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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: [1922-10-19]
Text: [19 oct 1922] Thursday night Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I shall proceed to answer questions. The weather is very cold here, so cold that I think you might call up Paulson's and tell them tonsend my fur coat now instead of the end of the month. I can use it almost any evening, and it does more good here than at home. I have played no golf. I haven't had time. I have played some tennis, and gone walking a lot. We walked Lucy out to the cider mill Tuesday, Helen and I walked back...
Show more[19 oct 1922] Thursday night Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I shall proceed to answer questions. The weather is very cold here, so cold that I think you might call up Paulson's and tell them tonsend my fur coat now instead of the end of the month. I can use it almost any evening, and it does more good here than at home. I have played no golf. I haven't had time. I have played some tennis, and gone walking a lot. We walked Lucy out to the cider mill Tuesday, Helen and I walked back from the station yesterday after she left, and I went out to the cider mill this afternoon again with a class-mate, Grace McGuire, to be definite. I wear the arch-supports. my feet haven't hurt once since I am back. I hope you told Mrs. Jackson why I hadn't written to Helen. There has been one thing or another to keep me busy ever since the first week, but I think I'll get adjusted this week-end again, and have clear sailing from now on. The Yale lock is on. My room looks very cozy. I am thoroughly pleased with it. My shades were put up today. The window-seat came today. it is too long, but they will fix it for me. I wrote to Albert Kabet Monday and had an answer today. At present our chairman has it. I will mail it to you when i get it back. There is nothing doing. He personally wants it, and so do last year's team, but the faculty committee, Mr. Brown, chairman, are opposed to it because they "fear the wits of the campus". Oh, higher education!! I should like to go to the Yale, game, Pete--if there is noone else you want to take. Lucy and her Father plan to be in New York about a month, she is going to let me know when they decide on their date of leaving. Meanwhile she begged me to come down for a week-end, and I told her that if she is in New York the week-end of that game, that I would stay with them. I don't want to stay in Princeton Sunday--you go there to see your friends, and not to worry with me. I don't mind going back to N. Y. along if I am seen off on the train. Don't you think it is all right for me to do so? Now, as far as my wanting to go is concerned. My heart isn't set on it or anything like that. I simply mean that if you are going and don't want to take anyone else, I shall be pleased to go with you, but I don't want you under any consideration to go just so that I should get there. You know what I think of foot-ball. It is simply the gaity and air of celebration of the occasion that I enjoy seeing. You mentioned Helen and Thanksgiving, Mother. I should still like to go to Baltimore, if nothing interferes. I couldprobably stay in N. Y. over-night and go Thursday morning, and leave Sunday noon. But that is as yet very far off. I did not get my copy of "Upstream", Mother, and I certainly should have by this time. Could you call Miss Downy up about it? I exchanged "The memoirs of Marie Louise" for it. I enjoyed Lucy's visit, although it was quite a time-consumer. We say her off on the 4:13. She seems much better than when I left home. I entertained her by taking her to Tolerance class with me yesterday and letting her watch me be Socrates in a trial of said gentleman. Why those in charge considered me fit for him I don't know. We also had the trial of a Salem witch and the trial of a conscientious objector. I was asked to come to a reception tomorrow afternoon to meet the fourth Oxford man, the Hindu, who is going to speak informally in the Faculty parlor on conditions in India. I think it ought to be interesting. Well, the bell rang five minutes ago, and I have therefore cheated for five minutes, so good-night. Love, Fannie
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1921-10-18
Text: October 18, 1921 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I have five minutes to pound until the ten o'clock bell. I was very glad to get the telegram from you today, Mother, and also to hear about Father in your two letters. Is he a well-behaved patient? Pete, I don't know what is not clear to you about the games. I wrote to you as explicitly as possible, saying that I would go Princeton with you on the fifth, but that debate is on the twelfth and that I therefore could not go to New Haven....
Show moreOctober 18, 1921 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I have five minutes to pound until the ten o'clock bell. I was very glad to get the telegram from you today, Mother, and also to hear about Father in your two letters. Is he a well-behaved patient? Pete, I don't know what is not clear to you about the games. I wrote to you as explicitly as possible, saying that I would go Princeton with you on the fifth, but that debate is on the twelfth and that I therefore could not go to New Haven. I am going to try out for debate and I ought to have a good chance of making it, therefore it would be ridiculous for me to say that I would go with you and then probably not be able to leave college. That is what I wrote to you on Sunday. i did not care to mention debate in a telegram going from the messenger room in college because it would sound too conceited. I thought that the understanding was all along that I would go the Princeton Harvard game on the fifth, but not to the Yale game on the twelfth. I am very, very sorry to have caused you any trouble. Why not take Grace to the Yale game? I had a busy day today, lots of work, two hours of lab, and a class meeting. I also had my conference with Miss Ellory. It was most interesting--if I were given to hyperbole, I might also say inspiring, but it was not quite that. She went over my topic breifly, told me that it was excellent, and that unless she was very much mistaken I had gotten a great deal of pleasure out of doing it. She was not mistaken. I thought myself it was a good topic. She said, moreover, that unless she was very much mistaken again, i got a great deal of pleasure out of things of the mind, and out of using my mind. She said that she realized she knew me only slightly, but that she had listened to me debate on several occasions and realized that I had a very logical mind, etc. The funny part of it is that she is so extremely scholarly that she is not given to flattery. I almost popped. She asked me about my outside interests, my plans for after college, which unfortunately I could not tell her anything about, and just what I wanted to get out of the course. Among others things we decided that I was to follow as my line of side-work and year's topic the literary movement of the period, thus keeping up my French. Don't you think that is a good idea? She then proceeded to show the various ways I could connect that course with my English one. It was a great half hour. The cold medicine came special from Welsh's. Thank you for it. I had a box here--I guess I did not make that clear, but I wanted either another box or the prescription for future use. Love, Fannie [Over]I am sending my laundry - Wed. AA.M. there is a not in it - darn, not mend, woolen stocks. they are bad but will do for hiking, golf, etc. Also <darn> mend leg of flannel pajamas
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1921-10-17
Text: October 17, 1921 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: It was beautiful day, and my cold much better, so I couldn't make myself default. The result was that Mary Hurst and I went out after fifth hour, made connections at Market Street, played our match, got a lift all the way to college with a member of the club whom she knows quite well, and got dinner out here. We got a caddy on the sixth hole, and that helped matters a lot. On the third hole when I drove my ball it went shooting off to the...
Show moreOctober 17, 1921 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: It was beautiful day, and my cold much better, so I couldn't make myself default. The result was that Mary Hurst and I went out after fifth hour, made connections at Market Street, played our match, got a lift all the way to college with a member of the club whom she knows quite well, and got dinner out here. We got a caddy on the sixth hole, and that helped matters a lot. On the third hole when I drove my ball it went shooting off to the left in the rough, my club-head straight ahead, and the shalf staid with me. I don't know yet how it broke, but it surely splintered up. Fortunately her driver suited me and I got wonderful, long drives with it. I had my usual story at first, I was very stiff and played miserably. She had me four down at the end of the eight, I won the ninth, so that I was three down at the end of the first half. But the professional had told us that no tournament had ever yet been played in halves and that we would have to start at the beginning today and play eighteen. I started to play a dandy game on the tneth, so that at the end of the sixteenth we were even, at the end of the seventeenth I was one down, at the end of the eighteenth, on which I lost a ball but had a wonderful long put, all even. The nineteenth we played in the dark, literally. We went in the general direction of our balls, and happened to find them. She blew up, and I had a five, which is bogie. So I won the match on the nineteenth hole. I sure did enjoy it. I made the second nine in forty-eight.--Which is very good. The only other V. C.ite who has beaten that is Lucille MacAllister, whom I play next, and who will defeat me. She is easily the best player in college. She is aid to play consistently from forty-five to fifty-two. Here's hoping for luck. There are only four left in the tournament, L. M., Miss Thallon, Jean May, and myself. If I were only in the upper bracket and played one of the other two, I would have a very good chance of winning and then could have the satisfaction of lasting till the finals. It was great fun today, and I feel like good work tonight. I call that pretty good time we made. I am not keen about Jean Jacques and his Contrat Social in French. I always labored under the delusion that I could read French with as much ease as English, but I guess that applies only to novels and drama and newspapers. I got hold of the English translation today, and it was quite a relief. I have almost finished it, and cannot say that I hand the gentleman too much for his theories of government. They were an improvement of his period of government, but otherwise pretty peculiar. Among other things, he things he proves rather logically, that a sparsely settled territory is the one over which tyranny can get a hand, while in a thicklysettled one this is impossible, and there will be democracy. But I suppose if you are particularly interested, you can read it yourselves! Miss Ellory certainly is interesting, but she can work you like a horse. So can Miss Wylie, for that matter. We got our Psych quizes back today. Mine was marked, "Good". I think that means B. I travelled in bad luck. One of the four questions was about the pysiology of the brain and that came in the lecture that I cut on New Year's Day. I borrowed someone's notes, but that did not give me any clear distinctions, and so on the quiz I gave all the dope I knew, and at least fifteen lines were marked, "True, but irrelevant". They are to be based on introspection as well as reading, that threfore cuts out dreams for me right away because I hardly ever dream. I think I will take Emotions, not that I am emotional, but that I am not a bit imaginative. It is supposed to be a forty-hour topic, but people usually begin it just before Christmas. My intentions at present are good----- Beatrice Bishop, '23 debate chairman, came up to me in the libe today to urge me to sign up for debate. I simply neglected doing so. It is interesting to note that she induced her honorable roommate, Phyllis Harman, to begin her committee. It is amusing in the light of all the slurring remarks she made all last year about debating. I have a conference with Miss Ellory tomorrow on my topic. Some time I will tell you a joke about that conference. I appreciated you telegram very much, Mother. It was here when I got back this evening. This letter is addressed to you, particularly, Father. When people have operations, they can always be the particular people to whom the letters are written. Its length was for your sake, too, Father, because I know that even if I wrote A. B. C. D., you would enjoy it. Foolish Father! I certainly hope you are as comfy as you can be, and that you will get better in a hurry. Has K. I. asked anything about me, Mother? Pete, I thought I had answered you definitely sometime ago about the game. i suppose you understand from yesterdays letter that I shall go to Princeton with you and not to Yale. I am sorry to have caused you any trouble. Your reading to Dave of my description of the Poughkeepsie Temple must have amused him, because today I got a letter from him describing his experiences in Boston as a ringer for mine.I enjoyed it very much on first reading but more on second and third, because by repitition and by guessing from the context I was able to decipher some of the previously illgible words. You and he certainly have the handwriting of the brainy, Pete. Love, Fannie He called my description Irvin Cobbian, and I hadn't meant to be funny! Think what it might have been if my intentions had been such!
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1920-10-17
Text: I forgot to mail this last night, so will not write again today, as I shall be very busy.

Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 10/17/19
Text: October 17, 1919. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I got a long letter from Emily today. It is my private opinion that the standard of work at Wilson College, Cambersburg, Pa. and at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. are two different things. No wonder Vassar does not accept a transfer from there without exams. She told me about her work and her marks without bragging--simply in a tone of amusement. She gets A's on recitations and exams and seems to be the head of most of her classes....
Show moreOctober 17, 1919. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I got a long letter from Emily today. It is my private opinion that the standard of work at Wilson College, Cambersburg, Pa. and at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. are two different things. No wonder Vassar does not accept a transfer from there without exams. She told me about her work and her marks without bragging--simply in a tone of amusement. She gets A's on recitations and exams and seems to be the head of most of her classes. At high school she got B's and C's. That is one more letter to answer! By the way, I probably won't get a letter off tomorrow as I think we leave early in the morning and get back late in the afternoon, too late for the mail. I am looking forward to a good time. I expect to ask my advisor to go off campus for supper Sunday. It is customary to do something for them--some people just have them to their campus building, but my opinion is that that looks a little cheap. You would enjoy watching me try to blow myself gracefully. I have made a resolution. I expect to do my monday's work today, as there will be no working tomorrow and Sunday I want to work on my special topic in history which is due the Tuesday after your week-end here, Father and I don't want to have to work those few days. It is a gorgeous day, so i don't know how my plan will work out. I expec[sic] to spend considerable part of the afternoon waiting in the doctor's office to have the strap taken off my ankle. I don't believe I wrote about it when I was using carbon paper, so for your information, Pete, I trained it, not sprained, though. It does not hurt a bit--it was great fun getting out of the chapel. I like history very much now--I don't know what Miss Thallon thinks about it, though. I think she thinks the whole class is pretty stupid. I like her, too. I also had Latin this morning. I asked Miss Bourne for about five minutes of her time, and I am to go to her room after chapel tonight. I want to talk this Latin business over with her. I don't like the way it is going--particularly the way she decorated my prose paper with red ink. Of course every body's else was decorated, too, but I am not used to doing as everybody else does. I went over the French paper with Mlle. Champy Yesterday. She was very nice about it, she said she was glad that someone took the interest to ask her about the corrections, also she was sure that I was going to be one of her best pupils. We had our fourth hygiene lecture today. I am beginning to appreciate you, Mother. I don't mean beginning to--I mean more than ever. I cannot imagine why she tells us the simple things she does unless it is that she does not expect us to know them.I just got back from the doctor's office. The ankle has not hurt a but, and if the thing had happened at home I would not have thought of it again. She put more arica on and bandaged it again. The swelling is gone and it does not hurt, so I don't know what the big idea is. She was not crazy about my going to Mohonk, but she said it would probably not hurt it. If the think hurt, I would absolutely not go. I know that sometimes sprained ankles are cured by walking on them, so I feel perfectly safe in going when nothing is the matter. Mother, don't send the knitting needles till you send a bunch of laundry again. There is absolutely no hurry, in fact I don't imagine I will get time to knit. When you do sent them, send the large ones, the medium size ones, and the smallest canes next to the sock size. I can take my choice then, also a crotchet needle. They are all together in the cretonne knitting bag. Love, [Fannie]
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1922-10-16
Text: October 16, 1922 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: There aint nothin new today neither, except that I have a headache. I always get one when we have a written, as I did in Ec just now. It certainly was dumb. I was indignant at being thus bored for fifty minutes. Lucy has not yet wired what time she will arrive, in spite of the fact that she said on the phone yesterday morning that she would look up the trains and wire me immediately. I get in a pretty good day's work yesterday. Love, Fannie

Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1921-10-16
Text: October 16, 1921 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I can't quite make out the conundrum of getting a five pound box of Reymer's assorted best candy with your card in it, Mother, addressed to me and sent from Woodmere. The only think I could think of was that you sent it to Aunt Bessie for New Year's and that they didn't want it and sent it to to me. At any rate my friends were enjoying it last night. What is the big idea? You have been asking me how I have been feeling. I...
