the time pass without making the most of it." Between the addresses this AM (Sun) Claire sang nicely "Jesus Bids us shine." "Now do your best". (OK) Wed. Feb. 1 Reveiwed German. Lillian Lang came over. The exam was in 22. Easy but very long. I didn't finish. (unfinished) Had cocoa & crackers in Marian Tallant's room after it. She took it too. We saw Albertinia off for home & then took Margaret Babbit home. Worked on Appendix VIII. Thurs. Feb. 2 Arg. (C Eng) exam in New Eng. Bldg. 10:50. Found out from this exam what a poky writer I am. Labored on Latin in afternoon. (fair) Mrs. Hill led tonight. Best meeting yet. "Bible Promises." Many took part. 1911 come down to the Hospital and she will take me through. Over to Davison for dinner. Wrote home, to Ellen, Ida and Theckla & to Mrs. MacLeod for Vovo's address. Went to Christians at which Prexy talked about the Lord's supper. 1. In remembrance. 2. renew our vows 3. joy. Mon. Feb. 6 (Beginning of a new semester. One more clean page on which to write as I will.) Miss Haight lectured to us on the Development of Satire. "What should be attitude of girl who has failed?" Miss Fiske talked about the exam & Miss Stroebe lectured on the Romantils Schule. Agnes & I made molasses candy 4th hr putting it on sale in Mary Hutacheck's window. Read German in Lib. Letter from Miss Tracy. Prexy pled for steadiness. Tues. Feb. 7 First recitation of new semester. Satire I 1. Rose early to finish it. Physics met downstairs. First recitation in German. Miss stroebe is very pleasant tdoay, so affable and kind. Made candy 4th hr. I made it & Agnes ran around at my bidding. Home letter papa writes "Well, your examinations are all over and I am sure you have done yourself credit in every one. You have been faithful in your work from day to day and have done your best and that is the 1911 come down to the Hospital and she will take me through. Over to Davison for dinner. Wrote home, to Ellen, Ida and Theckla & to Mrs. MacLeod for Vovo's address. Went to Christians at which Prexy talked about the Lord's supper. 1. In remembrance. 2. renew our vows 3. joy. Mon. Feb. 6 (Beginning of a new semester. One more clean page on which to write as I will.) Miss Haight lectured to us on the Development of Satire. "What should be attitude of girl who has failed?" Miss Fiske talked about the exam & Miss Stroebe lectured on the Romantils Schule. Agnes & I made molasses candy 4th hr putting it on sale in Mary Hutacheck's window. Read German in Lib. Letter from Miss Tracy. Prexy pled for steadiness. Tues. Feb. 7 First recitation of new semester. Satire I 1. Rose early to finish it. Physics met downstairs. First recitation in German. Miss stroebe is very pleasant tdoay, so affable and kind. Made candy 4th hr. I made it & Agnes ran around at my bidding. Home letter papa writes "Well, your examinations are all over and I am sure you have done yourself credit in every one. You have been faithful in your work from day to day and have done your best and that is the 1911 chief object" (Have I?) Mama says" we were so glad to hear from you as we always are. I am sorry you did not accomplish all you desired in your examinations but perhaps you averaged up with the rest and stood high enough in those you did well in to atone for the others". Thanks for certainties of life. Friday she speaks in Auburn and Sunday in Water loo. Army Stone and Vermon Welch were married Wed. at her home. I one Dye united with the church Sunday Feb. 5. 1911. Rec'd invitation in unstamped mail from Mrs. Hill & Dr. to luncheon at one on Sat. Feb. 11. I answered at once. Wed. Feb. 8 Soph Lit. is intensely interesting. We had Tainburlaine part I today. Made candy 3rd. Had recitation in Arg. Attended recital 8th hour given by Mr. Albert T. Foster violinist and Mr. Clarence G. Hamilton pianist of Wellesley College. Had a glorious time at family dancing in evening. Miss Burns had us & we worked hard. G. Sutton came up. Thurs. Feb. 9 I translated in Horace about teaching a cold to "draw its parent by the bridle." Miss Stroebe asked me to take a book to the Lib for her which I gladly did. Had Lab. 5th & 6th. Took night mail. Went to Christians. Eliz Page led the subject "Unconscious Influence". They knew by Peter's speech he was one of Christ's followers. 1911 People took knowledge of Peter and John that they had been with Jesus. Bob Vandegrift spoke about being pleasant being merely a habit, a mannerism. Fri. Feb. 10 Had to work out ax=a/or y. Dr. Faustus (comparison of with Tarnburlaine..) Rec'd package from Miss Tracy & one from home also containing a new ---, my chamois and a nice new gingham apon. Home letter containing clipping about disappearance of Howard Jones who left Despath (East Rock) Mon. Feb. 6. says he has not yet been found. I made candy 3-- hr. class drill 4th hr. had a good time. Miss Yost gave us some good hints for the coming debate which ought to save us considerable time. Went downtown after Arg. & got an order from Flag Shop for $5.40 and one from J.P.Ambler for $11.95 (for Miss Tracy) Heard Prof. Aitken of Luks observatory give an illustrated lecture in p.m. on "Astronomy in the 20th Century." It was fine, interesting, clear and easily followed. He showed pictures of instruments, Luk Observatory, sun, moon, path of North pole, stars, nebulae, saturn, Halley's comet. Astronomer's problems are to find out the distances of the starts, their relation to each others and 2 their comp- 1911 osition. This is done by the aid of the spectroscope. Several slides showing the different kinds of markings which light from different stars makes when passed thru prisins were shown. I enjoyed it and learned much. Sat. Feb. 11 Sent in order to Miss Tracy. Made candy. Did German in Lib. on "Athenaum". Dressed for luncheon at one which 22 attended. I was in the dinning room. Dr. H. told me I would be. He was there (....) Menu 1. grapefruit & oranges 2. bouillon. 3.chicken (in individual pies) 2 slices sweet potato, olives, rolls, jelly. 3. Salad apples & celery with water-(...) & cheese straws. 4. ice cream with sun-cooked strawberry sauce & cakes. chocolates salted almonds & pecans. Then we listened to several fine Victor records. Mrs Hill showed us her graduating dress from High School & sat on the stairs talking to us about Miss Leach. Dr. H. showed us his pair of "fleas". Came home at 4 p.m. after a delightful time. Mrs. Hill gave me a most searching look as I shook her hand. Our eyes met very squarely. During the music I could also watch the grate fire. Wore my white sicilian. Read history of Miss Dorothy Arnold's disappearance as given in the N.Y.TYimes. Did Horace from 9:30 - 11:30 P.M. 1911 Sun. Feb. 12 Lincoln's Birthday. Bible class, everyone present. (I have decided that during the last week I have been avaricious and subordinating college to making money. It must stop at once. My purpose in paying out $500. is to get thoroughly equipped for my life work by making the most of every opportunity offered to me here. What does college mean to mean to me? anyway and what ought it to mean..?) Discussed Christian Sabbath (Read Paradise lost on Sun. if it is an assigned lesson?) Rev. McKenzie Pres. of Congregational Theological Seminary spoke this A.M. on "Faith". He is from Hartford Conn. 1. Faith is believing that you will be alive tomorrow. Esssence of faith summed up in "hoped for" & not seen. 2. Examples are Abraham who looked ahead to the fulfilment of the promise that his (...) would be great & Moses who chose to lead an obscure people rather than enjoy the sins of the Egyptian court. 3. Christ is the author & perfecter of our faith and we should seek to be like him. He went down (...) down. for us. 1911 He is a tall commanding man with full rich resounding voice expressing great powerthis was a sermon. Wrote diary. Read about Lincoln in "Recollections of Pres. Lincoln & his administration by L.E.Chittenden, his register of the Tres. 1891 N.Y. Harper & Bros. the story of Wm. Scott's pardon for going to sleep when on sentinel duty. Also read Lincoln's favorite poem in 97L6 BR in the back of which are "Anecotes & personal reminiscences of Pres. Lincoln by Frank B. Carpenter. The first verse is _____________ "oh why should the spirit of mortal be proud Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast flying cloud. A flash of the lightning, a break o the wave He passeth from life to his rest in the grave." Posted things up to date in stunt book. Chapel. Christians led by "Billy" Hill (Dr.) confidentally he said " If Prexy were asked what he wants the girls of Vassar college to have he would say 1. healthy fun. 2. square handling of academinc work. 3. Christian character without which he considers a girl's life a failure as a Vassar graduate. Prexy carries this Sun. evening meeting on his heart the whole week. Happy if interesting & well attended, sorry if few there and no inspiration shown. We can help him & ought to 1. Select hymns bearing 1911 on subject. 2. Pray. (Prayer meeting without prayers an absurbity.) 3. Speak in meeting in such a way as to show that what he has said has helped us and we are grateful & appreciative. So much in confidence. Stumblingblocks was his subject. 1. Carelessness of appearance. (Paul collecting money) 2. Needless airing of doubts (Harward Prof. kept still . 3. Criticism (boy-man). Lilias spoke about sitting up in front & Ruth Hamilton about inviting a girl apiece & filling up the empty benches. Good meeting. Dr. H. was in dead earnest. Several prayers & several spoke. Mon. Feb. 13 Rec'd card from Mrs. MacLeod giving A(....'s) address as Mrs. R. E. Morris 7 Ford Ave. Oneonta, N.Y. She speaks of you often and will be pleased to have you come to visit us with her in the summer." Had a cut in English and a lecture by Miss Wood on the "Women of the Renaisance". Tues. Feb. 14 Miss Haight said to me after class Miss Ordway brace up in your translation." Had apparatus 6th. Got up into the rings alone for first time. Neida Quackenbush gave me some practical points wbout it. Class meeting 8th. Lucy Penniman presided as President for first time. I was a teller. Nominees reduced to 1911 2 for class marshal. Fancing dancing in P.M. letter from papa "Tracy Elwell Rayson, Irene and Winifred McMillan are a committee to take the matter of C.E. possibilities in charge and make arrangements for organizing if that way seems to be open." Mama wrote from Waterloo where she spoke on Porto Rico. She had lunch in Auburn with Mrs. Hubbard Friday. Rec'd a nice letter from Ellen also. in about 1/2 hour I composed a verse for each member of our table. Mrs. Curtis had hearts with an original verse on each. She furnished candles and we looked quite festive with a boquet. No chapel. Wed. Feb. 15 Finished a paper on "Loves Labor Lost". Began work on debate for Arg. Prexy is back after a week's absence in Chicago. (He spoke about the marked efficiency of the alumnae whom he met and their loyalty to & interest in Vassar college. Our friendships are made through our work. We must keep face to face with our ideals.) Prof. Max Friedlander of Berlin exchange prof. at Harvard gave a lecture on Folk songs in English & illustrated it with songs in German. The pianist was young & interesting. He looks like a genius (Prof. Griggs waved his program). Gladys Sutton came up to read over tomorrows Horace with me. 1911 Thurs. Feb. 16 Got to Lab. early today. Letter from Margaret Becker which I enjoyed greatly for it was very friendly. Helen Congdon led Christians & spoke about the advantage of our seeing ourselves afar off and realising how infinil...mal we are in this great universe. Fri. Feb. 17 Had "social" dancing part of time in class drill. Semester bill came today & I sent it home in a letter. Worked on Arg. in afternoon and evening. Mama wrote me "at Waterlooo I met a lady who worked with Jen in Utah & the pastor's wife (Mrs. Schenck) had a sister who taught with her in Mayaquez." Uncle George Thomas can live but a short time. I shared Albertina's lovely box. Sat. Feb. 18 Worked all the AM and till 4 pm on Arg. Dined with Agnes. Did German. Went alone & watched from the side line the dancers who looked very pretty. Did Horace. Retired 12:15pm. Sun. Feb. 19 Mrs. Hill thanked me for coming today. Rev. Case of Buffalo preached on Gethsermans how we are to understand it. The reasons for Christs praying thus were 1. consummation of prayer- praying until he knew that his will and God's were the same. 2. consummation of obedience. 3. consummation of service. Read some in the "Creed of Presbyterians." 1911 Dinner was fine. Wrote home and to Mr. Betz. Walked an hour with Pauline Allen. Called on Gertrude Geary. Saw Florence's lovely pink dress. Chapel. Christians--Prexy talked about "my judgment is just for I do not mine own will." Paradox of life that to get the most for ourselves we have to be unselfish. The requisities for good judgments are knowledge, insight obtained through love and knowledge of men obtained by an ability to put ourselves in their places. Rev. Case spoke about the judgment from God being the only kind that really counted. Good meeting. Lilia's & Eliz. Page spoke. Mon. Feb. 20 "Miss Haight I haven't reviewed these last ten lines." consequently I didn't recite. Kicked 7th with Lucy Penniman. H. Harrison "if you'd try you could hit it." R. Dunham said "You're doing splendidly keep on." Senior honors were announced in Senior parlor & I stood outside & listened. Eliz. McShane passed the word along. Tues. Feb. 21 "Gut" on German paper on das Athenaurn. Vainly hunted congress speeches 4th hr. Kicked Student Volunteer meeting at 4:15 in Student's. Miss Dorothea Day leading "I expect you to work." Home letter. Uncle George R. Thomas died 2 AM Thurs. Feb 16th. Papa had charge of the service at the undertaker's rooms in Auburn & they 1911 buried him by Percy. "Lee express a desire to see you." Claire wrote me a little letter too. Florence Ackerman "Why don't you go on and get honors, Gretta? Wed. Feb. 22 Worked on Arg. 3rd & 4th. Handed in tentative main issues today. Downtown to buy things for Washington's birthday celebration. Carnival in evening. Very pretty and as fascinating as last year. Went with Agnes & Pauline. Thurs. Feb. 23 Conference with Miss Yost. 11:30. kicked. Dixie Barr said "If you'd make more of your left kicks you'd get it." Don't you know you never should knock over a faculty engaged sign?" Miss .. Christians. Prof Chamberlain led. Spoke about need for good S.S. teachers. H. Clevenger invited me to dinner Sat. Fri. Feb. 24 Lab. 3rd Arg. 4th. No letter from home. Notes from Track manager & Miss Monroe. Florence helped me fix nuts etc. Left note for Miss Monroe. Did Horace in 2100. Party for which we furnished nuts, candy, place cards & candy dishes and Miss Curtis' red carnations & silk flags. Read in Congressional Record. M. Glessner asked me to dinner tomorrow. Had a nice visit with Eliz. McShane & Gladys Bassett in latter's room. 1911 Sat. Feb. 25 Spent A.M. in Lib. on congressional Records. Had a bookcase brought to my room as my books have more than filled my present one. Did German. Definition of poetry-fairies. Dinner with H. Clevenger in N. Saw Senior parade afterward in Main. "Domestic s.... at Vassar" "Bowery women polue...men," "suffra-johnes," "airship," College was too much for us," "grandmothers of the past & present" "athletics in 1930." Then they sang. Studied Com. Report for 1910. Read "Twelfth Night" finished Horace. Retired 12 p.m. Home letter Miss Brainard is back. Sun. Feb. 26 Bible class. Chapel. Rev. E.W. Rollins Dean of the General Theological Siminary preached on "He endured as seeing them who is invisible." fancy-imagination-rule & concentration. Read in The Mt. Holyoke, & in McClures about Polygamy by Burton Hendrick. Wrote to Wilhilminia & Cecilia. Music Betty Zahner sang. Prexy said today is the 50th anniversary of the giving over to the Trustees Vassar female college property. Feb. 26, 1861. One pound-1 disuse & abuse= sins 2) no such thing as solitary piety. 3. the sin of idleness. Pauline went with me. M. Hvard. A. Klippel. H. Maxfield spoke Good meeting. Basket Ball Scores May 4 1912 22 Won by 1912 1913 11 May 11 1910 26 1910 1913 11 May 12 1911 31 1911 1913 8 May 16 1911 28 1911 1910 10 May 17 1912 12 1911 1911 8 403 Raymond House, Vassar College Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Dear Mrs. Toor; Mama wrote me this last week about the sad mission on which they went to the Centenary. I am so sorry, Mrs. Toor. I think of you often and I have thought of you and Annie many times since College opened. It was so sweet of Annie to send that handker- chief home by mama to me. I prize it and think everytime I see it about you and Annie and the hosts of kindnesses you have shown us in the past as a family and as individuals too. One of the pleas- antest and most sacrad memories I have is of the Centenary which without the Toors means little If I can do anything at all for you Mrs. Toor in any way please (do not hesitate) feel free to ask me. (One) thing) I can (and will do and that is)& will pray for you. I only can say that I am sorry and I mean it. Yours in loving sympathy K. Gretta Ordway. 1911 Sept. 28, 1910 Dear Mrs. Strong, The two hundred dollars from the Rochester branch of the Vassar Students Aid Society was awaiting me yester- day at the Treasurer's office. I can only say I am truly grateful for this loan just now, and will work hard to make the best possible use of the magnificent opportunities which it offers to me. Gratefullly yours, K. Gretta Ordway 1913. 1911 Mar. 1. 1911 Dear Dr. Taylor I hereby make formal appli- cation for a renewal for 1911-12 of the scholarship which I now hold. I do not ask it as a loan. If my work is such that I deserve any help to enable me to continue my studies here I request that the generous assistance which you now are giving me may be continued and I promise to do my best. Sincerely yours K. Gretta Ordway. 1911 Resolutions 1911 1. To exercise every day. 2. As a rule to retire at 10PM. 3. To plan work as papa suggests 4. To make friends. 5. To acquire and exercise excutive ability. 6. To honor papa and mama every day. 7. To get clothes fixed before last day of vacation. 1911 March 1, 1910 Dear Dr. Taylor; I hereby make formal application for a scholarship for 1910-1911. My father is my financial support while I am in college and will continue to do all in his power to help me through. His aid however is insufficient. He has explained the circumstances and doubtless has told you just how much he can pay each year. The remainder must come from some outside source. I am unable to name a specific amount because whatever is lacking after he has done his best and you have aided me, if I deserve it, I shall borrow in order to go on with my college work which I so dearly love, The loan 1911 I shall repay when teaching. I am here primarily for business, to receive a training which shall enable me to support myself. I am striving hard to properly use the oppor- tunities which are now mine and prove myself worthy to be a daughter of dear old Vassar. For any aid which you may find it possible to give me I shall be most grateful. Sincerely yours Katherine Gretta Ordway 1911 Scholarship for 1910-1911 All applicants for scholarships must make application to the President in writing before March 16th stating the amount needed and whether it is asked for as a loan. As there are many applicants and the funds are limited each student is asked to name the smallest amount that will enable her to return. Students' request must be accompanied by a letter from the father or guardian explaining the circumstances and endorsing the application as necessary. No acknowledgment of letters and requests will be made till after the action of the Faculty after the spring recess. the condtions fo aid are 1. good scholarship 2. evidence of need. The reception of such aid is a virtual promise to make the best use of their opportunities as students and to exercise a proper economy in all their expenditures. On bulletin board Tues. Feb. 22, 1910. 1911 Pittsford, N.Y. Feb. 28, 1910 Rev. Dr. Taylor, Dear Sir:-- My daughter writes me that applications for scholarships are now in order, and that parents are requested to explain circumstances and endorse the applications. We shall be able to clothe our daughter, pay carfare, furnish books, and so on and pay besides, not more than $150 a year. With a salary of $1000 and the cost of living so high, it is not an easy problem for us to keep her in Vassar. We have hoped she would prove worthy of aid from the college, not as a loan, but a scholarship, and the balance will have to be sought as a loan. My daughter is very happy in her college life and greatly enjoys her work. She is with you there, and her record is being made. I hope you will do for her the best you can, and I am 1911 very sure she will do her best to merit the favor. I have now stated the facts, and leave the matter with you. Very truly yours, Smith Ordway
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Creator: Ordway, Katherine Gretta
Descriptor(s): Bielat, Isabel, Ditkoff, Andrea
Date: 1912-1913
Text: K.G. Ordway. '13 (Katherine Gretta) Feb. 8, 1912. g. Catherine A. Parnell1 1912. Wed. Jan 31 Biology exam in N.E.B. Then second hour J. English exam in 32. Spent the afternoon doing German dep't work. It occurred to me while working that it would be great fun to go home this week end. Thurs. Feb 1 Did more German dep't work. Received for F. German. Got my first leave of absence from Miss Landon at noon in North. Fri. Feb 2. F. German (drama course) exam. first hour in 19. A...
Show moreK.G. Ordway. '13 (Katherine Gretta) Feb. 8, 1912. g. Catherine A. Parnell1 1912. Wed. Jan 31 Biology exam in N.E.B. Then second hour J. English exam in 32. Spent the afternoon doing German dep't work. It occurred to me while working that it would be great fun to go home this week end. Thurs. Feb 1 Did more German dep't work. Received for F. German. Got my first leave of absence from Miss Landon at noon in North. Fri. Feb 2. F. German (drama course) exam. first hour in 19. A very nice exam. Took the mail & then packed my suit case and left at 12.50. Evelyn Noble rode with me to Yonkers. I reached home between 4 and 5. Papa came to the door and when he saw me said "Sh. Go in and sit down and I'll speak to Mrs. Ordway." So I did. Mama came down thinking to find a saleswoman and was greatly astonished to find me. It was great fun to surprise them. This A.M. I rec'd a letter from home. [Yesterday was Claire's promotion day. She left Miss Keylor and now has Miss Smallstick for her teacher. Mrs. Pugsley spent the day at 25 West End Ave. yesterday. My Teachers Training class is organized with 28 members. Isn't that splendid! "Mama has 10 in her mission study class." "Now I suppose this week is examinations2 1912. and remember your failing say what you mean and make no mistakes." Papa enclosed the last two bulletins.] - [ I told the family I loved Dr. Baldwin yesterday as a woman, for the first time. She gave me my 7th serum injection. I told her my plan for surprising my family and she said "That's right. Go home every chance you get."]. Claire was delighted to see me and exclaimed "Now I can have somebody to sleep with me." We had early supper and I enjoyed some of goodies of yesterday's entertainment for Mrs. Pugsley. We also retired early. I was just taking down my hair preparatory to retiring when the door bell rang. Papa got out of bed and went to the door. There stood James Stewart and Miss whom he is visiting in New York. Papa showed them to the parlor and the entire Ordway family then made a record in dressing and soon appeared. We had a splendid visit. Miss knows Sanborn in 1915. Sat. Feb. 3 Mama, Claire and I went downtown, did some errands and at 1.p.m. Claire had her 3rd violin lesson in the studio of Mr. just beyond Hahnes. There are ten in the class. I met Mr. who told me a little3 1912. about the violin. I did some mending. Papa and I staid up and talked college. I got some information from him and from mama as to my family tree. He and I looked over the 1884 class book. He gave me Mr. Belknap's name who lives in Poughkeepsie. Sun Feb. 4. Went to church. Papa preached on this text. "Be not drunk with wine wherein is excess but be filled with the spirit. I surprised the church people too. Mr. Axt played two violin selections and the singing was particularly good. Packed my suit case. Had chicken and biscuits for dinner. My, how good (I have had muffins, chocolate sponge and gelatine jelly since I have been home, in addition to bananas & peanut salad, and potato salad). Left home about 2 pm. Papa went to the car with me. Arrived in Grand Central 3.40. Left 4.03. Sat with Mrs. Acheson Lyons from Yonkers who knows a 1915 girl from Hudson Ann Kennedy. Reached college about 6.30. Went to Christian's. Chapel was held in Assembly Hall tonight at 7.15. I went to that too. Wrote to Ida & wrote Home. 4 1912. Mon. Feb. 5. Second semester begins. Rec'd a note from Prof. Palmer asking for my schedule if I intend to take N. Latin. This semester Economics meets in 35. Saw Miss Buck today for the first time. Louise Boynton told me in B.B. English today that this summer she is going abroad with her aunt. How fine. Had F. German also today. Rec'd a notice of the Spring Maid which is to be played in town Thurs. Went out for track 8th. Swung quite decently on the horizontal ladder today. Helped Prof. Whitney unpack our new German books. Ice Carnival in pm. grand. Sat on fence & ate peanuts with H. Hess. Tues. Feb. 6. Prof Treadwell just kept us a few minutes today in Biology. Had 8th serum injection. Miss Wood read parts of two Platonic dialogues to us in JJ. Rec'd a note from Miss Palmer stating that the second section of N. Latin will meet at the 6th hour Mon. beginning Feb. 12th. Class meeting 8th. Wed. Feb. 7. Was summoned to the messenger room for a note which proved to be my pay ($8.00) for being monitor in Philosophy. Heard a little of the concert given by Prof. Griggs. Then went to clubs. P.S.U. meeting at 7.30 p.m. Thurs. Feb. 8. Discussed Ibsen's "Nora" today (Das Pupperchein"). Donned my good suit and went downtown to Lyndon Hall to call on Miss True but she was not home. So I left my card. Got back in time to hear A. Leslie Walker 190 lecture on her own5 1912. excavations in northern Greece. I can smell antiquities! Went to Christians in p.m. Dorothy Stinson led. Subject "Finding one's self". 1. "Cultivate a sense of proportion." 2. "Forestall our friends' wants." Went to Miss Doane's tea for a few minutes. Fri. Feb. 9. Discussed Shelley's "Alastor". Student's meeting 7th. I was a teller. Nominations made for the members of the Founders Day committee. Ruth Cutler reported that the Maids' Club House fund is complete and urged us to be more considerate of the maids and also to take a deeper interest in the club house. From 8 p.m. - 9.30 p.m. Prof. Francko lectured in German on Durer and Holbein & showed several pictures from each. Result of having the lights turned out (Drop light turned out. Miss Stroeb, Prof. Whitney, Prof. White and Dr. T. Ha!Ha!) I went with Louise Boynton. Sat. Feb. 10. 9th serum injection. Worked some in Lib. Borrowed E. Holloway's skates (Hockeys with shoes) and had a glorious time skating from 2.30 - 4.30 p.m. A. Rowlands, L. Myers and R. Robinson skated with me. I had a splendid time. Read part of "Die Stutzen der Gesellschaft" also Shelley's "The Cenci." -8 degrees today. Sun. Feb. 11. Rev. Tompkins of Trinity church Philadelphia spoke today on "The beauty of holiness."6 1912. [To A. Christianity we owe 1. our appreciation of Beauty in art, music and literature 2. hope. 3. Endeavor. B. Possible objections are really the benefits of Christianity. 1. confession of sin. 2. struggles. 3. pain. C. Because of Christianity we should have 1. magnificent cheerfulness. 2. magnificent courage 3. wear ourselves out in God's service. Not see how long we can live but give forth what we have and see how much we can do. 4. Forty wrestlers wrestling for the Lord.] Walked around the lake with R. Rowlands with whom I went do dinner. Read the articles in the Jan. & Feb. "Century" on the American undergraduate Chapel. Christians. [at which Prexy spoke of Christ's three times asking Peter if he loved him. 1. When we are in doubt or discouraged or in trouble then work, lose ourselves in work, there is no cure like it. 2. We long for Christ and then do not recognize him when he comes. Helen Landon spoke of the pleasure coming from understanding a person. Prof. Shattuck spoke of the importance of loving the Master.] - wrote home. Tried to write a sonnet on the Library. Mon. Feb. 12. Lincoln's birthday. We were seated in Ec. Sight Latin N. met today for first time this semester. Handed my blue card in. Track practice 8th. After chapel in assembly hall to [Taud M] and Qiu Vive was announced the sub-7 1912. ject for the big debate. Resolved that the New York State constitution should be amended to include the initiative and referendum. Miss Yost announced it and then gave us all some most helpful suggestions. Tues Feb. 13. Rec'd home letter containing papa's endorsement of my application for a scholarship. Handed in thru (the unstamped mail) my application for a scholarship of $150.00 for 1912-13. Sent a valentine to Claire and one just like it to Melda Shannon. Had first Biology Lab of this semester 3rd & 4th today. Class meeting 8th [Chairman of Senior parlor com. Bernice Marks, the nominees for the nominating board were reduced to 6. Caroline Johnson elected track manager. I asked if we might have a list posted of the time when new songs were needed and a little idea given as to what kind of song is required.] Wed. Feb. 14. Jane Farley said today while I was waiting for the noon mail "You're the only cheerful mail-carrier Gretta." Miss Stroebe had two girls stand up at once before the class. One translated, the other corrected. Had to go twice with the a.m. mail. Went to the first vocational conference for Juniors & Seniors & heard Rev. Elmer [of 1st Bap. Ch downtown]8 1912. speak on After 9:15 p.m. worked 1 3/4 hrs. on "Deutschland" (Germ. dep't work) I didn't get one Valentine today. Thurs Feb. 15. Wrote a theme for Desip. on "The Art of Criticism" Discussed "Die Stutzen der Gesellschaft" in German. Did my first work on the Big Debate spending two hours in the Lib. getting references, read two articles. In my Copenhagen dress called for first time on Prof. Whitney (241M). Van Duke, Henriette Walter, Eliz Garner, were there when I came and Louise Boynton came soon. Went to Christians which Eleanor Blackman led. Subject Psalms. She read a passage from "The Song of Our Syrian Guests." Did Ec. Fri. Feb. 16. Rose at 6 & read more Spenser. Ec. quiz section met 35R. Enjoyed Biology Lab. this p.m. Rec'd a nice letter from mama. Claire was pleased with her valentine. Meeting of the Raymond Juniors to elect another member of the nomination board. Evelyn Noble got it. I voted this a.m. before breakfast for the Chairman for Founder's Day Com. and for two girls in addition from each of the four classes. ["What organisms can withstand the lowest temperature?" ans. given in Biol. guiz today "Those that have fur."] Had to write for 20 min. in J.J. English on the metre etc. of Spenser's Hymn of Apollo and Hymn of Pan. Went to Gym 7th hr. & had the apparatus room all to myself. Kicked 6 ft. 2 in. very easily with each leg and succeeded in kicking it9 1912. five times with a hitch kick. Wrote card home. Attended Choral Club Concert in P.M. Concert good. Visiting men and their girl hostesses were very interesting. [Miss Eliz. Sherman Clark, contralto of New York had a fine voice but too little dress. It was pale blue satin but [diagram] oh. and there was quite a gap between the ends of her white kid gloves and the short sleeves.] I wore pink dress. N.B. [In Papa's Tues letter he enclosed clippings of the deaths of Frank T. Percy. Benjamin Felker Corrydon M Hulett Augustus J. Foland Mrs. Cornelia Buckler. Mrs. Katherine (DeNief) Plyter.] Sat. Feb. 17. Spent A.M. on Debate. Studied in afternoon. Wore pink dress and watched the dancers in Main for 1 1/2 hours. They looked very pretty. Saw one man I knew Howard Cummings. I looked at him hard but didn't quite dare speak to him as I knew him only from his debating on the West High Team in Rochester. Worked on debate in p.m. Semester bill came out today. From 9.30 to 10 p.m. Peggy served tea downstairs in the temporary reception hall and we enjoyed sitting in the wicker chairs. Sun. Feb. 18. Rev. of Broadway Tabernacle preached on Prayer. [1. Our conception of the universality of law. 2. Not sham prayers but true prayers are answered. 3. Our true prayers are10 1912. always answered though not always granted. Sunlight melts wax but hardens clay. 4. We can change God's action by changing our hearts. A little boy asks his mother a hundred favour during the day but at the end of the day when he is tired out he clambers upon his mother's knee and putting his arms around her neck and laying his cheek against her whispers I love you, mamma, "This is prayer at its highest."] H. White did my hair in an 8 for me. Heard Jeanne Mordoff sing after dinner. M. Kelsey's mission class met today for first time this semester. She read us an article on John R Mott from the Outlook for Nov. 25, 1911. I went to the Lib. Saw some of the big Indian pictures in the case at the north end of the North wing, found out that the big stained glass window in the Lib. had a particular significance & read Wm James little book on "The Energies of Man". H. Clevenger called. Heard Dr. Roe of Colony Oklahoma speak on "The Indians" a fine address ["We have destroyed the fabric of their life" The effect of the gospel in 1. making them (1) clean. Indians got the Theological student at St. Louis to clean up the Pres.'s back yard. (2.) sober. coffee - Indian- hot. (3) Christian - man refused to jump on the American who hit him because it isn't the Jesus11 1912. way to fight, altho the man had his pony and wouldn't give it up.] Then in Senior parlor Mr. Roe told of I. The little deaf & dumb boy to whom he said I am your friend - slicke hands. [nickel] dog (miserable [cur]) "I hope I may be forgiven", & whom he taught to read by the sign language. II. Camping with Mrs. Roe when 3 men driving a herd of horses camped near them. Prayers - Mr. R. knew the man - waving hat. Met Mr. Roe afterward. Faith Merriman 1915, has an aunt who was a missionary to the Indians Miss Robertson and her mother was until she was married. This A.M. wrote to Margaret Towers and tonight wrote home. H. Herr brought me in some grape juice. Mon. Feb. 19. Rec'd letter from Ida. Was called up for an unexcused absence from A.A. Economics Feb. 7, 1912 and I haven't missed one. It is just a mistake. Juniors reseated in chapel tonight. Honors announced in Senior parlor. 34 honor girls and 14 honorable mention. Then at 8 p.m. in Freshman parlor the T & M. committe of 5 and the almost 25 debaters met to get started. At 1 p.m. this noon Helena Doughty & I met in Narola's room to organize our side. Tues. Feb. 20. Went to Dr's office for 10th serum injection. Enjoyed Biology Lab. My little "hydra" behaved nicely. Rec'd a nice12 1912. home letter containing one from Mama and one from Claire. "Papa's college class wants him to come to the dinner at the Waldorf in honor of Pres. Hibben but he thinks he cannot go on account of the money." Had a cut in JJ to attend Prof. Scott's lecture on the Ultimate Principle of Literary Criticism, which proved most interesting being in dramatic form at congress of letters in the Republic of China about the year 1902. Our side met for final debating plans before lunch. At 7.30 in Student's room the first trial debate was held. Affirm. Bassett, Agnes Wilson, Quackenbush Neg. Doughty, Rivenburg, Ordway Got home about 9 p.m. & staid up till 12 p.m. & finished my Shelley paper. Wed. Feb. 21. Rose at 6 A.M. and read Bullock (Adam Smith on Wages). First Ec. written of second semester and I disgraced myself on it. Today went wrong. 