Show moreOctober 16, 1921 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I can't quite make out the conundrum of getting a five pound box of Reymer's assorted best candy with your card in it, Mother, addressed to me and sent from Woodmere. The only think I could think of was that you sent it to Aunt Bessie for New Year's and that they didn't want it and sent it to to me. At any rate my friends were enjoying it last night. What is the big idea? You have been asking me how I have been feeling. I hate to think that my mind is so easily influenced that what a doctor says can make me feel better, but after I had been back a few days I began to feel much better than I have felt at college for two years. I think it probably is that I was better this summer than I thought I was but had nothing to compare the way I felt with, whereas this year I can compare things to last year. At any rate, it is a wonderful satisfaction. However, I have had a cold for almost a week now. It started out by waking up on Tuesday minus my voice, and by degress it went to my head and chest. The cold medicine didn't do any good. I gave it a fresh-air cure Thursday and Friday, but that didn't help any, so yesterday I went to the doctor, I mean the day before yesterday. She painted my nose and throat and gave me some medicine. Yesterday it was in my ears and throat, so I stayed in bed all day and staid warm. It is much better today, just an ordinary cold, so I am no longer worried about it. I am only one of the five hundred others in college who have colds. It is pretty hard to escape a cold epidemic around here. Anyhow, I think I would rather have that than what fifty people in Lathrop got as a result of the salad they had one dinner, bad tomaine poisoning. I was afraid it would turn into group, and that is why I took such good care of myself yesterday. I haven't had any fever, so i guess it isn't that. The bad part of it is all over, so don't worry. When you get this letter, it will be all over. Unless I am much better tomorrow, I will have to default. I am afriad to risk rushing out to the links and getting overheated. Your long letter was certainly interesting, Pete. I hope you didn't read Dave about the German and the Russian congregations. You don't have to bicker with me for a month about the games. If you had concentrated your information into one letter you wouldn't have had to bicker at all. I shall be charmed to go to the Princeton game with you. Interclass debate isthe fifteenth. The subject was announced yesterday, "Resolved that Freshman Requirements Should be Modified". I am not thrilled by its interest, but it is good practice for intercollegiate, so I think i shall try out. I rather imagineI will make it. Therefore I cannot leave college that week-end. It stands as follows, therefore: I shall be pleased to fo to the game with you November eightth[sic], but cannot leave college November fifteenth. I hope that it is explicit enough. As to the fact that Maggie, I judge it was Maggine, accepted so readily may I venture to suggest that if you would like to take her down to Princeton too, you may do so. I would gladly sacrifice myself for her sake! Don't do anything for a humble sister out of a sense of duty. I hate to be the object of charity. Speaking of charity, I got the subscription pledge for the H. U. C. dormitory fund. How much should I give--$10? R. S. V. P. Also, don't forget to answer about the endowment fund. I know that I didn't send my laundry for two weeks, but I am running close on handkercheifs and think it would be wise if you would send the dozen that Cousin Pauline gave me, Mother. I left them in the box next to my bed when I went away. you can send them in the laundry. I am going to make you happy this evening and take Eleanor Wolf out for a walk and then to the Waffle Shop for supper. That is the next best attention to Mohonk, I guess. Those who went yesterday certainly had a perfect day. I guess that will be enough for today. Love, Fannie Jane Rothschild almost over came me with attention yesterday She went off campus and brought me some food in the middle of the afternoon, and when I thoughtlessly remarked that I had starved myself all day and was fiendishly hungry.
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1921-10-16
Text: October 16, 1921 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: It is Sunday night, and this is my Monday's letter. There is nothing much to tell you, except that I didn't get anything done this morning, as I was too dopy from my cold, but I felt better this afternoon and worked the whole time. I am reading "Le Contrat Social" in French for French Rev and it is pretty deep to say the least. I had to waste a lot of time getting books in the libe, too. I took Eleanor Wolfe to the Lodge for...
Show moreOctober 16, 1921 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: It is Sunday night, and this is my Monday's letter. There is nothing much to tell you, except that I didn't get anything done this morning, as I was too dopy from my cold, but I felt better this afternoon and worked the whole time. I am reading "Le Contrat Social" in French for French Rev and it is pretty deep to say the least. I had to waste a lot of time getting books in the libe, too. I took Eleanor Wolfe to the Lodge for supper. She is more or less of a minus quantity, I think--although she may improve on acquaintance. She asked to be remembered to you, Mother. She strikes me as having nothing in particular to like about her and nothing in particular to dislike, either. I found the encolsed post-card in my coat pocket, Pete. All of which reminds me that your birthday present to me came and was very much appreciated. They are very beautiful pictures particularly the one which is not the Tiger. I am not sure enough of what it is to mention it any other way. They are really very beautiful. Love, Fannie
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1920-10-16
Text: October 16, 1920. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: A very unusual thing happened this morning--I slept till eight thirty. I worked most of the morning and was able to do two days assignments in Spanish and in Ec. I am going to the Libe now to do the rest of my English reading for Monday, and to write the Ec paper on Pittsburgh. I had planned to start next week's history topic today, but i don't think that I will get to it. I am going for a walk later in the afternoon with Louise...
Show moreOctober 16, 1920. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: A very unusual thing happened this morning--I slept till eight thirty. I worked most of the morning and was able to do two days assignments in Spanish and in Ec. I am going to the Libe now to do the rest of my English reading for Monday, and to write the Ec paper on Pittsburgh. I had planned to start next week's history topic today, but i don't think that I will get to it. I am going for a walk later in the afternoon with Louise Hayford, on of my Freshman neighbors and a very nice kid. Our stunt party was very successful last night, one of the best ever given in Davidson, according to the opinion of the night watchman. I was supposed to be an animal, and I forgot to give the matter any consideration until after chapel. So I speedily covered up from head to foot in brown wrapping paper and hung my fur down my back, covering my whole head with it and tying the legs around my neck. It was a very impromptu costume, to say the least, but at least people got the idea that I was some sort of furry animal. After the party we danced. It is the first time I have danced fro[sic] a perfect age, but I don't feel any the worse for it today. I read in the libe most of yesterday afternoon and wasted considerable time trying to find the desired stories in the desired books. It is maddening, to say the least, when you have to waste time like that. I am going off campus for breakfast with Helen Jackson tomorrow morning. I hope I can profit by the opportunity and sleep late. Helen went to Mohonk with her advisor today, It is a wonderful day for the trip. Love, Fannie
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 10/16/19
Text: October 16, 1919. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: Lester, you have a sense of humor like a fish. The letter which I called informational was of the "Got up, washed, went to bed" type. There is not much new to report. Mlle. Champy made a bunch of corrections on a paper which I did not get the point, so I go over to her room at five-thirty to find out about it. Might as well let the old lady know that I want to learn something, outside of getting marks. If I ever lost sight of the...
Show moreOctober 16, 1919. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: Lester, you have a sense of humor like a fish. The letter which I called informational was of the "Got up, washed, went to bed" type. There is not much new to report. Mlle. Champy made a bunch of corrections on a paper which I did not get the point, so I go over to her room at five-thirty to find out about it. Might as well let the old lady know that I want to learn something, outside of getting marks. If I ever lost sight of the fact that you don't come to college for marks, I am being reminded of it every day. We are to have a lecture on Freshman English by Miss Wylie on Monday. The purpose is to make us realize the value of the course and what we are to get out of it. The following day Freshman English is to be redivided. Here is where I go into the booby question. I know that is what Miss Buck thinks of me. She is so indefinite that I have no been able to reveal any breat brilliancy in class. This letter was interrupted by the arrical of a long letter from Mlle. Douteau. She said she decided to intend to reveal to me her grand secret. Did she tell you when she spoke with you that she was engaged, and that the only reason she came back to America for a year was on account of the high cost of living in France. I must write to her--if I ever get the time. We are to have a Math quizz on Monday. Lester, about the seal. I certainly don't object to a second-hand one if it is not as old as Nassau Hall. I am looking forward eagerly to going to Mohonk. I imagine we will have one peach of a time. I just discovered now (you understand that this letter is being written in sections), that I am going over to Raymond to dinner tonight. One of our Freshman wanted a guest. You know we are allowed to have a guest from a different hall provided we send someone to that hall. So I volunteered to go. I guess Lucy and I will sit at the Freshman table and that will give me a good chance to get to know some other Freshies. Otherwise there is nothing new. Love, [Fannie]
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1920-10-15
Text: October 15, 1920 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: The Chamber of Commerce pamphlets came today. They are exactly what I want. Thank you very much. The Post Office has requested, Pete, and I have mentioned it several times before, that we have our room numbers and not our post-office boxes put on our mail, inasmuch as the numbers of the boxes are for our convenience, and the post-office side of the boxes are marked with the hall room numbers. However, for you convenience, in case you get mixes...
Show moreOctober 15, 1920 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: The Chamber of Commerce pamphlets came today. They are exactly what I want. Thank you very much. The Post Office has requested, Pete, and I have mentioned it several times before, that we have our room numbers and not our post-office boxes put on our mail, inasmuch as the numbers of the boxes are for our convenience, and the post-office side of the boxes are marked with the hall room numbers. However, for you convenience, in case you get mixes and put 402 instead of 403 I will get the letter anyhow, inasmuch as those two numbers happen to chare boxes. Last night disappeared into nothing. I came home from chappel and had just startedto work when I was interuppted by the infant prodigy of the class who had had ten A's up to date. Just why that variety should be attracted to me is beyond my comprehension, but she came on a friendly visit. Then I went to the inform, and had to wait a half hour for Dr. B. That is the first time that is happened, but of course cannot be helped. I met Helen Jackson in the hall as I was coming back. She had just been up to see me. She will be here till Tuesday. I then proceeded to talk to her for a half hour. I ate with her and friend Jeanette in Main at noon today. I then proceeded to finish my history topic. That took a good hour. Then I went to bed and snoozed. I read Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde this morning in connection with my English work. It is funny that I never read it before. I am going over to the libe this afternoon to do some more reading. It is a gorgeous day and the first hockey game is coming off, but I have a lot to fo and I don't want to leave it all till the last minute. Besides which, our stunt party comes off tonight, so that means no work. Lucy went to New York for the week-end. How about ours? When is it coming off? I am using the same ribbon that you put in my machine at home, Pete. I will need a new one pretty soon. Otherwise I don't know nothing, not a darn thing. Hoping I shocked the whole family, I remain, Respectfully yours, Fannie Hamburger Aaron
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 10/15/19
Text: October 15, 1919. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I think my letters are going to sound pretty soon like Lester's Sunday letters--"Not much to say today. Slept two hours in my chair". I monkeyed around yesterday a good deal and studied a good deal also, inasmuch as we had a short history test today. I don't know how I did on it. I know that I like Miss Thallon very much, but her assignments are so indefinite that I never know what to study for her and how much or how...
Show moreOctober 15, 1919. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I think my letters are going to sound pretty soon like Lester's Sunday letters--"Not much to say today. Slept two hours in my chair". I monkeyed around yesterday a good deal and studied a good deal also, inasmuch as we had a short history test today. I don't know how I did on it. I know that I like Miss Thallon very much, but her assignments are so indefinite that I never know what to study for her and how much or how little to do. Last night I decided to go to bed early. It did not do much good. Katheryn Gardner had a mandolin party in her room and they banged away till the ten o'clock bell. It never occurs to her to shut her transom until she goes to bed. I don't wish her any harm, but I hope she has to go home at Christmas this year again. All she can talk about is her mandolin and her Fred, and she is always singing, "I got the Blues". She dosn't realize that her neighbors may be susceptible to that malady too. Elaine Wolf's mother gradually began to realize that perhaps she should not go back to New York right away--so she staid here ad[sic] Slept in Elaine's room. She borrowed my hammer and nails. Altogether she is one of the biggest nuts that I have ever seen. Elaine has about ten times as much sense as she has. Father, you do right highly intelligent letters. Who would think to read them that you are the important person you are. I kept reading about Gradpa's "Paw" and kept wondering what on earth that might be. Finally it occured to me that it was his pew you were talking about. It is funny that the thing I was expecting trouble with is the only thing that is going decently. Math is easy and good fun. I got my first prose paper back today in Latin. It was decorated by much red ink. I did not have time to speak with her about it. I shall ask her for an interview. That means getting about ten minutes of her very valuable time. I shall tell her that I am used to doing good work in Latin, and should like to know what to do to do better here. I had fullly made up my mind to do that, when I saw Phyllis in Math class. We have different Latin teachers, but practically the same work. I asked her if she had gotten her prose back yet. I showed her my red ink. She said hers was worse, and she got an interview, too. The teacher told her her translation had all been B, and her prose C, that she realized P. was rusty, and that she expected her to improve, meanwhile she should not be discouraged. I am afraid mine is to crabby to tell me that, though. I had only three thinks on the page that MissBreene would call real mistakes. The rest were all substitutions of different words for those I had. We never had to have such fine shaded of meaning. My own opinion is that is bosh. I have been intending for the last week to write to you to ask if Mlle. Was home yet. If I ever get time, I'll write to her and Mme. Delaval and about a thousand other people. Mother, the laundry telescope is smaller than the one you sent last week, so I called up to find out if it was the size you ordered before sending my laundry. They said they had only two sizes, and the other is too large for parcel post. This one in none too big. I shall send the laundry when I mail this letter. If you expect a lot of white skirts and waists, remember that I play tennis in middles and bloomers. Phyllis is going to New York this week-end. She wrote to Miss Breene for some outlines and valuable stuff that she gave us during the last two years. I think I have mine at home, but I am not sure where, so I shall copy hers when they come. The cover for the food-chest fits perfectly. The cover for the tea-table fits the inside. You know there is a border an inch and a half deep, running around the table. Should I cover that? I don't need the other white skirt--I have plenty. They don't get dirty here. The history came yesterday. Thank you. Love, [Fannie] We have been assigned a special topic for history, due in two weeks. We can choose the topic, provided it meets with her approval. These are the calls we are supposed to make before Thanksgiving:--the Dean, Prexy, Miss Palmer (head warden), faculty advisors and all our instructors! I will be ready to give thanks then, I think. In case of necessity could I consider my call on Miss McCaleb with you to answer the purpose? I got a letter from Aunt Hattie yesterday. Tell her to consider it answered. She writes a good line of advice, so do you, too. I wish I had as much common sense as the rest of the family. Perhaps I'll aquire it here. Lester, don't you write any more to Father and Mother than you do to me.? You know I like quanitity, even if it is not quality. Try carbon paper, and then aad[sic] anything you want to.
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1922-10-14
Text: Octover 14, 1922 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I slept late this morning, to make up for my dissipation of the night before, worked in the libe a while, and then went to have a conference with Miss Ellery on my Renaissance topic. We talked most of the time about debating. She said she had enjoyed watching my improvement, and now I am good, because I "am not so cock-sure of myself to be obnoxious." You may be interested to know that when she asked me what I was going to do next...