3rd hr. I carried mail, wrote & copied a theme for B.B. English. Rec'd nice letter from Susan Griggs Graybill, the V.C. alumna to whom I wrote in Honglok, Canton, China. She sent views of the Canton Christian college & wrote some of the revolution. (Letter dated Jan. 17). Copied part of my Shelley paper in Biology and finished it in J.J. (a thing I never do as a rule). Clubs 8th hr. No chapel. Louise Boynton & I went over to Assembly Hall at 7.30 to the 2nd vocational conference & heard Miss Brooks, a splendid looking and finely 13 1912. spoken Y.W.C.A. Secretary speak on the Y.W.C.A. Read part of Ibsen's "Gespenster". Looked over the courses in the catalogue partly to see what I really want to take next year and partly to put me to shame for my bum Ec. quiz paper of today and finally to give me new inspiration. H. German is giving tutor lessons in Chemistry. Thurs. Feb. 22. Washington's Birthday, and the stars & stripes waved in the wind from the flag pole on Main. Eliz. Baldwin 1914, gave me a nice correspondence card box for my debate notes. Rec'd note from C.Johnson about the Indoor meet which comes Mon. Kicked 7th. Saw Frances Jewell. Had Trudell & Galagher meet in my room to organize. Prexy spoke about being familiar with the writings and policies of "the Fathers". Christians, Doc. McKee 1912 led & spoke on the Spirit of criticism distinguishing harmful & helful criticism. Worked on debate in Lib. & then at home till the clock hands were suspiciously near 12 pm. Fri. Feb. 23. Wrote most of the hour in J.J. interpreting the first canto of the Revolt of Islam. Had 2nd trial 8th. Affirm. Trudell Gallagher Ordway Neg. Wilson Kelsey Erwin Met Bernice M. & A Rowlands in Lib. to organize & after Prof Clark of Williams lecture on the "Iconoclast of History" [which was good & told how14 1912. some iconoclasts have shown that Washington was not a great general that he did not originate constructive legislation but acted on the advice of others] met M. Phillipe in F. Jewell's room & organized for another debate. Found out this week that Eliz. Baldwin & Eliz. Holloway are both on the Hall play committee. M. Phillips said today in the Philos. seminar room "If I had to choose between a clear mind and knowing something I'd take the clear mind." Sat. Feb. 24. Finished 324.73 p.51. Debated at 10 A.M. on aff. Affir. Jewell, Phillips, Ordway Neg. McShane, Campbell, Klippel and at 11 A.M. substituting for Ruth Holliday. Affir. Marks, Ordway, Rowlands Neg. Sutton, Bassett, King. Rec'd home letter from mamma [Feb. 22 papa went into New York to meet an old classmate (of 35 years ago) from Alfred University at a hotel at 10 A.M. They dined together & after ["reminising"] "reminiscing" separated at 2 P.M. Claire recited yesterday about Washington and did finely. Try and keep well and do well. I feel anxious to know whether you get on the debate] Also rec'd a nice letter from Margaret Towers. Swept & dusted my room after lunch. Worked in Lib. Phil. meeting at 8 P.M. Dorothy Phillips won the prize for writing the best play in. Alone in apparatus room from 5.15 - 5.40 P.M. practiced kicking. 15 1912. This year's contest. Studied. Sun. Feb. 25. Read on account of the evangelistic meetings by Mills & Davis. Rev. Fosdick of Montclair preached on what it is to be a Christian. 1. To follow in the footsteps of Jesus. 2. To imitate not copy, his divine life not his physical life which belongs only to his own generation. Jean Mordoff sang after dinner. Mission class at 2 P.M. in 213S. Mrs. Potter, Sec'y of the Pres. Woman's Board of Home missions was there and told several interesting things. At 4 P.M. I heard her speak in Senior parlor. "Jesus was a gentleman if there ever was one. A gentleman never goes where he is not wanted & Jesus doesn't force us ever." She told some interesting stories which show that foreign & home missions are one. Took short walk with H. Hess. Chapel, Christians - Prexy spoke on the need of having amid the changes of life fixed principles on which we can fall back. The one he recommended is God is. Read Anna Robertson Brown's "What is Worth While". No one appeared at lunch tonight at table 6 so I sat alone in state at the head of the table. Had a whole seat to myself in Christians. Finished letter to mamma which I began this morning. 16 1912. Very springlike out today. [scratching pimples makes them spread] Mon. Feb. 26. Portia Richardson came to me for help in translating part of the Prologue to Wallenstein. Darned white stockings. Did Ec. in Lib for an hour. Indoor meet 7.30 P.M. to 10.45 P.M. Frances Jewell won first place 5 points for high kick and I got second place in hitch and kick. 2 points. I invited Helen Ferris and Lucia Gordy as my two guests. Tues. Feb. 27. Read some Keats. Had 12th serum injection. Rec'd nice letter from home [Mama writes that Ida Zetzsche & her college friend Miss Obely of Arlington called Sat A.M. Papa did go to the big banquet in the Waldorf in honor of Pres. Hibben of Princeton. $5.00 per plate. (A.G.Todd) Nearly 1200 men sat down to dinner and the two great galleries of the ball room were filled with elegantly dressed women in evening dress. Mrs. Grover Cleveland was the guest of honor among the on-lookers. I shall be very anxious to know whether you are chosen on the debate or not.] Claire also wrote me. Was called up to Miss MacCaleb who gave me my scholarship slip entitling me to $150.00 for 1912-13. [She said Can't you work a little harder? You're work is not very high. Do you have trouble with any subject? Perhaps you are doing the best you can if you are we can't ask any more. I told her I wasn't doing as well in Economics17 1912. as in my other subjects] I was greatly surprised to hear her talk like this. My marks must be terribly low. Miss Wood gave back the paper written in class on the Interpretation of Canto I of the Revolt of Islam. [Doesn't the woman stand for anything more abstract? What is the conflict then?] Had to go to Prof. Whitney's lecture on Russian Drama 8th hr in Room 14. Marian Tallant was my guest at dinner. Did Ec. in Lib. in P.M. Narola went to Main with me. G. Bassett & I practiced together pronouncing O and U. Portia Richardson wants me to give her a tutor lesson on the Wallensteins Lager. Out of a possible 105 marks M.G. Sweeney has 92 As and Helen Lockwood 100. Prexy prayed tonight that we might not compare ourselves among ourselves as the manner of some is but that we may take advantage of our opportunities. Wed. Feb. 28. Spent 1/2 hr. reading 13 p. of Wallenstein's Lager. Rec'd letter from papa containing a clipping of the dinner at the Waldorf Fri P.M. where 1100 Princeton men sat down in honor of Pres. Hibben. Also a draft for $135.37 which I took to Mr. Poll & had my bill receipted. Miss Rourke read John Burroughs' Essay on Nature and the Poets. Wrote a letter to papa & enclosed my receipt for $135.37 and also my slip entitling me to "You take the neatest notes I ever saw "G. Hill said to me today.18 1912. my scholarship of $150.00 for 1912-13. Worked a few minutes on debate. Clubs. Prexy spoke [on our trying to save time & urged us to become readers and use our opportunities. Form now the habit of reading each day something which has been produced by the poets or the great thinkers. Worked 1 1/4 hrs. in Lib. on Debate reading Beard & Schultz. Saw Trix and Gladys Bassett & organized my side. Prexy said that our colleges are lacking in culture. They are turning out efficient men and women but very few cultured men and women. Thurs. Feb. 29. Wrote for description a theme on the manner of speech of Mrs. R. Mudd. 3rd hr. did Ec. in Lib. Had to fill in 7 blanks in one of Kipling's sound descriptions. Spent 6th, 7th & 8th in Lib on debate and did not go to Deutsche Verein 8th hr at which charades were given, nor to class meeting. Heard Miss Buck speak in Christians on the Standard of Values in college Life. [1. Find out what your own standards are. By honestly answering what do I always find time to do? 2. Your working standard is what you actually live up to not what you'd like it to be. 3. Each of us has in memory or in real life some one person whom we carefully watch and whose standard of life we ascertain19 1912. not by his or her conversation but by the life lived every day. 4. Having found a better standard than our own it can be made effective only by applying it.] My 5th trial debate 8.30 P.M. affir. McShane, Rowlands, Wilson. Neg. Ordway, Bassett, Sutton. Fri. Mar. 1 Rec'd a note from papa who is busy with preparations for the Annual meeting "writing, songs for the occasion and printing tickets etc." "Will you be here Apr. 1. Mon.?" He returned my scholarship slip with his signature & I took it to the office. Enjoyed Lab today, began the earth worm. Discussed "Prometheus Unbound" in English today. Spent all of 7th & 8th and a half hour more making out an affirmative (10 p) brief on Initiative & Referendum debate. Met H. Doughty to organize for tomorrow. Read 40 p. in Hauptmann's "Vor Sonnenaufgang". Papa sent my "Decisive Hour of Christian Missions" so it came today. Sat. Mar. 2. Worked out 1st aff. speech. Took mail. Had 13th serum injection. (6th this semester) Had 6th trial debate in Lib. in Bible Seminar room. Aff. Ordway Doughty Campbell Neg. Rowlands Lancaster McShane The debate was not good. McShane did best, she had statistics comparing Oregon & New York in20 1912. population, illiteracy, % of foreign born, % of property owner. The committee reminded us forcefully that big debate is just three weeks distant. From 11.20 - 12.40 gave Portia Richardson a tutor lesson on Act. I. Wallenstein "Piccolomini", which I rose early to read this A.M. from 6-7. Florence Kridel got my Play Ticket (2nd Hall play.). Rachel Whitcomb gave me my individual criticism at 1.30. My delivery is especially poor. Saw the last three acts of Ibsen's "The Pillars of Society" good. H. Rosenthal = Bernick. Wrote home for my N.Y. state civies. Worked on debate in Lib for an hour. Read part of ch. 1 in Zwerner's "Unoccupied Fields". Staid up till midnight & finished reading Hauptmann's "Vor Sonnenaufgang" (all but 10 p.). Peggy borrowed my fruit knives for a breakfast party tomorrow & H. Hess came in to have her German looked over. Sun. Mar. 3. Town Sunday. Went to Presbyterian Church. The Battle of the Wilderness. "If thou be the Son of God." 1. Necessary. 2. Must be fought alone. 3. The battle is decisive. Walked home with Helen Van Dyck. Mission class. Then read for 1 1/2 hrs in Lib. Walked around Sunset with A.G. Rowlands. Chapel. Christians Prexy spoke on "The Mind of Christ". It was not self centered but always looked away from self. Wrote to Ida, Aunt Ella & home. E. McShane borrowed21 1912. "Von Sonnenaufgang". H. Hess came in & talked about the modern methods of S.S. teaching which Miss Demming of 1st Bap. Ch. downtown talked on today to Prof. Chamberlain's class. G. Barrett came up to get a note for her brief & talked debate. Retired 10.30 P.M. Mon. Mar. 4 Met Trix & Neida at 1.15 in 310S to organize. Rec'd letter from Gladys Dutton. Tues. Mar. 5. Rec'd nine letters from Mama & Claire. Eight united with the church Sun "About your girl friends, certainly you can have them to dinner or luncheon whichever you prefer & I will do all I can to make it pleasant for them". Claire is doing finely with her violin and quite likes it now. Had 7th trial 8th hr. Aff. Quackenbush Sutton Ordway Neg. Doughty Vinton Phillips Wed. Mar. 6. Handed it outside assignment in Ec, a written answer to a specific question. B. Burns paper on Shelley's nature descriptions was read in class. Met A. Campbell & A. Erwin in a room of library basement & for an hour we "organized". After "Clubs" Today Miss Ballantine said that when she first tried to swing clubs alternately (one hand circle and one large circle at the same time) it seemed as if she never could get it. Keep at it & you'll get it. 22 1912. Thurs. Mar. 7. Had 14th serum injection. Rec'd letter from Ida. Song practice 1.10. Had 15 min. written in German F.F. Worked 6th on debate. 7th and until 5 p.m. Althea, Agnes C. & I were downstairs in the Lib. discussing our stand. I had to show that the cause of the present evils is the machine and that the Initiative & Referendum won't break its power. My 8th trial 7.30 P.M. Affirm - Phillips. Quackenbush. Doughty. Neg - Ordway. Campbell. Erwin. Sent a postal to J.L.G. Read "Rent" just in Outlines for Ec. Went down to 104 & had hot beef tea with Gladys, Elinor & Tebbie. Fri. Mar. 8. Miss Wells had our Ec. quiz today & handed back our first "writtens" of the semester [comment 1. how low? Read the question. Limit of min. & max. wage. 2. etc. 3. ? Look up.] Am still on worm in Biol. Lab. Miss Zabriski had to get two fresh ones before she could find an ovary for me. Song practice 1.10. ["Tonight is the night of the year".] Had a whole hour's written in J.J.Eng. on a comparison of Keats and Shelley in respect to their range of interest, general impression. Worked on debate 7th & 8th. Heard Lawyer Demming of New York City speak in P.M. on "City Gov't by Commission". Then met with E. McShane, A. Campbell & Vic Searls in Eliz's room & they discussed debate. Wrote card home. Sat. Mar. 9. Spent an hour on debate. Had 9th trial this A.M. at 10. in Assembly hall. 23 1912. Aff. Campbell, Ordway, McShane Neg. Quackenbush, Sutton, Phillips. Rec'd letter from Dorothy Rolph asking me to lead C.E. Mar. 31st. Finished "die Weber" then went to Philosophy Seminar room to see the list of debaters (final & alternates) which the committee posted at 3. P.M. It reads Basset McShane Doughty Ordway Erwin Sutton Marks Vinton Now I stand 1/3 of a chance. Whoop de do!! Read more Keats in Lib. Bobs Worcester was the first to congratulate me. Then Trix, L. Stanley, Tebbie, G. Bassett, N. Rivenburg, A. Rowlands, H. White, M. Winter, Windy Otis, Otto, Ougletrie, Quackenbush, G. Ryan, F. Burns, K. Vinton. Prexy prayed that we may "keep our eyes on the things that are before us". quite appropriate. Worked on debate until Lib. closed. Finished Keats then mended for over an hour. Retired about 12 P.M. Neida said this A.M. "Mary [Cumpson] will get more As than I will. Sun. Mar. 10 Rev. of St. Paul Miss. preached on "Becoming as a little child" 1. Affectionate, Caring. 2. trusting. 3. the world of the unseen is real. Mission class 2 P.M. At 3.15 in Senior parlor Miss Petit & Miss Newman24 1912. of school on Lonesome Creek Ky. spoke on their work there. Narola & I went for a walk round the square. Miss Van Doren a Holyoke graduate who for 7 years has been a missionary in India spoke on the opportunities India offers to college women to do work 1. Educational 2. Industrial 3. Medical 4. Spiritual. I heard her also in Senior parlor. I felt so very small and ashamed and unworthy as Miss Petit told of how the mountain white girls and boys work sacrifice and do at the same time honor work in their classes. What sort of use am I making of my opportunities in comparison with the use they are making of theirs? Wrote letters Home, to Ellen S, Irene T, Margaret T, Dorothy R, and Ida. Retired 11 P.M. More people congratulated me today. Mon. Mar. 11. Had physical exam. I have gained in every thing. Weigh now 165 lbs. a gain of 19 lbs over Freshman year. Had 15th serum injection. Miss Thallon reminded me that it is a very irresponsible attitude to take to bring the mail late on Sat. a.m. Rec'd a nice letter from papa containing $5.00. Spent 7th & 8th in Lib. on debate. At 7.30 P.M. in assembly hall an impromptu debate was held. Aff. Vinton, Marks, Erwin. Neg. Sutton, Doughty, Ordway.25 1912. Only five different people criticized us. Got home a little before 10 P.M. and retired at 10.30. Papa wrote "you seem to be debating a great deal these days. I certainly hope you will win out in the contest." Tues. Mar. 12. Have one more drawing to make of the earthworm. Bought Tennyson's poems. Rec'd letters from Aunt Ella & from Claire and Mamma who writes ["I hope you win out on the Debate. Don't neglect your studies for the debate for I would rather have you on the Honor list and have you get the Key than be on the Debate."] Went to class drill 8th. Reviewed for Ec. (all hour) written. Tomorrow on Distribution. Wed. Mar. 13. "Gut" Miss Stoebe said to me in German prose today. Ec. all hour written on 4 questions. Copied them on Driving, my favorite outdoor sport. Miss Rourke had B.B. Eng. today & had us criticize criticisms. In J. the discussion was on this Does Keats carry out in his poetry a statement in the last stanza of the Ode on the Grecian Urn that "Beauty is truth, truth is beauty" or is it mere rhetoric. Clubs 8th. I swing outside circles alternatingly O.K. Today. Spent P.M. in Lib. on debate. Rec'd letter from Helen Simpson. [In margin] Phi Beta Kappa. Honor girls and Eliz. Page, Maud McClane, M. Alden, M. Sherwood "Congratulations! I hear your name is to appear on the program a week from Saturday night. I am tickled to death and feel like screaming 'I told26 1912. you so", at you. Thurs. Mar. 14. Read a critique on Hauptmann's "Weber". Wrote 2nd record theme on the library. Rec'd note from Ida 10.10 p.m. is the only time she can come next Wed. Written (15 min. 2 questions) in F.F. German. Spent 6,7,8th in Lib. on debate. Seemed odd to go to chapel tonight having had vacation Tues. & Wed. p.m. because of the rain. In p.m. reviewed Biology notes to earthworm. Read an Ec. reference & article in Outlook on "The Cost of Children". Met K. Vinton & Helena Doughty in latter's room 105T. to organize an original affirmative. Fri. Mar. 15. Found out in Ec. quiz what "Single Tax" is. Had a pleasant laboratory period, began the lobster today. All hour written in Biology (4 questions). Talked about how Keats is like the Greeks & how unlike them. Got permission from Mrs. T. to meet a friend next Tues. at 10.10 p.m. I am to take some one with me. Wrote Ida a card. Worked on debate 7th & 8th & in the evening. Asked Louise Boynton to go down to the train with me next Tues. Sat. Mar. 16. Worked up my speech for the second affirm. Had serum injection. Cashed $5.00 money order. At 11.30 had my XIth trial. Aff. Doughty Ordway Vinton Neg. Marks Sutton Erwin. Went downtown and did many errands. Bought27 1912. a tea kettle $2.50, a tray $.10 and $.15 bottle of alcohol. Wrote Claire a postal & rec'd one from Mamma. Our flag is at half mast today because the "Maine" was sunk today. Made my first purchase of cocoa and condensed milk at the grocery store tonight. The list of the final three debaters for T and M posted on the T & M bulletin board in Philos. Seminar room after chapel read. N.B. [drawing of hand] Doughty H. McShane E. Sutton T. Finished Hauptmann's "Die versunkene Glocke". Christened my new tea-kettle tonight after 9.30 p.m. with Albertina P. & Gladys B. I had cocoa and Gladys (who is in training brought up a beef-tea tablet). Albertina had me try as a second cup some instantaneous coffee. New Miscellany (April) out today. Borrowed a can opener of Olive Rowell. Sun. Mar. 17. Dean Shaler Matthews of Chicago University preached today. Mission class. Louise Boynton, Louise Bowen & I walked around Maple Circle. A muddy walk but the air was fine and we enjoyed it. Christians in P.M. 28 1912. Mon. Mar. 18. Organized for another debate. Prexy spoke in chapel on the Propagation of Truth by violence of force. He does not approve of such methods. see p.35. Tues. Mar. 19. Debate in assembly hall after chapel. Aff. Ordway Marks Vinton Neg. Sutton Doughty McShane. I left before it was all done and Louise Boynton & I went down to the station to meed Ida Zetzsche who came from Mt. Holyoke via Albany. I staid with Ida off campus at Mrs. Knaus's and we had a fine visit. see p.36 Wed. Mar. 20. Had breakfast in my room the second time I have used my tea kettle. I had five classes today to which Ida went with me. Louise showed her the Library and lake at noon. Open T and M debate 8th hr. in 35 "Rockie" aff. Catharine Gallagher. Agnes Wilson neg. C. Oughtree. M. Hulst. College singing. Chapel. Students meeting after which Ida went to 403 R & I to a debate in Students room. aff. Bassett Marks Erwin neg. McShane, Sutton, Doughty Thurs. Mar. 21. Miriam Abbot & Lilian Lang spoke tonight on their works last summer among the Syrians in Boston at the summer Vassar vacation school.29 1912. Lilian, Miriam and Helen Lockwood were the Vassar girls. The account was very interesting. Fri. Mar. 22. Nothing doing tonight. Gladys Bassett & I spent the evening in the Lib. doing what we found to do. Sat. Mar. 23. Rec'd letter from Mamma stating that I wrote the debate was to be Mar. 29th and she would come. I telegraphed her about 10.45 A.M. that the debate is tonight, come as soon as possible. Listened to the final sub. debate in Assembly Hall at 8.30 A.M. aff. Marks Erwin Vinton neg. McShane Sutton Doughty A splendid debate. Bernice came down with the measles & went after debating to the Infirmary. At about 11 A.M. the T and M committee, debaters and alternates started forth from Main in a comfortable wagon and at the Lodge were cheered by 1913, 1915, and 1911. First time I have been cheered. We rode for an hour along the river road and then had lunch at the North Side tea-room. The committee received gift's Vic 3 books, other boquet pins and slipper buckles. When I reached 403 R I found a box from Saltford's containing a lovely boquet of dark blue sweet peas and big daisies from Lucy Penniman & Frances Jewell. Stanley came in a few minutes,30 1912. Evelyn Noble borrowed my Biology Notebook. I finished Sudermann's "Die Ehre". Told Louise S. I was going to meet the 6.05 train. I just in front of Raymond when she called to me that mama was in room. I hustled up to find there mama & Evelyn. Was it not odd that I told Louise I was going? Am so glad mama came. Just soon after, two boxes were received & she opened them one was a dozen yellow johnquils from Helen J. Simpson 1911, the other a lovely boquet of pink & white sweet peas from Evelyn Noble & Louise Stanley. Before mama came Ruth Whithed stopped & left a book from 1913. "America the beautiful and other poems" by Katharine Lee Bates in appreciation of my good work on debate. Mama had dinner in Raymond. We were late to chapel so sat in the tower cloister. I met Mrs. McShane & Ruth. Gladys Bassett was at dinner but before the debate began went to the infirmary with the measles. After the usual waiting and after the 4 classes had marched in the two chairmen, the judges, the committee, the alternates and last of all the debaters marched in. We sat in the north side seats which were portioned off by white ribbons. I wore my pink & white sweet peas. Mayor [Segu] presided. Aff. D.Fay R.Robinson F.Dugan. Neg. E. McShane T.B. Sutton H.Doughty 31 1912. Mr.Sutton & Mrs. Sutton and Mr. Wright sat behind me. The debate was fine. 1912 was not as good as last year, they were sarcastic & their delivery was not pleasant. But 1913 was great, pleasant address, fine arguments, convincing without being mean and we were so proud of them. After the last rebuttal we withdrew while the Judges made their decision in Senior parlor. Vic then came to us in the firewall on third alloted to us and most seriously announced that we were not to be excited, "We've won". My what embracing and exclamations followed. Our three debaters were squeezed & loved. We leaned out the window to watch those in Assembly Hall. Then what a cheer when the decision was announced. Down to the soap palace we hurried & led by Rachel Whitcomb gave vociferous yeas for Qui Vive. In due season we sang our debate songs and 1911 had a cute one too. Then in Mrs. Tillinghast's parlor the T and Mers & the Qui Viver's met 2 of the Judges & Prexy. Here Mama found me and after hearing a few words of one judge I went home and then off campus to Mrs. Knaus's. see p.36. Sun. Mar. 24. Mama & I had breakfast in my room. of de Pauw University gave32 1912. a good sermon on "ye shall walk and not faint". Mama went with me to Maud's mission class. Then to the S.S. exhibit in the Library basement. Easter music in the P.M. Very pretty. I staid off campus with Mama. Mon. Mar. 25. Who left at 6.30 A.M. & I went back to work. Rec'd letter from Claire. see p.37. Tues. Mar. 26. Class meeting 8th hr. Chairman of Junior boat ride com., members of Vassarion board elected. At 5.30 the committee, debaters & alternates met Vic at the Inn and had a nice dinner (Vics treat). Cut chapel. Louise Boynton & I spent 3 hrs. working on our bank-statement for Ec. see p.37. Wed. Mar. 27. Thurs. Mar. 28. Worked 1 1/2 hrs. extra in the Lab. Went in the tank with Alma Klippel 8th hour. Great fun. Did Ec. Took Giverner's "Unoccupied Fields" and the "Atlas Student Volunteer for Foreign Mission of the World" out, and copied some statistics. 33 1912. Fri. Mar. 29. Packed, packed my room furnishings away. Took mail. Saw Agnes Rowlands at the Infirmary. Left 403R. at 11.40 A.M. and made the special. Which left at 12.20. Rode with A.R. and H. White. Whom I left at Fulton street. Got in Newark about 4 P.M. Papa met me at Park Place & saw me to Market St. Claire was at home & we sang & she played nicely on her violin. Sat. Mon. 30. Went downtown with Claire to take her lesson. Did a few errands. Entre nous met at Chloe Thielmans. Gretta Burgesser was elected Pres., E. Werner Treas., H. Ludlow Sec'y, Vice Pres. Sun. Mar. 31. Church - splendid sermon on "If ye serve me follow me." S.S. - review Sunday. Mama spoke before the whole school. C.E. at 7 p.m. I led on this subject "Foreign missions of my denomination, a birds eye view." Dorothy Rolph reported on Mr. White's speech given at the central church last (Fri. Mar. 29) Reid Edwards spoke very prettily on "the home base" church - theme "The alternative" good music at both services. Mr. Axt played. Mon. April 1. Ironed some. In p.m. at 5.30 went to church ready to serve with the girls. A fine supper was served. The waitresses & musicians were served first. New tables seating 8 were used tonight for first time. 34 1912. At 8 p.m. the Annual meeting was held upstairs. A feature of it was two songs written by papa to college tunes. K.M.C. Kilburn Memorial church and . At the end of the meeting the Ordway's withdrew. Tues. April 2. Mama & I went downtown in search of a suit, hat, neither of which I found. Bought 2 underwaists, nightdress, 2 pair stockings, corset $2, new yokes for plaid gingham & copenhagen blue dresses. Were gone from 9 A.M. to 3.30 P.M. In the evening it rained hard. Hazel Ludlow & I were the only girls there, 12 men were present. Good meeting. Arthur Mudd was there & spoke. Subject Jesus "The Lord of Life". The power to awaken a dead soul is even greater than power over the physical life. Wed. April 3. Claire & I sorted her things. I helped mama prepare for her S.S. class which she entertained in the evening from 8-11.20 p.m. Refreshments were caramel ice-cream, chocolate cake with chocolate frosting, sponge patty cakes with white frosting, nuts & figs. Then a guessing contest beginning with "Great Warrior". Monteith Allan Tenney Howard Orben Elmer Towers Everett Tenney Harold Sherman Willie Weinrich.35 1912. Thurs. Apr. 4. Wrote up my diary from Mar. 17th 1912. Mr. Edwards was here in the A.M. After dinner about 3 P.M. he came with the auto and Lois, Helen, Blanche, Claire & I rode with him down S. Orange Ave. to the garage on St. Then across to and to Edwards house via Sanford Ave. Helen made candy & Claire & I were invited to stay to supper which we did. In the p.m. attended C.E. business meeting which was followed by a social. Lois made a cake for the social. She is a quick, clever little house-wife. Mon. Mar. 18. Rec'd letter from Mama ["We had only one letter from you last week the one on Tuesday morning and that was very short, but I suppose you are so tired out from debating you cannot write much.(Sunday) we had the largest S.S. in the history of the church 326. Only one more week after this and then you will be home to help me a few days. I do not get a minute to sew and hardly find time to mend. Give my love to Ida & tell her I want one of her cap & gown pictures. I was made Vice Pres. of the Presbyterial Society. Mrs. Dr. McDowell asked me to make the prayer at the Foreign meeting the Friday you come home."]36 1912. Mon. Mar. 18. Claire wrote me about the three songs papa has written to be sung at the Annual meeting. 1. K.M.C. 2. The Misses Kilburn's Aid. 3. Our New Building. Tues. Mar. 19. Letter from Laura Kemp ["I guess you know what it is to be busy. Last Sat. Night we had a St. Patrick's Party of the Club girls at my house, we had a dandy time"] Sat. Mar. 23 Letter from Mama. ["The intermediates gave their minstrel show & took in over $70.00. "We received your Tuesday letter and were disappointed at its contents, but perhaps the result is all for the best. Some one must be left out and as the lot fell to you it is for the purpose doubters of Teaching you to bear disappointment gracefully & enable you to congratulate others on their success. Don't feel hurt by the decision but bear it sweetly and it will make you nobler and sweeter for the experience"..... "(You speak about my coming to college. I don't see houw I can afford to come, but Papa says I must go"). "Your letter was so mixed up as to the time. Is the Debate Friday night or Saturday night? You said Sat. the 29th and the 29th is Friday."]37 1912. Mon. Mar. 25. Letter from Claire. ["Cousin Julia is keeping house for us two. I can hardly wait for Friday to come because then you're coming home. My won't we have a lovely time?"] Tues(?) Mar. 26. Letter from Ida ["The very lovely visit at Vassar for which I do thank you most heartily. I called on Anna Katherine Pulver Blanchard at Mrs. Thonton's. Many many thanks again for the pleasant time I spent at 403 Raymond"] Fri. Apr. 5. Cleaned upstairs with cleaner. Mended in afternoon & evening. Stayed home with Mama instead of attending the Fresh Air Congress. Papa preached at the Memorial Church preparatory service. Sat. Apr. 6. Worked in A.M. Went downtown with Claire who took her lesson from 2-3 while I did errands. She selected her own rabbit, a tall buff one. We bought some candy eggs and a chocolate rabbit for papa and one for Mama. Joke [Springfield Ave. - [anstalt] So. Orange Ave. car] secret - don't tell. Mama entertained at a lovely four course supper Miss Emma Shannon Reid Edwards & Dorothy Rolph. Mrs. Shannon38 1912. couldn't come because Milda has the measles. A lovely supper & a pleasant evening. They were my company & Mamma's. I served. After 11 p.m. Mama & I colored eggs. (8) with Paas dyes. Sun. Apr. 7. Claire & I went to the C.E. sunrise service in the auditorium at 7 A.M. It was one of the prettiest services I ever attended. Harry Fox led. Frank Platts spoke about the Servant in the House. The thought of the meeting was so to live that regret & remorse over our past will not be necessary. Claire filled her rabbit with eggs & mama & papa had their chocolate ones. Papa preached on the meaning of Easter & showed how we may rise above our present attainments into a new life letting the hitherto undeveloped possibilities in us have a chance to grow. S.S. I had Bessie Magies class. Papa spoke to the S.S. on Easter. I read to Claire from the Odyssey just a few lines and she was so tired from being up late this week that she went to sleep & slept till lunch time, very unusual for her. Church in P.M. Papa preached on "The Alternative". If you dont take Christ, what are you going39 1912. to do? The story of the old shoemaker who gave an Easter lily for each converted person during the last year was beautiful. The Churches had few from him but in the back room where special meetings had been held among men a large number gladdened the Easter and the reporter himself walked home with one on the day after Easter. Mon. Apr. 8. Mama and I spent almost the entire afternoon downtown getting me a suit (black and white, whip cord), hat, gloves, shoes and waists. Mama & I walked down to Dr. Davenport's and I paid him for the vaccine [$2.50 for 4 bottles Park Davis mixed staphlococcus vaccine 400,000,000.] We made a short call on Mrs. Prentiss. Papa & Claire were playing fox & geese. Mama & I read some in the newspapers. I cut out the clipping about Vassar possibly abolishing the daisy chain. Vassar stands for scholarship. Claire returned to school. Tues. Apr. 9. Ironed my shirtwaists etc. Mama attended the last meeting of that mission class in the 1st ch. on . Papa went to Presbytery. I left at 2 P.M. Mama helped me pack and went to the corner with 40 1912. me. [N.B. in the margin] "I expect to work as I have never worked before" I remember saying. Papa is cherishing a splendid plan for us all the summer I graduate from college. I rec'd a letter containing a pretty lace jabot with velvet ribbon from Mary Thornell, a card from Ida and one from Marian Case during vacation. Because I made excellent connections I reached the Grand Central in time to get the 3.24 P.M. train. Had a porter for the first time. A woman from Bridgeport Conn whose husband used to work in the Brighton N.Y. creamery under Peter Languell sat with me. Only a few girls came up. Arrived in 403R 5.45. Settled after dinner and read for 1 1/4 hr. in Tennyson. Wrote a letter home. Wed. Apr. 10. Prof. Treadwell is ill so we had no Biology. Miss Wood read some of the Sonnets handed in. They were good, Shelley Wordsworth, Lincoln, Womans Suffrage, March Spring were some of the subjects. Prexy's prayer was full of hope & incentive to do the best possible the rest of the year. 41 1912. Thurs. Apr. 11. Letter from Agnes Rowlands & a card from H. Germann. More Tennyson reading. Read Sudermann's. "Die Heimat". Cut given us in B.B. English. Maud Kilsey led Christians and spoke finely on this point that God requires us to use the talent's or talent he has given us. E. Baldwin 1913 gave this quotation "Be as beautiful as God meant you to be." N. Rivenburg said "If life seems too easy it is a pretty sure sign that we are not completely doing God's will." Wrote Helen Simpson thanking her for the jonquils Mar. 23. [in margin] serum injection Fri. Apr. 12. Miss Wells had our quiz section today. Only 1 hr. in Lab today, did 3 larva stages of the lobster & part of the fourth. Required lecture 4th. Prof. Gow on "Principles of musical composition" interesting & it inspired me to go on with my music. No Biology today. Discussed Blank Verse of "Alastor" & "Passing of Arthur". Read Tennyson. Sat in front row of gallery with Alma & Gladys to hear Colonel Fiebieger's lecture on "The Panama canal". Very interesting. The slides were fine. Sat. Apr. 13. Read Bks 13-17 in Malory's Morte d'Arthur for J.J. paper. Ready Tennyson's "Holy grail" & started my paper. In response to a little note received on the unstamped mail this noon I went to 301N. (Miss North's room) at 5 P.M. & interviewed her. My bank statement was incorrect42 1912. but that wouldn't have caused the note to be sent. My quiz papers have been low one was C- and another was C. She said she thought I'd want to know just how it stood because I would be dissatisfied to have it as it now is. Never have I received a "doubtful" note before. This must be what Miss McCaleb referred to when I saw her about my scholarship. Miss North was very nice and told me not to be discouraged. She suggested that I read different books for one book gets text booky. She suggested Taussig's and Johnson's. I told her I intended to work my bank statement over and she said "Don't spend too much time on it I'd rather you'd spend it on your current work". If you get confused come to me anytime. One paper was passing C. Yes, but it ought to be A I said. I tried not to cry but the tears would come. Students meeting in the P.M. nomination's Pres Vice Pres Sec'y Treas R. Holliday E. Baldwin Wagner Cartin V. Searle Heinman Blackman Maid's club House Chairman M. Armstrong E. Noble43 1912. Corrected H. Hess's sentences in German. Wrote theme 22 (B.B. English) on how the principles of musical composition apply to literary composition. Henrietta brought in some salad. Put supporters in my new waist. Retired 12.15 A.M. Until tonight I have been in bed since vacation soon after 10. Suit came today. Sun. Apr. 14. Wrote up diary from Apr. 4th. Rev. of preached [on why it is that there is such a difference between our ideals and what we really are. 1. We think too much of the uses to which they can be put. 2. We do not yield our wills to God.] His personality was very attractive. Holy matrimony. At 3 P.M. met in Lib. in a seminar room for Bible study. Life of Christ - book of John. Katherine Otis is the moving spirit. Wrote home. Prexy [spoke in Christians about the individuality which belongs peculiarly to each separate person. No one else knows it, no one else undestands this individual individuality. This secret place known only to the possessor is where God meets the soul.] Wrote to Mrs. Barker, Mary Thornell & Ida. Louise Boynton & I had a talk on Ec. Henrietta Hess passed her German exam & handed in a nice paper. 44 1912. Mon. Apr. 15. Asked Miss Rourk for an interview soon. 10 min. written in German F.F. Miss Woods went over my Sonnet on the Library and said it is not passionate the words are prosy, the structure is not clear so the sense is obscured, but she said the couplet at the end is the best part of it "That isn't bad". Bought Brownings poems. Anne Ericsons came up 8th hr. We spent some time looking at our class picture taken freshmen year. Forty of the girls who are in that picture are not in college now in our class. Prexy spoke on the need of care in conversation ["referring to that article which appeared during vacation that Vassar faculty was thinking of giving up the daisy chain which was not official."] He spoke too about the Vassar traditions one of them being that the college is strictly for undergraduates, another that the number is limited to a thousand and he said Did you ever stop to think that you are taking up room that several people are waiting to of occupy? We turn hundreds of girls from here each year. Then with a few final words of what college traditions and the spirit of Vassar are he stopped a very inspiring, earnest, suggestive & helpful talk. Worked on J.J. paper. Retired at 12.30 A.M. Rose at 6 A.M. Splendid Preliminary Student Volunteer meeting 8.30 in 213S. Tues. Apr. 16. Rose at 7. Spent first, part of second, fourth and all lunch time writing to hand in my J.J. Paper on45 1912. Tennyson's and Malory's treatment of the Holy Grail compared. Miss Gabriskie lectured today in Prof. Treadwell's place. Miss Wood had us write the entire hour on the underlying thought of "In Memoriam". 8th hr. heard Prof. Shelling of Univ. of Pa. lecture on "New discoveries concerning Shakespeare". Prexy announced the graduates chosen by the faculty for the fellowships. Lydia Pratt Babbitt - Vassar Student Aid Society 1905 These two were chosen from seven Trustee fellowships. 1. Blake 2. Hurlburt 1912 3. Eliz. Kildredge 4. Helen Lockwood These 4 were chosen from 14 names. Word came today in the newspapers of the terrible disaster on the ocean - the sinking of the largest vessel afloat the "Titanic" with a loss of life of over 1400. While 625 mostly women & children were picked up by the Carpathia. Rec'd letter from Ellen. H. Hess brought me lunch. Wed. Apr. 17. Letter from Ida and a letter from home. Which contained Pittsford clippings of Charlie, Helen46 1912. Agate and Chester. Helen's grandparents celebrated their Golden wedding. Miss Zabriskie lectured again today. 8th hour heard a splendid concert by a famous Vassar graduate Miss Marta Milinowski 1907. Read Hauptmann's "Einsame Menschen" almost through. Rec'd invitation to Vassar day at the city Y.W.C.A. Scanned 50 lines each from Shelley & Tennyson. Thurs Apr. 18 Finished "Einsame Menschen". Wrote Record theme VI. E. McShane gave the [Inhalt] of her drama and then Miss Whitney called on me for mine. (She read the answer I gave to the 2nd question of Monday's quiz.) Class meeting 7th at which Miss Haight spoke to 1913 on democracy in college. Then she urged us to stand our Senior year for 1. Honest work. 2. Cooperative effort in student government 3. Sympathetic interest in everyone. An animiated discussion of senior parlor has continued in Freshman parlor. Christians in p.m. Sat with Peggy and Louise. An illustrated talk on Silver Bay was jointly given in succession by Irene Lawrence, Ruth Holliday, Gladys Bassett, Louise Roble and Margaret Tiggits. Read from Noyes - "40 years of American Finance". in Lib. Tried on my new suit which fits perfectly. Wrote home. Retired 11 p.m. Miss North looks at me very knowingly when I meet her now. Good Reason. 47 1912. Fri. Apr. 19. Miss Wells had our quiz section today in Ec. Began my locust today in Lab. Discovered six aortic arches in my earthworm when studying its circulation and Miss Mack was greatly interested, looked it up in the best authorities and called Miss Zabriskie and Miss Beckwith to see it. Began the study of "In Memoriam" in J. Miss. 2 showed us some slides today. Studied M. Prose. Visited in Peg's room. Their table all want singles. Peg returned my cocoa (borrowed after Ida was here). At 9.30 gave a chocolate & cracker party. H. Hess M. Williams E. Toaf H. Adler M. Gavin M. Howell G. Macleon E. McShane Sat. Apr. 20. Mrs. T. gave me a leave for May 4- May 7. (I saw her yesterday and she looked up my record). Wrote Ida. Heard Gilbert Murray lecture on the chorus. He quoted some from his own translations of Euripedes and was fine. Had serum injection. Hunted singles. Worked from 2-3 p.M. with H. White reading proof. Wore my new suit & shoes to Vassar Day at Y.W.C.A. Enjoyed Miss Alice Stone Woolley's talk on the physical work. Sent my votes for Pres., V. Pres, and chairman maids club house and went to Lib. and studied Ec. outline on Banking and monetary history. Re-did bank statement. Have it now just $900.00 out of the way. Albertina and H.Hess had chocolate with me after 9.30 P.M. I went out48 1912. and helped serenade M. Tibbits tho present president of Students and Victoria Searle the president to be of Students. Each spoke nicely. Vic said I only hope I shall prove to have the ability which you seem to think I have. Sun. Apr. 21. Prexy preached [because the minister from Andover Seminary Cambridge Mass didn't appear] from this text - "Take therefore the talent from him". Neglect results in return to the original type (i.e. selfishness). [Disuse] results in degeneracy. What might have been never can be now because the powers weren't used at the critical time. "God measures us according to our faithfulness, not according to our abilities." With the latent comes the power to use it and the purpose to use it. A searching sermon.] Took short walk with Irene Beir and Jeanette Allen. Called on A. Rowlands. Led class on study of gospel of John. At 2 P.M. in Edith Maas' room E. Alma Leslie, Katharine Otis and I were the only ones there but we had a good time. Then I went searching singles for 1 3/4 hrs. Heard Miss Helen Glenn on Hospital Social work at 7 P.M. in assembly hall. Wrote home. Retired 10.15 p.m. 49 1912. Mon. Apr. 22. Rec'd card, and a letter from home from mama who begins "My precious Gretta" and closes "With boundless love, mamma." My box of laundry which I left to be sent came today. Mama has shortened my sicilian sleeves for me. All the clothes look very nice. My theme on a fleeting expression called "Irrepressible" was read in class today. More reports of dramas given in German today, L. Rich, A. Plumb, L. Sugden. J. Bernstein. After N. Latin today I asked Helen Hall about Psychology being required to teach in New York state. Miss Palmer told us it is possible to read it up in a few weeks, others have done it. Then after Miss Hall went Miss Palmer said she hopes I'll take Latin next year. And when I told her I'd like to have prose she suggested 2 hr. Tacitus and L. prose. I told her I'd consider it. Class meeting 7th. A plan of simplification was advanced but it was moved & carried that the committee progress with their own plans. Open suffrage discussion 8th hr. E. Prudden was moderator. Hurlburt spoke for the affirmative & Dorothy Stinson for the negative in a prepared speech. Others took part too. A parade was held this noon. Christians election of nominees for next year. Pres. R. Holliday Vice P. K. Scribner50 1912. Rec. Sec'y D. Br Cor. Sec'y Treas. C. Brensinade. Studied in Lib. Corrected H. Hess's German sentences. Retired 10.45 P.M. Tues. Apr. 23. Albertina and I studied for Biology quiz 1st hr. Lab. 3rd & 4th. Serum injection. Oral biology quiz. I was not called on. Some had to draw diagrams on the board. Continued to discuss "In Memoriam". Rec'd from papa 54th Annual Report of the Board of Education of Newark N.J. 1909-10. (borrowed from Mr. McMillan. principal of School Newark N.J.) Also rec'd a Colubmia Univ. Bulletin of Information about the summer session for 1912. 8th hr. in assembly Hall drew a number on a wooden block from a bag held by Mrs. T. I got 65. (good luck) Registered name with number with Miss Dody and then with our committee. Took a final look at rooms and tried to ascertain how many people ahead of me want singles. After Chapel in new gym Room-drawing transpired. I drew 341. (the 21st single drawn) and retained it on the second chart. Peg's crowd will be on second, north. Got home about 10.40 p.m. Wed. Apr. 24. Discussed ch, d, in M. Prose. Prof. Mills was a dear to lecture today and not give us a 51 1912. written. Miss Rourke had us write all hour in Decription a criticism of one of the dreams handed in as theme 24 today. I had Theresa West's on "The Rajahina's Tragedy." Which read like and Arabian Night tale. Miss Zabriskie lectured on Insects today. Continued In Memoriam discussion. Read proof with H. White 7th hr. Had Lucy Penniman to dinner. Read proof after chapel. Saw Agnes Rowlands about summer vacation Bible school work in New York city among the Jewish children. Of which Burns (V.C.1905) wrote her $42.00 for books of 5 days each, working 3 hrs. a day. Read "The Coming of Arthur, Gareth and Lynette". Corrected Henrietta's sentences. Retired 11.15 p.m. Thurs. Apr. 25. 10 min. written in F.F. German. H. White & I worked on proof reading. Mrs. Hill led Christians. Good meeting. Subject How to make the prayer-meeting more helpful. Finished Biology Lab. Fri. Apr. 26. Founder's Finish proof reading of German vocabulary. College singing 9.30. Prexy's address at 10. Then I went into the Founder's museum (for the first time) and saw the pine table which Matthew Vassar used. At 2.30 in Phil. hall 9 scenes from Dickens were splendidly given by the girls and 3 faculty. The harp accompaniment to Miss Robinson's song was 52 1912. lovely. Missed the lecture on Dickens by Prof. Axson of Princeton and missed the reception to go down with Agnes Wright and Eliz. McShane to Vassar Institute to hear debated by Poughkeepsie H.S. aff. and Albany H.S. neg. the direct election of U.S. senator by constitutional amendment. Had cocoa in 317 prepared by Mary Gavin and E. Toof. Sat. Apr. 27. Returned proof sheets to Prof. Whitney. Met Miss Ethel Burns (1908) at 9 A.M. in Raymond reading room in Main to discuss (summer) daily vacation Bible School assoc. work in New York city. Rec'd letter from papa ["My dear Junior" Building plans progressing. Papa & A.Towers are a com. to see about the pulpit end of the church. Speaking of my going to Mt. Holyoke papa says "Now be good children and let Mass. understand what the great town of Sodus can produce in the way of girls.] "The rose is red the violet's blue I am hungry and so are you" Much love Pater] Finished "Rosenmontag". Studied Ec. (i.e. did reading & got back statement to come out right.) Read more in Tennyson. Senior May pole dance at 6.30 P.M. Very pretty. Sophomore trio ceremonies at 9 P.M. I saw them from my own window. Very pretty. Spirits of the wind, fire and water 53 1912. danced before the others who were clad in white. They didn't begin to sing their marching song until several minutes after all had left the trio. I staid up till after 11 P.M. to read some in Tod's Students' manual. Drew 2nd $3.00 for mail D 1 & 2. Sun. Apr. 28. Read in Outlook for Apr. 27, a good article on the ["Chum"] attitude existing between American children and parents. Handed to Miss Ethel Burns at 10.15 A.M. in Senior parlor my application card for a position in a New York city daily vacation Bible school under Dr. Boville. Agnes Rowlands, Narola & I walked around Sunset before Chapel. Pres. Burton of Smith preached a fine sermon Eph. 3:8 "the unsearchable riches of Christ." Self-realization and then self sacrifice. Christ is I. Practical II. Reasonable III. Loving - appeals to our affections IV. Tells us There is a God. The riches for which Americans work so unceasingly in the economic world are not comparable in value to the unsearchable riches of Christ through which we may become more perfect and attain the full development54 1912. of the "powers talents and potentialities" which God has entrusted to us and which we are to use to "enable others to develop likewise." Bible Class in Edith Maas' room at 2 P.M. We discussed our ideas of heaven and and eternal life, condemnation etc. From 4-6 P.M. walked around Maple circle with Pauline Allen. Went to Christians. Prexy spoke on freedom - that freedom which because we are God's children frees us from the laws of men but makes us responsible to God. Tried again to call on Miss Stroebe but again found an engaged sign on her door. H. Hess came home about 9 P.M. and shared with me some sandwiches & cake. She very kindly brought me a box of home-made peanut crisp (she made it herself). Mon. Apr. 29. Letter from Ida. Athletics meeting in P.M. Tues Apr. 30. Letter from mama. [enclosing the announcements printed by papa. Mama has had another week packed full. The Post-jubilee luncheon at the Orange Club House she attended Friday. Aunt Mary sent mama the "blue & white coverlet of which Grandma spun the thread & had it made in [Auburn] prison. It is 108 years old and is perfectly beautiful." "Is there any prospect55 1912. of your going to Silver Bay?" "Papa don't want you to work in New York this summer, but wants you to come home and help me and spend your summer at home getting ready to do your best during your last year at college". Claire also wrote me beginning "I hope you will enjoy your trip to Mount Holyoke".] Drew two bugs during lab hour. Miss Mack asked me about a German sentence. I wrote to Dr. Boville and told him I would not work in New York this summer. Wed. May 1. All hour Ec. written on Audit and Banking, American monetary history and American banking history. Miss Rourke read entire hour from Joseph Conrad's . At 3.45 had an interview with Miss Rourke. She said my punctuation is poor, I should describe more outline of the library in my record themes, I should have made my theme on the application of the principles of musical composition to literary composition entirely independent of the lecture and so illustrated it that it would be clear to anyone. Took a walk with Alma, Gladys and Gertrude off campus. $10.00 money order from papa who writes "We will combine and give mamma a litte respite, we will let her super-intend, and we will endeavor to do the work. 56 1912. Thurs. May 2. Finished Biology Lab. 3rd & 4th this A.M. Went down town, called on Miss True at Lyndon Hall. Discussed possibilities of taking Eng. Polit. History next year. Christians elections tonight. Pres. K. Scribner Vice Pres. M.A. Wilson Called on Miss Stroebe. She said "you must come and see me often next year". Fri. May 3. Took my Biology field trip 3rd hr. It was lots of fun to go on such a nice walk in the morning. Prof. Touks lectured 4th hr. in the Art building (i.e. museum, upstairs) on the principles of pictorial composition. He showed a number of slides. Mended, packed suitcase. H. Hess & I went down to R.R. station after 8.30 P.M. with my suit case. Yesterday I promised Gladys Carr I'd give Jane Addams "Twenty years at Hull House" as my Senior parlor gift. Sat. May 4. Rose at 4.45. Ate a little bread and drank the milk which Mrs. Crary sent up to me last night on request. Left here at 5.30 and walked down town almost to Luckey Platts. Then there I got the first car & rode to the station. Ticket P. to S. $3.87.57 1912. Left Poughkeepsie at 6.25 A.M. Albany at 8.55 and was due in Springfield at 12.10 but the train was late so didn't get to Holyoke till almost 2 P.M. Ida met me and asked me if I had seen Wilhelmina. Then Wilhelmina, who had ridden out on the same train with me and who had recognized my initials on my suit case, walked up and how surprised I was. I didn't know she was coming, She didn't know I was coming. Ida, and I haven't seen her for 10 years. We lunched in Holyoke, then went by trolley to Northhampton to Smith College which we "did" thoroughly. Went to call on Hester Hopkins and Ethel Curtis (E.H.S. '08) but they were out. Did not find Margaret Burling at home but found her in the gym. drilling for Macbeth. Saw Miss Yost. On the street Fanny Jeurdan who is now Smith 1915, but who started in with us at Vassar passed me and we recognized each other & had a little visit. Had supper in Holyoke. Trollied to S. Hadley and about 7.30 P.M. stopped at the gate by Mary Lyon Chapel and entered the campus of Mt. Holyoke College. Went to 31 Porter Hall, Ida's room, then after doing a few errands, and donning a clean waist, attended a senior party given by the Gerberich sisters. Ice cream58 1912. was served in cones. We slept in the Y.W.C.A. room, Ida & I in one cot. Sun. May 5. Breakfasted in Ida's room. Went to church. Rev. Guthrie of Burlington Vt. preached. I staid to communion. It was queer to have women pass the bread and wine. Walked up Prospect. My! it is a beautiful spot. Dined on chicken at a cosy table by ourselves in Mrs. Lovell's house (where Ida got her meals Freshman year). Saw Mr. Skinner's summer home. Called on Helen Yergin in her own room. She is 1915. Lois is at Union and is engaged to Clyde fellow. Howard also is engaged. Walked around the upper lake. Wrote letter home. Wilhelmina & I went up to Maud Fillmore's room and she made candy. Her sister was visiting. Nice supper in Ida's room- dandy sandwiches. Vespers in P.M. over 100 girls in vesture and they looked nice marching in and then at the end they marched out. Prof. Hammond then played & a girl played the cello with him. Tonight we slept three in a row. Mon. May 6. Breakfasted at the Gift shop. Chapel at 8.15 led by Pres. Wooley a splendid looking woman. Ida wore her cap and gown. The Seniors59 1912. sat down in front and looked so nice in their caps and gowns. It was particularly impressive as they marched down the aisle by twos. Ida sat with us in the gallery. Then she took us thru the buildings. The new music building is very nice. Bought 17 postals. We 3 went to Springfield where we dined in the tea room of Forbes and Wallace. Then went to station and saw Wilhelmina off. Was sorry to see her go. The reunion has been great. Bought a German silver mesh bag for Claire and Ida & I went back soon to college. Mt. Tom and Mt. Holyoke each topped by a white mountain house stand out in the distance plainly & imposingly on a clear day. Attended one class Education conducted by Prof. who spoke of the possible evil results of a good personality. Supper in Ida's room with Norma and Maud. Ida studied Spanish, I wrote postals to Agnes R Eliz. McS. Narola R. Peggy H. Germann R. Robinson Louise Boynton F. Chaffee Mama Gladys B. H. Hess papa Albertina F. Jewwll Claire [note in margin] Went to see Lois Mott but she was not home. Enjoyed looking at the Junior year book the "Lamarada" (corresponding to our Vassarion). Slept once more down in Y.W.C.A. roon in Wilder60 1912. Have met Attena Norma A. of Suffern N.Y. Bradbury Dora J. " Fort Kent Me. Bronk C. Louise " Ansterdam N.Y. Fillmore Maud J. " Palmer Mass Gerberich Grace H. " Lebanon Pa. " Pearl S. " " " Howe Marion G. " Orange Mass. Marr Clara L. " Rochester Junction N.Y. Pease Marian C. " Pringfield Mass. Richardson Edith M. " New Bedfore Mass. Tues. May 7. After eating an orange and a cookie I left 31 Porter and Mary Lyongate at 6.30 A.M. for Holyoke. Ida slipped out last night and returned with a Mt. Holyoke song book for my birthday present. I've had a glorious time here and now goodbye Mt. Holyoke which I have seen on my first trip to New England and 7.54 A.M. I left Springfield and at 12.05 left Albany and arrived at V.C. 2.40 P.M. and was just a few minutes late to G. Eng. Studied Biology on the train. Found awaiting me a letter from Dr. Boville also a letter from home. It has been voted to "proceed at once and begin the new church". "I went down Sat. and paid Bamberger for your things. Now papa must have a new suit." "I don't know whether Claire and I61 1912. can come to Vassar or not, all these things take money." 1912 Vassarion out tonight. Wed. May 8. Recited in the corner of Room 19 "Du Bist Wie eine Blume." All hour sprung written in J. on First Impression of Browning. Prof. Mills read several selections from Ruskin today. Oral quiz in Biology on Crustacea. Injection. Thurs. May 9. Class meeting to nominate next year's officers. "Fruhlings fest" in Deutsche Vereim B. Zahner and M. Mac Noughton were dressed up ridiculously and sang a comic dialogue. Adeline de Sale led Christians tonight. Subject - Minding the rests. Fine meeting. Fri. May 10. Studied hard 2 hours on Annelids & Crustacea. All hour written in Biology on Annelids & Crustacea. Basket ball game 7th. 1913 vs. 1912. Score 28- in favor of 1912. Had Agnes Wilson to dinner. Athletics in P.M. Nominations for next year. Wrote card home. Sat. May 11. Finished "Alt-Heidelberg". Read Browning. Wrote theme and a record, did prose. Turned in to H. White the $4.25 I collected from my group of German Sum. Readers. Took short walk with Frances Jewell & Irene Bier. F is such an inspiration. Letter from A. Rowlands. Sent postal to Goldie.62 1912. Sun. May 12. Rev. of Harvard preached on "We know not whither thou goest and how can we know the way." The educated person is not technically trained to do one specific thing but is so developed that he is able to be master of unforseen circumstances as they arise. Bible class in Edith Mass's room. Stopped in K. Otis's room a minute. Wrote letters to Aunt Vira Wilhelmina Aunt Lillie Aunte Ella and Mamma. Aunt Mary Laura Kepm Music - tonight from Wagner's Lohengrin - Chapel. Christians. Prexy spoke on the faith that believes in that which is not seen. Reason alone is insufficient, the heart too is necessary. H.Hess brought me some lemonade. Mon. May 13. 10 min. German written. Read B.J. Richardson's "The Woman Who Spends". Phil. meeting. I was chief teller for the Vice-Pres vote. Officers elected Pres. E. Fatman Sec'y Prop. Mngr. Vice Pres. M. Avery Treas. Ass. " " Spent over a half hour helping H. Hess by looking over her German sentences. Tues. May 14. Corrected Biology notebook in the Lab. and Miss Zabriskie said it is better than my last63 1912. Mama sang "Hush my dear" last Sun. Mothers' Day in church. Semester's notebook ["Papa went to Pres. Hibben's inauguration at Princeton last Sat. & sat down to dinner with 1600 of the alumni. Just one month from today you will be home for the summer and that month will soon pass away".] so mama wrote in her letter. Claire wrote me also. Mama enclosed a newpaper clipping giving : Hester Hosford's opinion of Woodrow Wilson. [ She says "I am very lonesome all by myself". With love from your little Kissing Bug."] Prof Treadwell began his Evolution lectures today. It was his first appearance since Easter and unclapped. Are discussing Browning now. Went to Lib and browsed. Discovered a little book written by Vassar 18 called and read the Chapter on Friendship. Wed. May 15. German prose sentence was marked up before Miss Stroebe got through with it today. Prof. Mills began the Tariff today. Had to write for B.B. English today a letter to the Principal of our preparatory school asking him for a position to teach. Handed in a summary for my Tennyson paper, in which I compared his treatment of the Holy grail story with Malory's. Read Browning. Rec'd letter from Laura Kemp. Thurs. May 16. Read more Browning. Made appointment with Miss Wylie for Mon 11 A.M. Discussed "Alt. Heidelberg"64 1912. in German. Class meeting 7th. Election of Silver Bay delegates Mary Bliss Eliz. Ingersoll. Officers for next year. Pres. Lucy Penniman Vice Pres. Gladys Bassett Sec'y. Elizabeth Thelberg Treas. Elizabeth Howson Staid to Students' recital. Frances Jewell here to dinner. No Chapel. Staid down in parlor & talked with Jeanette Allen & Jean Mordoff. Christians. Louisa Myers led. On "We will see Jesus. Spoke of Hawthorn's "The Great Storm Face". Serenade practice at 9 P.M. at gym 9.35 went marching to Strong & serenaded Ruth Holliday and then Lucy Penniman. Each made a short speech. 1915 sang, then 1912 came, sang and departed and then 1914 came sang & went and finally we sang & went home happy over the election. I staid up till after one writing my J.J. paper on Browning as a popular poet. Fri. May 17. Rec'd card from Goldie Granger. Is a girl who spends her first year out of college in social gaiety a social parasite? was asked in Ec quiz this morning. Spent over two hours copying J.J. paper. Went to North side tea room when at 5.15 P.M. the N.J. Club girls gathered for the annual feed. Chicken on toast, jelly, rolls, coffee, tomato on lettuce, 65 1912. Sat next to Helen Ferris 1912. [They just grind, don't make any friends etc. Honors really aren't anything. Ask for it & you'll get lots of things.] ice cream with chocolate sauce and those delicious little round two layer chocolate cakes. Got back in for chapel. Athletic elections. Pres. Caroline Johnson. I was a Teller. Sewed on my white belt. Sat. May 18. Rec'd letter from Agnes R. Wrote her a letter before 7.30 A.M. then looked up her schedule of exams & wrote her a card. Wrote card home. Had serum injection. Read "Das Konzert". Washed hair. Worked an hour printing cards. Went on lake rowing with Henrietta just before dinner. Beautiful out there. Worked in Lib. after chapel. Sun. May 19. Am attempting to do my hair in an 8 and wear a halo over the front part pulled down a bit on my forehead. Am far from adept yet. Put up four little labels in Reading room for keeping the odd magazines, Outlook, Harper's and Atlantic in order and in a definite place. Read newspaper of Friday and yesterday. Chapel. Lyman Abbot preached from Luke 15:12 "Father give me the portion of goods that falleth to me". [We have an inheritance of a land rich in material resources, liberty which you have done nothing to gain, though I lived through the Civil War and did66 1912. what I could at that time. You have exceptional educational facilities. When I was a boy of 13 years of age I was ready for college, standards then weren't as high then as they are now, and my father gave me the choice of his paying $500.00 a year for my college expenses or giving me that amount each year for 4 years putting it in the bank and I go into business at once. I chose college and I'm glad I did. I have a great deal of respect for Vassar College but it can't give you an education. All it or the faculty can do is to open the door and say "go in". You have the most beautiful library I have ever seen and I have seen the libraries of Yale, Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, Berlin. There is Plato and Aristotle waiting to talk to you about Philosophy, there is Browning and Wordsworth waiting to talk to you about poetry. This library is your inheritance. What will you do with it? What are you doing with it? You have a Collection of Hebrew literature in the Bible. I can understand the girl who says I want to know it and have it a lamp to my feet and a guide to my path, I can understand the girl wih says I don't believe it but the girl I can't understand is the girl who says I don't care. God has given us the heathen for our inheritance. I can't understand why a man who has the chance of being a college67 1912. President wants to be Pres. of the U.S. and make laws when he might make men. The most beautiful sight I know is a holy family with the little children clustered around the mother looking up into her eyes and getting her courage and teaching. And the next most beautiful sight is a kindergarten. Probably most of you will have the making of men and women in your hands either as teachers or mothers. Your inheritance is a land in material resources educational facilities liberty the Bible the heathen children What are you doing with it?] Bible class. At 3.25 Narola and Henrietta & I went to Lovers' Leap, a beautiful walk then through a large private estate from which the double row of hills across the river is glorious. The view up and down the river from Lovers Leap is magnificent. We waited just a few minutes there. Henrietta rode home. Narola & I walked. It took us just an hour to go down and just an hour to come back. Chapel. 68 1912. Christians. Prexy spoke on Christian Joy. [Obtainable thru Faith, Taking account of our spiritual assets (keeping in mind the vision of the highest) remembering God's promises. Of value, to us and our fellow men Joy is power.] Good meeting. Wrote to mamma, Helen Ferris 1915 and Louise Bowen called. Enjoyed looking again at my class picture and Vassarions. Retired 11.15 p.m. The weather has been just perfect today. Mon. May 20. Rec'd letter from mama. [Reid Edwards is now a Rev. Mama had a fine time in Conn. where "they said I was a wonder & want me to come again". Rev. Yates (Horatio) is dead. "I suppose you are working hard for your exams & I hope you will do well." "We cannot come to Po'keepsie on account of money."] Rec'd letter from Aunt Lillie. At 11 A.M. had conference with Prof. Wylie in 24. She said "Why my dear take what you want". The subjects you have chosen for next year are just good "intermediate" subjects that any Junior could take. The business letters were read in Description. To the applicant of only one would Miss Buck give a position surely were she in the place of the person addressed. And that one was alas! not mine. Discussed "Das Konzert" in F.F. German. Spent 40 min. fooling with my schedule then read more Browning finishing it69 1912. in the evening. Worked in the Lib. H.Hess just loves science. I could see it in her eye as she talked of her elections. 1913 beat 1914 in basketball today score 14 to 8. Tues. May 21. Fire drill at 6.20 A.M. Wrote papa and mama each a congratulatory letter for the 22nd, their twenty fourth anniversary. Read in last Miscellany (June) Rhoda Warner's (1914) excellent essay on Parallels in Music and Literature (written for B.B. Enlish after hearing Prof. Gow's lecture on the principles of musical composition). She gave splendid illustrations. What is the matter with me and with my writing that I never produce anything worthy of publication? Went to Lib. studied on Ec. Looked up definition of net-profits for Hazel Edison. Wrote out a description of L.G.O.'s mind for theme 33. Saw Sylvia Tryon at the Infirmary. Song practice 7th. T&M 8th Agnes Campgell neg. Agnes Wilson aff. had joint discussion on Rotating Senior tables for first semester of next year. Gladys B. came up and we thought out examples for M.M. Prose. [in margin] Agnes Wright is the new speaker. 70 1912. Wed. May 22. Papa's and mamma's twenty fourth wedding anniversary. Last M.M. German prose class. Sent cards to Maud Fillmore and Dorothy Bennett. Hazel Edison came up after lunch to have me tell her [Paracelsus]. 8th hour song practice. M. Underhill came to me for Browning references. Annabel Roberts here to dinner. Worked more on outlining German topic. Returned 2 borrowed books. Asked Narola if she thinks it probable I may yet be told I can go as a delegate to Silver Bay. Stopped a minute to see Peg and Buntie. Retired 10.50 p.m. Thurs. May 23. My twenty first Birthday. Rec'a a card from Claire, a picture of two deer which, she says, "represents you and me out for a walk". Mama sent me a card and also wrote me a lovely birthday letter "I have tried to be faithful to my trust and be a good mother, God only knows how I have succeeded and today she is a Junior in Vassar college and mamma is proud of her. What she makes of herself in the future will be the crown of our glory and on this your twenty first birthday darling may God give you a vision of the world's need and the share you should have in meeting that need and give you grace and strength to be true, pure and helpful." 71 1912. Ida wrote me a congratulatory note. Described the view through the central archway of the chapel cloister for Description. On noon mail received from mamma "Eben Holden", a book I love. Bothered several people concerning elections for next year, enquiring particularly about English Political and French Revolution. Saw Janet Golden, Tebbi, Helen Lockwood and Eliz. Page. Went to north & talked with Eliz. Stumpf. Christians led by Helen Landon (1910) good meeting. Subject The Building of a Temple. Talked over my course with Miss Yost after Christians. She suggested taking R. Eng. instead of K. and American Hist. with Prof. Salmon instead of French Rev. Regarding German she said it depends on what you want to do. German and English are not a combination for which that is likely to be a demand when you are looking for a place to teach. She suggested American Literature for second semester and Charities & corrections as being an especially good course for one expecting to teach in a high school. She told me how to apply for a position as English tutor next year, & spoke of the Honor reading which I may like to do this summer. If you expect to teach English it is wise to get in as close touch with the English department as possible, and have them72 1912. interested in you. Miss Yost is so dear. Fri. May 24. Rec'd birthday card from Tom Dye and a letter from Aunt Ella. Had 21st serum injection. After J.J. went to Ruth Robinson and talked over elections. She thinks I'd be foolish to drop German. Tho she has been an official tutor this year she has given but 6 English tutor lessons, and she has doubled in English through college. A severe thunderstorm came up while I was in Main. Had Alma Klippel here to dinner. After chapel was the annual song contest, this time on the chapel steps and 1913 Won. I'm so glad. Helen Scobey wrote the words and the music. Talked with Miss Zabriskie and Anna Blake about 15 hours and tutoring. Henrietta brought in some lemonade. Handed in my schedule for 12 hours. [in margin] Ethics E. Ec. R. Eng. E. Germ. Rc " Sat. May 25. Helped Henrietta with German indirect discourse. Worked all day on German semester topic on Di Frauenfrage. Carried mail at night in north Main for E. Baldwin 1914. Wore shrunk cotton skirt & waist on Junior-Senior boat ride. 1914 took off several Juniors as well as Freshmen. We left about 7 P.M. on 8 or more special cars. Waved to the V.C. people and the Inn waiters who waved flags at us. All the way to the pier people stared at us. 73 1912. Our boat the Reynolds, was placarded the House boat on the Styx and as we crossed the gang plank the fierce yelps of three headed Cerberus, with a feather duster tail, greeted us. We passed by Charon and on into Hades where we saw the 1912 celebs ten years from now in 1922. Most of the take offs were fine. The moon came out and the ride down the river was beautiful. Several trains went by, their lights flashing through the darkness like a bright ribbon. Henrietta & I sat together near Rachel W., Frances V., Pauline T., Lilian Lee, Mary Miller and Mary Tracy. After a ghost chorus (of the Junior members of the choir) sang two splendid songs we had coffee, sandwiches and ice-cream cones. Returned to the Poughkeepsie dock soon after 10 P.M. I staid up till 12 p.m. to finish my German paper. Rec'd a letter from Margaret Towers. Sun May 26. Lyman Abbott preached again today. His text was "The living god is among you". [God shows himself 1. In nature, each day he creates the world anew. 2. In history, of the Hebrews, English & present Americans 3. In his companionship with all kinds of people of all kinds of temperaments. We never can get away from God. Where love is there God is "God is among you" is the last verse I'd like you74 1912. to hear from my lips and the last word is ["Immanuel"] Bible Class in L. offered in 213S. to teach a mission class next year but Maud said they have enough teachers and moreover they try to get for teachers the girls who have been to the conferences, like Silver Bay. Wrote letters. Called on Ethel Strohm. Music. Chapel. Christian. Prexy spoke on "the love of Christ which passeth knowledge." think on 1. His sufferings for us 2. What he is now doing for us. Have written to mama, Gladys Sutton, Gladys Dutton, Ellen Sergeant, Ida and a note to Prof. Salmon asking for permission to listen next year in A. History. Mon. May 27. Rec'd letter from mama ["Only two more Sundays and you will be home with us and I am so glad." Mrs Shannon leaves next week for Virginia. "Aunt Mary and Aunt Ella were so pleased to hear from me." A letter is about all the brightness they have and I am so glad you wrote them.] Last N. Latin class today. Reviewed German prose. Gladys B. came up before 10 & we did a little together. Last P.S.V. meeting at Maud's 213S. from 8.30 - 9.30. "Have you heard the latest news Gretta? You've been elected to go to Silver Bay." Maud say when I came in. She read to us some from Decision of Character. Had Prof. Mills today for last time in A.A. Economics. 