Show moreOctover 14, 1922 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I slept late this morning, to make up for my dissipation of the night before, worked in the libe a while, and then went to have a conference with Miss Ellery on my Renaissance topic. We talked most of the time about debating. She said she had enjoyed watching my improvement, and now I am good, because I "am not so cock-sure of myself to be obnoxious." You may be interested to know that when she asked me what I was going to do next year I told her I didn't know yet, but it would be something at home. Suit you, Pop? She said the thing I need to do in the course is to cultivate my imagination--there is nothing wrong with my reasoning power but there is with my imagation. She is right. Now let's see if I can spell correctly in the next paragraph. I heard a good concert last night by the New York Trio--Clarence Adler, Piano; Scipione Guidi, Violin; and Corelius Van Vliet, Cello. The names are given for your benefit, Father. I have to work all afternoon on my topic. In my next laundry--changed my mind, don't bother. I wish--changed my mind about that, too. Love, Fannie
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1921-10-14
Text: October 14, 1921 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I am afraid that my letter-writing system is not quite as regular as last year. On account of having a class every day after lunch I can't write then, so I am trying to write the first thing in the morning, but sometimes I sleep too late. I went out to play golf yesterday after fifth hour, but did not have luck with the cars. I just missed one at Main Gate and when i got to Market Street I saw the car on its way toward the links....
Show moreOctober 14, 1921 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I am afraid that my letter-writing system is not quite as regular as last year. On account of having a class every day after lunch I can't write then, so I am trying to write the first thing in the morning, but sometimes I sleep too late. I went out to play golf yesterday after fifth hour, but did not have luck with the cars. I just missed one at Main Gate and when i got to Market Street I saw the car on its way toward the links. Nevertheless we got in nine holes, on which my playing was fairly good. I made a fifty-three with bad putting. The professional informed me that the matches have to be played off by Sunday, and when I said the girl had gone away for the week-end he said we could have till Monday night but would have to start over again and play eighteen in succession. I think he expects us to play by moonlight. Davison had its stunt party last night. It was worse than punk. I don't know who is taking Eleanor Wolfe to Mohonk, Mother, but I do know that she is being taken, and that is the important thing. I have to work all day today. Golf is all right, but it means that I have to put in a few days of hard work aweek, instead of scattering it out. Love, Fannie
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1922-10-13
Text: d Octot^r 13, 1922 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I am sorry that I could not get off a real letter either yesterday or today, but when I came back yesterday after fifth hour to get my racket, I: fourid a note on my-door ^from, Aurit', ' Hattie. ^ TheyVhad Just arrived at lunch time, and I found them in the parlor. The thrill of^eing surprised, instead of having their arrival announced, was quite enjoyable. The only difficulty was tkat I had both a Renaissance and a Drama topic due...
Show mored Octot^r 13, 1922 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I am sorry that I could not get off a real letter either yesterday or today, but when I came back yesterday after fifth hour to get my racket, I: fourid a note on my-door ^from, Aurit', ' Hattie. ^ TheyVhad Just arrived at lunch time, and I found them in the parlor. The thrill of^eing surprised, instead of having their arrival announced, was quite enjoyable. The only difficulty was tkat I had both a Renaissance and a Drama topic due tod^ , and a great deal of work still to do on both of them» Had they written they were coming, I could easily have had them out of the road. I spent the rest of the afternoon shewing them around, talking to them, showing them my room, etc. We had dinner at the Lodge. Ihey insisted on my bpinging the kids along. Aunt Hattie made quite a hit with them, but I don't know about her bashful husband. They found out pretty quickly that he is basnfull I donH quite know what he made of having five girls at dinner when he was the lonesome gentleman of the party. I left them after chapel and worked till eleven, and finished the topics. Then I met them this morning after my last morning class at elven-thirty, and they left on the two o'clock train. I certainly didanjoy having them here, and the/ did not interfere with work to any harmful degree at all. Your point of view about college, college activities, etc., Mother, is at least eight years younger than Aunt Hattie's instead of eight years older. This afternoon we walked out to the cider mill, and got some delicious cider. It was a heavenly day. The fäiliage is gorgeous now. Mother, I wish after you are up that you would please send Hie Zangwill's "Chidlren of the Ghetto" and also 'Dreamers of TO the Q-hetto" . I am going to dornan Ec topic on ''The Family among the Jews"! Haha! That is a topic that is taken every year, and I thought I might contribute a personal element this year, o if it was done by a Jewish girl. Besides which, I thought it g would be infinitely more interesting than the family among the PQ Mormons, Turks, Japs, or any other people| and I am not origM- a to do any other kind, such as the high-brow one done last § year on the family in Greek tragedies. We are at present taking ^ up the patriarchal organization of the family, and Millsy called ^ onme to find out way we should be studying the Hebrew family, ^ rather than the Chinese, for instance! I felt highly honored by the comparison. (D \0 ^ There is nothing else of Interest to report. I have to u spend all tomorrow doing the Tolerance topic that was due last ^ week, and then I shall have caught up with my work. N Q> Si Si I dOy^'t know what you mean, iother, by all the parcels. I got everything from home that I ordered. I am going to write to Paulson's to send my fur coat pretty soon. 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I think that would brighten it up, and not look as patchy as a colisr* I do hope you will be able to be up soon. But don*t be too ippatient about it—as long as you are not very sick, it is a good rest for y^u, and I don't know but what that is the only way that you can be prevailed uponto rest!Mother Mother Mother Mother
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1921-10-13
Text: October 13, 1921 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I just got back from the golf club in time for dinner. Mary Hurst and I went out to play off our match, but Newburgh was having its fall tournament up there, and that meant fifty men on the course who had the right of way, so you can imagine how crowded it was. We got only nine holes in, and she has me one up. I was up to the green in less than she was on almost every hole, but putted abominably-three and sometimes four on almost every hole-...
Show moreOctober 13, 1921 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I just got back from the golf club in time for dinner. Mary Hurst and I went out to play off our match, but Newburgh was having its fall tournament up there, and that meant fifty men on the course who had the right of way, so you can imagine how crowded it was. We got only nine holes in, and she has me one up. I was up to the green in less than she was on almost every hole, but putted abominably-three and sometimes four on almost every hole--whereas she was putting remarkably well. She is going away for the week-end and we have to play Monday after my sixth hour. If I putt half way decently, I oughtn't to have any difficulty--but then I may not. I certainly love it out there--and I feel unusually peppy and happy when I come back. There were about fifteen college people out there today. I had my first conference with Miss Wylie this morning, a group conference of six people. It was most interesting. We brought up questions concerning the work up to date. I have a great difficulty with her--I find myself watching her eyes to the extent of not imbibing what she is saying. She has the most penetrating and most interesting eyes of anyone I have ever seen. She was looking over the six before the bell rang, and saying our names to see if she knew them, and when she got to me, she said, "And I know Miss Aaron, I taught her mother so I can't forget her since she told me who she is". After the hour one of the six staid back to tell her that she had taught her mother also. She must feel like a great-grandmother. I really expect to work tomorrow afternoon. I am sorry I can't get this golf match off before Monday, but it can't be done. We are allowed fifteen chapel cuts a semester; Sunday counts two. I have taken three so far, four, if Yom Kippur counts. Mother, will you please either send me a box of the cold powders of send me the prescription. I have lost my envelopes containing the prescriptions. I enjoyed Jeannette's visit. Neither she not I said one complimentary thing to the other the whole twenty-four hours, and that is our measure of a good time together. She went down to Miss Sandison's for dinner and went home that night last night, I mean. Love, Fannie
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 10/13/19
Text: October 13, 1919. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I had classes all morning and a game of tennis right after lunch, consequently I did not have time to get a letter off in the afternoon mail. Nothing exciting happened to report. I studied most of the afternoon yesterday, and worked four hours over an English theme which ended up by being less than a typewritten page. I surely must be hopeless in that line. I got desperate. They have what is known as "Dark Music" for a half hour...
Show moreOctober 13, 1919. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I had classes all morning and a game of tennis right after lunch, consequently I did not have time to get a letter off in the afternoon mail. Nothing exciting happened to report. I studied most of the afternoon yesterday, and worked four hours over an English theme which ended up by being less than a typewritten page. I surely must be hopeless in that line. I got desperate. They have what is known as "Dark Music" for a half hour Sunday evening. The chapel is pitch dark during the organ recital. I went there for inspiration, but I had lost it all by the time I got back here. There was a wonderful sunset last night and I tried by best to describe it, but I should have been made sorry for the sunset if it had been no better than what I made it out to be. I could have finished earlier, but I wanted to take something outside the mountains. It is funny that with all I have seen the only decent descriptions I can get up are Rockies. I ended by taking something resembling Squeeky Bon's. I guess the class will think I am cracked on that subject. The English around this part of the country is no snap. Mother, the neighbors think Mary is a very good cook. They have eaten much more of the cake than I have. It is very good, but I get plenty to eat at meal time. Talking about meals--we had fish eyes tonight. A whole table-full of Juniors got up and left when they saw it come to the table, but we innocent Freshman thought it was good. I had the job of serving tonight, and yours truly got good portions. So far what I like best is Math. Miss Wells is a peach, and the work is fairly intelligible. I made a mess of my Latin translations this morning, and Miss Bourne did not hide her displeasure. We had to write French compositions for the last lesson. She knocked them all, but singled out mine and said that it was very good, the French was good and the ideas were correct. By the time she was through praising it, I thought I had found something at least whereing I would get a good mark. After class I got my composition back. It was marked B. I wonder what would draw an A. I understand it is equivalent to 98, 99, or 100. Don't talk Bryn Mawr to me, Pete. The kinds thought it wonderful that anyone should get a B. I believe Dr. Goldenson said they don't give triple A's here. I still feel quite hopeless in English. The shoe-bags fit. I'll send the package to New York my first opportunity. The knives and forks are here. I have written so before. I want the woolen dress and skirt. One day it is hot and the next day it is freezing. I may want to use them soon. The fruit is very clever, and I have more fun than a circus bluffing people that come into my room. They say it is cruel to have it around.Tell D. Goldman I certainly don't want a tea-table cloth and napkins--this is not a finishing school. Handkerchiefs are napkins here. I hope the McConnell place will not be spoiled, but then we have had all sorts of things over there, so we might as well try something new. Pete, I should like very much to go to the Yale game, if it meets with Father's and Mother's approval. The tests that come in the middle of the semester are not at any shceduled time and as far as I can make out they are made up by the individual instructor and given when he or shee sees fit. I ought to be able to work ahead for it. I certainly will not go into the exchange and by a Princeton seal. That looks rather crude and cheap, to say the least. If you cannot get it, with great care, i ought to be able to live through the shock. I told you there is an empty place in the wall that a pennant would cover very nicely, though. Love, [Fannie] Papa, you should write--yes.
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1920-10-12
Text: October 12, 1920. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: Lester, I sent you a book from Lindmark's, the bookstore in Poughkeepsie, the early part of last week. Haven't you received it? You said nothing about it, so I imagine you have not gotten it. Does the family intend to come East for the footblal games? I have never heard that. There is no doubt of the fact that there is a good deal of chasing and excitement in connection with them, so perhaps it would be wise to let well enough alone...
Show moreOctober 12, 1920. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: Lester, I sent you a book from Lindmark's, the bookstore in Poughkeepsie, the early part of last week. Haven't you received it? You said nothing about it, so I imagine you have not gotten it. Does the family intend to come East for the footblal games? I have never heard that. There is no doubt of the fact that there is a good deal of chasing and excitement in connection with them, so perhaps it would be wise to let well enough alone and be satisfied with the way I am getting along and not try anything very strenuous. What do you think? Besides which, for some reason I don't feel particularly enthusiastic about going this year. I don't know why. Pete, I thought you were going to take a young lady to one of them this year. I don't see why you dont, in fact, I think you should. All of which is your business, you will say. I was quite tired after lab yesterday. I certainly work slowly and feel more or less lost in the course. Prof. Moulton is not what I would call a good teacher. The notebooks that you sent will probably be useful, Mother, although neither is the one that I meant. Perhaps it is not around at home. After lab yesterday I went to hear Mr. Morgenthau make a political speech. He took only one phase of the democratic side, the league. He called Hays a Machiavelli and a Mephistopheles. He also said that somebody said in regard to Harding's head, there is nothing there, not even a cavity. I don't think I learned anything from his speech. I guess that is the trouble with most political speeches. I have to go over to the libe this afternoon and get some dope on the democratic and republican platforms. Tonight is the first meeting of Speakers' Bureau and that is the subject announced. It is a good joke for Earickeloo, isn't it, Father? At any rate I won't say that the Republican platform is made out of wood, the way I did to Marse in all seriousness eight years ago. Miss Salmon apologizes profusely this morning for having to give us two cuts this week, because she said to go to some celebration or other at Ann Arbor, her alma mater. We thought the apologies were entirely uncalled for, and showed as much. We get a cut in English tomorrow, but have to go to hear Miss Whylie lecture on "Definitions of Romance" instead. Lucy came home with me for dinner last night. You and she would make a good cox team, Pete.I was called from slumberland last night at eleven by that deadly fire alarm. When the drill was over, we discovered that Helen had not made her appearance. So the whole half of the corridor burst in on her to discover the reason and mercilessly woke her out of a sound sleep. She had not even heard that awful bell, and it rang without stopping for four minutes. We certainly kidded her about it. Love, Fannie
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1920-10-01
Text: October 1, 1920. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: It may interest you to know that the monitor system in chapel has been abolished and that the honor system has been restored. Week-ends are no longer to count as two cuts, so that gives us fifteen cuts straight. Why do you say that the other two girls are an improvement on M? I know they are, but was she snippy when you called her up, or what? I'll have to study some Spanish pronunciation over the week-end. We go at a lightning speed, and...
Show moreOctober 1, 1920. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: It may interest you to know that the monitor system in chapel has been abolished and that the honor system has been restored. Week-ends are no longer to count as two cuts, so that gives us fifteen cuts straight. Why do you say that the other two girls are an improvement on M? I know they are, but was she snippy when you called her up, or what? I'll have to study some Spanish pronunciation over the week-end. We go at a lightning speed, and I was not there the first day to get all the fancy rules. I got your telegram when I came back at noon, Mother. Thank you. I thought I saw some of those books up in the third floor. I'll order them through the book-story. It is pouring today and has been all night. It is ugly and damp. i read all yesterday afternoon and managed to finish three hundred of the four hundred pages of "The Rescue". We did not discuss it at all today, so evidently we are to finish for the next time. Part of our history work for today was to make inquiries about the various nationalities at Vassar and in Poughkeepsie. I opened your letter and found the clipping about the subject as I was walking into class! I have to do chem, history, and ec this afternoon. My letters, I fear, are tending to become as thrillingly interesting as Pete's. Love, Pete, a gooseneck is a lamp with a flexible tree trunk. Get me? They are used for studying, for burning the midnight electricity, if you are capable of doing that. Wishing you the same. Pete, Miss Smith asked for you most solicitously. You made quite a hit.