75 1912. Tues. May 28. M.M. German (prose) Senior exam (as Gladys & I are the only Juniors in the class) at 10.30 A.M. Class meeting under our class tree at 8th hr. Lemonade served afterward. Studied in Lib. in P.M. reviewing Distribution and jotting down points for Ec. paper due tomorrow. Got note to call at messenger room where found my note to Prof. Salmon approved and a note that she would be glad to see me before I hand it in. Returned the cards which I printed to Miss Stroebe who was much pleased with them. Wed. May 29. Miss Wells had Ec. today. Handed in outside prepared paper on Division of labor. Then she gave us a written. Wrote for last B.B. English quiz filling in blanks in class for Miss Rourke. Most everybody was on time to Biology today. Rec'd the postals from Ida which I sent her the money for. Last Students' meeting in P.M. and "Vic" Searle received the gavel and read the election returns & dismissed the meeting. Louise Boynton left today & I wished her a grand time. She sent back a note by Narola. [in margin] No chapel had nice time in Bessie's room with M.L. Strayer, Peg, Agnes and Helen (Wright) Thurs. May 30. Saw Prof. Salmon at end of 2nd hour and she said she had enquired about my striking qualities for she feels something is lacking when a girl 76 1912. is absent and her seat empty. Showed Louise's slip to Miss Stroebe, Whitney, North. Wrote last B.B. English theme on the course itself B.B. English. What is it? The entire class hour was spent in the reading of themes and they were splendid. Miss Whitney lectured on the English and the American drama of today. She asked us to use our influence to better the drama and told us of an organization. Dramatic League of America, started in Chicago which is working for the best drama. [This is the first actual appeal, enthusiastic and spontaneous I have heard in a Vassar class room from any instructor] Finished copying my German semester topic on "Die Frauenfrage" & also handed in the Geschichte der D. Literatur, pasted, ready for printing. Christians in P.M. Agnes Wilson led. Fri. May 31. Last Ec. quiz - Miss North. Rec'd letter from Louise. Gave her Ec. paper to Miss Wells also a note. Saw Miss Rourke for her. Wrote her a card & sent her theme paper to the pier. Saw E. Kittredge in the German office in Rockie about the lists for the German summer reading. Last Biology lecture. Then 6th hour last J.J. English class, my last class as a Junior. We had a written on the selections we had memorized from Shelley, Keats, Tennyson77 1912. and Browning. An interesting task to locate the quotations. Corrected bank statement. Watched for a half hour the Senior dance. Pd. Senior parlor due $2.75. Sat. [Ma] June 1. Called to Secy's office. A friend wrote Miss McC. of a position for the summer paying a living & travelling expenses in a neighborhood house in Keen Valley N.H. Reviewed Ec. most of the day. Finished German summer reading book lists. Sang on steps of Strong & we went along in a line & let the Freshmen play Juniors. Talked over an Ec. point or two with Helen R. & Helen A. in 405. Reviewed German. Retired 12 P.M. Handed in application slip for Silver Bay to E.C. Baldwin. Sun. June 2. Went downtown to church. Heard Mr. MacNab at Pres. Ch. preach on a Timely anointing - good. "Love knows no sure tomorrow It only has today" Walked home, part way with E.C. Baldwin and Edith Jamieson. Last Bible class after dinner in E. Edith Maas's room. Katharine Otis, Alma Leslie, Bernice Marks and I were there. Then spent over two hours rereading Eben Holden. Chapel. Christians. Which Prexy threw open to the girls to tell what college has done for their religious life. I said the mission classes next to the exceedingly practical & inspiring78 1912. Sunday evening meetings, had had the strongest influence in making the Bible more real and showing that today the call to us is just as real as the call that came to Paul to "come over into Maudonia and help us". Wrote home. Mon. June 3. F.F. German exam at 8.20 A.M. in 19. Nice paper but I couldn't place the first quotation which was half of the first question and there were only four. Took mail. Studied Ec. Rec'd letter from mama [Shall Ida's present be a Shakespeare set or a picture? Theda (Rogers) Alling has a daughter born Saturday. "We received your letter containing the good news for your election as a Delegate to Silver Bay and we rejoice with you and are so glad you can go". "I hope you will do finely in your examinations."] A.A. Economics exam in 35 "Rockie" at 2.30 P.M. A very fair and interesting paper. Under the tree by the walk. R. Evelyn Noble was sitting with Margaret Armstrong and Mary [Nowrse] soon came. Agnes Wilson sat down and we commented a bit on the exam. in the shade, a cosy group. Got Senior photograph sale pictures this noon $1.60 worth (30 pictures). College singing on Rockefeller steps. Varsity basket ball team did a "stunt". Florence Taylor gave the girls their "V"s. and held the basket ball79 1912. tied with a yellow ribbon on a tray and each girl had to kiss the ball. Walked over to chapel with Lucy Penniman. She was talking with Elinor Prudden about the Presidents' book (Senior Class). At my request Elinor Bliss walked up to the Arlington Post office with me to mail a letter to mama telling her to get the Shakespeare for Ida. Studied on the Evolution lectures. [Mary Ross 1915, 401R was packing today and I asked her why she was taking all those books home and she said Why they're mine. They are not study books. I want them home so I can read them. I said that I didn't have but two or three books here that are not study books. I don't have time to read them. Oh I do she replied. I keep them to pick up when I'm tired.] If she, a Freshmen gets time to read, play, swim, go walking, have a good time, write poems for the Miscellany why do I, a Junior, not have even more time for reading etc and study even better as a result? [in margin] Answer K.G.O. Tues. June 4. Reviewed Biology in the morning and after lunch. Delivered the German summer reading books. Rained. No Chapel. Studied J.J. English reviewing Shelley. Did more Biology. Returned E. McShane's copy of Poe (containing the Black Cat). Retired about 10. Applied for mail route. 80 1912. Had 25th serum injection. Took mail. Finished J.J. English review. Had J.J. English exam in 34 at 10.50. Two questions, a nice exam. H.Rosenthal took the noon mail for me. Studied more Biology reviewing drawings in laboratory note book. H.F.R. came in & asked a question or two, N. Rivenburg asked me a couple of questions on Biology. I feel shaky about this exam there is so much to remember in detail. A.A. Biology exam. in lecture room of N.E.B. at 2.30. Choice of 5 questions out of . I saw Frances Jewell after the exam. and she said "I wanted to hand in an A. paper". "So did I Frances I said You're the first person I ever heard express that wish." [I know I made three mistakes on the paper 1. 2 of the 8 drawings to show sexual reproduction in the Paramecium wrong & I said 2. that the result of the conjugation is one cell instead of 2. 3. I did not know any experiments to cite as conclusive proof for the present position of biologists as to spontaneous generation (i.e. of course negative) 4. Failed to mention the thread cells as being important in connection with the hydra's obtaining food. 5. Did not state Ehrlich's theory of immunity with absolute precision, did not know exactly what the haplophores do.] Played some on the piano. H.F.R. said I didn't know you could play. I played Titania, La Madonna. She said81 1912. "You play just like you think" "How is that?" you strike each note so clearly and precisely. After dinner the baton was given by Doc Smith to Gretchen Thayer, our new college song leader. Then we gave our Strong steps to 1914. Ruth Butterfield ran to tell me that Mrs. Morris (Vovo) has a boy born Sunday. Walked over to Main from chapel with F. Jewell, told her what a blunder I made on the Paramoecium and she said "I'm ashamed of you". We discussed working for A's or marks in general and she said I just try to do my days work as good as I can "My day's work today was an exam" and I tried to do it as best I could, center my attention on my work and not think about the result. Her 15 yr. old brother is coming Fri. I read 80 more pages in the Life of Alice Freeman Palmer in Raymond Reading room. Have finished the chapter on marriage. Thurs. June 6. Mended. H. Rosenthal sewed with me in the afternoon. Made chocolate in P.M. for Henrietta and myself. Saw Gladys Bassett off and bade Helen Ferris, Louise Bowen, Lucia Gordy and Narola Rivenburg good bye. 82 1912. Fri. June 7. Took mail, claimed underwaist, got bathing suit. Went off campus to Mrs. Knaus, to see about rooms for next year. $1.00 a night, $.50 a meal for each person. Went downtown with Henrietta Hess. Bought a box and 2 rolls of films. H. treated me at Smith's. Rec'd letter from papa enclosing a money order for $10.00. Cashed it depositing $5. with Mr. Polk. Cashed my check for $20.00 at the Farmers' bank. paid Tebbie $5. and left the $15.00 with Mr. Polk. Agnes Rowlands' table went on a picnic so she invited herself over here to dinner as my guest. Chapel. Finished rereading "Eben Holden". Juniors met at 4.30 on north side of Rockefeller to line up for class day. Only a few came out. Gladys Sutton called in P.M. and returned my 2nd semester Horace notebook. She took the exam in it this week. [in margin] "Help us to rise above our failures and our successes". Sat. June 8. Last payment on the mail D1 & 2 ($6.00). Went to Dr's for serum injection. Mended. Henrietta tried 8 pictures of my room and she took one of Alma, Gladys, Mildred and me and I took one of her. Went downtown about 4 P.M. and walked back. Met many people coming from the circus "Buffalo Bill". Davison people were over here to dinner for 1907 had its class supper in Davison 1862, '72, '77 are in Raymond. In Room 14 ("Rockie") Alumnae Headquarters, saw a list of the 83 1912. Vassar Alumnae. We have 38 and 22 are deceased. Found the address of the Hedden girls in this catalog. Last chapel service. I sat in my own pew no. 21 off the middle aisle the fourth one in, alone. I wanted to sit one more in my own seat. Prexy read psalms "I was glad when they said unto me let us go into the house of the Lord". and he made a prayer full of feeling. Paid G. Johnson for mail. Called on 210 D. Clara Hill was there. Agnes's father started the playground movement in Flatbush. 1912 Tree Ceremonies at 9 P.M. They burned a Vassarion & class records. It was quite different from the ceremonies in 1910. Made hot cholcolate which Henrietta, Albertina, Lilias Wheeler, Rosalie Feder, & Eliz. McShane shared with me. Lilias said (I remember the first time I saw you. I had heard about you how you were wild about college, wanted to know peoples names and addresses, & what they were going to do. I said there's a woman with some sense, I found out you had a sense of humor and I liked you.) Reflected after in bed on the quality of my present friendships. I like to lead. I hate to butt in. Everyone has some good trait. But I want to learn to know these girls84 1912. who can teach me and from whom I can gain socially. Lucy Penniman, Frances Jewell and Ann Van Winkle from Strong. Agnes Wilson, Ruth Holliday, from Lathrop, Victoria Searle, Sylvia Conant, Sydnor Walker from North, Alma Klippel, Marguerite Elvin from Davison and Gladys Bassett, Elizabeth Ingersoll, Bobs Worcester, Elizabeth Holloway, Peg Wead, Dorothy Williams, Eleanor Greenberg, Peg Ruddiman, Louise Boynton, Albertina Pitkin, Evelyn Noble, Betsy Baldwin, Myra Williams, Elsie Bogert, from Raymond. I made a mistake in taking in Pittsford Anna Mann for a friend. I had nothing to gain from her and the result of the friendship was in loss, a giving on my part, with no receiving socially and with a distinct loss in the loss of a [form] friendship with my own class of people, the high school boys and girls my own age, Helen Agate, Una Hutchinson, Margaret Becker, Mary Grump, Ruth Doane, Charlie Wadhams, Chester Reed, Howard Bacon, Alice Kitchen. I was content to drift with the good and handy which was easy to have instead of being alert and persistent in getting the best I could have. We had our own horse and carriage and 85 1912. drove by ourselves, and enjoyed ouselves together a happy, home-loving family, devoted to each other but a bit selfish because our happiness demanded only our four selves to be complete. Papa's college mates were faraway. Those that did live in the city (Rochester) he never came in close touch with, no family friends but Cassie Smith, Mrs. Barker, Mary Thornell and Sarah Barker came in and Mr. Todd and no one of these demanded and obtained from us our best efforts. Mamma entertained beautifully I wonder if the entertainment was too carefully planned, so the individuality of the company was repressed. Exciting discussions of current topics seem to be a minus quantitiy either we don't follow them closely enough or other things are of more importance to us, or we don't make the effort. I am like papa in being careless about my ordinary appearance, but like him my best clothes are becoming and I can look nice. It's so easy to not be spick and span absolutely clean, just as you ought to be. I am also careless of the little, but important social courtesies. Don't talk about yourself like A.R. does but learn how to be an interesting86 1912. conversationalist. Don't talk all the time like A.R. does, let a lull come occasionally. Don't with an apparent show of modesty, tell the big things that have happened to you. (may be an assistant, highest standing, etc.) "Strengen Sie Sich ein bischen an", Gretta, and find out how to be socially agreeable and before it is forever too late make a firm, frindship with a girl who will give you something and who will always make you be your best and do your best and appear your best in every way. You are lazy, Gretta Ordway, you are also a slow poke and you are unjust to your excellent physique in not being an athletic (and an excellent athlete) girl. Why don't you play the piano, recite, use your talents. Why haven't you been a tutor all this year, earning money and winning praise and admiration from faculty and your friends like Lucy Penniman has done? Know your own mind, have decision of character. Get the best, not the good. June 9, 1912. [in margin] Get it. Katherine Gretta Ordway V.C. 1913, the best is yours, if you will have it. 87 1912. Sun. June 9. Heard Prexy's splendid Baccalaureate sermon to the graduating class, sat in the gallery with Henrietta Hess. Returned Alma Leslie's book. In Raymond reading room read Arnold Bennett's "How to live on 24 hours". Also read a bit in the life of Ellen S. Richards where her years at Vassar are described. Looked over the Vassar books in the Lib. Found a funny picture of Prof. Bracq, Dr. T. and Prof. Mills in one book. Walked with Harriette White & H. Hess around the upper walk of the lake. Met the Lockwood family. Music at 8 P.M. It was a request program and was splendid. The combination of the organ & piano was just wonderful. Wrote to Ida and wrote home. Went down and watched Agnes Wright pack. She is also going to silver Bay. Agnes Rowlands & Clara Hill came over to make plans for driving. Mon. June 10. Bought ticket home. At 2 P.M. Agnes Rowlands, Clara Hill and I left Travis's livery downtown on Clinton St. and went on a three hour drive down the Hyde Park road and back via a different route. I drove part of the time & it was lots of fun. 'Twas a glorious day. Clara and I started to walk home and were invited to ride by Charlotte Wilson in her automobile. Met her brother and mother, and 88 1912. Miss (Biology) Beckwith was with them. Heard a fine address in the evening to the Phi Beta Kappa Society by Pres. John Finley of New York . "Mobility and transmissibility" were the keynotes of his lecture. 1912 repeated its Maypole dance at 6.30 and the spade was presented to Lucy Penniman by Elinor Prudden on Rockefeller steps. After the lecture Dorothy Williams, Margaret Wead & I went over by the chapel and saw part of 1910's ceremonies for their new tree. They marched over to 1908's tree, took their 1910 banner and went back to their own tree each girl carrying a sparkler. They looked lovely. 1912 gave some songs to 1914 on Strong steps and each 1912 girl had a stick with a lighted Japanese lantern. They marched from Strong to Rockie and sang there then filed off the steps by twos in a long line, gave their lanterns to 1914 who marched back with them and they went to the north side of Main. I have never seen such lovely processions. Rec'd letter from papa telling me not to bring home a carload of books & stating that he will meet me at the Grand Central. 89 1912. Tues June 11. Engaged a room with a cot at Mrs. Knaus's and board at Mrs. Millard's for my family for next year. Glee Club concert on the steps of North about noon. It was fine. Formed in line for class day in the open space north of Rockie at 3.30. The Seniors looked beautiful in their delicately colored dresses, the sophomores and 1913 were all in white and the daisy chain looked so pretty. We marched through Rockie [Diagram of route for marching] over to 1912's class tree. The girls stood up and there were two large platforms on which many of the guests sat. I could see & hear well by standing in the middle aisle. After dinner a few 1913, Neida, Carolyn, Madeleine, Taylor and I marched around the triangle trying to get 1913 out. Picked up Julia Lovejoy. Went to circle & practiced a serenade (Neida's Baton). Serenade 1872 and 1882 who were having their class suppers in Strong. One of them threw a little Mortorboard candy hat dish to us. Sat on the Lib. steps awhile. Sydnor Walker and Hughes were there. Went over to the reception in Main about 9 P.M. Had ice cream etc. Watched the participants from the stairs. Spent all the morning packing. 90 1912. Wed. June 12. Trunk went this morning. Commencement procession began at . I tried three pictures of it for Alice Louis Plumb then the film slipped. Henrietta and I got a good seat in the gallery and I staid all through the commencement exercises which were fine, the gifts to the College are generous, the 6 speakers did finely and I love Vassar more and feel my own unworthiness more. Will I belong among the honored ones of 1913 next year? Will a star be after my name for honor work on the commencement program next year? Went down to get the 3.44 but it didn't leave till 4.30 P.M. Sat with Harriette White part of the time and with Madeleine Winter too. Papa met me at the Grand Central. H. White said goodbye on the subway. Got home about 8 P.M. Nice supper. Porch is freshley painted, the screen and new curtains in the dining room & the curtains that were in the dining room are now in mama's room. A pretty new mahogany pedestal in the parlor. [in the margin] Papa has a nice new suit. [in the margin] (announcement) Rec'd invitation to Ida's commencement. Thurs. June 13. Mama and I went downtown in the afternoon. Bought a new pink gingham at Bambergers and a blue & white [lawn] with black poka-dot at Hahne's. Very pretty. Tried on a lovely pink chiffon evening dress in Hahne's parlor. It is now $20.00 regular price $29.75. I don't think I 91 1912. really need it. Besides I have run in debt almost $30.00 for having my face treated by serum injection. E.C. Poverty social in P.M. Harry Fox was judge & Al. Clark inspector, a musical program by Hazel Ludlow and the Heilmanns was given and Lois Edwards spoke. Frank Platts & H. Fox gave the quarrel scene from Julius Caesar. Al. Clark gave a comical socialistic campaign speech. It seems good to see the young people again. Fri. June 14. Mama spoke at Montclair in afternoon. I visited Clarie in school. Heard the Flag Day exercises, met Miss Smallstick, her present teacher and saw Miss Keyler her former teacher. Then helped papa print 300 bulletins. Mrs. Edwards and Helen came in the evening. Trunk came. Sat. June 15. Spent most of the day unpacking my trunk and getting my closet and bureau in order. Where oh where shall I put my winter clothes? Helped Claire with her bath after which I gave her a "piggy back ride". One night since I came home papa was talking about honors. Mama said I shall be awfully disappointed if you don't get honors but I'm pretty sure that when you get to teaching you'll be a successful teacher. Then [in margin] N.B.92 1912. Papa said "O you'll get honors all right" I sincerely hope I do. Claire gave a concert violin & recitations papa was accompanist. Sun. June 16. S.S. at 10 A.M. I had Bertha Eschenfelder's class & also opened the exercises of the Primary dept. I had boys from 3 other classes, cute little fellows. Papa's text was Luke 18.14. We each have our own pedestal of pride and self esteem from which we must come down if God is to completely control our lives. Read from Odyssey aloud to Claire. Started my German book. Mrs. Davenport led C.E. "The duty of being pleasant". Good meeting. "If I knew how to whistle, mama, I would". Text in P.M. Amos 8: 11, 12. Splendid sermon. Take the Bible as it is, never mind the higher criticism and know it, study it daily, teach it, talk it. Had popcorn for lunch. All sat on the porch (which has two nice new rockers, and the two old ones have been painted green. The screws are up. Walked down with Mrs. Davenport. Met her sister who is at the Hastings orphan asylum on the Hudson this P.M. as Sec'y. Mrs. D. suggested I go to see Miss Johnson, an old lady who is well travelled and who would greatly appreciate it. 93 1912. Mon. June 17. Worked. Rec'd letter from Agnes Rowlands. Mama had Reid Edwards come to talk about Mrs. Shannon as a possible grocery store keeper. Tues. June 18. I ironed almost every garment I own for summer wear. The gasoline iron refused to work after it once went out so the gas stove & irons had to be substituted. Prayer meeting in P.M. claire took violin lesson at 9 A.M. Wed. June 19. Mama went downtown and I ironed for her. Papa in afternoon went to the conference on Social Problems at the First Church & in the P.M. he & mama heard the conference on Dance halls and Amusement Summer Parks. Thurs. June 20. Films from Raymond's came today 3 fair, rest no good. Packed for Silver Bay. Mama went to Miss. meeting at 3 P.M. I left home at 4, at 6 P.M. the pier 32 on the "C.W.Morse" in company with about 20 other Vassar girls for Silver Bay. Had supper with Betsy Baldwin, Eliz. Pringle & Marcia Livermore. Sang on deck. Serenaded Barnard. Roomed with Marjory Howell. My first night in a state room & I slept well. Fri. June 21. Reached Albany soon after 6 A.M. & left on the train about 7.15 A.M. arriving at Lake George station (Caldwell) 10.30. Spent almost 3 hrs on steamer "Sagamore". Reached Silver Bay after 1 P.M. Dined. Gave up convention certificate. Got room assignment. 94 1912. Beech 4 to which a Bell-boy carried my suit case. Found to my glad surprise that Elizabeth Baldwin is to be my room mate for the 10 days. Visited book store. Supper. Big crowd came on night boat. Saw Rhoda Starr. After supper Hazel Lush came to me. Walked down birch walk with B. Pringle & Marcia Livermore. Auditorium meeting led by Miss Davis. Announcements. Informal reception. Hung up clothes. Retired by candle which has to be out at 10 p.m. Miss Thoburn asked me to be attendance keeper (secretary) in Dr. Brown's class. Sat. June 22. Breakfast at 7.45. Bought Bible class & mission book. The Social Teachings of Jesus. The Chinese Revolution. Paid board $15.00. Bible class 8.30 A.M. Exhibit hall. Mission class 10.00 A.M. B. Sec. Hall. Methods of Teaching 11.00 Cox Hall. 11.45 Mr. Potter not here, we just sang. Wrote mama, and a card to Ida and Claire. Song practice after 1st dinner. I am to be on the crazy chain. Saw Dr. & got 2 quinine pills & some gargle. Dr. McDowell 7.45 fine address. Read in bookstore part of Prof. Jenks "Boy and High School". Treated to ice cream cone by Freeman, Sutton & Lesher. Delegation meeting. Had nice visit in afternoon with Hazel Lush and the other Rochester girls. Heard first whip poor will. 95 1912. Sun. June 23. This certainly an ideal spot for situation. 9.30 song service on the hill beyond Forest Inn. 10.30 church. Rev. Grannis preached. Walked south a short distance with the Curtis girls. Read Dent 1.12. 4 p.m. Denominational meeting led by Mrs. Potter in Exhibit hall. Met from Brown University a Miss Bosworth who knows Theckla Jones very well. 7.45 Dr. McDowell again gave a fine address. 9 p.m. Delegation Meeting. caught mouse. Mon. June 24. Rose to study at 6.30. Dr. Pendleton took Bible Class today for Dr. Brown who had to preach in his own church in Bridgeport Conn. Passed attendance card. 10. A.M. Miss Margaret Burton's fascination mission class on the Chinese revolution. 11 song practice on the pier. Told M. Davenport I'd like to try rowing. 11.45 Mr. Potter gave his first lecture on the Essentials of our Faith. In his story of his Union College Professor Henry Whitehorn. Mr. Potter made me see just what my ideal is. Read in Lake George guide book. Watched Basket ball & base ball games. K. Scribner treated me to a cone. Watched swimming, incoming boat dock, Vic and Ethel row. Auditorium meeting led by Rev. Guthrie who looks like a mere boy. Delegation meeting. Tues. June 25. Bible class. Dr. Brown back. Conference picture96 1912. taken at 9.30. Letter from mama. Mission class. Rev. Potter. Song practice. Tied daisies on the chain. College day in the afternoon. The stunts were clever. We had a daisy chain mock and crazy. My partner was Diantha Lapham. 6.30 Evening sail in the Oneita which got as far as the stone arch and then the engine stopped so we really rode only for 15 minutes. 7.30 Y.W.C.A. work explained. No delegation meeting. Wed. June 26. Bible class. Mission class. Delegation picture taken under the apple tree in front of the hotel. Betsy went to Ticonderoga. I went in bathing. Borrowed Nectar hat. Thurs. June 27. Bible class. Mission class. Hunted up Simmon's College delegates [Miss Stevens, ] who know Margaret Becker & Helen Agate. Also hunted up Miss Lockhurt, delegate from Keuka who knows Ruth Sergeant. 5 p.m. party for the Prep. school girls expecting to come to Vassar. Vassar beat Mt. Holyoke at basket ball. John R. Mott spoke in p.m. He is God's instrument for God works in, through and with him. Ruth Burns & Louise Roble came tonight. Fri. June 28. Bible class. Mission class. Mary Bliss talked a few minutes with me. Spoke in miss. class.97 1912 11.35 Miss Corbett spoke on College Problems. Talked a few minutes with her about the studying & sewing on Sunday in Vassar. H. Lush & R. Warner came up for me and we watched aquatic [the] quack, quack, quack [etc.] sports in front of the bath house. We gave another party in the boat house for the smaller delegations. In [p] Mr. Fosdick spoke. Betsy said she didn't know till just a little while ago that I could play. Sat. June 29. Bible class. 2 spoke in Mission class. After it Miss Burton told me that until she had to teach a class in college she never was interested in missions. Mr. Potter's last address. I with 6 other V.C. girls Mould, Johnson, Campbell, Freeman, Curley & Wright went to Fort Ticonderoga. At the pier wagons met us & we were taken to the fort grounds & hastily shown the fort. Mary Humphrey & her mother & father went among others on the Odeida with us. Several Syracuse girls went in another launch. We left S.B. at 1 p.m. returned 7 p.m. It took just 1 hr. to get the engine cranked to come home. Mr. Fosdick spoke again. At Delegation meeting we were treated to a big box of Hylers the gift of Louise [Roblie] & Ruth Burns. 98 1912. Sun. June 30. 9 A.M. last Bible class. 10.30 Prof. Cairns of Univ. of Aberdeen. Climbed to Inspiration point which commands a grand view up and down the lake. Had a nice visit with of Syracuse. At 4 on the hill beyond the Forest Inn was held a song service, a family meeting, at which several girls told what Silver Bay had done for them. Last auditorium meeting at which Prof. Cairns gave a fine address. Delegation meeting. Mon. July 1. Left Silver Bay at 8:30 A.M. on the Sagamore. Was sorry to say good bye. Told Miss Davis they had certainly succeeded in making us happy. Left Lake George Station at 11.25. Reached Albany almost on time & left at 2.10 for N.Y. where arrived at 5.40. Ethel Prince VC 1915 was on the train and I learned to know Miss Tallman of East Orange (the New Y.W.C.A. Sec'y at Teacher's College N.Y.) Got home about 7 P.M. Papa was spading weeds. Found card from H. Hess awaiting me. (it came June 21) [in margin] Found nice white [hand] glass like I've wanted awaiting me. Tues. July 2. Rec'd letter from Wilhelmina Bennett. Went downtown with Claire & listened to her lesson. In P.M. went to prayer meeting. Mr. Cassedy read a paper on Miss. work in our city. Ironed. Mama in an afternoon conversation recently asked me who my close college friends are and I cried. 99 1912. Wed. July 3. Rec'd college semester bill. Laboratory $1.50 Guests 2.50 Medical attendance 19.75 $23.75 Went to Mrs. McColburn's with mama to see her dress. Mailed 1st German book ($.06). Papa & Claire met us & he took us to Dorflinger's on So. Orange Ave. & treated us to ice cream. Thurs. July 4. Claire & I walked up to Sanford Ave. & got sparklers, cups & a cane. Put up our 3 flags. She shot them off in the P.M. Had some little ones for the doll Elizabeth to hold & try one for herself. Rec'd letter from H. Hess containing picture of group. Gladys H, Alma K, Mildred A, & K.G.O. Read some more in Spell of Italy. Fri. July 5. Mama spent the day at Perth Amboy with Mrs. Franc. Fassett Pugsley & I cleaned upstairs & was the cook. Claire presented me with a letter from ? Ida, Bertha & Agnes Eschenfelder called. So did Frank Platts & Reid Edwards. Sat. July 7. Rec'd letter from Aunt Mary. Phoned Dr. Lusk from Mrs. Lakes about working for 2 weeks in a Summer School (Daily Vacation Bible School) for Italians. Papa bought a basket of groceries for McNaughton's & took it to them. Mr. & Mrs. McN. called in P.M. with Etta. I played the piano, told 2 long stories100 1912. Retired about 11.45 P.M. Sun. July 7. Church after S.S. which was at 10 A.M. I had charge of Miss Edward's dept the beginners 27 there today. Mr. Wilson was there & a mother with her little girl. Papa preached on Matt (Unused power). The master called the man who failed to use his one talent wicked = lazy, slothful= poky, unprofitable= useless. Met Mrs. Wilson today. Wrote up diary from Mon. June 17 & also straightened up my accounts. Frank Platts led C.E. on Honesty. Papa preached from Mon. July 8. 8.50 A.M. found me at 49 Beacon St. ready to begin volunteer work for two weeks in Daily Vacation Bible school. Miss Mildred D. Lusk introduced herself to me. I met Miss the Deaconness, & Mr. Darley the Principal. About 80 pupils. Had to get their names. Played the piano. I am to teach sewing. Went down between 2 & 4 & cut out the curtains to have them ready for the youngsters tomorrow. At 7 P.M. went over for first time to the Entre Nous tennis court on [Mum] Ave. Had a racket in my hands for a few minutes. Tues. July 9. 8.50 at 49 Beacon St. School in real earnest today. I had 20 in my class. Wrote101 1912. the first commandments in large letters for Mr. Darley. Ironed for 4 hrs. down cellar while papa began sewing his books. In P.M. was one of 7 women who attended the Vailsburg general meeting to discuss the new Motordrome in Electric Park. Mr. presided. Mr. told briefly some of the results reached by the investigation committee. Rev. Dickinson & Rev. Ordway spoke. Mr. Cross (manager of the motordrome) held forth the velodrome people left. It was an interesting meeting 8.30 - 10.45 P.M. Wed. July 10. Had 18 in my sewing class today. Mr. Darley told me Miss Lusk would play today, that's what we got her for, he said. My glasses fell off while we four were walking to So. Orange Ave. & broke. Claire spent day at Morrison's. Rev. Bennett of Centerdale, Rhode Island came about 5 P.M. had supper with us and staid till 8. We had a great visit. He says it is impossible for a minister to be friends with his parishioners. His friendships must be with those who have no professional claim on him. Met Mr. Morrison's niece Miss who has been over here from Ireland only about 2 weeks. Mama & I chatted. I asked her if she thinks I am too careful, too particular about little details. She answered that I102 1912. am now in preparatory stage fitting myself for my life work. She hopes I get the key, thinks I'll be a successful teacher, & is looking forward to my occupying a Professor's chair. She also said that she wants me to feel perfectly free, not bound to do church work because I'm the minister's daughter but only as a church member. Wrote Dr. Doane for my glasses prescription. Thurs. July 11. Claire went down with me today. Several girls have finished their curtains. I had 19 today. Dr. Lusk showed pictures of Geo. Washington then I played America which all sang, then he read the story of the three Bears & showed pictures illustrating it. Played game with Claire I_, y_ _ w _ _ _, g_ _ _, m _, a, r _ _ _ _ _, I _ _, p _ _ _, m _, y _ _ _ _ _. [drawing] Almost finished reading the July Assembly Herald giving the news about the General Assembly. Mrs. MacNaughton & children called & Elmer Towers called on Mama. Fri. July 12. Down at 49 Beacon in a.m. Miss Killburn called. Mama went downtown in a.m. & purchased some goods for Mrs. MacNaughton. 103 1912. Sat. July 13. Did housework. Miss Killburn made an offer of $1000.00 as a gift & $1000.00 as a loan. Studied S.S. lesson. Sun. July 14. Conducted exercises downstairs & taught beginners. Papa preached from Romans I 16 in A.M. Wrote letter to Henrietta Hess and to Agnes Rowlands. Went to Bethany church with Claire in p.m. & heard mama give her address on [Porto Rico] Puerto Rico. I was so proud of her. Met the pastor, Mr. Stubblebein. Mon. July 15. 49 Beacon St. Our school goes over 90. Had dinner at the Pres. Deaconnesses Home with Miss Vacek who showed me around. I was there till 3 p.m. and enjoyed my visit. Miss V. explained the picture of the Bible with the wine glass on top. Papa came in school this A.M. & brought my glasses. One lens is cracked so I went downtown and left them to be repaired. Miss V. & I met & looked at books together. Tues. July 16. Grandman Ordway would have been 87 if she had lived till today. Papa found the head D.L. & W. ticket agent here is Mr. D.J. White who was a "Swale" boy, son of Abe White & knew of papa when papa lived in Jaspers. Mr. D.J. White maarried Stanley Plass' daughter104 1912. & Minerva Ordway has been recently visiting them. I ironed for about 4 hours. Papa was sewing books in the cellar. Prayer meeting in p.m. Subject "Ungodly pleasures". 49 Beacon in A.M. Wed. July 17. 49 Beacon St. Mama canned pineapples. I studied my Silver Bay mission class notes. Had some pineapple shrub. Mama & I called on Mrs. Stultz. Thurs. July 18. Had over 90 again today in our school. Dr. Lusk showed pictures of Lincoln & then of a little boy who didn't want his picture taken. L.M.S. meeting in church at 3 P.M. We all went. Mrs. Margaret Smith (Gladys' mother) led. Subject Korea. Papa & mama sang "It Must be Told". I spoke on "The Chinese Revolution" (20 min.) [Lemond'al] Lemonade & wafers etc were served. C.E. business meeting in P.M. only 11 present. I bid for the July missionary meeting on North America. Spoke about possible mission study in our society. Got the different ones present to say they will look up a specific phase of the work, Indians, Waskans, Immigrants, Lumberjacks, etc before the meeting & come prepared to speak on it. Asked Chloe Thielman afterward about teaching sewing at 49 Beacon. [in margin] Mr. Darley said today It's a measely shame the sewing teacher's got to go. Miss Wood visited today. (sewing inspector). Fri. July 19. Again went to the Daily Vacation Bible School in the [Ruthenian] Church on 49 Beacon St. 105 1912. The children received loly-pops today. Claire put the doll's trunk in order today, also the suit box in which she keeps some of her many dolls. I sewed. Papa went to another meeting of the Extension com. today & they give us the additional $3000.00 as a loan so now the new church can be begun. Mr. Fred Farnam of Pittsford N.Y. is dead, died of pneumonia. He is a great loss to the Pres. Church. Mama read me from Drummond's addresses (a small book) a chapter on Love which [trials] the separate parts of love, Humility, Courtesy, etc. Sat. July 20. Ran the cleaner for mama & together we did the entire house. Papa interviewed the architect for the new church, Mr. McMurray. Sun. July 21. S.S. I had the little ones again today. Church Matt 27.22. Claire had S.S. for her dolls in afternoon. C.E. Arthur Halsall, who led was most 30 min. late. Bertha Pfeifer, and I each played the organ before Hazel arrived. Church Rev. 1:17. Mon. July 22. Papa met Aunt Jennie Ordway (who came from San Juan, Porto Rico where she is Sup't. of the Pres. Hospital) at Pier 27 Brooklyn in the A.M. They got home about 11 A.M. I passed them near the car barns on my way to Beacon St. The children were glad to106 1912. see me again & ran to meet me & hung on me. Viola Biedron & Edna Yetter want me to write to them. Had dinner with Miss Vacek at 13th St. & went with her to the conference on Westminster Church of the workers in the Daily Vacation Bible Schools under the Home Board. Met Mr. [Lunious] the pastor & director of this work. Rec'd card from Lucy Penniman. Mrs. Roberston & Grandma Baldwin of Nutly called before I got home. At Building Com. meeting in P.M. all contracts for our new Killburn Memorial Church were let. Tues July 23. Went downtown with Claire for her violin lesson at 9 A.M. Ironed in afternoon. Mama & Aunt J. went downtown. I went to prayer meeting. Wed. July 24. Ironed. Papa took my V.C. Miscellany apart pasted & sewed it. Rec'd $1 from Aunt J. for ironing. Thurs. July 25. Card from Lois Edwards. All of us but Claire are ill-frequent visitors-------. Mama & Aunt J. spent day in New York. I cut up an old tablecloth into tray cloths, napkins and little cloths. Fri. July 26. While Mama & Aunt J. saw Mrs. Diesel Norwood St. about sewing I put my box in the attic in order. In afternoon went downtown with Mama & Aunt J. & got cloth for lawn dress and 6 yds107 1912. beautiful foulard silk for me. At lining store mama got me 27 in. lace for cuffs and over 2 yds. grand lace for trimming for my foulard. Sat. July 27. Card from Margaret Towers. Wrote an item for the bulletin which pleased papa. He said it expressed his idea. New zeal, enthusiasm etc. to correspond with our new building. Aunt J. went to dentist's. Sun. July 28. S.S. Mrs. & Miss Freeman & Aunt J. visited my department. Church. Matt. 16:16-18. Studied over 2 hrs on C.E. lesson. Led C.E. was 10 min. late myself so did not have time for all whom I asked to speak. Never called on Mr. Prentice & he told me on the way up he had his notes down so he could give it in just a few minutes. Geo. Darby spoke, the rest. D. Rolph excepted read. It was a good beginning. Subject Missionary Progress in North America. Church I Cor. 16:23. Mon. July 29. Letter from A.G.Rowlands. Claire's shaker salt dolls have come & after supper I played with them with her. We had Miss St. Clair visit the various monarchs & give them some salt. Ironed in the afternoon while Claire read me fairy-tales. Papa got his 16 books trimmed today. I cleaned the gas stove today. Tues. Jyly 30. Card from Wilhelmina. Downtown with Claire then after lesson 9-10 we went to "Percell's" & I108 1912. enjoyed there a fine shampoo on Aunt J's ticket and my first manicure $.25 at her expense. Mama & Aunt J. spent day in New York. Ironed. Papa bought "Little Men", "Little Women", "Near to Nature's Heart", "Juvenile Gift Book". Papa saw 2 Dr's. about hair & wants me to have more work done. Claire & I went to prayer meeting, last one before vacation. Wed. July 31. I have had 7 weeks vacation today June 12-Jul 31. Ida Tetsche's 22nd birthday. [Ironed. Mama said I iron very nicely.] Mama gave me a copy of Drummond's addresses & I mailed it & a birthday postal to her. Rec'd check for $3.00 from Mr. M.J. Price for my 2 weeks work in the Beacon St. Daily Vacation Bible School. Claire went to Grace Stryker's in P.M. & I went downtown. Paid for my lenses $2.00 (i.e. $1.88), gloves short white chamoisette $.29. Anderson's Fairy Tales $.10. Papa's new waste basket from New York came today. Aunt J. paid me another $1.00 for doing her ironing. She told me of a cloudburst & of some people she knew in Touse. Thurs. Aug 1st. In 7 weeks and one day I return to Vassar. How much have I accomplished & how much will I attain in the coming weeks?!! Faced my plain pink gingham. Mama put the lace cuffs on. Saved some clippings on the death of the Mikado of Japan. Claire & I on Aunt Jennie's invitation accompanied her at 2.30 to the dress-109 1912. maker's. Claire wore white, carried parasol & new bag. Aunt J. wore daisy waist & white skirt & I wore pink dress, with lace collar & cuffs, white silk gloves, hat with black velvet, & carried my large white bag Aunt Jennie gave me. (for first time) She bought me 2 ivory & a thin nail file. She took me in to Huyler's & treated us to maple sundae. In P.M. I read Dr. Hutchinson's second article on shoes and feet etc & exhibited to my father samples of my present footgear. Aunt J. wears shoes, has no corns or callouses & never has tired feet. Fri. Aug.2. "Gretta you're a nice girl" "she has the true ring". Card from Laura Kemp. Had fine time weeding our flower plot. Found a huge snail under rhubarb leaf. Papa tinkered my Quaker Oats bag (from Pan American) cover to my little box for odd coins that fits in my childhood pink box where I kept my saving, Gods and spending money, & cover to my "Special Treasures" box. Mama & Aunt J. in New York. Had sausage & cakes for breakfast. Aunt J. thinks my face trouble came from wiping on an infected towel in school E.H.S. & I guess she's right. Aunt J. brought me an ivory buffer and a fine pair of cuticle scissors, Mama, 3 1/2 yds grand black velvet ribbon and a beautiful 15 in. silver chain. "I'm glad Gretta hasn't a swelled neck nor a swelled head either."110 1912. Claire played she was the mother & I the little girl so she combed my hair in 2 braids, tied ribbons on & sent me to school before she went to bed. Sat. Aug. 3. Worked. Sun. Aug.4. Claire went to S.S. I went to church & heard Rev. Rec'd Edwards. Read "Mother" by Kathleen Norris. A fine story. Claire marked on a calendar, from papa's diary the dates on which she has taken violin lessons. Mon. Aug. 5. Made a list of my Etudes. Practiced 1/2 hour. Mama & I went downtown. At 79 Halsey St. saw Dr. Mary V.Stickel and had my first treatment from her for my face. She can cure it she said. Got a bottle of her Complexion Balm $.50. Called at 70 Park Pl. (M.J.Price) & returned the check for $3.00 as my carfare was only $1.10. Aung J. went to Montclair to Halsey's where she dined P.M. Started Dickens "Tale of Two Cities". Tues. Aug. 6. Card from Sarah came Wed. Aug 7. & Clara H. Aunt Jennie went with Claire to take her lesson. Ironed. Papa pasted my Poughkeepsie Eagle clippings about V.C. commencement festivities on the advertising pages of my 1912 Vassarion. My Miscellany is completed. 111 1912. Neatly & prettily & substantially bound by my dear good indulgent father. Have now read (2 hrs this afternoon) 75 p. in Tale of Two Cities. Played store with Claire. Wed. Aug. 7. 2nd treatment. Rec'd new check from M.J. Price for $1.10. Cashed it. Mama said I may have it. Mama & Aunt J. went to New York once more. I sent money order to Treas. of V.C. for $33.75. $23.75 being my semester bill and $10.00 being a deposit on my room for this fall. Ironed 2 1/2 hrs. Played store with Claire. Papa printed 1, 2, 5, 10 and 20 dollar bills for her. Thurs. Aug. 8. Cleaned. Aunt Ella Thomas arrived about noon. She is very nice this time. Fri. Aug. 9. Showed Aunt Ella my Vassarion etc. & she enjoyed looking at them. After dinner she had to go. I enjoyed her visit very much. Pasted my "stuff" in stunt book. Receipt came from V.C. New teakettle. Sat. Aug. 10. 3rd treatment. Finished sorting my clippings. Letter from Ida. Mended 2 pr. stockings. Looked at evening paper. Gave Claire her bath & piggy back ride. Mama & Aunt J. called on Misses Killburn. A.J. says I can have "Mother" & "The Winning of Barbara Worth". 112 1912. Sun. Aug. 11. Papa & mama went to First Church Tabernacle. Claire to S.S. In P.M. Aunt Jennie & Claire & I went to Vailsburg M.E. Church (my first visit to the new church) hear Rev. Byce preach. Wrote letters to Mrs. Curtis (V.C.) & Alma Klippel & cards about German Summer reading books to Mary Bliss. Sidney Thompson & Alexander Boyce. Aunt J. gave me some postals & writing paper. Mon. Aug. 12. Ironed. Papa printed labels for his books. Aunt Jennie's trunk went today. Miss C. Kilburn called. Gave Claire a shampoo. Tues Aug. 13. Escorted Claire to her lesson at Mr. Masten's studio. Had 4th face treatment at 79 Halsey St. Mama looked over her many splendid addresses which have been reposing on the upper shelf of one of papa's book cases. Manicured Claire's nails, first time I've used my Aunt Jennie manicure set. Wed. Aug. 14. Rec'd invitation from Mr. Darley to the closing exercises of the Beacon St. D.V.B.S. Papa accompanied Aunt Jennie to New York. I hated to see her go for I so enjoyed her visit. She left Pier 11 Brooklyn Red "D" line at 2 P.M. instead of 12 noon as she had expected so papa didn't get home till after dark. Papa bought a new dishpan today on So Orange Av. a fine enameled one. [in margin] Set bread. Thurs. Aug. 15. Papa read shelf list & I dusted books. Claire read the list awhile. We dusted all the books putting the new ones on the shelves. Spent the whole day [in margin] Made up bread & rolls. Mama baked it.113 1912. at it. Letter from Mary Bliss about G.S. reading. Mama & I attended closing exercises of D.V.B.S. 49 Beacon St. Good. Fri. Aug. 16. Mama went downtown with Claire for a private violin lesson & Mama had her feet treated. Ironed what was washed preparatory to our departure tomorrow. Card from Sidney Thompson. Sat. Aug. 17. 5th face treatment. Mrs. Jackson of Sunset Ave. called & had Papa visit her daughter who is in the city hospital. We all left after 2 P.M. for ["Jennina's"] Miss J.P. Morris. Box 215 Summit N.J. Got there after 3 P.M. Papa & I walked the 2 miles out there & Mama & Claire rode with the 2 suit cases, big package of books and a bag. Claire laughed heartily when she saw the house & Grandma Morris' cane. Rec'd card from D. Rolph from Norwalk. Wrote card to Grace Redway about German books. Sun. Aug. 18. Finished Dicken's Tale of Two Cities. Walked with Claire to Murry Hill Park. We all sang hymns in P.M. Mon. Aug. 19. Started "The Winning of Barbara Worth" by Harold Bell Wright. Papa, Claire & I walked up to see the home of his college classmate Leonides Dennis on Mountain Ave., then thru Murray Hill, New Providence and home by Maple St. about a 5 mi. walk. 114 1912. Tues. Aug. 20. Finished "The Winning of Barbara Worth", a fine inspiring, pure story. Read a little Pendennis. Claire & I went down Pine Grove Ave. past the "Arthur Home for Blind Babies" to meet papa & mama who had walked to West Summit. Wed. Aug. 21. Papa & Claire walked with me to Summit and staid there until I returned from Newark where I had my 6th face treatment, then we walked back together. Later in afternoon we all walked to Murry Hill park the first time, papa said, that we four have started out together expressly to take a walk. Wrote letter to Miss Vacek. Started hemstitching for mama. Thurs. Aug. 22. Finished hemstitching a scrim bureau cover for Mama on which she put beautiful fine Cluny lace. Papa, Claire & I strolled over a very hummocky field south of the house, & on into the woods beyond. I tried in vain to find a road parallel to Mt. Ave. Claire discovered a turtle as we came from the woods & we brought it home, I carried it in a bark sling for papa said "You are the scientific girl". We had fun watching our odd pet. Letter from B. Alexander about G.S.R. books. Papa cut canes for himself & Claire. Let the turtle go. Fri. Aug. 23. Papa finished E.P. Roe's "Nature's Serial Story" borrowed from Summit Public Library, he also finished vol.I of 115 1912. Green's History of the English people". He is anxious for me to know history. Miss Morris took Mama, Claire & me riding thru New Providence, West Summit & Summit, fine ride but it seems queer to me that so little land here in the country is cultivated. Most of it is wild. Finished hemstitching stand cover for Mama. Claire is learning to hemstitch on some scrim and is making a an oblong doily, nicely. Sat. Aug. 24. All of us walked up to "Fresh Air & Convalescent Home" on Mt. Ave. Picked black eyed susans. Man who was working in the garden gave us ripe cucumbers, several green ones, a few tomatoes & told me to help myself to carrots. There are over 70 children in this home. Packed suit case. Left Morris' about 3 p.m. papa & I walked in. Stopped in Public Lib. Have read 100 p. in Nature Serial Story, I like it. $22.00 for the 4 of us. Got home at 6 p.m. & soon had supper. Blessed be home & plenty of water. We all reveled in our baths. Found express package from Grace Redway, The Brunswick Boston Mass awaiting me containing 4 books which should have been sent on Rudolf Greinz "Allerseelen" Theodor Fontane's "Frau Jenny Treibel" Ada von Gersdorff's "Das Paradies der Erde" "Stirb und Werde" Also had a card from Narola Rivenburg. 116 1912. Sun. Aug. 25. Birthdays Florence Seymour is 22 today. Louis Parsell is , Sidney Parsell is . Claire went to S.S. the rest of us went nowhere. Mama's time was partly taken up "hunting" Claire and me. Goodness!!! Read some in "Allerseelen". Claire & I read Ch. III in the Odyssey (by Rudolf Greinz) aloud taking turns. Read all of Galatians - was especially impressed by ch. 1. v.10 If I were still pleasing men. I should not be a servant of Christ. 5. 22.3.4 Joy, faithfulness and self control are among the fruits of the spirit. I played the piano, Claire the violin and we had family singing. Mon. Aug. 26. 7th face treatment. (My face now looks clear and clean & hasn't a scab on it. It seems so good to once more have a good complexion & papa and mama keep looking at me & commenting on how nice my face looks.) Card from Mrs. Bessie Magie. Went to Library & drew Green's Short Hist. of the English People (844p) for papa. Helped hang up clothes. Mama & I went to Mrs. Duesel's on Norwood St. but she wasn't home. Called on Mr. Chandler. He is a sick man. Mrs. Duesel called in P.M. & took my blue polka dot silk & lace home to make it. Set bread. [in margin] ["Kil-ne"] used. Tues. Aug. 27. Letter from Alma Klippel. Made up bread. Papa went with Claire to lesson. Mama baked my bread & rolls which are very nice. I am a little less awkward this time. Ironed. Mama & I again went to Mrs. Duesel's & picked out a style. The Misses Killburn gave papa $20.00 for a self inking printing press. 117 1912. for my silk dress. Read newspaper. Am trying to clip the important items out of each paper. Aunt Jennie arrive safely. Wed. Aug. 28. All of us went to Bronx park, New York for the day, took our dinner. Left here 9.30 reached park 11.30 A.M. Had nice time looking at all the animals. Papa got an official guide book. Got home about 7 p.m. very tired. Thurs. Aug. 29. Claire was all dressed before I got up. I was the power behind the cleaner for Aunt Jennie's room, stairs & study. Mama cleaned her upper bureau drawer & I put a nice box in it for papa's neck ties. Finished my part of the ironing. Papa worked all day on a rack for magazines. Mrs. Trembley called to see papa about marrying her 16 yr. old daughter Sat. Mama & I talked about Hazel Courtney. She wanted to go to college so bad. Fri. Aug. 30. Had 8th face treatment & 1st treatment for sideburns. Papa stained the magazine rack, it looks fine. Mama & I went to Mrs. Duesel's. Decided definitely on my dress. $.19 postage on 3 German books. Sat. Aug. 31. While Mama was downtown buying messaline, lining, (silk), pan velvet for my dress, papa, Claire & I worked in attic. Took old papers down cellar, put up new shelf & put books on it. In P.M. we four went to Morrison's & called. I took music & played twice. Mina (his niece) does beautiful crochet work.118 1912. Sun. Sept. 1. Attended German church on Alexander St. in A.M. Eight (8) present counting the minister & organist. Sermon in German, life being in vain unless Christ is our guide. Mrs. Arthur Mudd called. Papa, Claire & I made a half receipt of taffy in the evening. Wrote to Narola Rivenburg, Ida, Lucy Penniman, Eliz. McShane, Wilhelmina, & an invitation to Agnes Rowlands to spend Thurs. with me. Mon. Sept. 2 Hung clothes in attic. Mama & papa went to Elizabeth and had supper with Rev. & Mrs. Ferguson. Claire & I staid home & had our supper with the dolls, Ruth, Rosa & Teddy off the little table with Claire's little dishes & my strawberry cups. [in margin] Set bread all alone for first time. Tues. Sept. 3. Papa went down with Claire for her violin lesson. In P.M. he walked down & back & bought Green's Short Hist. of the English people for $.60 second hand, in fine condition. He ordered peaches for canning of Aaron Ward. Ironed. Baked bread alone this time. Wed. Sept. 4. Finished ironing. Agnes can't come, isn't home. Isabelle writes. Darned darned stockings. Claire wanted to take her dolls out riding & see how work on the new church progresses. Leon Schmidt walked up with us. Then I had a nice call on Dorothy Rolph. Papa is making a register of the names of his church members for his own use. 119 1912. Thurs. Sept. 5. Had 9th face treatment & second s. hair treatment. Was in the chair 1 1/2 hrs. Bought notebook for exam papers. After dinner mama & I went to Mrs. Duesel's. She fitted the lining & a sample pattern skirt of unbleached muslin. Rec'd letter from Agnes regretting that she can't come. Mama canned peaches. Mr. Ward called for his wedding certificate. Mrs. D. took in my white button skirt. Fri. Sept. 6. Aunt Jennie sent Claire the Aug 1912 Etude this week. Got after Claire & she sorted her paper children & truck in the study. She also helped papa print the bulletin's for Sun. Helped mama prepare for Mr. & Mrs. Robertson, Alexander & Mrs. Baldwin (Grandma) of Nuttey who came to tea. Was sorry Grandpa didn't come. He sent a basket of corn, carrots, beets, radishes. Menu 1. tomato soup & croutons 2. creamed baked potatoes, croqettes, spiced currants, pickles, olives, coffee, my bread (which was praised) 3. pepper salad & cheesed wafers. 4. peaches & cream & delectable cake. Claire & I walked to car with Alexander who left to attend a party. He is now 5 ft 11 3/4 in hight. Claire violined. They left about 9 p.m. We enjoyed having them so much. Sat. Sept. 7. Mama & I washed last night's dishes. Papa took out all the leaves & made the table small. Mama & I went downtown. Bought for me sorosis button shoes.120 1912. Her majesty's velvet pumps (my majesty's now) (Claire said write this) 8 1/2 yds. brown burlap, 3 yds green velvet ribbon. For Claire 2 pr. tan stockings, 2 pencils, 1 eraser. Papa's new press from the Kelsey Press. Co. Meriden Conn. which came last night he put up today & found a crack in the handle, too bad. (My press is "all boke" "boke") Mama went to bed for awhile. Claire & I pitted plums. A man delivered a basket of beautiful peaches, gift of the Misses Killburn. Mama bought 2 inverted lights & 3 $.10 burners for $1.15. She returned a book of brown stamps at Hahne's (Surety) & got a lovely cut glass dish for jelly mould & chocolate sponge for $.48 in addition to the $2.50 credit of the stamps. Sun. Sept. 8. Had the Beginners. Arthur Halsall led C.E. tonight. Glad to get back to regular work. Papa's evening theme "Some steps into sin" treated of these points 1. Looking 2. Wanting or Coveting 3. Taking. There were 6 people killed in an accident at the Motordrome today. Mon. Sept. 9. Wrote Mrs. Strong about my $200.00 asking if it would be sent to college. 121 1912. Tues. Sept. 10. Went downtown. Had 10th face treatment. Bought notebook for exam. papers & frame for Silver Bay picture. Prayermeeting. Notice from Arlington about riding at college. Rally Day plans discussed at teacher's meeting after prayermeeting. Wed. Sept 11. Miss Kennedy sewed here all day $1.75. Cut & fitted 3 black & white percale shirtwaists & hung skirt of gray lawn on which mama is working. Letter from H. Hess. Thurs. Sept. 12. Fixed underskirt. Mama went to Ladies Aid. Fri. Sept. 13. Mama & I went downtown. 3 doz. small buttons, 1 1/2 doz. large ones, 1/4 yd. embroidery, 1/2 yd. red velvet, 4 yd. cloth for shirtwaist skirt to be made at Bamberger's for $1.75. Had my 11th face treatment. Was printer's devil fo 3 hrs. helping papa print 1500 sheets with the form for outside of bulletin. Mama fixed my hair in a Psyche wound around by tursted coils. Assisted at Mrs. Arthur Mudd's grape festival for the church building fund. A man committed suicide a few streets beyond Helen place, off Sanford Ave. while the festival was in progress. Helped papa print 300 bulletins for tomorrow. Rec'd card from Mrs. Strong, money has been sent. 122 1912. Sun. Sept. 15. Had Beginners again today. Wrote letters to Gladys Bassett and Harriet White. Al Clarks led C.E. & gave a splendid talk on Prayer, how to get the most out of it. Good meeting. Papa, in view of the accident last Sunday at the Motordrome preached on "One Hundred Miles an hour" and showed how the crowd today demands a thrill similar in principle to the old gladiatorial combats & bull fights. Games are endangered by betting. Recreation is all right provided it fits a man to better perform his daily work. Met Mr. who is soon to be married. He told me he has been in bad company but papa's sermon tonight impressed him. Mon. Sept. 16. Letter from Agnes Rowlands. Walked in A.M. to Mrs. Duesel's & told her I go Friday. Ironed 2 hrs. Called on Baby Lake, Mrs. Cassedy, Miss Clara & Margaret Killburn. Went over to Lakes in p.m. and had an evening with Minor & wife, Dorothy Hillman & George Darby. Tues. Sept. 17. Went downtown with Claire who took her lesson on the violin today. Ironed. Went to prayer-meeting. Brought home Mama's hat, new black velvet. Wed. Sept. 18. Downtown in A.M. Had 12th face treatment. Bought bottle of lotion .50, depillatory $.75, $.25 box rice powder. Miss Trowmans sewed here all day. Skirt came 123 1912. from Bamberger's, needs taking in a little, so I went downtown again, got 1 doz. button molds and 1 7/8 yd. wide green velvet ribbon. Lois & Helen Edwards called in p.m. D. Rolph and Mrs. Chandler who brought me some blue grapes called in p.m. I met them as I came in. Went to Hechmann's for a few minutes. Thurs. Sept. 19. Miss Trowmans sewed here all day. Mama & I went to Mrs. Duesel's, had my blue silk fitted. Read "From Within One Heart" for Miss Bingham in missionary meeting at church. Called to bid Mr. Chandler good bye. Fri. Sept. 20. Papa packed part of my trunk and engineered me so it was ready in time. Mama left to speak in Trenton. I got dinner. Claire left for school. Papa went with me to Penn. station. Left home soon after 1 p.m. Left N.Y. city 3.24. A few girls came up. Wrote card home. Went in to dinner in Main (reached V.C. 5.50) tho my face was very red. Chapel. Saw Agnes who seemed glad so glad to seem me. Paid Mr. Polk $15.00. My $200.00 from Rochester branch of Vassar Students' Aid Soc. was here waiting for me so this time I settled my college account at once and went to Mrs. T.'s office. Then came to 340 to see Alice Hill. 124 1912. She has anxiously waited for me since 1 p.m. for she told the office to decorate 341 instead of 340 so if I keep the room I in entitled to I have wall paper of her selection, not the brown I expected to have that K. Reid had on last year and she is out $25.00. So we changed and I am to live in 340. Main has post office boxes and also a steel elevator shaft. Agnes & I called on Mary Berkemier who showed us a list of the faculty who are not coming back. Then I visited with Agnes in her room. I talked about Sunday studying. It seems so natural, contrary to my expectation, to live in Main. I love it already. Lucy P. came in. Sat. Sept. 21. Went to Raymond for my things there in the store room. Also got my towel rack off the clothes room door of 403. Met Prof. Pahner who shook hands with me. Am avoiding Dr. Baldwin till my face gets well. Had my box opened. Miss Ellery shook hands with me. Went downtown. Rented a mail box $1.00. Trunk came up after dinner. Frances J. & I took two Freshmen to chapel. They came in my room afterward & we visited. Finished unpacking my box. Have pictures up in my sitting room. Unpacked trunk and put all clothes in place. Retired after 12 p.m. F. Valiant hopes I'll contributre to the Miscellany. Louise Boynton gave me a pair of little wooden shoes from Island of Marken. 125 1912. Sun. Sept. 22. Made further adjustments of little things in my room. Chapel. A fine sermon by Prexy on "First the kingdom". Walked around lake. Called on H. Hess, met her sister. Started home letter. Called on Albertina who has a dandy room, so dainty, one Freshman, , Ekie & Gertrude, Anne Van Winkle. Evelyn Noble told me that after her first semester exam in Baby Ec. she got a little note from Miss Wells asking if she would consider tutoring in Economics. So since then Evelyn has been tutoring in Ec. Since she came back this fall she tutored 3 girls for a Re- and they all passed. Music chapel. Christians, service. Mondesty of true service. As we came out Janet King said Don't you wish they had sung the other tune? (the one we sang at Silver Bay). Called on Alma, Gladys, Mildred & Gertrude in their firewall. Martha [Marvross] is back Didn't recognize Dye whose name I learned for first time tonight with her hair effectively combed over her forehead & parted & eye glasses. Helen Dickinson, Marie Otto, Winifred Otis are not coming back. Albertina went to Alaska this summer. Killed a big spider on my wall and saw a mouse run along the footboard near my desk. Borrowed mouse trap from Miriam Winter &126 1912. got some cracker from Esther Rood. Wore my sicilian for first time today with new collar & cuffs. It is an entire new waist & seems like a new dress. Gladys Sutton is back this year. Mon. Sept. 23. Finished letter to mama. Had no class 1st hour, but R. English in 23, Ethics in 35 & E.Ec.(Labor Problems) in 34. Prexy gave us a talk about our responsibility as Seniors. We marched in a body to Ethics. Prexy was annoyed because we were late. Rec'd card from Ruth Robinson from Dresden, circulars from Dr. Stickle, and a nice letter from mama who had a fine time at Trenton at the luncheon after which she gave a rousing address. ["We miss you dear so very much but must be content to do without you for the good you are getting for your higher development. I only hope that your life wherever you go will be such that you will be missed as you are from the home circle" "I got home about 5.30 and found papa crying because you had gone. Claire was playing with Alwina Kays and he felt lonely."] "Claire bears up under your going very nicely."] Mama ordered the table which Claire & I looked at at Hahne's. No chapel. Tues. Sept. 24. American History in 14, Ethics, and E. German in 17 today. Miss Whitney isn't back yet so Miss Stroebe kept us just a few minutes. Eleanor127 1912. Greenberg saw me about collecting the mail from the halls. I went around with her in the afternoon to get it. Saw Mrs. T. in her office & found "Pick" (Ruth Pickering) there. Agreed to be box clerk for a time in the post office. Told Eleanor I'd try collecting for a week. No chapel. Rec'd letter from Ida, who is teaching for the first time, at Sherburne N.Y. Rec'd letter from Aunt Jennie. Have written a note to Mrs. Strong of 287 Westminster Road thanking her for the loan of $200.00 from the Roch. Branch of the Vassar Aid Soc. & also thanking her that it was here on time. Wrote card to Grandpa Baldwin 102 Hawthorne Ave, Nutley N.J. thanking him for the carrots. Pinned up the burlap on the pole in the archway to see if I shall like it for curtains there. H. Hess & I looked over Ethics together after I had worked on R.Eng. in Lib. Prof. Salmon today answered a question that has long troubled me. She said we should cooperate, help each other in our work, "talk shop" i.e. talk over our work. Noone who has a new idea has a right to keep it. She must pass it on. Wed. Sept. 25. Wrote an aesthetic experience for R. Eng. & handed it in. Prexy gave us a written on Socrates' teachings. 7.30 collected mail. 8.20 helped in P.O. 12.30 arranged for taking German conversation. Decided on Rb. if office will let me change, which is to come 6th hr. 128 1912. Had Rb German 6th hr. with Miss Walthers. She is charming. Tues & Wed. 3.30 collected mail. Walked around New lake with A.G. Rowlands, 4.30 helped in P.O. We Seniors were seated today in chapel. I am in second row from front 2nd from center of pen on left hand side. Mrs. Sutton is here helping Trix settle. She came in and saw my room, at my request, Trix wants to go to Oxford she says but she won't let her. "Why, Gretta, she's all we have." "I'll be so glad when this year is over and I can have her home." 7.20 p.m. 1912 Silver Bay delegation met. C.C. Johnson has invited Barnard here for Oct. 4 to a S.B. delegation "tat". [in margin] Louise comes. Prof. Mills in taking about freedom answered a question for me. We musn't be sheep like in our attitude, we must assert ourselves, else our individuality will disappear. Dr. B. is glad at the improvement of my face. Gave my name to Miss Wylie as tutor in English. Thurs. Sept. 26. Collected mail at 7.30 A.M. and 3.30 P.M. Prof. Salmon (Worked in P.O. A.M. & P.M.) sent me her card giving address and hours she is at home Fri. She cordially invited me in class to call. No E. German yet. Fooled, sorted songs comparing my written copies with printed class songs. Worked in Lib. reading 4 nos. of Spenser's Shepherd's Calendar. Took Phyllis Carbough to Christians. Explanation meeting led by K. Scribner. The different chairmen Eliz. Baldwin, Maud Kelsey, Agnes Wilson, Maud L. Strayer, Ruth Holliday, Dorothy Smith and spoke. Peggy asked me what I do to my face to look so nice. Spent some time with Frances & Lucy. [in margin] Saw "Pick" about P.O. work. She wants me to keep on for awhile. 129 1912. Fri. Sept. 27. No class in E. German. Worked in P.O. 4th hr & at night. Collected mail A.M. & P.M. Wrote papa a birthday letter as his birthday is tomorrow, also wrote a general letter home. Went downtown and back as fast as I could. Rode Eleanor's wheel off campus to dairy on where I got 1 pt. buttermilk. Prof. Salmon spoke this A.M. of the excellent work Mary Berkemier did on the suggestions this summer, arranging those made by last year's class. Mary is certainly a wonder. Went to Lib. & poked at German but didn't accomplish anything. Faith Merriman here to dinner. Visited Alice Hill awhile. Several 1912 girls are back. Tibs is here for the reception to former Students' Pres. Agnes Rowlands escorted Mrs. Capitane wife of Prof. Capitane of Holland, the great astronomer, around campus & in P.M. helped Miss Furness serve at a reception to a few of the faculty. Agnes says Lucy Penniman is engaged. Rec'd letter from Papa. [Robert Van Houten was married to Mabel Perry of Roslyn N.Y. at our house Wed. P.M. 80 present at Heilmann's musicale. Papa printed 200 Rally day invitations & sent me one.] Sat. Sept. 28. [in margin] Papa's Birthday Collected mail 7.30 & got back in time for a real breakfast. Then worked 2 hrs 25 min. in P.O. Got notebooks in order. Wrote note asking faculty permission to change from Rc to Rb German, had Miss Stroebe sign it. Handed in blue card. While working in P.O. this A.M. 130 1912. Miss Stroebe came in and asked me if I want to tutor this year in German. Yes I said. That's all I want to know, she said. My name has to go before faculty meeting Monday. Rec'd ad. from E.V. Grant 317 Main St oil cloth, also door blocks from Saltford's. After lunch Sidney Thompson, one of about 12 "nineteen-twelve" girls who are here, came up & I gave her "Stirb und Werde" & she gave me "Frau Jenny Treibel". Saw Dorothy Stimson. 3.20 collected mail. Took Winestine 1916 to Christians. Students reception. Katherine Scribner, Victoria Searle & Prexy were the receiving line. While glee club sang Mrs. K. appeared in black travelling suit & boquet of large yellow chrysanthemums, much to our surprise. Then she & Mrs. T. were in the line which I passed a second time with Phyllis Carbaugh 1916 and my Freshmen Winestine 1916. Did night mail in P.O. After chapel went to Lib. Looked up life of Aristotle in Encyc. Discovered what a colossal task I have before me in my R. Eng. paper on Spenser & Dante, having never read a word of Dante. Read some of Ec. in charaties vol. 21. Did not go to Students at which Mrs. T, Prexy, Vic, Louise Holinquist, "Tibs", , Eliz. Baldwin, Frances Valiant spoke. 1913 practiced a song in the soap palace, Nilde Quackenbush leading, & serenaded Vic. Returning round the south end of Main we sang "O we'd like to know a man with more go etc." Prexy bowed & then confidently told us he was waiting for the Minister who had left his baggage in Main & gone off to the President's house in a taxicab. Had grapes in Alma's room 224, with Gertrude & Mildred. 131 1912. Visited a few minute's with Agnes R. & ate apple. Read Aristotle ch.1, fixed face, retired 12 p.m. Sun. Sept. 29. Heard my dishes rattle, saw a wiggly body, heard a scramble, saw a dark form on the window sill & the squirrel disturber was gone. Rev. Paul Revere Frothingham of Boston preached on the Two Talen man. Wrote a point of view for Miscellany on Studying on Sunday & Agnes criticized it for me. Read part of Foster's "Decision of Character". Chapel. Christians Miss Holingquist was there. Called on two charming Freshmen in [1] , Gladys and Rose. Wrote home. Also had nice call in 107 on Koto Yamada 1916 the little Jap. we met at Silver Bay. Mon. Sept. 30. Studied Ethics. Sat at Lucy's table. Worked 1st hr in P.O. Rec'd letter from mama from Chatham where she spoke yesterday. Continued discussion of Hamlet as a romantic drama & compared it with Ben Jonson's Every Man in his Humor. Wrote 3 questions in Ethics. "Millsy" told us about a political meeting in Columbus Institute to be addressed by the Progressive State Candidates Oscar Straus and Mr. Davenport. He also told us about the critical situation in New Eng. resulting from the strike of last Feb. Got Eleanor to collect mail for me & Alice Hill to distribute night mail for me. Rose Bauman came for F. Germ. books & invited me to visit her at home downtown. Left at 3 with Gladys Hull & Ger- 132 1912. trude Wheeler & heard the following at Columbus Institute. Prof. Spingarn, Mr. of Yonkers, Mr. Davenport Progressive candidate for Lieut. Gov & Oscar Straus [Progressive candidate for Gov.] Mr. Davenport was the best speaker & dwelt on "the invisible govenment" which in New York state is run by Barnes and Murphy. I treated to ice cream at [Vasselio] Bros. Table rotation began tonight. Table 30 with the O's. After chapel went to Lib & worked till it closed just as hard as I could reading Hettner's Essay on Winckelmann. Collected some for Japanese missions on my corridor. Alice Hill told me that Teddy Roosevelt is an awful drunkard. She knows it on good authority. Tues. Oct. 1. Promised Prof. Salmon to write Mr. South Trimble Clerk U.S. House Representatives asking him price of his "Platforms of the Two Great Political Parties" 1856-1908 Inclusive & did it after lunch. Prexy had oral recitation in Ethics & began with Lucy. There are just 14 in our E. German 7 Juniors & 7 Seniors. Copied & handed in my Point of View on Sunday studying. Miss Walthers had us talk about our grammer & high schools. Read in Lib. in P.M. in Puffer's "Psychology of Beauty". Had bouillon with H. Hess & sister. [in margin] Invited Ruth Butterfield to Senior Parlor. She is pleased. Wed. Oct. 2. Prof. Wylie spoke to us about the Borden Scholarship find & hopes that many of us are thinking about it. Oral Ethics. Prexy is certainly an ardent admirer of Aristotle. Discussed 1st article of Pittsburg Survey.133 1912. Copied list of Pittsburg Survey readings in Lib. Rec'd letter from Wilhelmina Bennett who has entered the Women's College in Brown University. Looked up in "die Worke" a short [...] about the Kaiser's recent visit to Schweiz. but we conversed about a journey from Vassar via New York to Deutschland, landing at Bremen & visiting Berlin, Dresden etc. back down the Rhine to Holland. Worked in Lib. Thurs. Oct. 3. Got up 6.30. Read the two Pittsburg Survey articles for today. Miss Salmon told several anecdotes from her own experience today. Discussed Winckelmann. "Millsy" told us about Solon's and about Plato's ideals & plans for bettering society. 