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 10/1/19
Text: October 1, 1919. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: It is funny that I have always a lot to write, in spite of the fact that I write every day. Before I forget, Pete, I simply forgot to mention the tennis score, that is all. I beat Rurth Franklin 6-1 and 5-3. I played miserably at that. Yesterday afternoon I played again. Since you seem to want to know all the details, I played with a Freshman named Anne Halliday, who hails from Memphis, Tennessee. She looks exceedingly athletic, and I thought I...
Show moreOctober 1, 1919. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: It is funny that I have always a lot to write, in spite of the fact that I write every day. Before I forget, Pete, I simply forgot to mention the tennis score, that is all. I beat Rurth Franklin 6-1 and 5-3. I played miserably at that. Yesterday afternoon I played again. Since you seem to want to know all the details, I played with a Freshman named Anne Halliday, who hails from Memphis, Tennessee. She looks exceedingly athletic, and I thought I would have a stiff pull, but we ended up 6-3 and 3-5, my score first. I was up for hockey the hour before that, but only one girl turned out beside me, so we had the benefit of an hour's private instruction. It certainly was useful. I am going to play both today again. The other girl who was out had played golf the day before. The course is quite a ways the other other side of Poughkeepsie. You have to take at least two cars to get there. It is an easy nine hole course. I think there is plenty to do around college that takes much less time. I got through with my work in good time yesterday, so I landed in bed at nine-fifteen. Lucy coma[sic] just after I got to bed. She staid and talked quite a qhile. You would not know her here, she is an altogether different girl from what she is at home. I told her about the English interview. She told me the sooner I get used to being told my faults and not my merits the better off I will be. She said after her first English interview she went to Helen Jackson's room and let out in her presence the same as I did here. I realized in about one-half hour what a nut I had been. Unfortunately I had already mailed the letter. She game me Hail Columbia for writing about it to you. She said you would think it was lots worse that it was, and you would start to worry when I had already forgotten about it. I don't think that is so, but if it is, forgive me. She also told me that marking here is not only much sricter than at High School, but stricter than at any of the women's colleges, that girls who flunk out here often go to Smith, and get along very well, also that many who cannot get in here go to Wellesly. I don't know how much of that is true. At any rate she said that two years ago they lowered their system of marking, so that what had previously been A was equivalen[sic] to B, and that they wanted to lower it one more, but some of the faculty would not stand for it, because two-thirds of her class is already below graduation grade. Don't get excited that she told me all this--she simply did it to show me that the fact that I had a C on the theme she picked to pieces simply indicated that it might have been lots worse. This is not to the point here, but I have forgotten it every day so far. When was the telescope from Lucky's to come?Classes went much better today again. Miss Thallon was back, hobbling around on crutches. I saw Miss Smith again today. She is very nice. My first impressions are almost always wrong. She wanted all the particulars on how I was getting along. I told her it was very hard last week, that I was not used to work yet. She said "Oh, well, work is not the thing we are going to worry about in you." Where did she get the dope? Do you suppose she looked up my record? I hardly think you would have told her, Mother. I got your letter, Mother, and yours, Pete, about the French. Owing to the fact that work has not been a snap, I had practically made up my mind to continue with Freshman French. But I do agree with you that it would be perfectly ridiculous to suppose that I did not know more about French than most girls taking Freshman French. One thing I am sure of myself, and that is that I can talk much better. I considered the matter carefully myself, and then I spoke to Lucy. Before I spoke with her I decided that if by taking a second advanced course I could avoid the exam and still have sufficient foreign language credit, and if I could get Miss White of someone equally good, I would try the exam. If I am very low on the exam, I will stay where I am. I don't want to get myself in deep, that is what I mean. I will probably have to give up my fine schedule. The preparation for the three recitations we have had so far have each taken me two hours. She give over fifty pages to read, and not only to read, but to do various things with them. That would take me that long in English, too. I think I will take the exam, and not talk to anyone else. I don't know any upper=classmen who have not taken this French. Lucy knows about as much as anyone on the subject. She said Freshman is a rotten course, and everyone knows it. Soph. French is more interesting, she said. She agrees with me, that I should try the exam, and if I am not too low, take Soph French, and then take another advanced course againb. I have the craziest feeling on the subject, that no matter which I do, I'll be doing the wrong thing. I play off the tennis match tomorrow afternoon. Love, Are you coming, Pete? [Fannie]
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1920-10-11
Text: October 11, 1920. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I don't know when i have accomplished as much as I did yesterday. I did two days' Spanish and English (and that meant an aweful lot of reading), and extra Ec. reading assignment, two days' Ec, English Speech, read the paper, wrote some letters, talked to Lucy for over an hour and then to a lot of other people. I shall be quite busy today. I have lab this afternoon, and then I must get a start on my history topic, and look up...
Show moreOctober 11, 1920. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I don't know when i have accomplished as much as I did yesterday. I did two days' Spanish and English (and that meant an aweful lot of reading), and extra Ec. reading assignment, two days' Ec, English Speech, read the paper, wrote some letters, talked to Lucy for over an hour and then to a lot of other people. I shall be quite busy today. I have lab this afternoon, and then I must get a start on my history topic, and look up some dope on the party platforms. I have to write a paper for Ec for next Monday on the economic influences in my own city. We are supposed to show how location and natural products and advantages or disadvantages influence the industries, life, occupations, etc. In case the Chamber of Commerce gets out any dope on the subject could you send it to me, Father, so that I have it by Friday or Saturday at the latest. The reason I thought they might is that Omaha gets out such a pamphlet and I thought we might be as progressive as Omaha. I let somebody use my typewriter the other day and it has been sticking ever since. Love, Fannie
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 10/11/19
Text: October 11, 1919. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I just got back from my medical exam. If she were a good doctor I might take some of her line seriously. Incidentally, I did not know what the various members of the family died of, and I forgot that you were forty-two, Mother. I played doubles tennis yesterday afternoon. One of the four was Darrah More, the daughter of the Princeton prof. She says her father teaches philosophy and Greek, and all sorts of other crazy thing. This morning I...
Show moreOctober 11, 1919. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I just got back from my medical exam. If she were a good doctor I might take some of her line seriously. Incidentally, I did not know what the various members of the family died of, and I forgot that you were forty-two, Mother. I played doubles tennis yesterday afternoon. One of the four was Darrah More, the daughter of the Princeton prof. She says her father teaches philosophy and Greek, and all sorts of other crazy thing. This morning I played singles, so I think I am due for some work this afternoon. It is very warm here today. Lester, I don't know what you are hollering about. The two days I did not write letters, I wrote post-cards. There is no startling news today. Tonight Davison is to give its Freshmen a stunt party. I got a note from Mary Z. Anderson yesterday. She signs herself, "Affectionately". Also got one from Marse. Please send this clipping to Pete. Love, [Fannie] How foolish, Father, to ask what date will suit for a visit. The middle of the night would.[enc w/ 11 Oct 1919] Here is the information about the work. We are reading Cicero's letters. It is the first time they have done that. It is a substitution for Livy. You know we read some of them in high school, the only difference is that the notes were much more plentiful in our book, and we read different letters. The math is coming all right. I am no worse than anyone else. It is easy enough to do, but I don't quite grasp the point of the stuff. I am going to study that this afternoon, and I intend to go over all we have had sofar. I think that will straighten me out all right. We use, Bauer and Brooks' Trig. The history is mediaeval[sic]. We use as a text-book J. H. Robinsons's "History of Western Europe". I think I asked you to send it. Lester used it, too. We also use his "Readings in European History". We are supposed to do extra reading in the library, or course. We are finishing a modern edition of the "Chanson de Roland". I think it is very monotonous. I don't know what else we read, except that they are all books I have not read, which was more than I could say of Freshman French. In English they are trying to find out our reading and writing ability and classify us accordingly by giving us William James' "Ona Certain Blindness in Human Beings" and "What Makes A Life Significant"! No wonder I feel like a blockhead. We not only have to read it, but write about it in all sorts of ways. Lester thinks it is pretty deep stuff to give Freshmen. I think that answers all your questions, mother. I took time off today to do it, because during the week it is hard to write more than an average length letter. Miss Buck is assistant head of the department. Love [Fannie][enc w/ 11 Oct 1919] Mother, I want to tell you about the medical exam, and I would like to know how much of it to take seriously and much not to. I will start at the beginning. She wanted to know your age, Father's, whether you and he were in good health, what those of the family died of and how old they were when they died. She asks all the unwell particulars, makes a lot of faces at the answers, asks about all the sichnesses you have had including every little imaginable, finds out what outdoor excercise you have been accustomed to, whether you went to school regularly, etc. I could not see what great difference it made about how well you and Father were, so instead of going into particulars, I told her you were both well. Was that right, or should I have elaborated. As she was finishing, she asked me how long my face had been broken out this way. I told her about two years. She mad some more faces. Then she wanted to know what had been done for it. I told her at first I had a lotion and then a salve, but that they did not help, also that the doctor at home was watching it. She got all excited and told me the worst thing on earth to use was salve, because the breaking out was caused by something or other of the fat in the body, and salve made that worse. She said that I dhould come to her office on Monday and she would gime me a lotion for it. So I thought I had better tell her that it is worse now than usual. She wanted to know why. I told her that the doctor had given me some medicine for another trouble I had gotten and that the medicine had done that, that I had stopped using it and he had sent another prescription. Of course she nebbed in to find out what the other trouble was, and she thought it was terrible that one so young should have gotten any such trouble. Then she made me leave a specimen of the urine and said when i came to the office on Monday to bring along the old medicine and the new prescription, she would in all probability fill it. I have a feeling that if it does not suit her, she will fill in something else, and bluff me that it is the prescription. Meanwhile, I have just about a hundred times more confidence in Dr. Z. than in her. I think I will take the stuff over, let her fill it if she want to, and have it filled in town, and use the latter. Would you not? She also wanted to know if I had had any trouble with constipation. I am afraid it is coming back, so I told her so. I am to tell her about that at the office, too. I am perfectly willing to have her assistance for that, though. She also took a blood-test and this is the way she did it. She pricked my ear, got a splotch on a piece of paper, and compared it with a card she had. There were different colors on the card, representing different per cents. Mine approached the 90s more than any of the others. I told her when the doctor examined it at home it was particularly normal, and she informed me that the first three weeks were very strenuou[sic], and it might have gone down that much. Find out from Dr. Z. what it was when I left. I would like to know, because I should hate to think that I have dropped ten in three weeks. She informed me that I ought to get lots of rest, and particularly on Saturdays and Sundays.She did not mean to stay in bed, but get lots of rest. I know that, and I know that I need it, but how does she know it? I hope that I don't look so badly that a stranger should give me that advice. I suppose I am foolish to take her seriously, particularly when i have no confidence in her ability. I happened to ask one girl about the stuff she gives for the face, and the girl told me that is is very good and does the work, too. I guess it is safe to try it. The rest of it can keep till I see you myself. Let me know what you think of the various medical stunts. The telescope came today. it is 20 and 1/2 by 6. Is that what you ordered? Your long letter came last night. You know it is very good to get long letters. I am glad you and Madame Delaval are sure about the French. I wish I were as sure. I understand that the three courses overlap very much, though. But I have a feeling that it is going to be very stupid and unsystematic. It seems to me that by the time girls reach Sophomore French in college, it ought not to be necessary to spend the hour reading aloud, correcting pronunciation and stumbling over resumes of what has just been read aloud. You did not write about Mrs. Woodbridge. I got a card from D. Goldman saying covers were coming under separate cover. I don't think I need the flower vase--I have a lot of stuff alreadY. I thought I told you that I did not need a water pitcher, as there are two pitchers in Aunt Hattie's set. Besides which, the bath-room is very handly. Also, I have four glasses. If you can cancel the order, I think it would be wise to do so. If not, there is no great harm done. The stuff from Altmann's came. I thought I wrote that. I don't believe I want the candy jar. Now don't be shocked at this. It is not very terrible. I cannot fix my har decently without sticking something in on the sides. Nets are very scratchy, so I have been saving my combings, and I believe they can be made into a small puffs. Is that very unsanitary, or anything like that? If so, I won't do it. If it meets with your approval, could you send me the hair thing of my dresser set with the next laundry. [You understand I don't want to make it stand out like shop-girls.] When I send a note to you and labelled as such, does anyone else read it? If so I shall have to resort to some other method. Love.
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1922-10-10
Text: October 10, 1922 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: The most exciting thing I can announce is that I had my hiar[sic] washed yesterday, slept the rest of the afternoon, and am going to have my Vassarion picture taken tomorrow. I hope to catch up within the next few days--this crazy debate put me back two history topics. I received the shoes. I had you no more mixed up about going to New Haven than I had myself. I made up my mind, and unmade it at least twenty times, and I did not decide to go...
Show moreOctober 10, 1922 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: The most exciting thing I can announce is that I had my hiar[sic] washed yesterday, slept the rest of the afternoon, and am going to have my Vassarion picture taken tomorrow. I hope to catch up within the next few days--this crazy debate put me back two history topics. I received the shoes. I had you no more mixed up about going to New Haven than I had myself. I made up my mind, and unmade it at least twenty times, and I did not decide to go until twelve, and we left at two. The thing that made me make up my mind was the inducement of the auto-trip, plus the company of the acting president. And now all the excitement of that is over. I'd like to knock their English bloacks off--they don't know what is meant by a definite engagement. I have been trying to sleep this past hour, but the presence of about twenty flies is making it impossible, screens notwithstanding. Love, FannieJust when is Lucy coming, and when you leave, where are you going first?
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1921-10-10
Text: October 10, 1921 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I can't remember whether I said that Junior party was the twelfth of November of not. If I did, it was a mistake--it is the nineteenth. Today has been quite uninteresting. I went to lab sixth hour and had a great deal of difficulty in drawing what I saw in the microscope. Up to date, I have kept my left eye closed and have had no trouble. I can't see anything but the desk when I keep them both open. After lab I had my hari washed and...