1.15 T & M informal meeting. Agnes Wright explained plans of debate work this fall. A Republican convention, delegates selected, stump speeches, 3 parties, mass meeting, & finally voting with election machine's. Squeezed face, now it's clean, alcoholed & buttermilked it & topped off with powder. Lib. Collected mail. Lib. Distributed mail. Was alone most of time & didn't finish till 6.10 p.m. Chapel. Christians. Dr. Johnston Ross spoke on Bible & Mission study most entertainingly. He is very witty. In J. 1912 S.B. delegation met & C.C. Johnson explained the details of entertaining the Barnard girls this week end. Worked in Lib. hunted up Dryden's translation of Vergil's Aeneid, drew it & Goethe's Schriften zur Kunst out & finished them home. Returned to office my transfer from Rc to Rb German.134 1912. Fri. Oct. 4. Had a cut in Am. Hist. Rec'd from Mr. South Trimble 20 copies of his Platforms of the Two Great Political Parties 1856-1912 inclusive. Gave one to Agnes Wright & one to Lilias Wheeler. Rec'd letter from Mama. [Mama spoke Sun. at Chatham A.M. & P.M. coming home long enough to be present at the laying of the corner stone. Tues. she spoke at Upper Montclair.] Fussed around my room 5th & 6th took down the burlap pinned curtains, changed position of bed. Got a table and a dandy rug from the college, brown predominating with a little red and green. Barnard Silver Bay delegation i.e. of them arrived in Main Parlor 6.30 p.m. I was hostess for Louise [Comes]; Pres of the Barnard Christian Assoc. Sat in Guest seats. After chapel showed her the Library & Josselyn hall party & then came back to Main & saw part of the Main performance. Splendid. Sat. Oct. 5. P.O. Eliz. B. took Louise to the basket ball game then I showed her the lake and Sunset. We came up back of the tennis courts at 11.30 from whence the reds and yellow started by a marked trail for a picnic grounds. Diantha Lapham took Louise for me. I worked in the Lib on Ec. Rec'd letter from Marie Varek. [I hope that you are well & also enjoying your work in college. May God's blessing be yours in your work. It was a great pleasure to135 1912. me to know you!] Rec'd three unstamped mail from English department a note starting thus "your application to become a tutor in English has been approved by the faculty. Please watch the Bulletin Board outside of the English office for a notice for the first tutor's meeting". Collected mail. P.O. Had Louise Comes in Main to dinner. After Chapel came to 340 & Agnes R. invited us to a party in her room for her sister Isabelle. After it I gave a party in my room in Louise Comes' honor. Had blue grapes, white grapes, cocoa & sea foam crackers. Served Alma Klippel, Gertrude Wheeler, Eleanor Barnes, Gladys Hull, Ruth Theis, Narola Rivenburg, Louise Boynton, Louise Comes, Alice Hill, Agnes Rowlands, Isabelle Rowlands. K.G.O. Said goodbye to the Barnard girls down in soap place at the front door. They seem to have had a very pleasant visit. Sun. Oct. 6. Washed dishes. Took H.F. Service 105S. 1916, J.H. Hervey 413M. 1916 downtown to church. We walked down & back thru the deGarmo estate. The leaves are just gloriously colored. Read N.Y. Tribune after dinner. Called on Ruth Simpson 309R, Helen's sister, Cordelia Lockwood 110R. and H. White 408J, who prevailed upon me to stay to supper. Chapel. Christians. Retired early. Wrote home. Was in bed before 10 o'clock ball rang. 136 1912. Rose 15 min. before 6 A.M. Studied Ethics & glanced at some R. Eng. notes. P.O. Written in R. English all hour. 1. Define Romanticism & Classicism in the light of the last two recitations, etc. Ethics "conversations". Got no.19 & no.23 of the Pittsburg Survey. Prof. Mills called on me today in Labor Problems. Started my German. Dressed in white & went out to the steps of Strong where our Senior class picture was taken. Several girls failed to appear. Song practice 1.15 and 8th hr. P.O. in P.M. Pick said, "How nice you look!" & admired my pendant. Read German in P.M. Lessings Laokoon. Rec'd nice letter from Mama containing clippings of the laying of the corner stone, John Agate's marriage, Anna Marm's marriage and Mrs. Myron Smith's death. Agnes R. let me have her droplight which makes my study corner very cosy. Mama wrote "Don't forget to try for the fellowship in Germany when it is time." Tues Oct. 8. Rec'd express package from home containing my silk dress which Mrs. Duesell made me, some laundry, a pretty doily for my tea table and my 6 spoons & 3 fruit knives. Conference with Miss Wylie 2 P.M. She said my paper was good "though it wouldn't set the world on fire." She said I am honest and asked if expression is easy for me. She can read a person like a book. O.K. Rb Ger. 6th. I told about the threatened outbreak in [Mesedonia] to drive all Mohammedans out. Dressed & went downtown to Collingwood Opera House to hear Republican 137 1912. candidates speak. Job Hedges for Gov. (Papa's classmate in Princeton class of '84) and Wadsworth for Lieut. Gov. Both were splendid. Hedges while very clever is serious kind and capable. Miriam Winter informed me today that I am a Democratic stump speaker & asked if I can't work up my speech soon. Wrote papa a postal from town telling him I left the meeting while Wadsworth was sill speaking. Missed our first class meeting 8th hr. Had cocoa in Eleanor Barne's room. Wed. Oct. 9. Rec'd letter from Louise Comes (Barnard 1913) thanking me for the good time given her & us for the delegation. Paid $1.35 my share of their expense. Had all hour quiz (written) in Ethics on Aristotle. Wrote Aunt Mary (who is today) a birthday card. Wrote Mr. South Trimble for more "platforms". Send to Stocking Store Broadway for 2 pr. stockings. Went out on lake this year for fist time, 7th hr with Agnes. I rowed & finished chocolate. After chapel went to tutor meeting but it was postponed till Fri. I didn't go to proctor meeting this noon & was elected proctor for 4 weeks. Thurs. Oct. 10. Met "Vic" in J. after 4th hour. After lunch started my canvass for Christians work, & pledges. Ordered my room & books a bit better. Martha Manross came in and staid quite a while. Invited me to dinner tomorrow 305J. She walked over to Crowley's where I got some buttermilk. Took Hervey 1916 to Christians led by Miss Reed on "I am the way, the truth, & the life." Closed meeting beautiful talk. Rec'd138 1912. from Miss Mildred Stiles a note of acceptance to Senior parlor opening. Finished Spensers sonnets. Read over-half my German, fixed face, retired 12.45. Fri. Oct. 11. Discussed 3 of those definitions of Romanticism and Classicism that Miss Wylie gave us. Topics on Moses Mendelssohn & on Miholai were finished today & we went on with Laokoon. Wrote a letter to Aunt Jennie and one to Mama. English tutor meeting in Room 1R. after 4th hr. when Miss Yost told us what to do. After lunch "groomed" my face straightened my room. P.O. then song practice. Dined in Josselyn with Martha Mawross. Did Ec. in Lib in P.M. instead of going to Prof. Miss Washburn's lecture on Some tendencies in modern Psychology. Sat. Oct. 12. P.O. Put room in order. Saw Dr. Baldwins, told her about my treatment by Dr. Stickles & gave her two circulars & a card from Dr. S. Read in Survey. Told Ruth Butterfield when to come for me, told Miss Stiles where to meet me. Went downtown. Took tuck in skirt. Dressed for Senior parlor. Ruth did me up. Had refreshments first, joined end of line. Saw the parlor which is so homey furnished with light weight simple furniture colors old blue & mulberry. Beautiful is the word. Eliz. Zahner sang The Dream Song from Kipling's Brushwood boy. Music by Edith Pratt. Our song 1913, sounded lovely. I was in the hall so couldn't sing. 1915 had a fine song excellently rendered. Between139 1912. dinner and chapel. I showed Martha [Mawross] the parlor. She was very appreciative. Took Miss Winifred Stiles in P.M. She is very sweet & invited me to come and call on her in Raymond. After she went I joined a group of interested girls clustered around Prexy (Gladys Bassett took him & Mrs. Prexy.) Finished Survey reading after that. Wore my new pink chiffon & my new silver scarf. Sun. Oct. 13 Copied notes of my talk to W. Miss. meeting in July on the "Chinese Revolution" & my notes on the C.E. Miss. meeting I led on Miss. Progress in North America. Wore new dress to chapel. Rev. of Morristown N.J. preached. Episcopal service. Text "For me to live is Christ". Splendid, earnest, sermon. Agnes R & I walked around the Sunset walk way up & came back around (near when the walk turns to go thru the pines back of the tennis courts) a walk I never saw before that passes the cement walk leading south from the Infirmary. After dinner read more in Life of Alice Freeman Palmer finishing the chapter on Sabbatical years. Bible Class at Marcia Livermore's. The Bible Study Com. has gotten out a little handbook of daily Bible readings for a 10 wks. study on the Life of Christ. Called on Narola. Went to Lib. looked up description of Hallowe'en in New International [Europe]. Read ch.1. in Rhus. Life of Christ. Started home letter. Returned blotter to Hildegard, matches to Henrietta & B.B. English themes to L. Boynton who gave me one140 1912. of the pretty red roses Louise Bowen sent her. [Mose's], chapel. Christians. Showed H. White Senior parlor & my pink and my silk dress. Browsed among the S.P. books looking to see what & where they are & who gave them. Glanced thru my book, "Twenty years at Hull House" by Jane Addams. Wrote letter to Ruth Robinson & finished home letter. Mon. Oct. 14. Got my Christians doll today. M.L. Strayer left it. About 9.30 went to impromptu "Hair Orgie" held by 1913 in Senior Parlor. Very informal, kimonas, string of finds thru blind mice. "Here's to Marie Overstreet we wish we had her here". Tues. Oct. 15. Home letter. Rec'd 100 more "Platforms" from Mr. Trimble. Read "Zwischen Haus u Schule" for Rb Ger. Took short walk with Agnes. Delivered the money & pledges for C.A.U.C. to Margaret Bliss. I collected on 3rd north. Ordered class paper. Made appointment for picture. Dropped in on Betty Mylod in p.m. Had cake. Then had cider from a maids' Club House party with Lucy in S.P. cups. Wed. Oct. 16. Had to write in R Eng. an appreciation of Spenser's sonnets. Had Ethics cut. Read an hour in Aristotle on Friendship. Rec'd letter from S. Trimble. 8th hr concert. Went with "Pick". Students in p.m. E. Cramer read with me in 340. Called on Berkemier, Stumpf & Rowlands. 141 1912. Thurs. Oct. 17. Borrowed $1 from G. Bassett & bought Phil. ticket. Got $5.40 from Mr. Polk for 27 hrs. P.O. work. Read in Dante's "Inferno". Mail. Christians. Lib in p.m. where finished Inferno. Had P. Carbaugh's room mate down. She is discouraged. Her room mate is Christian Scientist. Did E. Ger. Fri. Oct. 18. Heard Sulzer in Opera House about noon. Went down again after lunch, which I missed. Took wheel down. Ordered & paid for 1/2 doz. yellow chrysanthemums to be sent to Mama tomorrow. Wrote her a birthday letter. Wrote note of thanks to Mr. Trimble for his two red leather gift books 1. Platform 2. Vest Pocket Directory of Congress. P.O. Got over to laying of corner stone of Student's building in time to join the people coming back. Wore pink dress. Singing. Chapel. H. White waited in my room. Read Ethics aloud. Lecture. face. Main Reading room & Lib. for some newspaper quotations. Left Miss Yost a platform. Hildegard wants me to ask Miss Stroebe & Miss Whitney to vote for a political newspaper to be published from now till election. Only the Profs. & Assoc. Profs. can vote so out of a faculty of over 100 only 33 can vote. Sat. Oct. 19. P.O. Aristotle. Surveys. E. Cramer. 3p.m. - 4.30p.m. Sophomore party rehearsal. Off campus for buttermilk with M. [Mawross]. Walked from north gate to Main with Prexy. I felt quite honored. Did Ec. in Lib. Fudge party in 352. A.G. Rowlands. Made my curtains & put them up. 142 1912. Pinned the piece up between the curtains. Hope to finish it properly soon. Retired after 12 p.m. Sun. Oct. 20. Rose 8.15 A.M. Read Daily Bible Read. Les. I. Face. Chapel. Dr. Riggs. Walked around new lake with Agnes. Came up by laundry, observatory clothesline, tennis courts, pine walk, Students' building, Bible class. 4 mi. walk down Hackensack road with E. Stumpf & Miss Walthers. Chapel. Christians. "What are you praying for?" Mission class. Read Soph. joke newspaper. Finished letter to Claire. Mon. Oct. 21. P.O. Letter from mama. In R. Eng. E. Pratt asked me to make 50 copies of a song for tonight. Ethics wrote 8 quest. asked Prexy about a reference. E. Ec. wrote 10 min. on Survey. Dem. mass meeting. Note from Miss Stroebe, went to her room & was invited to join the select German Club of faculty & 6 Seniors. Paid G. Carr $2.10 for my Senior parlor book. K. Gallagher & I spent all 5th copying words of song, 6th read Dews platform, 1 ch. in Ethics, wore suit to 7th convention. P.O. 8th finished 10 more copies. T.R. spoke 6.40 p.m. Chapel, no music. Prof. Whitney's at 7.30 p.m. The Seniors are M. Beckemier, I. Beir, H. Crosby, L. Boynton, E. McShane, G. Ordway. Asked Prof. Whitney & Assoc. Prof. Stroebe to vote for giving us permission to publish a political paper in college. Started German lesson. Outlined course, took notes. F. Chaffe called & staid over a half hour. 9.32 Democratic torchlight parade143 1912. headed by Gov. Wilson & a real donkey. Did a little more German. H. Gormann came in & read my Survey for a few minutes. I got so sleepy, went to bed. 11.45 p.m. unprepared for Tues. Have waisted time. Tues. Oct. 22. Wrote in Ethics. Didn't hand German paper in till after lunch. Read in "Die Worke". Rb German Miss Stroebe was in the room most of the hour. R. Kinsey spoke on Socialism by lamppost after chapel. Lib. looked up dates Miss Wylie told us to. Narola came up for me & we had soup together in her room. Wed. Oct. 23. P.O. R. English written. Wrote in Ethics. It just poured today. Lights on in Ec. where Millsy talked on Marxian socialism. 12.20 in G. Estelle Mulgruen spoke Rb Ger. Wrote down 5th hr. what I'd like to do in each course I'm taking & what I'd like to do in general in college this year. Had tea in 344. P.O. No chapel. Concert, heard first of it & when came back from Lib. heard girls sing. Saw Miss Case enter her taxi & wave good bye. German. Enjoyed Evelyn Noble's take off of Miss Case's singing. Thurs. Oct. 24. P.O. Topics given in Hist. Millsy gave us his opinion of socialism. I asked him about Sodus Bay. He lived in Palmyra, met his wife there. Heard at 12.20 Sherman (M. Davenport). Read Eagle & started Tribune. 144 1912. Made diagram of different channels into which my energy is being directed from the main channel which leads straight to honors. Read "Hermann und Dorothea". Was in S.P. a few minutes. P.O. Chapel. Christians. Lib. Politics with Agnes. More "H. und D". Fri. Oct. 25. Letter from Mama. Claire is pretty sick she says, fever, sweats nights & coughs. The Dr. doesn't reach her trouble. I'm worried about her. Spent 4th & 5th hr. writing a well penned letter about the campaign. Got leave of absence. Borrowed $8.00 from Louise Boynton who brought me a string of white pearl beads to take Claire. Spent p.m. in Lib. on Ec. Got time table from E. Zahner with A.S.R. had nice talk. She gave me 2 apples. Deutsche Verein 4 p.m. I took E. Welty. [in margin] Senior Birthday. so pretty. Sat. Oct. 26. Rose at 7. Took 8.25 for N.Y. Phoned papa from Hahnes. He said "you rascal". Got home 12 noon. He hadn't told Claire so I surprised her. She said that Kells sounded like you. Had such a nice dinner. Claire & I took a short walk. Then I began work on a doll's dress for Rosa. Papa had a funeral in the afternoon. Had such a nice supper. Played authors we four together and Claire beat. Helped her with her bath. Read more in Surveys, finishing required articles. Read Ethics. Finished skirt of doll's dress. Mama cut out the sleeves. I basted them up & 145 1912. Dr. D & Helen called. I wore my gray dress with green girdle. Got both in tho roughly sewn by 12 p.m. Sun. Oct. 27. Claire slept nicely, did't sweat & coughed but little. Neither Mama, Claire, nor I went to church. Papa did not want us to as there is no fire in the church & I wanted to stay with Claire. Mama bought me some licorice drops last night, how good. Papa spoke of how the majority of people are on a level but still are influenced by the few who are up and the few who are down. [diagram] I like our round dining table so much. Mama's new serge coat is very pretty. We had the best dinner, chicken, biscuits & chocolate sponge, yum!yum! Had my suit case all packed when papa came home from church. He walked to car with me & said "I'm going to pray that every girl you ask to come with you Thanksgiving has a previous engagement". Claire was on the piano stool when I came down to say good by & she cried. I left at 1.35 p.m. Got in G. Central about 3 p.m. & read the rest of what Aristotle says on friendship. Left at 4.23. Miss Griggs (Chemistry instructor) sat ahead of me. We visited & she invited me to go out in the vestibule where we watched a glorious pink & gray sunset over the river. Missed supper. Chapel. Mr. spoke & heard him afterwards in S.P. Mon. Oct. 28. Wrote home. P.O. Letter from Claire containing drawings which she wants me to give Louise. Wrote in Ethics. 146 1912. Studied under trees east of chapel with Agnes. Then at 3.30 p.m. was due at White Studio where had 8 sittings. Pd $1.00 down. Tues Oct. 29. P.O. 5th hr read "Vater & Tochter" a curious story in "Die Frau". Rb Ger. 7th read "Der Kolner Kongress der Krankenpflegerinnen" in "die Frau". Class meeting 8th. Chapel. Took "Die Frau" from Lib. & came to first meeting of the select German Club. Miss Whitney came first, than I gave a very poor account of this congress. Miss Struck then Mary Berkemier who gave a review of an entire magazine splendidly. Miss Walthers was the last speaker. Did Ec. in Lib. & at home. Evelyn let me read her story called "The Story that Wasn't". Wed. Oct. 30. P.O. L. Penniman said it always seemed to her so unscholarly to have to study after breakfast before first hour yet she was going to study chemistry. Wrote in Ethics. 12.20 spoke for Wilson in As. Hall in joint discussion with Maud Kelsey, Republican. 5th hr. Laura Clark & I talked over our speeches for Sat. Thurs. Oct. 31. Letter from mama. Fri. Nov. 1 Heard that Brazilian speak on the literature of his country - Oh! me! What a big man, unattractive 147 1912. and how indistinctly & uninterestingly he spoke. I'm almost sorry I went. Sat. Nov. 2. Joint political discussion 7.30 in Assembly Hall. Trix & Adeline spoke for Democrats & Progressives from the platform & others from the floor. Laura Clark & I spoke for the Republicans. C. Greenbaum was rank for the Socialists. Neida Quackenbush said at the close of the meeting to me "You're deteriorating, Gretta, your speech was very poor." Consoling, after I'd spent almost all day reading up & working on it. Sun. Nov. 3. Mon. Nov. 4. Letter from Mama. Lucy Rogers and Helen Clark in R. English read their topics on the Arthurian legends & Spenser. Tues. Nov. 5. Cast my first vote today in V.C. gym. with a voting machine. Voted Democratic ticket for nation. We couldn't vote for state officers. Wilson 424. Taft 212. Roosevelt 212. Returns from the real148 1912. election were posted on bulletin board every half hour till 10.30 p.m. Wed. Nov. 6. Letter from Ruth Robinson decribing her courses & university life so far. Dinner with F. Merriman 316N. College singing at Rockie. Evelyn & I studied Ec. till late. Thurs. Nov. 7. Money order for $5.00 from papa. Pay Day at which Clara Hill paid $2.00 for Miscellany, $.50 Students', $.50 Christians, $.75 Athletics & $.25 Consumers League for me. Got my proofs for White today. They are fair & one is fine. All hour written on Socialism. Fri. Nov. 8. Letter from Mrs. Curtis. Did not hear the Dammentha Quartette in p.m. but worked in Lib. on my R. Eng. topic. Sat. Nov. 9. Worked practically every minute on my Spenser topic on which I've spent every available minute this week. Have finished reading Dante's Divine Comedy & at 12 p.m. my paper was done. A comparison of Dante's Divine Comedy and Spenser's Faerie Queen Bk I & II with special reference to the religious references. Whew! but I'm weary from such grinding. Sun. Nov. 10. Rev. Saunder's preached. No Bible class. Copied my topic. Cut Chapel. Went to Christians. Prexy spoke on gratefulness. Where are the other nine? Mission class.149 1912. Mon. Nov. 11. My R. English Spenser topic was done & in class on time & I dressed to take the chair & read it but I wasn't called on. F. Jewell gave hers. Rose at 6 & wrote on (practical) problem in R that most interests me. Letter from mama . Wrote in Ethics. Proctor meeting C. Dogget told by Miss W. she ought to make a special study of criticism. Bike ride with C. Hill. [in margin] N.B. Tues. Nov. 12. Letter from Ellen Sergeant. German journalist(?) Club 7.30 p.m. 240M. Miss Stroebe, Jenny, E. McShane, I.Beir, & L. Boynton held forth this time. Carried Miss W's suit case to car. Called at Infirmary. Wed. Nov. 13. 8th hr. heard part of the organ recital in the Chapel given by Organist of Trinity Church Boston. M.A. Wilson gave topic today on Platonism in Spenser. Wrote in Ethics. Prof. Horn of Cornell listened in R. today. Called at Infirmary. Prof. Salmon asked us how many men we voted for election day (Nov. 5). Clara Hill to dinner. P.S. Volunteer meeting in Maud Kelsey's alley. Thurs. Nov. 14. Prof. Mills read us a letter today received some time ago by him. Somehow Prof. Mills as a man was visible to today. He said that sometime we must incline social(ism)ly. Heard Miss talk on the Camp Fire Girl movement. Saw R. Holliday later in the C.F. costume. Fri. Nov. 15. 3.45 p.m. heard Dean Summer of Chicago on "Some Aspects of Civic & Social progress". Splendid. He appealed to us as women and as college women150 1912. to help in obtaining a single standard for men and women. 2nd Deutsche Verein meeting 4.46. Met Prof. Peterson & wife of Munich. Heard at 7.45 a lecture by Prof. P. in German on "Die Frauen der Romantik" good. Sat. Nov. 16. In evening went to First Hall Play. 1912 was back in fine array over 100 here. They had several new songs. Acting was fine. I do not quite understand the play itself. Saw Helen Brewster 1911 this afternoon. After 10.30 p.m. had tea in Agnes R's room. C. Hill & I rode wheels downtown via Church St. Nice ride. Did some errands. Sun. Nov. 17. Pres. McKenzie of Harvard Theolgical Seminary preached. C. Balmer came in. Had a nice call with her. Mon. Nov. 18. Today gave my R. English topic in class & was criticized. A series of separate parts put down one after the other, etc. Prexy spoke with feeling on the subject of Reverence in Chapel tonight. Whispering etc. Tues. Nov. 19.151 1912. Wed. Nov. 20. Joined Wake Robin Club 8th hr. at first meeting in S.P. 7.30 p.m. Students. Honor system in exams adopted. New quiet hour plan with amendment accepted. Moved that present be a quorum. Cut out & started my doll's drawers tonight. Thurs. Nov. 21. 7th hour class meeting. Subject graduation & class day dresses. Fri. Nov. 22. Sat. Nov. 23. 8 p.m. Bliss Perry (Prof. of English at Harvard) gave a splendid lecture on Robert Browning. Am surpervising the collectin of Student's' Dues in Main for Nell [Cattin]. Have 2 girls on each floor collecting for me. Sun. Nov. 24. Pres. Slocum of Colorado College preached from text stand upon thy feet & hear what I will speak unto thee. Met him in Senior parlor. Also met Catharine [Bahmer's] father. He is very quick & interesting. She152 1912. called in afternoon & I had her to tea. Bible class. Went to Lib. & read & looked around. Heard Dr. Wilson (Agnes Father) in p.m. (7) on the Persian Revolution, its causes, results & relation to missions. Good. Went to S.P. where Mr. W. gave us some personal experiences. Last meeting of Immigration Mission Class. 8.30 p.m. Mon. Nov. 25. Tues. Nov. 26. Dropped in on Irene Beir just as she was going to bed. Didn't know where she lived before tonight. She has dropped the "Journalisten" Club because of her health. "Journalisten" Club 7.30 p.m. I spilled on the Nov. number of "Die Frau". Miss Whitney wasn't there, nor was she at class so we had a cut. Wed. Nov. 27. Miss Wylie handed back my outline paper on Spenser. I couldn't read her comments & asked her to read them. She did & said You're not lazy but you don't seem to get the intellectual grasp of the whole subject so you bring it out in all its parts. "Pick" (Ruth Pickering)153 1912. said to me this A.M. 8.25 "Gretta this has happened too often. Can't you get here any earlier. You make us all stay here late." Put $5 in Mr. Polk's care for N. Caltin, Students' dues. 5th hr. packed suit case & put on suit. Left money for German books $ . with Miss Walthers in German conversation. Left Po'keepsie 3.55 p.m. on Special. Had H. White & uncle for company on subway from Grand Central, E. Parkhurst & Mr. Dempsey to Hudson Terminal & Eliz. French to Park Place Newark. Got home before eight. Had dandy supper. Papa & Claire were waiting for me on the corner. Claire had her dolls on the sofa in the hall with a big sign Welcome on them. Retired early. Thurs. Nov. 28. Thanksgiving. Muffins. Went to service at 11 A.M. in M.E. church. Papa preached a fine sermon on text closing with story of young man, to be married on Thanksgiving who stalled in a snow storm by accident assisted in the funeral service of a pioneer woman, whose husband was a Christian & who wanted cheerful hymns sung. Dandy Turkey dinner. Claire & I walked to Charmon's for turnips. Finished doll's drawers & made underwaist. Retired early. Played 1 game authors. Claire played with the little Stults girl. I had a twilight visit with papa & mama. Told them what I am known for in college. Fri. Nov. 29. Mama & I went downtown & she bought me waffles, 154 1912. a lovely dark blue chinchilla coat & a soft plush hat(brown). Made doll's skirt with two tucks. Papa & I went to Preparatory service, "The growing old. The best is yet to come." Sat. Nov. 30. Ironed. Helped papa print bulletins. Read 1 1/2 books of Millions Paradise Lost. Looked up Milton in Ridpath's Lib. of Universal Literature. Sewed. Finished doll's dress skirt which is plain but haven't the waist done. Retired about 11 p.m. Claire walked up to shoemaker's with me. Dandy brown bread. Sun. Dec. 1. Found Wed. the heavy sinky lovely yellow carpet down in the dining room. Sausage & cakes. Church, communion. "It is our privilege as Christians to advance." How much of Christ does the world see in our daily lives. We can change what needs to be changed with Jesus's help. Will this be our last communion in this building as a church. What progress have we made since last communion? - Dandy dinner. Had pumpkin pie for 4th time since I've been home. My! how good. Reed Edwards brought me the pamphlets given the qualifications & requirements for foreign missionaries. Also Mr. Darley's address. The family started out for S.S. & I left them at the corner about 2.20 p.m. Reached Grand Central 3.45 p.m. & left 4.02 p.m. Arriving in P. 6.05 & at college 6.35 p.m. Helen Scoby sat155 1912. with me & we had a nice visit. Voluntary chapel in Assembly Hall 7 p.m. followed by Christians 7.30 p.m. Prexy spoke about Ezekiel's vision of the dry bones & God's breathing into them the breath of life. Miss C. Reed - young Yale missionary obedient to God's will. M. Berkemier read a prayer, very pretty poem. Bill Hill said the 3 steps to getting God's spirit are 1. Desire 2. Preparation 3. Appropriation. Mon. Dec. 2. Wrote card home. No chapel. Lib. Saw Peggy about dolls. They don't have to be in today. Tues. Dec. 30 8th hr. off campus with Agnes & Catherine to dairy, popcorn-balls crullers. Lib. M. Berkemier came down before 10 p.m. Wed. Dec. 4. 1.30 p.m. resitting at White's. On the way Miss Swan, whom I passed said for my benefit "The stupidity of the mail carriers". Left note for M. Stuart 305N. Reread Rb article on Traud. Miss W. told me to talk more slowly. 8th hr. lecture-recital on Russian peasant & folk songs. Prexy spoke in chapel tonight about Mr. A.K. Smiley, who died Mon. He was so sorry the Seniors didn't come to Mohonk the day they planned to. Did German at home in p.m. C. Bahmer came in & looked at Freshman class picture. 10 - 12 p.m. worked on doll's clothes.156 1912. Thurs. Dec. 5. $.30 from Prof. Whitney as a thank you for seeing to the sale of the Herder books. Right after lunch till 7th worked on doll's clothes. Took her to doll show. Staid there over 1 hr. admiring the dolls. Peggy Ruddiman's, dressed as a baby, got the prize i.e. the most votes. M. [Mawross] here to dinner. Prexy spoke about Miss Quaife, who died at noon today (matron of North). Christians. Lucy led subject Glorify work. Good. She spoke about method being important, being busy doesn't mean one is really working. 10-12 p.m. Read Theorritus Idylls. Studied in the Lib. Showed some sense in selection in my work tonight, knew what I wanted, where to get it & got it. A. Hill can take Ec. Seminar. Fri. Dec. 6. $5.00 in letter from papa. Wrote 4th hr. postals to Mr. Wilcox, Mr. Yamaguchi, Helen Cassedy & letter to papa, G. Burgesser & L. Comes. Straightened out the Main Student's dues & wrote notes to the 11 Main collectors. Walked downtown with Clara HIll. Students at 7.30. Short meeting. Read in M. R. Room. Miss Monroe came in, asked me if I expect to debate next semester. Visited in Trix's room with Ruth Tuttle. Sat. Dec. 7. P.O. Dusted room. Wrote note which I tied to my doll for the girl who gets her. Made candy for Maids' Club House. Returned my doll to P. Pratt's157 1912. with her buttonholes worked & with addition of a blue sash & halo. Letter from Wilhelmina. Didn't get to Lib. till 5th hr. Read in Darwin's, Descent of Man & in H.G. Wells, New Worlds for old. Sun. Dec. 8. M. [Mawross] came for me & we walked up Sunset. The field by the orchard looked pink in the sunlight, the brook sparkled & flashed thru the trees far in the distance, the water overflowing from the new lake seems to be separate ribbon or grass like currents. Wore blue silk, christened my coat (sewed buttons on last night). Sylvia Buckley's father preached. Text "Have dominion". 1. 2. Schools 3. home. M. Berkemier to dinner with me. She likes Betsy Baldwin very much & thinks there are many fine girls in our class. Bible class. Finished The Life of Alice Freeman Palmer in S. Parlor, curled up on the south divan. Read alound to Agnes in 352 the ch. on Vassar by Alida Avery M.D. in "The Education of American girls" pub. in 1874 & ed. by. Played after lunch on S.P. piano for first time. 7 p.m. heard Pres. Frost of Berea College Ky. speak on the Mountain Whites. His wife spoke on their religion. In S.P. afterwards they answered questions. Chatted in 352 with G. Hill. R. Butterfield, H. White & Agnes. Wrote home. 158 1912. Mon. Dec. 9. Card from Mr. Yamaguchi. Letter from mama. Helen Cassedy died Saturday at 5 p.m. funeral tonight 8 p.m. The Junior entertainment, the Fairies Tribunal gotten up by Dorothy Rolph cleared $50.00 & was fine. "Claire is doing finely and is counting the days when Sister will be at home again." "Claire sent that pretty doll I bought her last to Helen Cassedy." Rec'd note from Gretta Burgesser. She has resigned as Pres. & as a member of Entre Nous. Wrote card home. Had Helen Clark to dinner with me. Tues. Dec. 10. Talked with Mr. Fiske of the Albany Teacher's Agency in "the green parlor" in 7th hour. Asked questions etc. Called on Mary Berkemier. She is debating what to do next year, stay home & help her sisters prepare for college or ? "Die Journalisten" 7.30 p.m. 240. Wed. Dec. 11. Visited at Alms House for first time. Miss Thorn is clever and interesting. Clara Hill went with me. Got back to organ recital in chapel in time to come out. Popped a nice pan of corn between 9.30 & 10 & buttered it. Eleanor, Evelyn, Janet Bobs, Catharine & Lucelia & Clara shared it. Also Alice. Thurs. Dec. 12. Letter & circular from Albany Teacher's Agency. Letter from Laura Kemp. Agnes & I went off campus. I ordered 1 picture for the Vassarion. My ring came today (the seal was too small before, manufacturer's 159 1912. mistake. Track practice 8th. Christians. H. Robbins "Be happy." Fri. Dec. 13. 7th hr. lecture by Prof. Leguis on Dorothy Wordsworth (didn't learn much new as Agnes listened to me while I read my notes from J. and the introduction to my Wordsworth volume in preparation for the lecture.) All by myself I fixed my hair with a halo. Looks nice. Agnes is quite pleased. French Club had a super abundance of ice-cream so Agnes got a slice for herself and for me. Washed 8 pr. stockings. Say K.G.O. what about Nature & Fortune in Shakespeare's Comedy's? Wrote letter home. Sat. Dec. 14. Finished G.S. Mills' "Essay on Utilitarianism". Got class paper (2 quires) $.85. Darned 2 1/2 pr. stockings in 341 after 9.30 p.m. Had some fudge (?) of Neida's make. Finished reading Bk VII Paradise Lost. Sun. Dec. 15. Rev. Samuel Crothers of Cambridge preached on creative work & play. Went to S.P. heard Elir Kush play after minister had gone. Met Jessie White. Bible class. I had all places where Peter is mentioned to recite on. Went to call on Miss Bonnell, Miss Stiles. Found that Cordelia (Lockwood) left college 10 days before Thanksgiving for good sick. Dropped in 444. Met Mrs. Doughty. Read in my room aloud to Agnes Ch. on Vassar in Mary Caroline Crawford's "The College Girl of America". Read a little more 160 1912. in King Lear. Christmas music 8 p.m. An innovation this year of a gallery chorus ( voices) which sang splendidly. The Choir had 87 voices. Brought Alice some cheese from dinner and she caught a mouse in her 4 door trap. Wrote home. Retired 11.45 p.m. Mon. Dec. 16. Ruth Butterfield here to dinner. Deutsche Verein i.e. Christmas festival given by the German department, held in faculty parlor 4.30 p.m. Kermarda Busch was der Weihnachtsman & gave each one a postal. Miss Whitney let me take some of the German Kuchen home to Claire. Tues. Dec. 17. White's for pictures $6.00 for 1 doz. Called on Isabel Bonnel at Millards. D. Rolph told me to remember her to Miss B. Louise Bowen here to dinner. Wed. Dec. 18. Miss Krause of had our Rb German today. Interesting. We all sat up straight. 2nd Wake Robin meeting 8th hr in S. Parlor. Miss Freeman spoke. 7.30 p.m. Report of Student Volunteer Conference at Ithaca in Freshman parlor. 9.30 p.m. 1913 went out and sang carols. (North - puddle- L. Lang. Dr. B.) I read aloud to Narola the three pamphlets Reid Edwards lent me about Missionary qualifications. She gave me some Turkish delight. V.C. disgraced itself coughing in chapel while Prexy read. 161 1912. Thurs. Dec. 19. Hall meeting called by Betsy who spoke of last night's coughing. Went downtown. After dinner 1913 gave a carol to 1915. Prof. Gow led Christian's & practiced songs, carols. 9.30 p.m. carols sung by entire college. The gallery choir was on the library tower and the rest of us in front of the Lib. Some carols we sang together, some we only answered to. This singing from the tower is an innovation. Fri. Dec. 20. Packed suit case and left V.C. after 3rd hr. with it, my coat, umbrella, & a small package of books. Left Po'keepsie at 12 noon. Sat with Agnes R. Jeanette Mullikin went part of the way on the Park Place train with me. Got home about 4 p.m. Claire was waiting at the corner (with Alice O'Hagan). Mama was up at Junior meeting. Miss Halstead called on Claire & I showed her some V.C. views. I like her. Went on an errand to Heilmanns', Ludlows, & Burgesser's. Mr. & Mrs. Cassedy called in p.m. Sat. Dec. 21. Helped Mama. Entertained the Entre Nous in p.m. Tille Aschenfelder Emma Wuner Hazel Ludlow Sarah Heilmann Elsie Kengott Sadie Morris Irene Kemp Margaret Towers Laura Kemp Helen Edwards 162 1912. Lois Edwards Dorothy Hillman Barnett Each girl wore a card representing the name of one of Dicken's books. Claire drew her own, D. Copperfield. We had refreshments around the table in the dining room, nut sandwiches, olives, coffee, 2 kinds of cake. We had a Christmas grab. Sun. Dec. 22. Church. 2.30 Exercises. C.E. Church. Mon. Dec. 23. Did my Christmas shopping. Luna Park miniature in Bambergers interested me. Mamma sent off Uncle Henry's box. Tues. Dec. 24. Helped wash. Over 1 foot of snow. Downtown with Claire for her lesson. Prayer meeting. 4 present Papa, Mrs. Chandler, Mrs. Holloway and I. Went with papa to McNaughton's to deliver the dolls & fruit mama sent them. Willie Weinrich called, leaving a long package for mama. Retired with Claire. Wed. Dec. 25. Christmas. Found a tree in the parlor. Claire had some exercises, the dolls163 1912. spoke. I was pianist. Distribution of gifts was part of her program and we were all well remembered. Dinner. In p.m. Claire's birthday was celebrated with a birthday cake, 9 candles. We lighted the tree, had music, & she read some from Dickens' Christmas Carol. Thurs. Dec. 26. Ironed 2 1/2 hours. Claire & I walked to Zahn's to deliver one of Mrs. Prentice's velvet bows. Called at Disbrows & Arthur Mudd's. Fri. Dec. 27. Mama & I had a visit. I read aloud the article on True Aristrocracy in W.H. Companion. Mama read me the commission of her great grandfather signed by Gov. Clinton. Cousins. Gretta has the original. Read the Life of Wm. Tenant. Christmas exercises at 3. Claire spoke Mrs. Santa Claus "Of all the busy people this busy Christmas tide etc." and she and B. Jamouneau with papa, accompanist played a duet. Papa announced the numbers. Sat. Dec. 28. Papa got telephone message that Brunette [Ordaway] Whiting died Thurs. p.m. Claire & I coasted on Disbrow's bob between Centre St. and Sanford Ave. Rodney steered. Had a fine time. Laura came down for us. After coasting she invited Christmas 1912 side combs - Claire brush (hair) comb silver deposit bottle VanDyke Photo - Ellen " - Marian H. book -Ida calendar - Entre Nous grape fruit - Aunt Jennie oranges - Misses Kilburn cards - Lucy Gladys Henrietta Clevenger Marian C. Wilhelmina postals - Louise Comes Irene Todd Dorothy Rolph Aunt Mamie Lois and Helen Edwards Ruth Robinson Janet King Lois Yergin Agnes Rowlands Christmas 1912 Papa and Mamma. cards from - Mr. & Mrs. H.P. Witzel Mrs. E. Harmes The Wilson family Rebecca E. Shannon Mr. & Mrs. E. Rocke B.H. Fox Mr. & Mrs. Thornell Avora Mr. & Mrs. Prentice Mr. & Mrs. M. Beeching Arthur Halsall M.D. & C.C. Kilburn Papa - Jennie Mr. Bennett Clara and SarahClaire Christmas 1912 Paper dolls - Mrs. D. Bobbsy Twins - Mrs. Lake Box Ham - Mrs. Mudd Little Doll - Mrs. Lake Xmas Carol - Sister Bobbsy Twins in the Country - Mamma Picture - Dorothy Picture - Sister Perfume - Mama Fairy Book - Mamma Postals Mrs. Hollway Mrs. Chandler Edith and Ethel Aunt Mamie 2 Mrs. D. Alwena Kays164 1912. us in to have cocoa, popcorn, candy & cakes. Met Miss & 1 , and Norman Collier who is just comical. We had a little concert, 1. Norman. 2. I. 3. Rodney 4. Laura. Looked over city directory to see what Newark's leading industries are. Found more pages of saloons than anything else. Papa & mama called in p.m. on Mr. Beeching of Vermont Ave. Sun. Dec. 29. Church. S.S. had class of boys. (Harry Fox's) class of fine boys, like to have them all the time. Studied C.E. lesson. Grace Jameneau went up with me to C.E. D. Rolph led. Missionary subject. I gave a few points. Church. Mon. Dec. 30. Tues. Dec. 31. Went down with Claire for her lesson at 10 A.M. Ironed everything. Mrs. Rinne & Elsie called (First time they have come in since we moved here.) Prayer meeting we all went. I played the organ. 165 1913. Wed. Jan. 1. Cleaned 3 cupboards. Read Hugh Black's book "Three Dreams". Wrote Ida, Ellen, Marian H. and sent cards to Irene T., Eliz McShane, Mary Berkemier, Marian Case & Grandma Morris. Claire, Papa and I together made popcorn balls. (14) Thurs. Jan. 2. Dusted, shined floors. Mabel Duesel brought up my red dress in which a new yoke & sleeves has been put. Laides' [Ladies'] Aid met here in the afternoon. 