Show moreOctober 10, 1921 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I can't remember whether I said that Junior party was the twelfth of November of not. If I did, it was a mistake--it is the nineteenth. Today has been quite uninteresting. I went to lab sixth hour and had a great deal of difficulty in drawing what I saw in the microscope. Up to date, I have kept my left eye closed and have had no trouble. I can't see anything but the desk when I keep them both open. After lab I had my hari washed and spent the rest of the afternoon on a shopping expedition, the quest being woolen stockings. It has been so cold lately that I thought I had better get them while the getting is good. I shall have to work all tomorrow afternoon on my history topic. Tomorrow night I am going to Temple. It starts at seven. Another chapel cut! I had better go it easy on cuts from now on. I hope tomorrow's letter will be more interesting. Thank you for the food. Was it in honor of Pete's birthday? Love, Fannie[enc w/ 10 Oct 1921] Dear Mother: I am sending the grey crepe de chine home to see what you can have done with it. I wore it Sunday, and worked in the libe. How I got ink on the skirt is beyond me. I don't know what can be done with it, but I thought probably you could do better at home than I can here. I am very sorry it happened. I have an appointment to see Miss Ballantine tomorrow afternoon. The letter was very satisfactory.
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1921-10-10
Text: October 10, 1921 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: After my voluminous letter of yesterday there is nothing much to tell you. I got a lot done on my history topic yesterday afternoon and last night I spent most of the time hunting for some respect-able notes on the Psych lecture I missed last Monday. It is a nuisance to miss a lecture, particularly in view of the fact that we have a quiz today. I just realized last night, Pete, that I wouldn't want to go away from college the week-end of...
Show moreOctober 10, 1921 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: After my voluminous letter of yesterday there is nothing much to tell you. I got a lot done on my history topic yesterday afternoon and last night I spent most of the time hunting for some respect-able notes on the Psych lecture I missed last Monday. It is a nuisance to miss a lecture, particularly in view of the fact that we have a quiz today. I just realized last night, Pete, that I wouldn't want to go away from college the week-end of the fifteenth, as Junior Party comes then. Don't send the jade dress, Mother. I don't need it here. I went to bed early last night because I went rather short of sleep over the week-end, but the hall was noisy until after eleven. I shall send my laundry tomorrow. Love, Fannie
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1920-10-10
Text: October 10, 1920. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I am very sorry that I forgot to send Friday's and Saturday's letters special. I guess you are sorrier, Father. I just finishes typing another batch of stuff for Sophomore Committee. I got a note last night from the chairman of the "General Service Committee" telling me that I was on her committee and kindly to let her know if I type. I wonder what she things I have been doing for Harriet this past week. I guess that means...
Show moreOctober 10, 1920. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I am very sorry that I forgot to send Friday's and Saturday's letters special. I guess you are sorrier, Father. I just finishes typing another batch of stuff for Sophomore Committee. I got a note last night from the chairman of the "General Service Committee" telling me that I was on her committee and kindly to let her know if I type. I wonder what she things I have been doing for Harriet this past week. I guess that means I am not in the performance. I believe only about half the class are to be in it, and those are to be taken from those who dance and sing well. I hope you can change your plans for your trip. I don't see the possibility of missing the party and I would like to have you with me when I get the coat. I have not had that letter from C. Harriet which she said she would write. I took two pillors with me yesterday afternoon and I nestled down in one of the cloisters of the chapel and read for two and a half hours. I read last night for one hour, and covered three hundred of the four hundred and sixty pages of "Kim". I like it pretty well. Mr. Masaryak, Czecho-Slovak ambassador (or minister?) to America, adressed us in chapel last night. He is going to sail for Europe in a few days. He spoke quite well and in almost perfect English, on the hopes of his country. I took my typing down to Harriet Haynes and spent an hour talking to her last night. She is a peach of a girl. I want to get to know her better. Somehow or other I have always had that episode of leaving her roommate in Raymond to go to Main last year in my mind. I suppose it is foolish to think of it. I had one of the Czech girls in my room the over evening. She is unusually nice, compared with the average foreign student in college. She comes from Prague. She was in Carlsbad last summer. She says all the hotels are open. They are not crowded, but there are enough people to pay them to stay open. Most of the guests are Austrian and German and the last two years lots of Vienaa people went there to live because they could get more food than at home if they had the price to pay for it. Pupp's is going at full force with daily orchestra concerts. The Czecho-Slovak government has just bought the bath-houses at Marienbad from German owners, but they don't control any of the Kur establishments in Carlsbad. I don't know how much of this is news to you. I am going to have a very busy day today. Love, Fannie.[enc w 10 Oct 1920] Dear Mother, I am sick today, so don't let that worry you about the future week-end. I am glad it is Sunday, so that I can stay in bed without missing classes. I had planned to go to the Libe this afternoon and start my history topic, but I think I'll stay in bed and do other things instead. Let me know what you think about what I told you of the talk with Dr. B. Also, what about the thermometer? Also, I am guilty of the bone-headed stupidity of leaving all my belts for today's purpose at home. How I did it is beyond me. They are in the botton slide drawer of the new chest in the little room. There may be some in the bottom drawer of the chiffonier in there. Will you please send them in the next laundry.
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 10/10/19
Text: October 10, I9I9. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: Another week gone already, and I don't seem to get used to working. I am simply dead about this time every day. Nothing very startling happened today. One of the Latin instructors was not there, so her class was sent up with ours. Consequently Miss Bourne tried to show off. I don't think too much of her either as a teacher or as a person. I don't think she is in it with Miss Breene or Mattie. We had our usual Hygiene lecture...
Show moreOctober 10, I9I9. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: Another week gone already, and I don't seem to get used to working. I am simply dead about this time every day. Nothing very startling happened today. One of the Latin instructors was not there, so her class was sent up with ours. Consequently Miss Bourne tried to show off. I don't think too much of her either as a teacher or as a person. I don't think she is in it with Miss Breene or Mattie. We had our usual Hygiene lecture this morning. All the upper-classmen are amused that this is to count as a readl[sic] course and that we are to have an exam on it. Doctor T. is a circus all right. She has some sense of humor. She was telling us this morning why we should eat various kinds of food, ending up by showing why we should eat everything that comes to the college table. Then she gave a little dissertation on the eggs. That is the only thing I am guilty of not eating--I cannot get them down except in omelette form. She said the only thing they tast from is the wood of the crates, the brown paper they are wrapped in, and the straw in the boxes, but we should use a little bit of brains and pepper on them. She also gave a sermon on baths, dividing the United States into two great classes--those who take a bath every day and those who don't. The place just shrieked when she said that. We had heard of all sorts of ways of dividing, but never that way. Miss Thallon, you know, mixes in a lot of good fun in her lectures. Yesterday she was describing the plan of a monastery. She said at first they had one large dormitory for all the monks, and then they decided that it did not give enough opportunity for medidation, so each monk got his own cell. She said, "They all had singles then." Just went over to see Helen for a few minutes. Her mother will be up here in two weeks. Lucy is going to New York today. I would not mind knowing is she got in on the Mohonk barge or not. I am going to play tennis soon. I hunted around about a half hour before I found company. Friday afternoon seems to be teh[sic] walking afternoon, but it is too sultry to do that and enjoy it. I am sending the two bills from Luckey Platt's. I could not pay them, that is one thing sure. Pete, if you did not get a letter, you probably got a post-card. You see when the mornings are as full as mine are, unless I have free time after lunch, I cannot get a letter off. Father, it is your duty to write to me or I will not let you call me Earickeloo any more. Love, [Fannie]10 O' VOL. IV MR. JOHNSON BACK FROM THE WEST Gives Interesting Account of Mills College Mills College students are much like Vassar students, according to Professor Burges Johnson, who returned Tuesday from Mills College, California, where he has been since August l£th, engaged in organizing a writing course and in other work for Mills. "I conducted a class there for two weeks," said Mr. Johnson in an interview, "and the girls seemed very much the same as those I have known here. Why shouldn't they be.^ There are California girls at Vassar, and Mills is now drawing from a territory as far east as Indianapolis." Mr. Johnson went on to say that Mills College, which is the- only college exclusively for women west of Denver, has a beautiful campus of one hundred and thirty acres. "The buildings are few in number, of course," he said, "and they vary in character as ours do. The older ones are not attractive architectiu-ally, but the residence halls recently built are as attractive and as well suited to their purposes as any I have seen anywhere. Olney Hall, where we were living, is two years old, and was built by President Reinhardt after a careful study of the best residence halls in eastern colleges, including our own. It is in the California Mission style, and has a system of studies attached to open-air sleeping porches. "Mills began as a seminary before Vassar was founded, and became a college in 1889, but it remained small, and practically unknown outside its own neighborhood until three years ago, when President Reinhardt undertook to establish for it a standard of scholarship and ideals of education similar to those prevailing in the best colleges for women. As a result, Mills is now recognized by the Association of American Universities. Her graduates have won some of the most highly coveted fellowships in eastern institutions, and she has admittedly succeeded in maintaining high standards at a time when the standards of higher education in her own state have been noticeably lowered. "There are 400 students at Mills today, and 190 of them are freshmen. This shows the rate of growth. It is my personal belief that co-education is losing ground, even in parts of the country where it was considered axiomatic." Mr. Johnson lectured in August at the School of Journalism of the University of Missouri. He says that this is a most interesting school. Its records Continued on p. Col. 2HALLS GIVE IMPROMPTU STUNTS Continued from p. 1, Col. 4 Lathrop Presents Melodrama The Lathrop Freshmen indeed had reason to watch wide-eyed the stunt party that this hall gave them in the Gym Saturday evening. From, the original welcome straight through to song to in the end, the performance went off with dash and color. The program was well-balanced, dancing both graceful and burlesque, clever songs and thrilling meldorama all receiving enthusiastic applause. After the stunts were over, chairs were pushed back and dancing began to the tune of a peppy band of piano, combs, and cymbals. Doughnuts and cider were served on the Gym steps between dances. "Gee, what a lot of fun we're going to have," remarked one little Freshman, "in this place called Lathrop Hall." And so thought every one who was lucky enough to see the stunt party. The Trials of Paflagonia on Strong Stage Thackeray's "Rose and the Ring'* was presented last night by an all-star cast from Strong Hall. The production met with immediate success, and was thoroughly enjoyed by the audience, which included alumnae and faculty. Stiffness and thirst were banished by the dancing and excellent punch which followed the entertainment. Being Thackeray's, the play of course had a moral. The audience arose fairly convinced that it was a bad business to offend the fairies, for Black Stick, though not physically prepossessing was powerful, and was the cause of all the misfortunes that befell the house of Valoroso, from the footman's metamorphosis, to his ill-timed return as the Countess' husband. The impressionable Giglio, rightful heir to the throne of Paflagonia, comes triumphantly through his trials to claim the hand of the fair Rosalba, erstwhile chambermaid in Valoroso's palace. The tricky countess, Gruffanuff, is suitably punished for her selfish ambition by the return of her squire husband who has meanwhile been functioning as family doorknob because of his discourtesy to Black Stick. The old fairy thus does Giglio and Rosalba a good turn, and properly rewards her ungrateful god-child, leaving us with a healthy respect for her powers and ability, not much impaired by three thousand years of existence. "Vamps" Appear in Raymond "Honest-to-goodness, cross my heart, it was wonderful", exclaimed one enthusiastic Freshman, arrayed in a creation of black cheescloth, her hair arranged in a most curious manner. The Junior smiled indulgently, at this distinctly "would-be" vamp and replied "Well you know we had a mighty good time out of it too." And off they went, to dance hilariously. That was the spirit that prevailed during the Raymond Stunt Party last Saturday night. The play was written in rhymed couplet by Elizabeth Nulson, Continued on p. 3, CoL 1
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1919-10-[?]
Text: [? oct 1919] Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I shall try my luck at a morning letter, although I shall probably have to stop in the middle of it. I just came back from French class, where we had one of the fool mile-long assignments again. She is so afraid we won't use two hours! If I did as the others did, it would not be so bad, but whenever anyone cannot answer a question, she calls on me. I can not bluff. The reason that I happened to be put on the committe to map out a course of...
Show more[? oct 1919] Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I shall try my luck at a morning letter, although I shall probably have to stop in the middle of it. I just came back from French class, where we had one of the fool mile-long assignments again. She is so afraid we won't use two hours! If I did as the others did, it would not be so bad, but whenever anyone cannot answer a question, she calls on me. I can not bluff. The reason that I happened to be put on the committe to map out a course of class study in English, was that each group coming from one class elected one girl. There were only two from Miss Buck's division, she Miss Kitchel asked Miss Buck which one she considered the best qualified. I am surprised Miss Buck thought I was capable of anything. It meant an awful lot of reading and hunting around on the English 1 reserved sections. The idea is to read essays for class work until Christmas. The ssays are to be difficult enough to understand to repay class work. We had a committee meeting in Miss Kitchel's room last night and this morning we are to present several different plans to the class. The plan that I am to present several different plans to the class. The plan that I am to present is the use Steeve's and Ristine's "Representative essays in Modern Thought" as a basic for class work and discussions. Then we are to do a certain amount of reading connected with that and report on it. In addition to it we are to do some outside on any subject we please. The other plan is to get the November issue of the Atlantic Monthly, to study it, and do library reading and writing in connection with it. A list of suggested essays would in that case be posted. That plan appeals to me more, but we will have to take a class vote. One of the members of the committee is the daughter of an English Prof at Yale. Her name is Adams. Is her father anything or don't you happen to know, Pete? Talking about profs, the two books that I used most in my history topic which I handed in yesterday were West's Alcuin and the Rise of the Christian Schools" and another book which I just happened to think was not connected with Princeton. Another book by Professor Munro whom you always call by his whole name was pretty good for the occasion. I took "The Revivial of the Schools under Sharlemagne." It was very interesting and I certainly wently into it thoroughly enough to get a decent mark. My report was about three times as long as most people's. Most of them started to work on them the afternoon before they were due, when the topic was assigned two weeks ahead. I don't believe in that. I committed the first college sin the other night in studying until eleven o'clock. I was very wide awake and I preferred that to getting up at five-thirty. Strange to say I was less tired the next day than any day since I have been here. I suppose it is too late to tell you now. If you sent food in the last laundery, please don't send any in the next--I have toomuch on hand. I forgot to tell you that last night one of the girls asked Miss Kitchel what division we were. To make a long story short. She has two English sections. I mean Freshman English. One is supposed to be very good, and one is supposed to be not quite to good. We are in the latter. It is nearer the top than the bottom, however. She said she kept girls in section that I am in that she did not consider in any way inferior to those she sent to Miss Buck. Of oucrse[sic] your truly would like to be in A1, but I really like her about ten times more than Miss Buck. She surely was great in her room last night. She was not one bit like a teacher. I played tennis with Helen Reid yesterday. you know her, Mother. I discovered that she went to Peabody for three weeks before she went to Cincinnati, and that she reported in the room next to where I did. We had a class meeting Wednesday afternoon to approve a class constitution and to elect officers. Almost all those that stood any showing were from McGlynn's and Main. The two up for President are good. One is in my Latin class, and the other is in miss Buck's English. We were together before. It is raining today--I guess because I have time for outdoor exercise. Our Math class, headed by Miss Wells, measured the height of North Tower the other day. I believe I wrote you so, though. You asked about a week age what group meetings are, Pete. That is the way the Students' Association operates. I think each floor of a quad hall constitutes a group. Each group elects a delegate to the meeting, at which they get their instruction about what to discuss at the next group meeting. A different representative is elected each time. The Hall president is the head of all the groups in that hall. The meetings take place from nne-thirty to ten, and sometimes later. We had prose again yesterday in Latin. The last twenty minutes of the hour are devoted to sight prose. We never had any such thing in high school. Yesterday she gave a translation of some Latin we had read, and we had to turn it back into Latin as idiomatically as we could. I had translated to a girl on my floor about an hour before, so it was rather fresh in my mind, considering we had done it in class about two weeks ago. The girl, I just discovered, is a Jewish Presbyterian. I almost laughed in her face when she told me she was going to the Pres. Church in town on Town Sunday--she does not belong to the church, really, she says, but her family do. We had two Roosevelt lectures in chapel that were not very good, that is, what I heard was not very good. I got a commencement present from Mrs. A. L. Weil yesterday. It is some sort of fancy hanger.I am going to take tomorrow night off and write letters. I got a letter from Pill last night, giving me some dope about Bryn Mawr. Hope you see her at the Harvard game, Pete. She is sure I cannot be as busy as she is--I am sure She cannot be as busy as I am. Her paper had the college seal on it. She wrote in parenthesis takes only three what she calls Main subjects--Economics, Latin, and English. In addition to that she is tutoring in German and Latin poetry. Evidently her September exams were unsuccessful. They had the Belgian Queen there. Otherwise nothing new, except that the hour is up. Without being homseick[sic] or anything like that, I am looking foward to November 15. Love, Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Aaron, 402 S. Winebiddle Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa.P. O. Box 882, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: Oct. 9
Text: [Oct 9] Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: Marse's letter certainly was interesting, Pete. I am sorry that one of the passages that i could not make out was the reference to me. Mother, I cannot tell you yet whether I want to go to Boston or not immediately. I would like to do that, if I don't come home. I sort of thought that I would like to come home and let Dr. Sanes look me over. It will depend of course on how I am feeling. Can't you possibly come East a week later. Sophomore...