20 came. Mama "refreshed" them in the dining room with sandwiches, doughnuts, & cake & coffee. Claire assisted me, her first attempt as waitress & did nicely. What was in the coffee urn Ha! Ha! Fri. Jan. 3. Visited Barringer High School with Elsie Rinne. Mr. Dann - Hist, Miss Gilmore - Geom, Mr. Nikolus - German, Miss Colt - English, Mr. Nikolus - beginning German and Mr. - French. Elsie took her lunch. Found that Mr. N. used to live in Rochester and knows Mr. Betz and Mr. Gomph. Claire went to Dr's. and he says she may start in school Mon. She is delighted. Mama & I walked in much wind to Mrs. Duesels and also called on Mrs. Moore (Mrs. Brown's mother). Sat. Jan. 4. Catalogued over half my books, on doorblock sheets. Claire & I dentist's, Dr. Gibbons on So. Orange Av.166 1913. at 11 A.M. She had two fillings, and I had two and also had my teeth cleaned. $5.00 for us both together. Wore red dress. Called with mama on Mrs. Lake, Mrs. Stutts and Mrs. Rinne & Elsie. Mrs. Mudd was gone. I went alone to Mrs. Cassedy's but she was gone so I called on Mr. Demarest. The Ordway family in evening array awaited in vain the arrival of Millard Elderton & wife of Plainfield. I played, read some in Etude. Sun. Jan. 5. Church. S.S. I had a class of boys downstairs, Geo. Darby's class & Mr. Roach also asked me to speak to the whole primary dept & I did. Lesson The Creation. Claire & I called on Mrs. Cassedy. Met Miss Cary & her mother. Miss C. works with defective children. C.E. Arthur led. Conservation meeting. Church. Mon. Jan. 6. Downtown with mama in afternoon. Bought corset, shoes. She attended a meeting in the Y.M.C.A. 1st meeting of Week of Prayer. I went good attendance. Claire started in school. Has been out since Oct. 10. Tues. Jan. 7. Ironed. Papa tied up so nicely as he always does a suit box for me. Mama helped me pack & I got off about 2 p.m. Papa went over the G. Central with me. Prof. Whitney was on the train & I introduced Papa. Saw Ruth Pember. Said Hello to the girls on the car ahead & to Gladys & Kathleen who were in the car with me. Got out to college about 7 p.m. 167 1913. settled and actually did fix as it ought to be the valence between my curtains. It was just pinned and now it is sewed and looks nice. Agnes came down. A good many girls are back. Wed. Jan. 8. Had a splendid day. Enjoyed taking up the lines of connection with the girls and fitting into my place. Got my suit box from R.R. station. Thurs. Jan. 9. Saw Prof. Mills about Ec. Seminar but I haven't applied in writing. Am glad I went. I mean to astonish him yet. I'll read less & think more. Dr. T. led Christians. Do good work, good play, learn to play, do your best. Read good reading, don't let your minds be sieves. Had a grapefruit party. Alice, Gladys, Gertrude, Alma, Janet, Agnes and myself. Fri. Jan. 10. Had hoped to call on Miss Salmon today but didn't. Read Adams & Summer ch. 9 & 10 (100p or so) in afternoon & heard Rhadeski in p.m. in Assembly hall. She is blind, wore pink, has sweet voice. Sat. Jan. 11. Agnes wants to take K. English but is hesitating. She told me that some one who is quite a friend of mine used to think I liked nothing but to go168 1913. to prayermeetings but now she has changed her mind and thinks I am getting quite popular in the class. (This is the most interesting I've heard yet.) One thing is certain I'm intensely interested just now in studying people. Made out my elections and handed them in. Worked in Lib. Read Miss Addams ch. 5 on Ideals & Social Democracy. Spent over 2 hrs. on Ethics. Finished the greek drama "Antigone" and read Samson Agonistes. Helen Clark showed me where to find Dante's plan of the Universe so I got it quickly. Correspondence. Letter from Ida, Aunt Jennie, Albany Teacher's Agency, Ella Gilbert (10 yrs old the little girl who received the doll I dressed for Christians from the People's Settlement, Wilmington Del.) Wilhelmina, Bill from Bauer, circular from H.A. Stebbens, ($700.00 for Summer European tour), The School Bulletin Teacher's Agency from Syracuse. (a pamphlet) Sun. Jan. 12. Shailer Matthews preached on the Son of Man came not to bring peace but a sword. Anna Curtis played in S.P. After Bible Class I finished reading John Foster Decision of Character (an abridgement). 7 p.m. heard Mr. Hans Freece, a converted Mormon, speak on Mormonism of today. Also in S.P. Wrote home. Bought his book, "Letters of an Apostate Mormon to his Son." 169 1913. Mon. Jan. 13. Discussed ideas of Universe led by Dante and Milton & also story of Paradise Lost. Finished Cooperation in Ec. Spent afternoon reading Die Frau for review tomorrow night in Die Journalisten & for Rb German. At meeting 7.30 p.m. in Freshman parlor it was announced that Mrs. Potter is to give 2 classes of 5 weeks, Conservation of National Ideals and Decisive Hour of Christian Missions. Rec'd first pkg by Parcel's Post, a union suit. Letter from mama at noon, ? Batavia $2000.00 & [mause]. Did German in Lib. Watched the devoties of Spoken English do the scissors on the assembly Hall platform, clad only in gowns & [kiminies] a rare sight certainly Ha!Ha! Tues. Jan. 14. Wrote in Ethics. Miss Salmon is certainly an ideal college Professor, so learned but so human and up to date. She always looks nice. Am reading Paradise Regained. Track practice 8th Lucy, Agnes, Rip & I hitch kicked. Miss told us to jump & Lucy gave my a hint about high kick. I maintained at dinner that each girl before graduating should be required to have a certain number of points in apparatus work. Each girl can't do everything but can do a lot if she tries. "Die Journalisten" 7.30 - 9.15 p.m. I was a speaker. After Rb Miss Walther told me to [in margin] Wore my red dress.170 1913. speak more slowly. Had Stereo in Gladys room. Wrote home. Fixed waist, got laundry ready and blush to say I have done nothing for tomorrow. Wed. Jan. 15. Had to write in Ethics. Prexy gave us a plan for reviewing in 3 sections. Visited at Almshouse. Made three new acquaintences Miss , Miss and Miss . Walked downtown. After working in Lib. for an hour Lucy Penniman and I went over to the chapel & heard the concluding numbers of the organ recital by Tertius Noble, organist in York minster York, England. We sat in the gallery. Grand music, wonderfully rendered. Thurs. Jan. 16. After class Miss Whitney detained me and suggested that I go into M prose again this next sementer just for phonetics. She & Miss Stroebe have talked it over together. I speak German easily and have a good foundation, but my pronunciation of umlauts and [ch'g] is bad. 2 p.m. had 4 pictures taken at Gallup's. 7th hr. Mrs. Potter's first class on Conservation on National Ideals. 8th track practice. Vaulted some. "You're afraid of it". Read some of Donne's love poems. Fri. Jan. 17. Hall meeting to get trial vote on honor system in exams. Worked in afternoon & in p.m. heard Talcott Williams lecture on the Recent Elections. 171 1913. Sat. Jan. 18. N.J. Club met 12.30 & Maud Louise Strayer was elected President for this current year. Students meeting 7.30 p.m. Trial vote on Honor system 2 .. for 15. against. Walked to Lib. with M. Berkemier. She said she spent most of the afternoon reviewing Ethics & only got as far as Definition of Virtue. "You're infinitely more studious than I am", said Agnes Campbell "but you wouldn't do that. I don't think its always an evidence of brains when people spend so much time". Spent all day reaading Post Spenserian poets. Alice Hill experimented with her hair. After she decided I could go & put the key back. I came home & wrote for an hour (11-12 p.m.) my R. English paper. Correspondence. Heard from mamma Monday and Sat. Marian Hendricks, and from Empire Teachers' Agency Syracuse. They enclosed a gift postal bearing a verse "Pass it On" Sun. Jan. 19. Last Bible class. Took Miss 190 who was visiting Beatrice Stevens with me. Read in Lib. Wrote home. Mon. Jan. 20. Had resitting at Gallups. Took me 2 1/2 hrs. to read 16 p. of German. Guess I'm tired. 172 1913. Tues. Jan. 21. Kept time for Miss Salmon in History and called on the girls to ask their questions. Interview with Miss Wylie 4 p.m. I need to see more broadly and more deeply. Off campus. Wrote home. In bed at 9.30, first time I guess this semester. Wed. Jan. 22. Shampoo at 4 p.m. at . Took proofs to Gallop and ordered 1 doz. pictures. Thurs. Jan. 23. 7th hr. Prof. Mills met both Labor Problems sections in 35 so we had a cut 4th hr. No chapel. Miss Richardson led Christians. The Spirit of Vassar: the American spirit seen in Pres. Raymond, Maria Mitchell and Hannah Lyman. Agnes & Clara visited in my room. Fri. Jan. 24. Downtown. Prexy's to dinner at 7.30. Cut chapel. Wore new pink dress. Sat at Prexy's table. Vic was there and about 10 others. Course I. chicken pie, French peas, diamond & heart sandwiches, rice in a half green pepper, olives, coffee. II. salad, grapefruit & red cherries. III. ice-cream in fancy forms & small cakes, Almonds & candy. Stood. Prexy showed us his books and some curios he has collected. Left before 11 p.m. Had a fine time. Sat. Jan. 25. Reviewed Ethics. I like Agnes Campbell and am getting to like her more and more. Went to Faculty173 1913. play The Shoemakers' Holiday. It was splendid. Miss Washburn and Miss Bink were the leading characters. I copied the cast from the big poster on the wall. Went with Agnes & Eliz. & sat with Florence Kridel too. Sun. Jan. 26. Reb. G. P. Eckman of N.Y. Text 3 verses. Agnes, Ruth Butterfield and I walked out on the Sague road as far as the gate. Then I went home with Ruth, had candy. Heard Miss Rossa B. Cooley in p.m. on her work among the negroes of St. Helena island. Illustrated. Heard more in S.P. Read aloud to Agnes and Clara the article by Miss M.W. Whitney from which Miss Richardson read last Thurs p.m. in Vassar Miscellany 1895. Mon. Jan. 27. Up 6 A.M. Ethics exam 8.20 Room 85. Nice. Finished Shekespeare's sonnets. Letter from home. Card for 2nd semester from office. Ethics song, sung after chapel. Prexy made a nice speech & asked us in, we sang it for him inside and then filed out the door beyond his study. We are the 25th class he has taught. Tues. Jan. 28. Up 6 A.M. R. English exam. E. German exams. Rec'd announcement of Prof. Shattuck's Rocky mt. trip. 174 1913. Walked around lake with Agnes & Eliz. Outlined the big, main points in Ec. Hildegard expects to go abroad right after commencement. Others planning to go abroad are Katharine Faulkner, Bernice and Hazel Clark. Wed. Jan. 29. P.O. Wrote down an inspiration that came from these two lines Aristotle was wise aside from his Ethics. For in E. German we've learned to know his poetics. Nice letter from Margaret Towers. Lib. Noon mail. Lib. Wrote papa. Night mail. Lib. Saw Miss Whitney in the corridor & she said I'm looking over your paper, it's a very nice one. I was so surprised I could only reply I'm so glad. Mary Berkemier got a 19 p. letter from her brother. She had just opened up when Millsy came along beaming all over at her. He stopped & said something about choice of topic for Ec. Seminar & seeing him soon. Cut Chapel. Lib. [Lib: Labor Problems review]. I'm trying hard to correlate my Ec. knowledge and see Labor Problems as a whole. Thurs. Jan. 30. Up 6 A.M. Economics, Labor Problems. Fixed my college exam. papers in notebook bought for that purpose. Looked over old newspapers of recent date that I got from Neida. Off-campus to White's with Agnes. Sophie White led Christians, a song service. 175 1913. Started "Up from Slavery". Fri. Jan. 31. Read more Off campus to Seaman's with Agnes. Alice Hill snapped Miss Whitney, Struck & Stroebe together twice after lunch. Bade Miss W. good bye as she goes tomorrow. She told me she has given my name to Miss McCaleb for teaching German. Agnes, Clara & I walked in 1 3/4 hr. to Lover's Leap. Clara & I walked to Main st. & all rode home. Got in bath & into my white dress & down to dinner before 6.15 p.m. Read. Rec'd note from Evelyn. Rose Bauman called this A.M. Browsed on new books in Lib. Saw Eliz. Kittredge 1912 & sent a greeting to Helen Lockwood at Columbia. Sat. Feb. 1. Off campus to Slosh's with Alice. Sewed. Letter from papa giving me recipe for popcorn balls. After lunch walked downtown with Agnes Campbell who treated me in Smith's to hot chocolate, maple nut Sunday [Sundae] and as we rode home to candy. Spent most two hours making pop-corn balls. Visited with Louise who was in bed in Bessie's room. She didn't go to bed till 5 A.M., staid up to finish her French Rev. topic and did. Tea in 353 with Harriet & Clara & Agnes who then came down & sampled my popcorn balls. Sent copy of my revised inspiration to Prexy. Sun. Feb. 2 Have "Morbus Sabbaticus" so did not go to church. Washed up some dirty dishes. Fed Alice Hill rolls & 176 1913. milk which I brought up for her & made Agnes' bed while Clara washed her dishes (after Agnes went to church.) Finished Booker T. Washington's fascinating book "Up from Slavery". Wrote Margaret Towers. Read over half the New Miscellany, sitting in the Raymond Reading room. Voluntary chapel 7 p.m. & then Christians. Prexy spoke about "the comfort of the scriptures". Wrote home. Went for a walk on the lower bridge. Had Mary Powell here to dinner on " Ethel Strolm " " " " Prexy spoke nicely of Mr. Coykendall on in the Glen. Agnes, Clara & I decided to correct each other in speech in an effort to improve our speech. Mon. Feb. 3. Snowed in night. New semester. 4 classes straight in a.m. Sense of helplessness & inability to do my work. Miss Yost saw me this morning & said as only she can say it "And how is Miss Gretta Ordway?" Letter from home. Drew $5.08 for 25 5/12 hrs. work in P.O. Dec. 16 1912 to Feb. 1 1913. Bought Beatrice Stevens' screen (3 panel brown) $1.00. She left tonight. No Chapel. Read "As You Like It" in S.P. and R.R. Room. Looked over debate Biolog. Saw Eliz. Kutzner. Miss Struck reads wonderfully. She read a few lines from Faust today. Saw Student Assoc. dues collectors among them.177 1913. Betty Mylod who made a list of names for me of the girls on 2nd north who haven't paid. Tea in 353. Tues. Feb. 4. Gave Clara Hill a suit box. Inspiration of Miss Keys & a desire to know about Etymology because she suggests it. Want to please Miss Struck & shine in her class. Eliz. McShane made the best recitation today. 3rd hr. studied Faust, didn't quite finish it. Went to Lib. Mail 12 noon. Read Eagle after lunch. Postal home. Fire in Clara Dana's room, Portiere tea table & chair burned. Bought 2 note books & Charities outline. Agnes & I walked to Crowley's. Mail. Walked to White's (photog.) Stopped at Ruth Butterfields had candy. Agnes urged R. to read a funny book. Attended "Die Journalisten" in pink dress. Borrowed Alice Hills "Bacon's Essays." Bed 11.10 p.m. Cup of coffee from Miss Ellery's Renaissance Hist. class refreshments after their sleigh ride tonight. Hildegard was out in a sleighing party tonight. Wed. Feb. 5. "Get your work done ahead so you'll have more time to work on debate" Miriam Winter to me. Shall work hard for Miss Wylie. Am glad I have three such interesting personalities to study. In R. Eng. Miss Wylie discussed exam. papers & had Whitcomb. Hughes and Wilson read their answers to the first question (Why not mine?) 178 1913. K. Scribner read 2 hrs. for today on the books Miss W. spoke of Mon. & H. Clark read some. I read nothing for today. Batted all yesterday afternoon, but the walk in the air did me good. K.G.O. listen. Make out a schedule of studying (in general). Work - like you used to Freshman year when you did what you ought to do regardless of whether you felt like it or not. Be scholarly. Do excellent work. Play hard too. 3rd hr. gone, no studying done. Instead I have given vent to my feelings of the past days. Mon. Tues. Wed. so far. Time now to go Charities. Accident on Sunset hill. Bettie Mylod killed. Girls in groups stood around when I cam back from Lib. anxiously asking Has she come to? Thurs. Feb. 5. I. Debate trial 7.30 p.m. Fri. Feb. 6. Began paper on dif. bet. Shakespearian & Victorian English. Sat. Feb. 8. Attened funeral of Elizabeth Mylod 1913 at St. Peter's (Catholic) Church. 179 1913. Sun. Feb. 9. Dean Hodges of Cambridge preached on the value of Interruptions. S.P. Walk. Called on Miss Stiles and Ethel Strohm. Mon. Feb. 10. II. Debate trial 7th. Rec'd little letter from Claire and a letter from Ellen Sergeant. Tues. Feb. 11. Track practice 7th. Dinner at the Inn with Mr. Miller (Lucelia's father), Catherine Balmer, Agnes, Helen & Miriam Winter. Made chapel from the Inn in 7 min. At 8 p.m. saw Miss Wood about Ruth Collins whom I am to tutor. Wed. Feb. 12. Students' meeting. Dinner in Josselyn with Martha. III. Debate trial 8.30 p.m. Thurs. Feb. 13. Mrs. Potter's class 7th hr. Hampton quartette 8th. Heard Major whose father was led to a higher life by Mr. (John) Dube (whom we entertained once in Sodus at our house) speak. Deutsche Verein 8th to welcome Miss Kueffner, who showed postals & spoke. Got 2 volunteers at the Flag Shop. (for Ida & Claire) Fri. Feb. 14. I didn't get a single Valentine! Oh! dear! Nassau Quartette (from Princeton class of 1910) here180 1913. in p.m. Splendid. They sang a football song & the men in the audience started to beat time. We took it up & clapped in unison as we do for our sister class. It was a good illustration of the common subtle element in college spirit. Tea in 341. Retired 11.50. [in margin] Sat. 4th Debate trial Feb. 15 8.30 a.m. Watched Junior Soph. dance. Sun. Feb. 16. Rev. Emrich. S.P. Mon. Feb. 17. Was a substitute 7th. My 5th trial. Honors announced in Senior Parlor right after dinner. I listened anxiously hoping but no 0 received either honor or honorable mention. I carried a red rose & envelope to A.G.R. A.Hill was surprised that I rec'd no rose & said others were too. She made up her mind to get honor of one kind or the other & she did it. Track 8th. Carnival in p.m. on new lake. Beautiful, more lovely than on the regular lake. Met Mrs. Berkemier who is naturally proud of Mary & who is the most gentle woman I have ever met. Home letter. Sat. Feb. 15. 8.30 A.M. 5th debate trial. Watched the Junior Sophomore dance from 9.30 till 11.45 p.m. and staid till the end. Heard the men of the different colleges give their cheers. Retired 12.15 p.m. 181 1913. Tues. Feb. 18. Substituted 7.30 p.m. in my 6th debate trial. Track. Agnes gave me her picture. Got my marks from the office today. A B C Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior 1st sem. Ruth Pember went up with me. The getting of marks has caused much wonder and some discussion among individuals. Wed. Feb. 19. Well I'm off debate. Ahms House 6th hr. Class meeting 8th. Did mail. Had visit with A.G.R. 5th hr. 1. I would have slapped you, you looked so serious when listening to Miss Thallon the other night in S.P. 2. You listen to every word, steady worker, do it as if on the spur of the moment. 3. Millsy likes somebody who's quick, find out his hobbies. 4. Foolish to substitute Mon. & Tues. Criticized my application to Agency. Thurs. Feb. 20. Letter from mamma. Mrs. Potter's class. Margaret Armstrong led Christians, spoke on the power of Lincoln. 182 1913. Fri. Feb. 21. Sent off application to Albany Teachers' Agency 81 Chapel St. Albany N.Y. $2.00 fee & $1.00 to have 24 small pictures made. Prof. Knight of Ohio State Univ (Adelaide's father) lectured on "the remaking of a state constitution". Rec'd just an adorable letter from papa, so inspiring & so helpful. Sat. Feb. 22. Applied for fellowship to study English & German next year at Columbia. Indoor meet at 9 A.M. I vaulted. Tried to hitch kick but didn't. Henrietta Hess broke or at least tied the record for high kick. Tea given by her for friend Miss in afternoon. 2nd tea given by 1913 in S.P. to Faculty. I went, wore S.P. dress. Prexy was there etc. [in margin] Our table was the press. Sun. Feb. 23. Prof. Riggs preached. Keep persistently in the presence of the best. Mission class. R. Butterfield. Spread by Irene Beir in Lucy's room for Lucy's sister Susie. Mon. Feb. 24. Miss Keys talked 8th hr. to the special group (1st time). Tea in S.P. 8th hr. first of the informal afternoon teas given by the class. Candy in Lucy's. Mrs. Marks is here. Tea in 351. Acknowledgment of receipt of my application from Albany agency. Home letter. 183 1913. Tues. Feb. 25. Wed. Feb. 26. Letter from mama. Painted molding in inside half of my chute, 1 coat white paint. Walked to Crowleys. Tea 351. Ruth Collins 1916 eloped today. Thurs. Feb. 27. Miss Wylie said I won't say you're a fool to apply but I'd withdraw my English application & make my German just as strong as possible. Miss Stroebe helped me plan for the Borden. "Did you get an honor?" Miss W. [in margin] Wake Robin 8th hr. F.P. Fri. Feb. 28. N.J. Club party in Freshman parlor 4 p.m. We had a dandy time. Card from papa. My box of "eats" came from home today. Called on Mrs. Taylor in less than 5 min. Box contained lettuce, celery, 2 bottles salad dressing, can dry shrimps, glass of luscious conserve, wafers, 2 boxes salted nuts, a layer chocolate cake & a delectable cake. All just perfect. After Prof. Shattuck splendid illustrated lecture on his Yellowstone trip. Alma, Gertrude, Mildred, Gladys, Narola, Agnes, Neida, Evelyn, Lucilia & Maud (Van Arsdale) helped me eat my grand box & they were quite astonished. 184 1913. Sat. Mar. 1. Sun. Mar. 2. Town Sunday, asked Agnes Campbell to go with me & she did. Met Mrs. Butterfield at a nice tea in Ruth's room with much eats. Mon. Mar. 3. Bill from Raymond's. Com. on Borden fund can't present my name. Letter from mama. Papa is going to the inauguration. Was taken to the Ratskeller in basement of Flag shop for first time by . Prexy spoke to us students alone tonight as a man standards of conduct, automobiling etc. social spirit. [in margin] 7th class meeting. I was nominated for self gov't com. Reduced to 2 with Peggy. Tues. Mar. 4. Wilson assumes Presidential duties today. Rec'd small pictures from Albany. Alma wants a photo of me. "Die Journalisten". Louise, Helen & I were the only Seniors there. I spoke. Met Mrs Wheeler. Wed. Mar. 5. Letter from mama & $10.00. Informal class meeting to vote on Borden candidates. Concert 8th Laura Graves. Lay down 5th & part of 6th. Thurs. Mar. 6. Informal class meeting. Agnes Wilson has the Borden fund. A.G.R. said Prof. White said of her that she had learned to know her faculty & they her by Junior185 1913. year." She explained her remark at class meeting Mon. that being on that com. "would knock off some of those?." I am considered stern & sit too attentive in class. Fri. Mar 7. Studied in afternoon & in evening, missing the lecture. Sat. Mar. 8. Rose 5 A.M. Went to station in a barge, 11 of us. After breakfast of coffee & sandwich took local to Albany. Practiced songs in train. Reached Springfield about 12, Holyoke 1, had dinner, South Hadley 2 p.m. Carolyn Johnson & I were put in same room in Mead Hall. Exhibition in gym. Reception. Dinner. Debate 7.30 p.m. Comment of judges afterward. Sun. Mar 9. Breakfast downstairs in a corner room. Stopped at South Cottage for Helen Yergin, went to church with her. "Life is a chorus, a song, not a sob." was the theme. Dinner 12.30. Left at 1. Left a note for Helen Frances Ordway 1916. We had a party of 27 coming from Springfield & had a whole car to ourselves. A few girls met us in Poughkeepsie, a bunch sang to us in front of Treadwells where we had sandwiches, chocolate, doughnuts, almonds and candied orange peel. A splendid time I've had. Wrote to mama on the train. 186 1913. Mon. Mar. 10. Letter from Uncle Henry, Mama and a Mr. Wm. R. Ordway of Milton N.Y. who saw my name in the paper. Class meeting 8th hr. Millsy spoke 7.30 p.m. to Ruth Holliday's class. Tues. Mar. 11. Am not one of the 4 fellowship recipients. Nomination to 1st position, Richmondville N.Y. to teach 4 yrs. English, 2 German, English & American Hist. 5.30 p.m. Miss Ann's. Agnes Wright entertained the Vassar delegation. 1st Meeting of T and M. advisory board 9.30 p.m. Alma Klippel has been asked to come back next year & assist in Chemistry. The recipients of the graduate fellowship are Berkemier, Beir, Dietrich, Doughty. Wed. Mar. 12. Gave my topic today (no.28 on Almshouses). Alice Hill took me to Flag shop & we had a soda, her treat. Vocational meeting addressed by Miss Tucker (2) Miss Chamberlain (3) and Miss (1). English tutor meeting. 8.30 - 9.30 in English Seminar. Prexy talked about using the electricity for other than lighting. Thurs. Mar. 13. Letter from Ida who has signed her contract to stay next year in Sherburne. Between dinner & chapel walked with Irene, who talked about the various electrical appliances & the danger in using them. Christians. Miss Helen Landon on Prayer187 1913. Gave A.M.H. advice about sending a letter to C.S. Fri. Mar. 14. Letter from Wm R. Ordway (in answer to mine) stating that the Mrs. Ordway mamma met at a Synodical meeting several years ago in Rochester is his wife. Wrote home. Heard 2 numbers of the harp & basso concert. Then went to dress rehearsal of II Hall play, "The Little Minister" splendid, scenery very complete. 9-12 p.m. Sat. Mar. 15. Mail. Hamlet. Lay down & slept from 1.45-4 p.m. Mail. Worked in Lib. till 8 p.m. Then heard Miss of Washington lecture on the Montessori method. She studied under Mme. Montessori & showed us the objects used by the children. Got home before 10. Worked then on Faust till 12. Sun. Mar. 16. Heard Rev. Nehemia Boynton. Attended Mission Study class. Mon. Mar. 17. Wrote for R English, in L. English and in Economics. Read 2 hrs. in Crowley, "The Beast". Tues. Mar. 18. "Die Journalisten" 7.30 p.m. Saw Miss Stroebe. 188 1913. Wed. Mar. 19. Visited at Almshouse. Class meeting. Vocational conference. Thurs. Mar. 20. A.G.R. and I went downtown and called on Miss Wylie. It did not appear that Miss W. loves A.G.R. extremely even tho A. has so much to say about her. Fri. Mar. 21. Saw Miss Wood. Heard lecture by Judge Clearwater on "American Silver". Sat. Mar. 22. Worked on Bill for Juvenile Courts (for Ec.). Gave Tutor lesson 7.30. Flowers. T and M. advisory board meeting. Sun. Mar. 23. 7.30 a.m. went up on Library tower and sang carols. "Doc" Smith leading. Downtown to church. Read. Walked. Prof. Bracq overtook us on our return. Music. Mon. Mar. 24. Miss Ellery at 7.30 p.m. lectured at Miss Keys' house to a few L. English people on The French Revolution. Mock and crazy chains paraded in Main corridor 2nd floor at 9.30 p.m. Tues. Mar. 25. John Burroughs present at Wake Robin tea in S.P. 8th hr. Off-campus to Dutch room in the Flag shop. No chapel. 189 1913. Wed. Mar. 26. No chapel. Thurs. Mar. 27. Fri. Mar. 28. Spring vacation began. Came home in afternoon. Went with Claire to Alexander St. School to hear Mr. Perrine lecture (illustrated) on "The Head Hunters" of India". Sat. Mar. 29. At Agnes Invitation I attended a luncheon in the St. Dennis hotel, , New York under auspices of Dr. Boville, for Daily Vacation Bible Schools. A reception preceded in the hotel parlors. Met Miss of Brooklyn, Mt. Holyoke 1913. Hazel Ware was there, also Mary Rowlands and I met "Cuthbert". Sun. Mar. 30. Church. C.E. Walking. Church. Mon. Mar. 31. Shopping with Mamma. Tues. Apr.1. Ironed. Downtown, yielded to temptation and bought beautiful evening coat $25.00 at Plant's, golden brown broadcloth. 190 1913. Wed. Apr. 2. Missed the train I intended to take Fri. & came down with K.Z.Wells and Gladys Campbell whom I invited to lunch with me while she visits a friend in Newark. So she came today. Mrs. Hinman who is housekeeper for in Porto Rico called before Gladys came. Mama met her in P.R. & Mrs. H. seemed very glad to see her. Had a nice time with Gladys. Claire and I walked over to Orangd car line with her via Munn Ave. Thurs. Apr. 3. Went to Ladies' Aid at Mrs. Richard Mudd's. She served nice lemon pie & coffee. Mr. Axt, who is looking up a nice violin for Claire called in p.m. & I enjoyed playing with him. Fri. Apr. 4. Called on Mr. Chandler, walked down from his house with Mr. Van Houten. Junior C.E. Sat. Apr. 5. Went to Dr. Gibbonos. Took Claire to Shubert to see "Little Women". Well acted & she thoroughly enjoyed it. Called with papa at Lake's. Sun. Apr. 6. Church. Adult Bible Class. Cassedy's, went to call & stayed to lunch. C.E. Church. Mon. Apr. 7. Annual meeting. Had feet fixed by Dr. Patrick Twiney. Am reading Bayard's Life of Woodrow Wilson. Had graduating dress fitted. 191 1913. Tues. Apr. 8. Ironed. Packed up and left home for college for the last time during my four year's college course in Vassar. Left about 3.30. Agnes Rogers sat with me coming up from New York. She is very attractive and charming in manner. A real Southerner, a competent girl too. Has already been in a play. Wed. Apr. 9. College begins again (to close soon for me). Tutor lesson 8th hr. College singing. 7.30 lecture on by Miss White. Thurs. Apr. 10. 6th hr. Tutor lesson. 7th heard Miss Struck read Faust. 8th Mrs. Van . "Christians". Fri. Apr. 11. 8th tutor lesson. Sat. Apr. 12. Downtown. Sun. Apr. 13. Rev. Chas E. Brown preached in A.M. Miss Julia Lathrop, Head of the U.S. Children's Bureau spoke at 8 p.m. Mon. Apr. 14. 4.45 Class meeting. 7.30 Miss Stroebe. 192 1913. Tues. Apr. 15. 7.30 p.m. "Die Journalisten". Saw Edith Wynne Matthison at Collingwood in matinee of "Everyman" 3.15-5 p.m. (went with A.G.R. which provoked me) The play was fine. Wed. Apr. 16. 8th hr. May Day practice. 7.30 p.m. Miss Stroebe's first talk on "How to Teach German". 8.30 English Tutor meeting. Thurs. Apr. 17. 7th Miss Struck read Faust. Fri. Apr. 18. Finished R. English topic. 8th hr. heard readings by Mr. Alfred Noyes. p.m. concert violin and piano. Sat Apr. 19. Read Thomson. Wrote Principal Wagner. Sun. Apr. 20. Rev. Ernst Stires preached. Took a 2 hr 5 min walk with A.G.R. Going down the country fair road we met four young men, among them Walter Gerow. Dr. Bliss spoke in p.m. Mon. Apr. 21. 8th hr. May day practice. 3-3.30 Miss Keys. 9.30 T and M. Committee meeting. Tues. Apr. 22. 8th hr. lecture by Prof. Tinker. Wrote Mr. Wagner. Meaning Phi Beta Kappa in some cases. Started Shakespeare biography. 193 1913. Wed. Apr. 23. 7.20 p.m. (2nd talk) Miss Stroebe. Mary Rice here to dinner. A cut in Classicism. Wrote Mr. Senger. Read in Bergson, "Laughter". Thurs. Apr. 24. 7th hr. Faust read by Miss Struck. 8th May Day dance. 7.30 Christians. Fri. Apr. 25. 2.15 p.m. Medical exam. Sat. Apr. 26. Wake Robin trip to Slabsides. 9.30 A.M. - 6 p.m. Grand. While Mr. Burroughs rested after taking us up to Julian rock, named for his grandson, and after we had had lunch, we took some books from his rustic book-case and sat out doors on the ground in the warm sunshine and read in this soothing retreat. Sun. Apr. 27. Rev. L. Mason Clark preached. I met him in S.P. was introduced by Laura. Finished Bergson, "Laughter". Had a nice visit with Lydia Brown in Senior Parlor. Christians. Wrote to Wilhelmina & home. Mon. Apr. 28. 8th hr. T and M. initiation. T and M. advisory board committee meeting, ice cream. Cut chapel. 7.30 p.m. Miss of Philadelphia spoke in S.P. for Association of Collegiate Alumnae. Fixed clippings for T and M. 194 1913. Tues. Apr. 29. Did Halliwell Phillipps with Alma in 340 Main till 1.30 a.m. Wed. Apr. 30. 7.30 p.m. 3rd talk by Assoc. Prof. Stroebe. Thurs. May 1. Faust reading. Miss Griggs led Christians. Fri. May 2. Handed Shakespeare topic in, took it over to Miss Keys' house. Hoop Dance practice. Founder's Day Mama and Claire came about 6 p.m. I saw them coming up the walk. Claire in her new tan coat. They looked so nice. Percy MacKay read in evening. Hard to hear him. Reception in evening. Some dancing up-stairs. Sat. May 3. Field Day. Am "Being Kept at" by Hildegard regarding 1915 debate. Mama and Claire I took out to the Athletic Circle and got them places. Then I went back to 340M. and worked 1 1/2 hrs. on clippings. Mama almost entirely trimmed my hoop for me. I got some cheesecloth from Gladys Campbell. Hoop or May day dance 6.30 p.m. Walter Gerow was there. College singing. 1st trial debate for 1915. Claire went down to Students' room with me and listened. Hazel Ware my partner in May dance. 195 1913. Sun. May 4. Town Sunday. Walked slowly around Sunset with Mama & Claire. We saw the lake and circle leisurely enjoying the beauty of nature & the pleasure of being together. Had tea in my room and invited several girls in. Catharine Balmer remained over after tea to supper as well. Took Mama & Claire to "music", chapel and Christians. Visited. Mary Berkemier wanted to see me about a plan for "Die Journalisten". Mon. May 5. At 6.15 A.M. C. Bahner & I saw Mama & Claire off from the N.W. corner of the campus. They stayed at Mrs. Knaus. Written in Shakespeare. Miss Yost read a lecture in R.R. English (part of her thesis on ). Song practice. In Lib. 1/2 hr. fussing on debate. Studied 2 hrs. by the lake, for once in my life I did work outdoors. Did Faust notes. 2nd Trial Debate. Had apples in M. Berkemier's room, 11.15 p.m. Tues. May 6. Why don't I know Faust notes after I'ver read them? 4th hr. read 1 ballad. Signed Alumnae Record taken by U.S. Y.W.C.A. Read Percy Ballads. 7th hr. Third Trial Debate. Our treat for the faculty members of The Journalisten was an automobile ride from 5-7 p.m. followed by Dinner at the Inn. Walked with Alice M. Hill. In Lib. How much did it cost? 11.40 p.m. 196 1913. Wed. May 7. Miss Stroebe 7.20. 8.30 Fourth Trial Debate. Thurs. May 8. 6.40 A.M. Spruced up 5th hr. Started Goldsmith. Christians. Debate trial. Read jokes in 341. Fri. May 9. 6 a.m. 3rd hr. discussed Webb bill. Saw Elsie Muhlfelder about debating. Did Faust 5th hr. Through kindness of Clara Hill I was asked to go with some botany people 6th, 7th & 8th hours to visit the beautiful garden of Mr. Lowne, (back of Putnam Hall) with Miss Robinson. Debate, chose 6. Stood at outer chapel door. Many shut out. Sat. May 10. Posted debaters. Did Goldsmith & Burns from 8.30 - 12 A.M. Read Wines ch. XI. XII. Attended Third Hall Play 4.30 - 7 p.m. given outdoors near the tennis courts & circle. Did Faust notes in the Lib. 9.30 - 9.50 p.m. saw Ruth Robinson in 207R. (Margaret Babbitt's room) Ruth is teaching at N.Y. & invited me to visit her. Told her I would. Sun. May 11. Clara Hill lent me six developed films so I can get them printed. Chapel Rev. Ross. Read 4 chs. in Mary Antin, "The Promised Land." Called on Helen Simpson at her sister's in Raymond. Had tea in 340 for Hildegard, Ruth & Elinor. Shut out of chapel. Christians. In Gladys Campbell's197 1913. room met Beatrice Bushman of Buffalo whose mother knows some body there from Syracuse N.Y. who knows mama. Wrote to these four Mrs. John H. Strong, Miss M.P. Moore, Miss Marie L. Vacek and Mama. Mon. May 12 6 A.M. Faust. Letters from Mama & Mr. Fred Darley. Did Shakespeare, analysis of each act. Also article in Yale Review. Faust. Debate 8.30 p.m. Helen Simpson present. Took Pauline Tenny out on the lake before dinner. Tues. May 13. 6 A.M. Faust, also 2nd hr. Read more 4th hr in Bagehot's Essay on Shakespeare. At lunch time paid class dues, got May day pictures, ordered 3rd Hall Play pictures. During 5th & part of 6th went over debate notes to get at main issues. 7th committee meeting with debaters. Helen Simpson's plan worked out with Lalitha Folks was presented & accepted. Started Cowper 7.30 p.m. Miss Wylie met us in English Seminar "The debaters want to debate 6th hr. tomorrow" said Hildegard. Wed. May 14. If Cowper = Cooper doesn't cow = coo? 5th fixed newspaper clippings. 6th preliminary debate. 8th debate T and M. vs. Qui Vive and '15 won. Read old play "King Leir and His Three Daughters". 198 1913. Thurs. May 15. Faust. "I won't ask you again, if you don't want to state it better than that it's none of my business", and she went on with the lesson. My semester bill came. Notice of vacancy in Remsen. 5th & 6th wrote Albany agency. Tried to get a leave for May 22. Wrote papa, my efforts were vain. Mrs. T. wouldn't let me go. 7th "Struckie" read in Act V. Christians. Read some Grabbe. Started Shakespeare topic. Fri. May 16. Grabbe 6 a.m. Miss Wylie read from her paper on Grabbe. Ch. XXV XXVI German Daily Life. Rb German. Got invitations for commencement. 1 3/4 hr. on Shakespeare topic. Went down alone & called on Miss (Prof.) Salmon. Found Anna Wilson & Edith Pratt there. Margaret Tibbitts came while I was there. Worked on Shakespeare topic. Heard the first number of college orchestra concert. Sat. May 17. Six hours on Shakespeare topic. Finished writing it. Read some on Blake's life. Students, Gen. Elections Students', Christians, Phil and Athletics. Singing on steps of New Students' Building. Speeches by "Vic" & Margaret Armstrong. In chapel tonight Prexy told us about the Mohonk conference. Sun. May 18. Copied part of Sh. topic. Lyman Abbot preached. In S.P. met Mrs. Bushman, Beatrice's mother. The 199 1913. mutual Buffalo acquaintance of our mothers is (Jessie Drawbridge) now Mrs. Marshal. Wrote Aunt Vira, Ellen, Marian H. & Laura Kemp. Read in S.P. Walked to Sunset with Lucelia. Christians. Wrote mama. Copied the rest of Shakespeare topic. Mon. May 19. 6 a.m. Called Janet K. at 6 A.M. & Agnes at 6.30 a.m. Miss Wylie talked about "ladylike" letters. Scored one in Faust. Rec'd letter from mama and two tickets to concert by Euterpe Glee Club (May 27) from W.H.G. Then it was 3.20 p.m. "Auswendigte" some Faust. Class meeting. Clare Hill & I walked to Crowley's. Read "Oedipus Tyrannus". S.P. read more in . Portrait of Shakespeare due today. Tues. May 20. 7 a.m. Shakespeare Biography returned and marked "Excellent". Rec'd Junior-Senior boat ride invite, also letter from papa. 2nd worked hard on Faust text. 3rd Last Faust recitation. Wrote to Mr. Tod & sent invitations for class day and commencement. Read Blake in S.P. Lib. learned some Faust auswendig. Got the auswendig references from Eliz. Stumpf. Wrote Prin. Montgomery Smith & Institute Agency. Pd. Semester Bill. Pd. for class supper. 200 1913. Last RR English (Romanticism) class. Letter from Mr. Geo. Staley, Rome. Wrote Mr. S. Last Rb German class. Last Charities class. "Millsy" was great. Wrote to papa. Also wrote a joint letter to papa and mama for May 22nd. Wrote Dorothy M. Rolph. Thurs. May 22. Papa's and Mamma's 25th Anniversary. Shakespeare. Reread "Oedipus" studying it for the idea of the gods. Rec'd note from Ida, note from Mr. W.S.Tod (papa's classmate), two fine photos of Claire. Wrote Mr. Tod. "Auswendigte" 50 lines Faust. 1913 class prayer meeting in S.P. Ruth Holliday led. I went with Alma. Just a few there. Read part of "The Tempest". Fri. May 23. My twenty second birthday. Up at 6.45. Worked in P.O. Rec'd box of candy and letter from papa, Birthday postals from Claire and mamma. Finished "The Tempest". Had Shakespeare exam. 10.30 - 12.20. Mr. Staley has received my application. Sorted my written papers. Gladys Bassett & Louise Boynton got from me the Faust lines to learn. Miss Mary Landon (Instructor in Chemistry) called in my room and asked me to apply to Mr. Maxfield, Naples, N.Y for a position to teach Physics & other subjects. C. Balmer came in. Wrote papa.