Show more[Oct 9] Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: Marse's letter certainly was interesting, Pete. I am sorry that one of the passages that i could not make out was the reference to me. Mother, I cannot tell you yet whether I want to go to Boston or not immediately. I would like to do that, if I don't come home. I sort of thought that I would like to come home and let Dr. Sanes look me over. It will depend of course on how I am feeling. Can't you possibly come East a week later. Sophomore Party is the night of Saturday, October 30. I don't see how I could possibly decently miss it, besides which, I don't want to miss it. Or could you come a week sooner? If it were not that we want to get the coat, I would suggest that you come up here. You would enjoy the party very much, I am sure, inasmuch as all the acting and everything is going to be done by my class. The Freshmen come in masquerade, you know. R.S.V.P. I aksed some time if you remembered what happened to my thermometer? Do you remember? It is a good thing to have around. I slept quite late this morning, then I dusted my room(!) and did some Spanish. I had intended to do more studying but Harriet Haynes came up with some more typing for Sophomore Party and she was in a hurry for it, so I just did it for her. I certainly am doing my share of the work for that affair. The only thing I don't like about it is that I probably won't get into the performance itself. Of course, my services in this capacity are probably a lot more useful than they would be in any form of acting, but nevertheless I would like to be on the stage with most of the others in the class. Yesterday afternoon I had my hair washed at Jane Wilson's, got my blankets and bath-robe and brought them home, then walked to town with Elizabeth Dinkey, or Braddock, Pa. We rode home. The street-car is all right, now. Last night I went to hear the violincellist, Maurice Marechal. I enjoyed the concert very much, (please don't laugh) and tried desperately to educate myself along a most needed line. I then paid my bi-weekly call on Dr. Baldwin. After that I got into my little trundle-bed. I hope to read about three quarters of Kim" this afternoon. Wishing you the same. I did not have Eva Vogel in Sunday School. I got a "thank you for your good wishes" calling card from A. Kaufman.
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: Oct. 28
Text: [addressed to Hotel Traymore] [Oct. 28] Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: This letter reminds me that I am out of both typewriter paper and envelopes. Excuse the paper, Pete. Helen is in here waiting to be entertained. It is a dreary day and I think it has gotten her freshman spirits. Thanks for the political literature, Pete. I shall read it this afternoon. I went over to Students' last night to hear Sophomore Party rehearsal. It is going to be splendid. There are lots of people who are...
Show more[addressed to Hotel Traymore] [Oct. 28] Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: This letter reminds me that I am out of both typewriter paper and envelopes. Excuse the paper, Pete. Helen is in here waiting to be entertained. It is a dreary day and I think it has gotten her freshman spirits. Thanks for the political literature, Pete. I shall read it this afternoon. I went over to Students' last night to hear Sophomore Party rehearsal. It is going to be splendid. There are lots of people who are fairly important in the class who are on committees, so I don't feel quite as disgusted with not being in it as I did before. I overslept this morning and consequently only got the three rolls for breakfast which Helen Reid brought up for me. And then of course we had to have a baked bean lunch. In history this morning Miss Salmon talked about our false idea of faculty authority. It was very elucidating in connection with American History. I have lab this afternoon. I certainly haven't hurt myself studying this week. I don't think I have done three hours actual studying. I got so far ahead in English and Ec last week without knowing it that I haven't had any work to do all week in those two subjects. And then I did two out of the three assignments for the week in Spanish last Friday before I left. There are never any assignments in Chem or history, and we have two weeks for this topic instead of one. Hence the vacation. That never happened last year. i went eight hour yesterday to hear four members of the Princeton Speakers' Bureau debate the republican and democratic campaigns. McCormick was one democrat and Rhodes and Warmer were the Republicans. I did not get the name of the other democrat. The Republicans were by far the better and they certainly were good. Do you know any of them, Pete? It is funny the way people turn out for the young Princetonians when they only come in about one fourth the numbers to hear politicians who probable have some knowledge that they have gathered from experience. Mary Magennis, president of our Speakers' Bureau, who had charge of them, told some of us that they have the reputation of being the four biggest "Lady-Killers" in P. So it was amusing when Rholdes started out by saying that as he looked over this fine audience he wondered how woman suffrage could have been delayed so long! Love, Fannie
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: Oct. 21
Text: October 21. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I'll have my typewriter back tomorrow, thank goodness. Jane and I went to town this afternoon. I had a lot of things to attend to. One of my errands was a new fountain-pen. This morning when I took out my debate-notes box which I hadn't opened since last April. So I took it along to have a clip put on, and lost it in the car. Isn't that enough to arouse anyone's wrath? We had the easiest biology written I ever hope to see. It was...
Show moreOctober 21. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I'll have my typewriter back tomorrow, thank goodness. Jane and I went to town this afternoon. I had a lot of things to attend to. One of my errands was a new fountain-pen. This morning when I took out my debate-notes box which I hadn't opened since last April. So I took it along to have a clip put on, and lost it in the car. Isn't that enough to arouse anyone's wrath? We had the easiest biology written I ever hope to see. It was almost a joke. I am glad I only studied one hour for it. I have to write a paper for J, due Tuesday, but I play golf tournament on Monday, so I shall have to do it tomorrow. I am up for debate tryouts for tomorrow morning. I read this evening for it. It is not what I should call a thrilling subject. Miss Smith came up to call on me last night. I felt highly honored. I got some of my Colorado Springs arch supports in a drug-store down-town, Mother. They are great, and I certainly was glad to be able to find them. Would you like me to send you some, Mother? You said something about wanting to try them, once. I also bought up all the fruit in town, sent Helen's Shappie some books for her at her request, (he is recovering from appendicitis), bought some dandy woolen stockings, got some stuff at the drug-store, and went with Jane while she got some furniture--all in one hour. As I have remarked before, I have a busy week-end ahead of me. Love, Fannie It was fine to see a note from you in your own hand-writing, Father. Take care of yourself and don't get frisky.
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: Oct. 1
Text: [Oct. 1] Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: Well, the first week of this year is over already. I imagine the other weeks will be less excited than this one have been. Mother, before I forget about it--I have looked everywhere here and fannot find my face stuff. I must have left it at home and I need it again, so will you please send it as soon as possible. Thank you for your telegram, Father. I appreciate knowing when people arrive from automobile trips without accidents. When you are along...
Show more[Oct. 1] Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: Well, the first week of this year is over already. I imagine the other weeks will be less excited than this one have been. Mother, before I forget about it--I have looked everywhere here and fannot find my face stuff. I must have left it at home and I need it again, so will you please send it as soon as possible. Thank you for your telegram, Father. I appreciate knowing when people arrive from automobile trips without accidents. When you are along yourself, you don't worry about such unpleasant things. I am going to town this afternoon. I want to have a cusion (a flat one) made for my desk-chair. I did not do it all last year because I was never sure of being able to stick the year out. I shall start our in another frame of mind this year. I want to have two pictures framed also. Mary Heckel and I are going to call on Bess this evening. I think my work is going to be much more interesting than last year. I think the Chem will come all right. he is starting out on Valence, and this is the one things that I remember very well. Mr. Gorgas drilled it in so hard that one cannot help remembering it. Miss Salmon is not what I would call an animated speaker, but she is not lacking in information. For today we had to hunt up and hand in some data on immigration. For next Friday we have a topic which consists of taking one nationality in this country and doing some research work into the reasons for the various waves of immigration of that nationality. Professor Mills certainly is interesting. If the work follows the same line of close reasoning and picking out logic and fallacies in arguments, I certainly will get as much mental training out of that as I would have out of Math. The girl in Catherine Gardner's old room had four dollars stolen yesterday and the Czecho-Slovak twenty stolen the other day. Here is where I start to lock up. I got three of the Ec. books. I will get plenty of use out of them, and it is a wonderful conservation of energy not to have to chase to the libe all the time. Love, [Fannie]
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1922-11-09
Text: November 9, 1922 Dear Mother, Pather, and Pete: I spent a rather profitable day "topin^ng" yesterday, and had the pleasant diversion of Peggy Higgind' dämpany for dinner. I miss her this year. She is the kind that are rather rare around here--intellectual, without being an intellectual nut, like our present debate chairman. She thinks of transferring to Yale next year--she objects to studying with undergraduates. Incidentally, Pete, she wears around her wrifet both her Phi...
Show more November 9, 1922 Dear Mother, Pather, and Pete: I spent a rather profitable day "topin^ng" yesterday, and had the pleasant diversion of Peggy Higgind' dämpany for dinner. I miss her this year. She is the kind that are rather rare around here--intellectual, without being an intellectual nut, like our present debate chairman. She thinks of transferring to Yale next year--she objects to studying with undergraduates. Incidentally, Pete, she wears around her wrifet both her Phi Bet and D. S. R. keys- My dear intellectual brotner, there are certain things about your mental makeup that I have never been quite able to understand, and one of them is your ridiculous devotion to football. What ''new meaning to life^ado you get from it outside of submerging your own personality in that of the mob? You must be a devotee of mob spirit if it really exhilarates you—and I was never aware that enjoyment of losing oneself in the mob was a characteristic of a high type mind* But yell away--far be it from me to spoil your pleasure. And take a picture of yourself doing it! Football in Itself is indeed a representation of '^refined'' athletics--gentle play for physical development, and no manifestatioaof brute force, or anything like that. But I had better desist, or I will be invited to stay home on the eighteenth! I guess we enjoy games from a different an^le. I like my fur coat very much this way, Mother. I am feeling as strong as usual now, and backto normal as far as the grippe spell is concerned. I v/as going to write to you to send the prunes. You anticipated my thoughts. I'll let you know about theater in a day or so. Have not paid mucii attention to v^hat is worth seeing. I think i*d like to see "Loyalties'' but I'll let you know definitely soon. Pete, how about my giving you the book for your birthday that you suggested giving me. I would like it all right, but I know you ?/ould like it more yourself. And then you give me either waiter Lippman's "Public OpMion" or Oastiglionl's ''The Courtier". I have to read them both in the near future for nistories, and they are both worth owning. If you give me one, do it soon, or it won*t De nere in time- If you don't want to, give me what you first suggested. R. S. V. Lo ve, FannieMorning - 9 until M.A. goes to office, reading M.A's office hours (11:30 to 1:00) office, where I expect to be treated with the respect Lunch] due a V.C. alum. Afternoon a) 1st half - reading. Several days a week French with Mme. D. if possible in aft. b) 2nd half - outdoors A.B. - in golf season (a) gives place to (b). See about M. Morrison corking + sewing. Schedule subject to change to fit M. Morrison if I go. Also, schedule subject to tem-porary cancellation for allowingtrips to Atlantic City, Pinehurst, + other points of interest. This plan must be balanced against a History M.A. I think in view of my health, M. Cone notwithstanding, I shall have to stay home and follow this plan. I (over) think there have been those who have had harder lives. What say you to this product of my brain? Speaking of my brain I feel very intellectually inde-pendent today - having just delivered myself of a personal denunciation + condemnation of the philosophy of Descartes in a written today. "Day by day, in every way, I grow more + more conceited." Aren't I as good as Descartes? Sure mike! [Su], Father? You will recommend Cone, will you?
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1920-11-09
Text: Noveber 9, 1920 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I hope I shall never be busier than i am this week. Everything seems to pile up at once. I spent all last evening and an hour this morning studying for the Spanish exam, and I hope to find time to spend at least another hour on it. Speakers' Bureau comes tonight, and I have not outlined my speech yet. The French Club drive somes Thursday, and I shall have to spend at least an hour on that, if not more. I gathered up the eight posters...