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Creator: Ordway, Katherine Gretta
Descriptor(s): Ditkoff, Andrea
Date: 1913-1914
Text: '13 Katherine Gretta Ordway Purchased at Hahne & Co. Oct. 28, 1913. g. Catherine A. Parnell1 1913. (cont'd) Fri. May 23. No chapel. Library. Letter from W.H.G. S.P. Song Contest. The "Gassarion" out. Lib. Faust notebook. 12.30 A.M. Sat. May 24. 7 a.m. Faust passage memorized. Showed Mrs. Holland (Mabel's mother) S.P. Faust Handlung. Faust Exam. 1.45. 5 p.m. Song practice. Junior-Senior boatride. Alice Hill & I went together, planned it before we started to...
Show more'13 Katherine Gretta Ordway Purchased at Hahne & Co. Oct. 28, 1913. g. Catherine A. Parnell1 1913. (cont'd) Fri. May 23. No chapel. Library. Letter from W.H.G. S.P. Song Contest. The "Gassarion" out. Lib. Faust notebook. 12.30 A.M. Sat. May 24. 7 a.m. Faust passage memorized. Showed Mrs. Holland (Mabel's mother) S.P. Faust Handlung. Faust Exam. 1.45. 5 p.m. Song practice. Junior-Senior boatride. Alice Hill & I went together, planned it before we started to march. A.G.R. tried to force herself in with us but she had a chilly time. Chocolate for Alice Hill, Mary Lancaster and K.G.O. Sun. May 25. 8.15 a.m. E - A. Agnes Rowlands returned paste. ["What have I done? Hernia. Show feelings. You were civil."] Lyman Abbot preached. Took Mrs. Holland to S.P. Wrote a letter to mama and cards to Mr. Poler and Hazel Courtney. Read 3 - 5 p.m. in S.P. Walked alone upper lake walk from south to north. A.G.R. walked with me before chapel. Prexy answered questions. Alice Hill told me of "Millsy's" boatride. Mon. May 26. Reviewed Charities and Reviewed Classicism. Tues. May 27. 6 a.m. Charities exam. RR English exam. Louise Boynton and I went down to the Collingwood to the Euterpe Glee Club concert in which Walter sang. 2 1913. Wed. May 28. 5.45 a.m. we rose to be ready for the Senior Excursion to Mohonk. Had early breakfast and departed in barges. Sang, visited, fooled. At the station Alice, Alma & Mildred & I got out & walked up Main St. to N.Y.C. station where we had some refreshments in the restaurant. Alice and I missed the other girls & kept the whole crowd waiting on the ferry for us. Rained. When the road got too steep several of us got out and walked. Alma and I walked alone all the way from the water works, where we first got out up to the hotel, in the rain and mud. Wet? oh yes but the walk with Alma was worth it. Dined in the Mohonk Hotel dining room on Vassar food. A big rambling building or rather buildings with wide carpeted halls & many fireplaces. We sang for the guests and then amused ourselves by sitting in the little summer houses on the shore of the lake while the rain fell. The fog was thick and white so we couldn't walk around or see the gardens or go through the gorge. Rode home in the rain after cheering Mr. Smiley. Went in to dinner all wet. Then took a hot bath. At 7.30 Miss Yost gave us her criticism on the Junior-Sophomore debate. 3 1913. Thurs. May 29. Second Day of Senior Vacation. 8.30 A.M. was Dr. T.'s (Thelberg) first lecture. 3rd hr. visited Q. English. In afternoon with Prof. Mills as director visited the "Hudson River State Hospital" from 1.10-6 p.m. Met Drs. Mallon & Taylor. T and M Sophomore picnic in the pine walk near chapel. At 6 p.m. chapel. Seemed queer to sit in a back seat. We no longer have our regular seats in front of chapel for coming is now optional. Prexy spoke on thieving. Vassarion out. Miss Yost led Christians. Read our 1913 Vassarion through. Rec'd $1 from Aunt Vira. Fri. May 30. Mailed Aunt Jennie's invitation. Got stung trying to visit "K". Pumped wheel up. Rode bike 2 1/2 hrs with Clare Hill, stopping at North Side Tea Room. Had three meals in Davison. Senior dance 8 - 12 p.m. I watched and met Frances Jewell's brother , and , a beautiful occasion. Sat. May 31. Narola woke me after 8 A.M., no breakfast. Spiffed up for Peggy's and Louise's men. Glee Club concert at 10.30, sat in the gallery & watched the men & girls. Met , again. He is a fine looking chap. After lunch went downtown on car with Clara Hill, ferried to Highland, walking the five miles on the state road from Highland to Milton where I looked up Wm. Ordway and wife. Their house faces the river & commands a beautiful view. They took us across 4 1913. the street to a bluff affording a grand view up and down the river. Mr. & Mrs. O. walked down to the wharf & saw us off for Poughkeepsie on the "Mary Powell." Stopped at Ratskeller. I served tea & lady fingers (sent me with some other cakes left from Mama's 25th anniversary reception, by mama) for Mary Rowlands, who is visiting her sister Agnes. Mary and Eliz. Cramer jumped on Agnes for exaggerating so. Sun. June 1. Walked down to Pres. church with Mary Lancaster and Gladys Campbell & back with Rose Wilson and Miss Oldenberg. Mr. Gerow sang a fine solo. Started a letter to Mrs. Graybill. Narola, Alice and Catharine called. Chapel. Christians, our last Sunday p.m. meeting. Tea. Finished Mary Antin's "The Promised Land". Mon. June 2. 2nd Dr. T. lecture 8.30-9.45. Song practice 10-12. Rec'd two letters and $10.00 from mama. Sophomore Tree Ceremonies, song practice 1.30-2.30. Directed invitations 42 V, 4 CR, 3 VR. Picnic to "Journalisten" girls by German faculty near North gate 4-6 p.m. German flags strung between the pine trees made the occasion festive. Alma went off campus with me to Mrs. Knaus, and Mrs. Millard. Wrote mama & Gladys Hull went bustling down to the Lodge with me so I could give it to a conductor to mail. Finished Mrs. Graybill's letter. 5 1913. Tues June 3. 8.30 Dr. T's lecture. 10 Tree Ceremnoies. H. White called. 1.30-3.20 Downtown, ordered flowers, white buckskin pumps & white silk stockings (with cotton toes, heels & tops like Alma's). 4-5.30 Class Day march. "Strong Steps" given by '14 to '15. Read in Reading Room. Chapel. Drew class Day tickets. Wed. June 4. 9-10 Class day practice. Before lunch took dress off-campus, & got marks for 2nd semester. 1.30-2.30 Tree Ceremonies. 4.45 opening Students' Building, short exercises and reception, a beautiful building bringing the twin's big opportunity & responsibility. Dinner with H. White. 7.30 Spade presented to '14. Read in Ruskin's Sesame. Lucelia came in. Got commencement tickets. 1913 sang good-bye to 1914 and 1916, going around campus. Saw Alice's graduation present from her mother, a big diamond. Thurs. June 5. 8.15 A.M. shampoo at "Walker's", Washed some odds & ends. Wrote Mr. D.H. Maxfield, Naples. Heard from Hazel Courtney (Mr. C. is married again) and papa. Wrote letter to Aunt Vira and invitations to Uncle & Aunty Leach, Carolyn, Theckla, Lorraine Rogers, Miss Vacek, Mrs. Curtis and Mr. & Mrs. Wm Ordway. Drew money for mail. Rode Helen Clark's wheel, at her permission, to Violet farm to get peonies for Alice Hill. Tea in S.P. to meet Mrs. Hill. (Alice's mother). Dinner with Ruth Butterfield. 6 1913. Chapel. Ruth and I went to Lib. Read & talked in English Seminar room. She, like me, is over conscientious but she has good clear ideas about English & knows what she is doing. Fri. June 6. 8.30 Dr. T's last lecture. Had foot lanced. Class Day practice 10 a.m. 1.30-3 p.m. Class meeting. Downtown on Clara's wheel. 4.30-5.30 May Dance practice. Chapel. 7.30 Class Day song practice. Letters from Uncle Enoch containing $1.00 & from Aunt Jennie containing check for $25.00. Tried on white gloves & class Day dress. 7 Sun. June 88 1913. Mon. June 9.9 1913. Tues. June 10. 8.30 rehearsal. Downtown. Dressed for Class Day. Formed in Lathrop, the various parts of the procession were at least ready and we marched to the platform erected on two sides of 1909's tree in the circle, going from Lathrop out to the circle, turning to the left till we reached the tree, then our lines divided, one line going to the right half of the platform, the other to the left half. After the exercises, which passed off very nicely, were completed we marched out and I found that Claire and mama had not seen the daisy chain because people stood in front of them. Claire cried very hard & her crying touched the ladies near. Bessie Christie's mother couldn't see either. I saw the men carrying the chain off and managed to have Claire see it carried, tho' not by the girls. Introduced Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Ordway, of Milton to Papa, Mama & Claire and Mr. Gerow. Took them all to Senior Parlor and had them write in our class guest book. Walked down to Raymond gate with Mr. Gerow. Took my dear, splendid looking family down to Prexy and Mrs. Prexy's reception in the Main parlors. Agnes introduced her mother. Theresa Bain hunted up her mother and mama & Mrs. Bain, formerly Kit Smith, whom Mama hasn't see for years had a nice visit. I had Mr. & Mrs. Sutton & Trix met my family in my room & Mr. & Mrs. S. looked quite astonished. At 11.30 p.m. 1915 sang Farewell to 1913. I didn't throw down my boquet. 10 1913. Wed. June 11.Thurs. 1913. June 12.12 1913. Fri. June 13. Came down from college on the car with Mary Berkemier who was seeing her brother off on the 1 o'clock boat, the "Washington Irving" which I took. Found several V.C. girls on board. Frances & Bessie Burns, Neida and Mary, Jeanette Allen whom I spoke with during the delightful ride down. Met Mrs. Cumpson and Mrs. Allen. Just before getting off I introduced myself to Mary's brother, a theological student at , who knows the Betz family in Rochester. The Burns girls gave me a lovely American beauty rose when we parted. Got home about 8 p.m. Claire joined the Junior C.E. today. We undid the presents I found awaiting me. Sat. June 14. Downtown with mama. Bought white hat & had it trimmed with wreath of pink roses. Sun. June 15. Church. Isa 55:10,11. II Sam 3:39 and Phil. 4:13. We had a leaderless C.E. I conducted the meeting. Mon. June 16. Tues. June 17. Trunks and wheel came. $2.85 for trunks, $1.30 for wheel. Hung up clothes. Prayermeeting. 11 present. 13 1913. Wed. June 18. Mama spoke at Katonah, N.Y. Papa, Claire & I went to festival by Bessie Magie's class at the church. Thurs. June 19. Papa printing words of cantata "Daughter of Jairus". Fri. June 20. Sat. June 21. Helped papa sew the dedication programs for use tomorrow. Mrs. Lake, Mrs. Lake's sister & a guest, Del Lake & Mama & I all sewed and papa trimmed them. Sun. June 22. Our new church edifice dedicated today. 3 services. See program. Mon. June 23. Picked cherries from our little tree. Hung up clothes. Papa went to New York. Claire made a soft molasses cake. Organ recital in p.m. by Mr. Ashmall. Tues. June 24. Stayed home with Claire from this evening's service. Wed. June 25. Claire took violin lesson. Papa & I cleaned up the study. Claire's school teachers were here to tea Miss Keyler, Miss Smallstick, Miss Halstead, Miss14 1913. , Miss Bole. Some went with us to the Oratorio at the church. Thurs. June 26. Downtown to the First Church. To D.V.B.S. conference. Sent off $91.78 to Presbyterian Minister's Fund for papa. Went to Lib. Service tonight followed by reception by Session. Fri. June 27. Wrote "thank-you-for-commencement-gift" - notes. Rev. Rufus S. Green, one time Pres. of Elmira College, now an old man canvassing for "The Continent" called. George Darby and Dorothy Hillman were married tonight. The C.E. Soc. had the service tonight. A reception followed the service. The officers of both societies were in the receiving line and most all present greeted them. Each person then had pinned the name of some well known person on their backs and had to guess their identity. Worked well. Arthur's program, music & recitations was fine. Sat. June 28. Shampooed Claire's hair. Help print bulletins. Sun. June 29. S.S. met 10 A.M. was in papa's class. Eph.4:13. Other text judges 2:14-16. Mon. June 30. Set bread. Finished thank you notes. Hung up clothes. Dr. Green here to dinner. 15 1913. Tues. July 1. Baked bread. Ironed. Prayermeeting 11 out. Wed. July 2. Hot. Papa sewed his first book this year. He and I cleaned cellar. Books came i.e. (my college books 5 small boxes). Sarah Heilman called. Was down to Ida Platts in the afternoon, worked some on Claire's blue linen. Had grape juice. Mama's class organized at Disbrow's tonight. Thurs. July 3. Downtown with mama. Unpacked books. Fixed books in my book case (which was here to surprise me when I came home June 13). Fri. July 4. Mama canned pineapple. Claire attended Lois Fulcher's birthday party. Papa finished sewing his books 15 volumes. A wedding here in afternoon. Had our usual little fireworks display in evening. Sat. July 5. Downtown in A.M. Bathed for a change in afternoon instead of evening. Sun. July 6. Did not go to S.S. Church. 4 Sargents here to dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Sumner Sargent, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Sargent. Mr. Sumner Sargent was papa's S.S. teacher in Jasper. Harry is physical director in Newark of the Central High School. Nice visit. C.E. 8 out. 16 1913. Church. Ps 23:3. Luke 17:14. Mon. July 7. Worked in attic. Dr. Green here to dinner. Helped hang up clothes. Tues. July 8. Ironed. Worked on Claire's blue linen dress. Mama downtown. Wrote Aunt Jennie. Prayermeeting. 14 out. Wed. July 9. To New York with mama. Joined the "Pratt Teachers Agency" paying $2.00 and personally interviewing Mr. Wm. D. Pratt, the manager. Made my first visit to the Board rooms 156 Fifth Ave. Met Mrs. Gildersleeve who took me in to meet Mr. Alabeen who said if I would accept the position to teach in the Albequerque school he would not send out the message he was about to send to a prospective teacher. Claire & I, for fun, slept in the guest room on the third floor. Thurs. July 10. Finished Gene Stratton Porter, "The Harvester". Wrote Hazel Ware, Clara Hill, Mr. Montgomery Smith and Mr. Geo. R. Staley. Fri. July 11. Claire now washed the dishes. Mended two hours. Claire called on Helen Bush while I was downtown with Mama. 17 1913. Sat. July 12. Downtown to get Aunt Jennie's waists. Wrote Claire's invitations, delivered them with Claire. Bath in afternoon. Sun. July 13. S.S. in Papa's class. Church. Read S.S. Times. C.E. Al Clark led. Church. Mon. July 14. Hung up clothes. Worked up attic. Wrote for testimonials to Miss Yost, Mr. Ernest R. Clark & Mr. M.D. Gray. Called at Bertha Pfeifer's in p.m. Wrote for Rally Day programs. Tues. July 15. Worked in attic. Ironed. Called & embroidered at Mrs. Mudd's. Prayer meeting. Wed. July 16. Position(?) Bethlehem Pa. Cleaned. From 3.30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Claire had a lovely party for these little girls. Charlotte Davenport Alwena Kays not here Gertrude Fitzherbert Lois Fulcher " " Ethel Morrison Blanche Edwards " " Edith " Dorothy Stults " " Alice " Grace Stryker " " Beatrice Jamouneaux Wrote Pratt agency & Rev. J.A. Clewell. Papa took a picture of the girls. 18 1913. Thurs. July 17. 8.30 A.M. - 7 p.m. went with Ladies' Miss Soc. to Ellis Island. Mama got the pass from Mrs. Gildersleeve. We saw the long rows of immigrants in the receiving room on the benches, come up to the desk with their money etc., this we saw from the gallery off of which were the bunks. Then we saw the detention rooms and the dining room, being there when the immigrants came in for dinner, a motley array. After lunch we saw them met by friends. It was to this railroad room that they came after leaving the desks in the big room. Great care is taken to be sure those wishing to meet the immigrants are the proper ones. Touching it was to see to the reunions. As we left, saw someone carried to the hospital on a stretcher. Was at Ellis Island 4 hours. Then part of us went to the Statue of Liberty to the top of it. Claire, Papa & I climbed & looked out from the little windows forming the jewels in her crown. Stopped also at the Aquarium. Fri. July 18. Sewed. Clara Kilburn called. Cut pattern. Hung pictures. Sat. July 19. Mama downtown. I dug up some plantain weeds in the yard, and cleaned the porch. 19 1913. Sun. July 20. Bible class. Church Matt 14:12. C.E. Church. Matt 9:12. Mon. July 21. Hung up clothes. Walked in evening to Kilburn's. All called there. Tues. July 22. Ironed. A little sick. Mrs. Stroud here. Papa rec'd Porto Rico ticket. Cleaned cellar. Prayermeeting. Wed. July 23. Papa, Mama & I finished the attic. Wrote Baltimore Md. We four gave a little concert at the "Home for Incurables", cor. 1. Downtown. Papa bought a cap for deck wear. Thurs. July 24. Letter from Aunt Jennie. Porto Rico? (No. I say.) Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mudd, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mudd here to tea. Mr. and Mrs. Stult's unable to come. Papa printed tickets. Met Reed on the avenue. He tried a picture of the church. Fri. July 25. Letter from Ernest R. Clark, promising me a letter of recommendation, mentioning a possible position at Spencerport. I wrote him at once, took it downtown & mailed it. Embroidered Claire's dress. Mr. Gilchrist and girl, Miss McDonald were here in p.m. & mama served ice cream. Dr. Green called. 20 1913. Sat. July 26. Claire and I wrote papa a steamer letter. Saw him off from here 9 a.m. Wrote 3 letters regarding Baltimore Md. position. Pd. 3 bills. [Guidra], Moore and V.C. Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Read new Home Mission Monthly (August) through. Papa off for Porto Rico on "San Juan". Sun. July 27. S.S. mama's class. Reported two suggestions for Rally Day to Sup't. Church Reed Edwards preached. C.E. Church. Reed preached again. Asked Archie for Christmas 1912 program "Santa's Wishing Box". Mon. July 28. Downtown with mama. Bought white dress, gloves, left umbrella to be fixed. While mama sewed I read some to her. Mrs. Duesel came. 1st letter from papa. Tues. July 29. Mama & I washed. Elmer Towers here to tea. Placed my college photos in album I bought in N.Y. and pasted some. Wed. July 30. Spent 4 hrs. ironing. Downtown. Bought Life of Helen Keller for Ida's birthday & mailed it. Bought also tennis racket & 1 ball. Mrs. Duesel brought back mama's gray dress. Thurs. July 31. Finished pasting photos in album. Mama is getting ready to go. 21 1913. Fri. Aug. 1. Mama left in A.M. for Syracuse. Wrote papa. Letter from Miss Richmond, Baltimore Md. Very dark in afternoon so had to light gas at 4 p.m. Played games with Claire, Helen and Anna. Sat. Aug. 2. Wrote mama. Swept. Bathed in afternoon. Sun. Aug. 3. Claire and I went down and heard Dr. Lurk preach in First Church on "Iron Shoes for Rough Roads." Mon. Aug. 4. Washed a few things in foot tub. Claire went over to East Orange playground with the Healey children. Tues. Aug. 5. Ironed. Claire and I went downtown, took her to the Library, went through the museum upstairs, saw the children's room. She obtained a Library card of her own. Mr. White in the Lackawanna gave her a fine collection of booklets, illustrated including one on Yellowstone Park. They are a splendid travel library in themselves. Wed. Aug. 6. Claire and I called at Morrison's. I bought a S.S. picnic ticket at Cassedy's. Thurs. Aug. 7. Letters from papa. Cut out clippings from many Newark News. 22 1913. Fri. Aug. 8. Claire and I are breakfasting on Grape Nut's. Mrs. Stroud here from 9 a.m. to 2.45 p.m. !! Sat. Aug. 9. S.S. picnic at Verona Park. Claire and I there from 9.32 - 2 p.m. Then we went straight on to So. Orange to Dorothy Stults house where Claire attended her party, coming home alone. Sun. Aug. 10. Mrs. Stroud woke us up (9 a.m.) and telephoned Church. Dined at Cassedy's. Mrs. Mudd invited us over on the porch in the evening and Mr. Mudd bought country club cream. Mon. Aug. 11. Washed. Fixed sewing room some. Finished the front of Claire's blue linen dress. No mail at all. Sarah Heilman called. Tues. Aug. 12. Ironed. Letter from papa. Worked on Claire's dress. Mama came home, having visited at Syracuse, Pompey, Auburn and Marathon. Wed. Aug. 13. Finished embroidering Claire's dress. Mr. and Mrs. Rev. C.T. Shaw, of Jamestown, N.Y. called a few minutes on their way to Ocean Grove in some body else's auto. Mrs. Stroud here. I cut lawn. Mama made doughnuts.23 1913. Thurs. Aug. 14. Mama, Claire & I went to Nutley and called at Robertson's. They have moved from Hawthorne Ave. Have a lovely fruited place. Grandpa & Grandma so glad to see us. I helped Grandpa pick beans, went with him & Claire to feed the chickens. He told me that when in Pittsford he was afraid to talk to me as he did today because I was going to college. Fri. Aug. 15. Mama downtown. Claire and I called at Mrs. Prentice's and on Mr. Disbrow. Wrote 2 letters. Sat. Aug. 16. Claire and I bathed in afternoon. Returned Lib. books to Sanford Ave. station. Sun. Aug. 17. In afternoon Mama, Claire & I attended the funeral of Mr. Delos Finks at the chapel of the Munn Ave. Pres. church, East Orange. Mon. Aug. 18. Washed. Wrote papa & Auntie Leach. Warm. Finished newspapers. Darned stockings. Tues. Aug. 19. Up at 6 A.M. Ironed 5 5/12 hours. Wrote Dr. Stephens. Called at Eschenfelder's. Cut out lining. Mama made me one pair drawers. Wed. Aug. 20. Cleaned study & sewing room. Saw Dorothy's things. Loly Pop. Al. Clark here on porch. 24 1913. Thurs. Aug. 21. Cleaned four rooms. We three saw Exhibition given by Playground children at Branch Brook park. Interesting and a few numbers excellent. As we came away met Mr. Harry Sargent and Mr. . Wrote Miss Baker. Fri. Aug. 22. Cleaned downstairs. Regular thorough house cleaning. Sat. Aug. 23. Cleaned kitchen, every nook and crevice. Played tennis(?) rather ran after a tennis ball at Laura Disbrow's. Sun. Aug. 24. Heard Chas. Stetzle at First Church. Fine. Mon. Aug. 25. Got ready to go to Kingston. Downtown to the Lib. where I read awhile. Tues. Aug. 26. We three went up to Kingston on the Hudson River on the "Washington Irving." Lilian Chichester met me on the boat and told me of the sad and awful death of Miss May Monroe, our elocution teacher at Vassar who was burned to death at her summer home. Cousin Mary Van Leuven was watching for us when we got off the car. A lively old lady, a beautiful trip, a large, old fashioned roomy house, 25 1913. with a colored maid. Wed. Aug. 27. Called on Cornelia [Oughletrie] who is in a Charity Organization office across the street. Quite surprised her, had a nice visit. Cousin Mary took us out to Hurley with a carriage (hired) and driver. Called with mama at Whitney's and Treadwell's. Called at Florence Gray's not finding her. Called at Hulls, who invited me to tea tomorrow. Anna Beekman was at Cousin Mary's to tea. Thurs. Aug. 28. We three took morning train to Napanoch, where met by Cousin Gretta Bevier and Cousin (Mrs.) Jule DeWitt. Saw Gretta's lot, old home, "The Lost Corner". Called on Mrs. Hornbeck. Had dinner at hotel. Then we all drove in carriage to Fantinekill monument on way to Ellenville, erected to memory of Bevier and Sox family massacred by Indians. Mr. drove for us, & we sang some. He is an old man but he can sing well & his eyes are bright. Tho' well educated he has not used it. As he drove us to the station he said you haven't got to go now when we're just beginning to get acquainted. If you'd stay longer I'd take you here and there. He was loth to say good bye to us. We walked around the reformatory walk till train time. 26 1913. Dressed for dinner at Hull's where I had a nice visit with the two girls. Ethel just today got a position to teach History in the Kingston High School. Met Gladys' fiance, Mr. . Fri. Aud. 29. After a nice fish dinner, left Kingston on the 1.25 p.m. boat "Washington Irving". Took in the East side of the Hudson going down. A beautiful trip and a delightful visit. Am proud to claim Cousin Mary as a relative. It was inspiring to see her promptly after breakfast conduct a family worship. One morning Annie the cook, came in. Sat. Aug. 30. Called at Mr. Chandler's. Sun. Aug. 31. Bertha Pfeifer and I went down to hear Mr. Chas. Stitzle at the First Church. Fine. Had quite a talk with Mr. Stults at his home about improving the appearance of this West End & So. Orange Av. corner. Sept. 1. Mon. Washed. Cut lawn. Phoned Pier 35. All went over to Brooklyn and met papa, getting there in time to see the boat come in and dock. He hurt his wrist before leaving P.R. and my aid in helping carry his heavy suitcase was welcome. Got home 8.45 p.m. He carried without breakage his27 1913. photographic plates, guava jelly and a piece of pottery. Brought us each a wooden bowl of "lignum vita" wood, very pretty. Tues. Sept. 2. Ironed for four hours. Papa developed several negatives and I helped him wash them. Lay down and slept from 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. Wed. Sept. 3. Claire and I ate breakfast alone. Papa showed me on his Porto Rico map where he went. Sewed. Rec'd Prexy's address. Mr. Mause her [here]. Committee meeting to see about Dorothy's reception met mama here 8 p.m. Mr. Stroud called. A lovely basket of peaches was delivered from Miss Kilburn. Thurs. Sept. 4. Washed many cans for mama to use in canning. Read. Fri. Sept. 5. Went downtown to Fulcher's and to city Hall. In the evening attended wedding of Mr. Andrew Gilchrist and Miss Margaret McDonald, the first in our new church. Sat. Sept. 6. Sun. Sept. 7. Taught a class of little boys. Elvin Axt etc. in the Primary Dep't. A nice time with them. Led C.E. 28 1913. Mon. Sept. 8. Washed. Claire got three goldfish today, a present from Mrs. Stults. Tues. Sept. 9. Ironed. A fine prayermeeting. Wed. Sept. 10. Called with mama at Cassedy's, Demarest's, Brinkerhoff's, Devoe's & Block's. At night went to Church and helped direct Rally Day night letter invitations. Thurs. Sept. 11. Went to Caldwell in afternoon and met Mr. as he was leaving school. Called at Stults. Fri. Sept. 12. Downtown, looked around, went to city hall. Am finding out who owns the property on the corner of So. Orange Av. & West End Av., and West End Av. & Howell Place expecting with this knowledge to be able to do something before next season to improve the looks of there two corner lots. Set bread. Sat. Sept. 13. Cleaned pantry shelves. Fixed bread. Made a 3 layer chocolate frosting cake. Sun. Sept. 14. Church. Rally Day. C.E. discussion after S.S. Walked down with Bertha. C.E. Church. Wrote Gladys and Ida. 29 1913. Mon. Sept. 15. To Caldwell 9.15 A.M. - 12 to personally interview the members of the Board of Education. The man at the station told me "As far as I am concerned you can consider yourself hired already". Interviewed a teacher, Miss , before accosting the Board. In Mr. furniture store met a young lady who like myself wished to see Mr. . We introduced ourselves, both candidates for the same position. Sat down & talked college while a third young woman passed by. Miss Savage of Radcliff & I went into a drug store and had some refreshment together, then by & by came to Newark together, each wishing the other success in case she herself failed to get the position. Tues. Sept. 16. Mama made paper chrysanthemums for Ladie's Aid. Ironed some. Prayermeeting. Called before 8 p.m. at Tillie's and Chloe's. Wed. Sept. 17. Decorated church in a.m. and p.m. with vines and salvias, assisting mama. Meeting of nominating com. for C.E. at 8 p.m. preceding reception for Dorothy and Reed, excellently carried out, mama managing the whole thing. Thurs. Sept. 18. Sold 5 bricks ice-cream. W.C.T.U. Essex Co. convention in Vailsburg M.E. Church. Heard mama30 1913. recite "The Leper" in the a.m. Mr. Verinder, Mr. Ryall and Miss wells here. Set bread. Fri. Sept. 19. Baked bread. Ladies' Miss. meeting. Mr. & Mrs. Ed. Smith called in p.m. Papa helped me fix my "powders" for Reed and Dorothy (jokes done up in papers like powders). Wrote each of them a steamer letter. Sat. Sept. 20. To New York in A.M. with Mama to see Reed & Dorothy off on S.S. Tenadores for S. America. Mr. Evan Edwards took our picture, about 25 of us were there and we were the last ones on the dock, watching till we could no longer clearly see the white of their handkerchiefs waved to us. "Entre Nous" in p.m. Sun. Sept. 21. Church. Psalm 86. S.S. Had a class of 10 Junior Dep't boys, (Will Weinrich has had it) not one of whom I knew. Wedding here after S.S. Mr. Ryall & Miss Wells who just came over last week from England. They have been furnishing their home this week-end & are to live at Brooklyn. C.E. Church Acts 9:6. Mon. Sept. 22. Clipped Thurs. Fri. & Sat's. paper. Phoned Roselle Park N.J.!! Stung!! Wrote Albany. Sent Lucy Penniman's present. Downtown with mama. Saw Bertha Pfeifer, she can't be Pres. of C.E. Got Sadie 31 1913. Morris to go down to C.E. with me at Central Church. A new society was admitted, and Italian C.E. Of 30 total members, 22 were present & the young men were three times as many as the young ladies. Tues. Sept. 23. Did entire ironing. Deliberately went on an intellectual debauch and began "The Scarlet Letter". Prayermeeting. Wed. Sept. 24. I set bread. Papa & Mama went to Forest Hill Ch. Downtown with Mama who had her picture taken at Sol Young's Broad, in evening dress. Thurs. Sept. 25. Cleaned my room and bathroom, swept stairs. Worked 40 Min. in attic. Buttermilk. Worked on yoke waist. C.E. business meeting. Grand. Mr. Emmet Roche elected Pres., Chloe Thielman Vice Pres., Tillie Aschenfelder Sec'y., Ida Platts Treas., Will Weinrich Cor. Sec'y. Constitution read & adopted (Papa drew it up). Fri. Sept. 26. Ran vacuum cleaner. Threw many clippings, sorted and classified the rest. Heard from Caldwell not me. Eggs came, a crate from Jasper, N.Y. Mama & I went to Forest Hill reception, had fine time. I wore blue silk, white gloves, evening coat - (new brown hat with three tips)!32 1913. Met Mrs. McDowell. Also Mr. Fred Darley's sister, Mrs. Tucker. Also Edith Lusk. Fixed face with pumice stone and finished yoke waist before going to F.H. Sat. Sept. 27. Mended. Called at Pfeifer's. Sun. Sept. 28. Papa's Birthday. Coffee too strong gave me a headache & temporarily upset me. Lay down & went to a.m. church late, in time for the sermon. Arthur tells me I am on the Prayermeeting Com. Prepared for C.E. which I attended. Church. Mon. Sept. 29. Downtown. Mama resat for her picture. Sorted Mama's missionary leaflets & put them in order. Tues. Sept. 30. Ironed some. Mrs. Gildersleeve in a letter to mama spoke very nicely to her about me. Am reading by Father Chiniquy, "The Priest, the Woman and the Confessional." Attended a meeting at "Sacred Heart Church" in interests of a Vailsburgh playground. The ministers & others spoke, Helen and Blanche Edwards went up with me. Wed. Oct. 1. Helped papa district his parish map. Mama entertained her S.S. in the evening sewing 33 1913. ice-cream and cake. They read "All a mistake" through. Those present were Elmer Towers, Jack Monteith, Pierson Little, Will Weinrich, Margaret Haber, Laura Disbrow, Rodney Disbrow, Harold Heitman, Walter Lee, Minnie Carle. Thurs. Oct. 2. A Child Welfare worker called to get a canvasser to sell a book. Rec'd letter from Dr. Sairtz, who recently had me recommended to him by Mrs. Gildersleeve. Put my bureau drawer in order. Chloe here(?) Fri. Oct. 3. Took Claire down to Commercial Wharf to see the Convict Ship raised from Sydney, Australia, harbor. We saw it all thoroughly. Preparatory service. Ida & Bertha cleverly kidnapped me by Totem's so Bertie and Frank could be alone. Sat. Oct. 4. Went with Claire for her violin lesson at Mr. Ross Morisens Norwood St. The two children had a great time with me and B. Jamouneaux. The Entre Nous met at Margaret Towers. Had a mock wedding. Helens Kemp & Edwards. Elmer dressed as a Butter served. Helen E. was comical & sang!! Sun. Oct 5. Church. S.S. C.E. Chloe. Church. Communion this morning. 34 1913. Mon. Oct. 6. Read the "News". Hung up clothes. Helped get dinner. S.S. executive meeting at church. I listened. Plans made for a Teachers meeting & speeches soon. Went up with Chloe & visited Choral Club a few minutes. Tues. Oct. 7. Ironed everything in 3 1/4 hrs. Cut paper flowers at church in mama's place for Ladie's Aid. Told Miss Bingham of taking notes at S.S. convention to report later. Prayermeeting. Invited "Al" for Friday. Wed. Oct. 8. Read Missionary Education prospectus. Mama ordered Miss. books. II. Barnes - "The New America" I. Henry - "Some Immigrant Neighbors" I. - Old Country Hero Stories I. - Picture Stories Attended S.S. convention at Central church. The speeches by The-Story-Hour-for-Children woman and by Mrs. R were the best. Second church wedding in our new church tonight Lowe-Reusch. Miss R. looked beautiful in veil etc. had one bridesmaid. The ushers were in dress suits and the occasion was as it should be. Miss Miller, a city missionary living at the Pres. Deaconers home, where I met her, came to me and re-introduced herself. Miss R. belonged to a girl's club of which Miss Miller has charge & invited the club to the wedding. Papa was invited to the reception at the West Club House. 35 1913. Thurs. Oct. 9. Shredded wheat luncheon at church 1 p.m. served by Miss Marx. The first one I attended & I enjoyed it. Spoke of how nice a reference Library for Immigration would be, this to Miss Kilburn. Mama & I called on Stuyvesant Ave. at Garabrant's, Bash's, Bessie Magie's, Dorothy Darby's and Legler's. Fri. Oct. 10. Prepared for the boys (young men) whom mama had to tea in the evening Arthur & Harry Halsal, Irving Monroe, Al Clark, Frank Platts. Harry Fox couldn't come. Dandy supper (as usual) and a fine evening. Sat. Oct. 11. Helped print bulletins. Went with Claire for her lesson. Read part of "Immigrant Neighbors". Mended corset & brassiere. N.B. Put sleeves in waist. Grandma Platts died last night. Sun. Oct. 12. Church. Saw Mr. Prentice at home about Mission study. In S.S. spoke for & about Mission classes. C.E. Church. Drew book from S.S. Lib. Rec'd envelope from Miss Margaret Kilburn containing a V. Mon. Oct. 13. Ordered 6 vol. Immigration Reference Lib. $5.00 [reg. $9.50] Mary Antin - The Promised Land Francis E. Clark - Old Homes of New Americans Fred J. Harkin - The Immigrant - An Asset & a Liability. Peter Roberts - The New Immigration36 1913. Steiner Ed. A. - The Broken Wall. Warne, Frank Julian - The Immigrant Invasion also 1 copy each @ $.25 Mrs. L. A. Dimock - Comrades from Other lands John R. Henry - Some Immigrant Neighbors - Old Country Hero Stories. Clipped the "News". Claire came in sorry from school and cried about her school work and her violin practicing. Put my missionary clippings in order. Counted time for Claire. Heard Dan Crawford lecture. Fine. He is a most unusual and original speaker, very lively forceful and constantly doing what you don't expect. I went down with mama. Staid to reception. Met a Mr. , to whom Miss Bingham introduced me. Said Mama "Perhaps I do something else besides fix clippings" & she is quite right. Tues. Oct. 14. Ironed 3 hrs. Went to Mrs. Platts funeral. Wrote to Alma and Marion. Called on prospective Miss. class members on Isabella & Columbia. Prayermeeting. Mr. Thompson "We must find where they get out & mend the fence". Wed. Oct. 15. Read half of "Oowikapun", also read some in "Among the Pimas." Letter from Harriet. At Junior C

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