Show moreNoveber 9, 1920 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I hope I shall never be busier than i am this week. Everything seems to pile up at once. I spent all last evening and an hour this morning studying for the Spanish exam, and I hope to find time to spend at least another hour on it. Speakers' Bureau comes tonight, and I have not outlined my speech yet. The French Club drive somes Thursday, and I shall have to spend at least an hour on that, if not more. I gathered up the eight posters yesterday from the people I had recruited to make them. I then spent some more time going around the various halls hanging them up. When I got back at none today there was a note on my door from Helen Gratz telling me to go to North tonight for dinner and make a speech there. The French government has presented us with a veteran thank, all banged up and camouflaged, in honor of the work done by the Vassar Unit at Verdun. The tank arrived Saturday and is reposing on the Josselyn field. A man whose name I could not make out, representing the French government, is going to dedicate it Thursday, amid much singing of the Marseilleise and the Star Spangled Banner, etc. I am to make a speech on that tonight. If it were any other night of the week, it would not be so bad. That is what I get for signing up for Speakers' Bureau and making a success of it. I suppose when I have gotten speaking in a dingin-hall[sic] over with for the first time, I wont have such stage-fright, but I surely have it today. I am supposed to work on scenery committee of First Hall, but I am afraid I'll have to back out. It means giving up an awful lot of sleep and I doubt if I am capable of doing that yet. Mr. Kaufmann's report of me is true with a grain of allowance. I haven't been fine for a long time, to my knowledge, at least. But I am as good as I have been for a long time. Mother, why do you say you'll have a blue fit until I get home? Do you expect my train to be wrecked, too? Incidentally, Mr. Kaufmann didn't say that Lucy was fine, did he? She looks like a wreck and acts worse. I don't know what is the matter with her. She has terrible rings under her eyes and just looks in a bad way generally. Jeannette and Edith have talked themselves hoarse to her and all they get for it is the information that it is none of their business. She stayes up till midnight quite regularly, and is about a thousand times more nervous than usual, if possible. If she had not just seen her father, I would get you to tell her mother to write to her and tell her to be careful. In case you say anything, be careful not to get me in wrong for telling tales. I don't know Rober Frank's fiancee, but whoever she is, I am sorry for her. Love, Fannie
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 11/9/19
Text: Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I spent yesterday in a very unexcited way, taking my sweet time getting all sorts of work done. Ther is my idea of a week-end rest. I did the same today. Somehow or other this paper tore--excuse it please. I spent four hours on Mondays French. I think that woman is cracked. I had intended to call on Miss Cowley today, but I left the library at then after five. I thought it was much earlier. I think it is very bad form to call so near supper time, is it not? I...
Show moreDear Mother, Father, and Pete: I spent yesterday in a very unexcited way, taking my sweet time getting all sorts of work done. Ther is my idea of a week-end rest. I did the same today. Somehow or other this paper tore--excuse it please. I spent four hours on Mondays French. I think that woman is cracked. I had intended to call on Miss Cowley today, but I left the library at then after five. I thought it was much earlier. I think it is very bad form to call so near supper time, is it not? I did not want to risk it, at any rate. I got my history done for Tuesday. That means I have worked ahead as much as possible. The week ought not to be so rushed, although I imagine that we will have a bunch of quizzes the Monday after I get back. I went up late yesterday afternoon to get a Cap and Gown. Everybody was out except Duffie Schulman. She has a very keen perception--haha, and discovered that I was rather disguested with my work and things in general, and she absolutely made me go off campus with her and Lucy and Marjorie Peck for dinner. I did not want to go, but it was really a good thing for me. At any rate she and I ran most of the way back, and dropped into my seat just before the doors were locked and as the choir was starting to march down. I never want to make such close connections again. I am glad that I stuck to my idea of wearing a cap and gown. I fully expected to find half the class rigged up in them, but there were only two others. I guess they all thought that everybody else would be doing it, so decided not to. Duffie offered me her [???] key, but I thought it might be taken seriously. The performance was much better than the sophomore one--it was held together much better. The scene opened with a bunch of girls waving their high school diplomas. Then they sit down and wonder what they are going to do with themselves. Then various scenes appear, and as each one finds her work, she gets up and leaves the stage. Clifford Sellers, Junior President, whom you know, Mother, is the only one left. Suddenly she decides she wants to go to college. She stays on the stage, while a sort of spirit announces all the things good and bad in college. As each one comes in the large scale in the background, balances to geood then bad, etc. The scenes were awefully well worked out, beautifully costumed, and well acted. Some of them were parting from home, friends made at college, who by the way were perfect take-offs on about twenty girls in out class, cramming for exams, field day, ice carnival, English speech classes, Junior prom, errors of a exam in Hygiene lectures, Phi Beta Kappa awards, etc. It was awefully good.The take-off on Dr. T. in her lectures was perfect only it made me think that I had not taken as many notes as might be necessary. The other says I should not try to draw a moral lesson from everything. In the Junior prom stunt, Clifford Sellers asks if they have men for that. The answer is, if you are lucky enough. Then the various men appear, all of whom have some good reason for not being able to come. The Harvard law student in Cap and Gown in too busy, the supposedly good looking but rather sissified Princetonian says he would like to, but since the Fifth Debate of Vassar, he is afraid his mental capulties are not equal too it, and big Yale athlete, who got some applause, says he is not able to come, because he has eight dates, finally the brother is asked, and he is willing to risk it. He then comes in, and falls over himself and his feet generally. I think that scene, the Hygiene lecture, and the Ice Carnical, which was beautiful, and the take-offs on the Freshmen, took best. At the end Clifford Sellers presented us with the banner of the odd classes and Olive Watkins accepted it. Rrefreshments[sic] and dancing till ten-forty-five followed. Lucy was on the Food Committee, so I toted Marjorie Peck around till she was able to come back. Lucy has certainly been good enough to me, so I thought I better do that. I never saw a kid have such a good time. Henrietta Seitner just came up to invite me to tea in Senior Parlor Tuesday afternoon. Her Aunt Selina is to be here. Did you say you sent my laundry special delivery? It is not here yet. Love, [Fannie]
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1921-11-08
Text: November 8, 1921 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: Debate practice was terrible last night. I came home right after it and went to bed instead of working, but I actually feel rested today. I have another very full day today. The long deferred letter from Wellesley arrived. I can't hand it too much. Spelling seems to be a minor part of her life. Wishing you the same, I remain, Yours truly, Fannie

Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1922-11-07
Text: [addressed to Hotel Traymore] November 7, 1922 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: Just got a note from Peggy Higgins. She is up for the day. We are going off together for dinner tonight. Yesterday was a very successful day, academically speaking. Millsy told me that I wrote a "splendid paper, a very high A paper" in the written we had recently. Hope I do likewise on the other written of the semester, and my chance of getting into Seminar will cease to be a chance. Also had a conference...
Show more[addressed to Hotel Traymore] November 7, 1922 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: Just got a note from Peggy Higgins. She is up for the day. We are going off together for dinner tonight. Yesterday was a very successful day, academically speaking. Millsy told me that I wrote a "splendid paper, a very high A paper" in the written we had recently. Hope I do likewise on the other written of the semester, and my chance of getting into Seminar will cease to be a chance. Also had a conference with Miss Winifred Smith on my choice of semester topic. I am going to do "Censorship" of the Stage in Englad and America in the lest twenty years". She said it is rather hard to do because the material is so extremely scattered and necessitiates using the files of the newspapers and periodicals, and she would not let me do it if it were not that she had confidence in my ability to do such work--and then she went on to say that of course a student of "my maturity and background" would treat in philosophically rather than as a list of facts! "DAY BY DAY IN EVERY WAY I AM GROWING MORE AND MORE CONCEITED--COUE! I started my semester topic in Renaisance last night--The Papacy and Freedome of Thought from 1300 to 1500. That too is very hard to find predigested material for. But this is my last year, and I might as well learn to do some moderately hard work. My Tolerance topic will have something to do with passive resistance--I don't know just what yet. My topic for Millsy will be on my friends the Jews. Altogether I shall have plenty of hard work, but I think it is going to be quite interesting. I shall spend most of my time between now and Christmas on these topics. Pete, I once told you that Preserved Smith is Gertrude Smith's brother--but it is winifred (English) instead. How do you like the enclosed schedule? I am receiving my laundry all right, Mother, but I never got the bath-mat that I sent home once, and asked for later in a letter. I just came into a fortune today. I lost my pen the other day and bought another, and found my old one on the sidewalk this morning. Speaking of my fortune reminds me that I have only fifty dollars left in my account and would like to have some more deposited as soon as possible, please. Please let me know when you do it, Father. I don't want to have any notice from the bank that my account is overdrawn, so don't forget. Nothing much new--otherwise. I wrote several times that I expect to come down for the game, Mother--and hope you'll be in New York, and go, too. I'll take the 4:13--due 6 P. M., Friday. Love, Fannie
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 11/7/19
Text: November 7, 1919. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I just came in from a long walk, and I feel great. It was a wonderful, cold day. Some doctor whose name I did not get lectured in hygiene today. He said more in one lecture than Dr. T. has said in five. I forgot to tell you that our stunt with great success in the maids' club Thursday night, I mean Wednesday night. I got rigged up in my grand whiskers and moustache before I left here, and we surely had some fun going through Maine and...
Show moreNovember 7, 1919. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I just came in from a long walk, and I feel great. It was a wonderful, cold day. Some doctor whose name I did not get lectured in hygiene today. He said more in one lecture than Dr. T. has said in five. I forgot to tell you that our stunt with great success in the maids' club Thursday night, I mean Wednesday night. I got rigged up in my grand whiskers and moustache before I left here, and we surely had some fun going through Maine and across campus. The janitor, electrician, etc. in the hall in Main came close to splitting. I did not know I looked as funny as all that. I had the conference with Miss Thallon last night. She was awefully nice. Judging by the expression on her face and her apparent satisfaction as she went over the thing I juste she was pleased with the thoroughness with which I did the stuff. She had only one of two correction to make. She said my bibliography was very good. She also asked what reference books I have been using for class work. I told her. She was well satisfied. Then I asked her if she would mind telling me what kind of work I was doing. I explained that I had no idea. She looked at her grade book, smiled, and said I had absolutely no cause for worry. I knew I was not flunking, but I could not ask her any more. I simply wanted to know whether it was B or C work. They say that they have given up the closed mark system, but they have only to a certain extent. The only papers that I ever get back that are graded are French and Math, and th less said about French marks the better. Lucy's Jeannette came up to see me today! I am going to celebrate tomorrow by getting a shampoo. Please don't send any food in the next laundry either. I mention it in time. I went up to see Phyll after lunhc[sic]. Hermother will be up next week-end before going South. Her roommate walked part way back with me, and she informed me that Phyllis has been in the dumps the last few days. I never though she would get that way. She swears she won't go to see Miss Breene Christmas vacation. I am not the only one who had troubles in work. Love, [Fannie] Today is Helen Meid's birthday, so that means no work tonight. I played basket-ball outdoors yesterday. It was great. I was pushed around on a bike for a few minutes after that--I think I'll learn.
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1920-11-06
Text: November 6, 1920. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I gave Honorable Corona a good oiling yesterday. Let's see what that will do. Your letter and enclosed letter certainly were interesting, Pete. I got it before starting out on a walk yesterday afternoon. When we were about a third of the way back from the cider-mill I discovered that I had it no longer, so we went back and found it on the fence where he had been sitting. It was so full of names that I thought it would be unfortunate not...
Show moreNovember 6, 1920. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I gave Honorable Corona a good oiling yesterday. Let's see what that will do. Your letter and enclosed letter certainly were interesting, Pete. I got it before starting out on a walk yesterday afternoon. When we were about a third of the way back from the cider-mill I discovered that I had it no longer, so we went back and found it on the fence where he had been sitting. It was so full of names that I thought it would be unfortunate not to find it. There is one thing I object to, though. Don't infer from Margaret's history course that Wellesley is superior to Vassar. I had precious little less than her assignments in French last year. I call your attention to the fact that French is a foreign language, and that it is a sophomore course. One member of our walking party yesterday was an assistant in the botany department here, a Wellesley '20 girl. She says that the beauty of their campus consists in the lake and hills, that the buildings are not so much. Where did you finish your supper? I can't imagine talking a person into the parlor here and finishing a picnic supper! I slept too late this morning to get breakfast and did not bother to make any. I went to the libe and worked for two hours and my next history topic, "Like on a Southern Plantation". Working on an empty stomach is a very poor idea though, and I am not very keep about it. It is a glorious day, again. I am going for a walk now, and then I am going to spend the rest of the afternoon in the libe. The Freshmen in Davison gave their annual stunt-party to the sophs and juniors last night. It was very good, a take-off on the librarians, cahpel[sic] preachers, faculty conducting evening cahpel[sic], the night-watchman, fire-drills, etc. Love, Fannie
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1922-11-05
Text: [Addressed to Hotel Traymore] November 5, 1922 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: Senior Parlor surely was a bore yesterday afternoon--we didn't have the entertainment of faculty clothes, I guess! Jane staid for dinner and then at ten o'clock I yielded to her coaxing to sleep in North with her. We talked till------, but it was great to be with her for a while again. We slept late this morning and then got some breakfast at Cary's, and came back to her room and worked till dinner...
Show more[Addressed to Hotel Traymore] November 5, 1922 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: Senior Parlor surely was a bore yesterday afternoon--we didn't have the entertainment of faculty clothes, I guess! Jane staid for dinner and then at ten o'clock I yielded to her coaxing to sleep in North with her. We talked till------, but it was great to be with her for a while again. We slept late this morning and then got some breakfast at Cary's, and came back to her room and worked till dinner time. Living at the farthest ends of the campus and having a roommate with whom I have nothing in common certainly prevents out seeing last year's worth of each other. She is thinking quite seriously of coming to Pittsburgh Christmas vacation. Did you know that Helen Klee's roommate flunked out of Wellesley in Jane? She says Helen has a safe margin. I was surprised at that, but I did not tell her so. Caroline Whitney, (Phi Bet refuser) is engaged to an Austrian student whom she met in Europe this summer. Miss Gilman, whom I took to Senior Parlor, is a cousin of hers. She says Carolinenever had any use for men till this summer, but she surely went in for them intensively in Europe. If you knew her, you would be surprise that she was satisfied with an Austrian, instead of a Russian Bolshevik! Love, Fannie[enc w/ 5 Nov 1922] Dear Mother: I shall proceed to answer questions. My fur-coat came some time ago. I am enclosing the check for it. I am through with my make-up work, but I have to get started on my semester topics now. I am due next Saturday, November 11, and I am hardly ever late. I am early, if anything. My pleasure, of course, is to have you go to the ame, too--if you want to. It would be great to all be together I understood that you had to go to New York for your shoes and would be there the week-end of the eighteenth, even if you did not go to the game. Isn't that your present plan? I was counting on having that week-end with you, anyhow. What I do Thanksgiving depends upon several things--for one thing, what you do. I was sort of taking it for granted that if you were away three or fourweeks now you would have gone home by that time. How about it! Is there still a chance of your being East then, in Atlantic or New York? If I don't see you the eighteenth, and you are still around the East Thanksgiving, I would rather be with you than go to Baltimore. I have not heard from Dorothy since the week of college, but I take for granted she still wants me. I know she is as poor a correspondent as I am--nevertheless I would not go there without hearing from her again. As she might be so swamped with work that she wouldn't [want] me--she doesn't get a vacation for TH. Another difficulty is that I can't get down to New York till Wednesday at six, so that I would probably have to wait till Thursday morning to go to B. I would look up train connections for there, before deciding. If I would leave there late Sunday morning or noon, so as to catch the six o'clocl (the latest we are allowed) I should say it would be worth doing. Let me know what you intend to do. My old troubles have started with a vengeance. Bran and fruit are no longer of any avail. It started in the Infirm and has grown daily worse. The food is no longer as helpful as it was at first. I felt quite miserable from it for several days, but finally last night dosed up vehemently on Cascara, and fee[l] a little better today. I am terrifically disappointed--that means I am doomed till June now, and I had been feeling so well in that respect until two weeks ago. It started all or a sudden. Have you that Cascara, Nux, and Bella Donna prescription? If so, please send it to me. I really don't know what to take. What would you advise? R. S. V. P. My other pain is largely dependent on this, so it is absolutely essential that I take something that is effective early in the morning. Love, Fannie
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1920-11-05
Text: November 5, 1920. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I just came and saw a note for a special delivery. I guess it is the dress. I hope you didn't have to rush terribly to get it. I am going to walk to the cider mill this afternoon. It is a gorgeous day. I think I am capable of doing it. The only way to find out it to try, I guess. The Ec instructor was a little better today, but not much. The history topic for next week is one of the following; the New England town meeting, life on the...
Show moreNovember 5, 1920. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I just came and saw a note for a special delivery. I guess it is the dress. I hope you didn't have to rush terribly to get it. I am going to walk to the cider mill this afternoon. It is a gorgeous day. I think I am capable of doing it. The only way to find out it to try, I guess. The Ec instructor was a little better today, but not much. The history topic for next week is one of the following; the New England town meeting, life on the Southern plantation, life in a California mining camp, or one of a few others that are not so interesting: The topic for the following week is "Survivals of the Frontier". Helen is going to New York today. Her father is waiting to meet her to get her a fur coat. She was over in Main last night to dinner with Emily Welch, president of Main, a and her room-mate Isabel Grimes of Pittsburgh, whose mother is a very good friend of Helen's aunt. She ought to feel quite cocky. They are two of the biggest girls in the senior class. Now Lester, please don't ask what they weigh. I hunted eagerly for your letter this morning, Pete, but it had not arrived yet. I wanted to hear about you know what. Ha ha! I am going to Jo's French class Monday morning. It is the course in contemporary French literature given by Mlle Monnier, the best member of the department. I did not realize before that it comes in one of my free hours, and it is a class well worth attending once in a while. I'll get my ticket all right. Don't worry about it. Are you sure K. I. will be home? Please make sure if you are not. Would it meet with your approval if I wrote to Aunt Bessie. It might be that she would be coming in for dinner and meeting Uncle Ike and going to theater, as they do quite often. In which case I would do likewise and take the eleven-thirty. Otherwise I would leave here on the three-fifty-eight and take the eight-thirty home. R. S. V. P. I'll tell her not to inconvenience herself. Love, Fannie
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1922-11-04
Text: [Addressed to Hotel Traymore] November 4, 1922 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: We had our Cap and Gown class picture taken this morning. It does not seem three years since Freshman picture! I am glad we went to Senior Parlor last night. It certainly is a dumb performance, but it was worth the price of admission, figuratively speaking, to see the creations that some of the faculty wore. Miss Cowley had a sky blue evening dress that I am sure hasn't been made over since she was in colly...
Show more[Addressed to Hotel Traymore] November 4, 1922 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: We had our Cap and Gown class picture taken this morning. It does not seem three years since Freshman picture! I am glad we went to Senior Parlor last night. It certainly is a dumb performance, but it was worth the price of admission, figuratively speaking, to see the creations that some of the faculty wore. Miss Cowley had a sky blue evening dress that I am sure hasn't been made over since she was in colly dumb to get all dressed up in evening dress just to go up there for an hour and stand around in a jammed full room. This afternoon I take Jane and repeat the performance. The rest of the day I shall work, I think. Love, Fannie
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1921-11-04
Text: November 4, 1921 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: We had debate practice last night and I was rotten. They pick the speakers over the week-end. I stand a very good chance of not being one. I had a cut in English this morning, which meant no classes until 11:30. I got practically all my work for Monday done. I am going on the 4:13. It is not nearly as exciting or rushy as last year, when I used to have to take my suitcase around to classes and then rush off in a taxi for the train. There is...
Show moreNovember 4, 1921 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: We had debate practice last night and I was rotten. They pick the speakers over the week-end. I stand a very good chance of not being one. I had a cut in English this morning, which meant no classes until 11:30. I got practically all my work for Monday done. I am going on the 4:13. It is not nearly as exciting or rushy as last year, when I used to have to take my suitcase around to classes and then rush off in a taxi for the train. There is nothing interesting to write, unfortunately. I expect to spend most of my time at Aunt Bessie's in the usual way-sleeping. I still have had no letter from the honorable Margaret. Love, Fannie
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1920-11-04
Text: November 4, 1920. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: Judging by your letter, Father, you were in an accident about which i read nothing. I did not know an awful lot about it after I finished but I am glad that you were not hurt. Did the train jump the tracks, or what? R. S. V. P. I shall be very busy today. I have lab and I have to write that chem paper. I got started on my English topic yesterday afternoon, "the gods of ancient Ireland", and there surely were enough of them. I don...
Show moreNovember 4, 1920. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: Judging by your letter, Father, you were in an accident about which i read nothing. I did not know an awful lot about it after I finished but I am glad that you were not hurt. Did the train jump the tracks, or what? R. S. V. P. I shall be very busy today. I have lab and I have to write that chem paper. I got started on my English topic yesterday afternoon, "the gods of ancient Ireland", and there surely were enough of them. I don't see how they ever kept them straight. We are having wonderful weather. Thanks for the clipping, Pete. Lucy wrote an article for the Pittsburch papers--I don't know whether it appeared or not. I have not time to write more, besides which, I don't know anything else. Love, [Fannie]
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 11/4/19
Text: November 4, 1919. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: Fool Champy assigned some reading yesterday to be done for today. Two copies of the book are to be found in the library, and one copy she has out. The lesson was assigned to two classes. I practically lost two hours and a half trying to get hold of the book. I told her so. She told me it was too bad, I could read the stuff next time! She returned some compositions today. As usual she told the class that there was room for much improvement, but...
Show moreNovember 4, 1919. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: Fool Champy assigned some reading yesterday to be done for today. Two copies of the book are to be found in the library, and one copy she has out. The lesson was assigned to two classes. I practically lost two hours and a half trying to get hold of the book. I told her so. She told me it was too bad, I could read the stuff next time! She returned some compositions today. As usual she told the class that there was room for much improvement, but mine was very good. I got a B on it. I was assigned to an English conference with Miss Kitchel tomorrow morning. The history one comes Thursday evening. I was very busy in the library most of the afternoon yesterday, as I said before. After that I had to go to a stunt party rehearsal. The performance came off with great success, particularly the stunt I was in. It was very sill, i admit. I was gotten up so that some of the kids did not know me. I had a man's hat, spectacles, whickers, moustache, white shirt and read[sic] necktie, huge blue overalls, and big tan shoes. We are to repeat three of the stunts at the Maids' Club tonight. I could use the time to much better advantage, but I could not refuse. As far as i can make out, the more reading we do for English the merrier, and the better for our grades. That is all very well, except that I am very much limited for time, and I don't see how I can get very much done. Edith Lowman told me she saw Bertha in New York. I wonder if she is coming up here. I hope to get time to play basket-ball today. Lester, a long time ago you gave me some sort of advice about keeping a certain kind of notebook and writing up notes in it. What was the advice? It would take forever to look through your letters and find it, and I should like to know. Love, [Fannie]
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1922-11-03
Text: [Addressed to Hotel Traymore] Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: Took my philosophy and Renaissance make-up writtens this morning, so after I finished writing some stuff for Drama this afternoon I will be completely caught up with class work--but not with work on Semester topics. I am feeling practically normal again--not quite as strong as usual and still have a slight cold. Otherwise all is well. Love, Fannie November 3

Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1920-11-03
Text: November 3, 1920. Dear Mother, Father, and pete: I finished my topic on the boundaries of Pennsylvania last night. It took almost ten hours and I cannot say that it interested me particularly. I was wishing the whole time that they had not had so many squabbles over their boundaries and then the topic would not have taken me so long. We had a lengthy Students' meeting last night. The joint committee of faculty and students have been working all fall on the new plan for attendance at...
Show moreNovember 3, 1920. Dear Mother, Father, and pete: I finished my topic on the boundaries of Pennsylvania last night. It took almost ten hours and I cannot say that it interested me particularly. I was wishing the whole time that they had not had so many squabbles over their boundaries and then the topic would not have taken me so long. We had a lengthy Students' meeting last night. The joint committee of faculty and students have been working all fall on the new plan for attendance at classes and they made some changes from the plan which we submitted to them last spring. They wanted to bring the new plan before us before submitting it to the faculty. There was a lot of bickering, as you would say, Pete. The main change was that you can cut before and after week-ends at college but not away from college without a warden's excuse. I don't think I approve very heartily of the new system. I think the reason our standards here are higher than at other women's colleges is because we have stricter rules about attendence at classes. After the meeting we came back here and studied for a while, and then went over and listened to election returns from ten to eleven. I cannot say that it was particularly exciting. Every now and then there would be a favorable Cox return and I would think of Pete and Lucy, but otherwise the monotony was unbroken. I am so glad you went home to vote, Mother. Judging by the paper this morning, you certainly were needed. I had another Spanish conference with Senorita Agostini this morning. She is a wonder. We had a chem cut this morning, because the paper we have to write for Friday will take a very long time. It is a wonderful day. I am going to take a walk now and then spend the rest of the afternoon in the libe starting out on my English topic. I feel back to normal again. I realize that that is not very good English. We have the new Ec instructor, and six weeks of her is just six weeks too much. She looks like a mess and doesn't know too much. She had planned to follow our outline book beautifully, but we were inconsiderate enough to ask her some questions not in the book. She was all balled up, and finally she said, "The reason I cannot make this clear to you is that I don't know wnough about it myself". Later, when someone asked her something she evidently could not answer, she said, "I prefer not to spend class time on this point". Love, Fannie
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1922-11-27
Text: Monday, November 27, 1922 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: Before I forget it, how would you like Thomson's "history of Science" for your wedding anniversary. It is spoken of by people who are reading it, Miss Ellery, for instance, in even higher terms than Van Loon and Wells. She says every educated person should read it--so you had better want it! If you have not read it about, see last Sunday's magazine section of the Times--full page add. I have no comments to make...
Show moreMonday, November 27, 1922 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: Before I forget it, how would you like Thomson's "history of Science" for your wedding anniversary. It is spoken of by people who are reading it, Miss Ellery, for instance, in even higher terms than Van Loon and Wells. She says every educated person should read it--so you had better want it! If you have not read it about, see last Sunday's magazine section of the Times--full page add. I have no comments to make about Dr. F's letter--I think the only thing to do is to go ahead with it, don't you? So consider that final as far as my end of it goes, and let me know what your final conclusion and plans are. Ivan Half's Poughkeepsie gentleman called up last night. Having just emerged from an operation in the Vassar Brothers' Hospital he is leaving for home for good. He wanted to come out last night to say goodbye, but I was not sufficiently interested and pled an unbreakable engagement--it happened to be with Rand's Modern Classical Philosphers"! I saw the bright article by Mr. A. B. See as well as various subsequent answers to it. I wonder if Marse agrees with the gentleman! Helen Stern graduated last year. She is a lovely girl. She is a N. Y'er--Ethical Culturist, not Jewish! I made a faux pas to Eleanor Wolfe in that connection not long ago, and she informed me of herself that she is not Jewish! I know H. S. fairly well--well enough to have to give her a Commencement present last year. I am staying here for Thanksgiving--as far as I know! Will return Dr. F's letter in my next--am in great hurry now. Love, Fannie
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 11/24/19
Text: November 24, 1919. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I hope you enjoyed the telephone conversation yesterday, because it was not what I would call satisfactory. I did not hear you plainly at all. I had planned to get a lot of work done yesterday, but somehow or other, a thousand different things kept me from it. One thing I did accomplish, though. We called on Miss Thallon, and left our cards--she was out. We then proceeded to Miss Palmer's house, where there were about twenty others. Her...
Show moreNovember 24, 1919. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I hope you enjoyed the telephone conversation yesterday, because it was not what I would call satisfactory. I did not hear you plainly at all. I had planned to get a lot of work done yesterday, but somehow or other, a thousand different things kept me from it. One thing I did accomplish, though. We called on Miss Thallon, and left our cards--she was out. We then proceeded to Miss Palmer's house, where there were about twenty others. Her two nephews were visiting her, and they certainly tried desperately to appear at ease. I imagine there is only one thing stiffer than calling on the head warden, and that is calling on the dean. I expect to have that sensation tonight. I then landed at Miss Cowley's. She talked her head off, as usual, and fed us up on tea and cake. I spent last night working on a doll's dress. The college dresses about a thousand dolls for Christmas for poor kids in Poughkeepsie. The minister was pretty good yesterday morning, that is he cracked enough jokes to keep me awake. I sat forward, so I was actually able to hear. Helen Reid's parents are coming on Tuesday to stay in Poug-h-keepsie as long as they can stand it. She surely is excited. Dorothea passed her Solid Geometry exam on a B. I heard today that Clifford Sellers' died. Her two brothers were killed in the war, and her mother is dead. He is supposed to have died while she was acting Saturday night in the Workshop Plays. I saw the dress rehearsal of those plays Saturday afternoon. They are very good, and there is some very fine acting in them--particularly Clifford Sellers'. The price of admission is the promise to write and send in criticism. I wish Wednesday were here. Love, [Fannie]
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: [1922-11-23]
Text: [23 Nov 1922] Dear Pete, Mother and Father--anything for variety: I remember to wire you before Pete's letter reminding me of the great event arrived! I would call you up tonight except for the fact that I saw you so recently--also I went to go to Junior Sophomore debate. Dr. Conklin had a big crowd, Pete, but I think most of them got cuts in various courses to go. I belive[sic] I promised you one of these snapshots at home, Father. I had to have a cophy made for the Vassarion, so I got...
Show more[23 Nov 1922] Dear Pete, Mother and Father--anything for variety: I remember to wire you before Pete's letter reminding me of the great event arrived! I would call you up tonight except for the fact that I saw you so recently--also I went to go to Junior Sophomore debate. Dr. Conklin had a big crowd, Pete, but I think most of them got cuts in various courses to go. I belive[sic] I promised you one of these snapshots at home, Father. I had to have a cophy made for the Vassarion, so I got several. Helen and I walked to town yesterday. I got Louise's birthday present. What's new with the doctor? Love, Fannie Thursday[enc w/ 23 Nov 1922] Dear Mother: I left the corals at Zimmer's, the big jewelry store here, to find out what it would cost to make the string six inches longer with the medium sized corals. They will let me know Wednesday. he says they are very fine corals and he thinks it will be pretty expensive. I won't do anything till I hear from you. Would you see about it at Grogan's or somewhere, or should I wait till you or I get to Atlantic? R. S. V. P. I told him they cost only $20, so he wouldn't charge too much, and he said they are very good and should have cost about $40--were you bluffing me?Mother Mother
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