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Aaron, Fannie -- to Mother and Father, April 6,1922
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Apr. 6. Dear Mother + Father: Feel better today. By tonight I will have finished the reading on my hist. topic. Hurrah! Humor - our Pgh. Freshman was at the play of the Temple players Sunday night. Says she - "Such a crowd of people as are around that Temple these days - it's terrible" Question - just what is the basis for snobbery? I suppose cleaning Folks' shoes!! Fannie Nothing new today Mrs. Marcus Aaron, 402 S. Winebiddle Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa.
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Aaron, Fannie -- to Mrs. Marcus Aaron, n.d. [postmarked May 23, 1921]
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Had rain + a very cool trip whole way. Just going out to 6 PM train now. Father taking 7:45 [from] Poughkeepsie. Love, Fannie Take care of yourself - advice from the old lady.Mrs. Marcus Aaron,. Hotel Ambassador, Atlantic City, N.J.
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Fitt, Harriet (Bradley) — to mother, February 18, 1910
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Feb 18 - 10 Vassar College Dear Mother, Such a mushy, slushy day! The walks are three inches deep in sleet, but it is better than snow. A fancy dancing class for freshmen is being organized. Heretofore only juniors and seniors have had it.Of course I am going. Tonight is the first meeting of the [F. D.?] dance committee. I did not know how glad I was going to be that I am to be on it -- Class bell again, this time -- History. I had a very nice letter from Billy Rafferty this week. He wants me...
Show moreFeb 18 - 10 Vassar College Dear Mother, Such a mushy, slushy day! The walks are three inches deep in sleet, but it is better than snow. A fancy dancing class for freshmen is being organized. Heretofore only juniors and seniors have had it.Of course I am going. Tonight is the first meeting of the [F. D.?] dance committee. I did not know how glad I was going to be that I am to be on it -- Class bell again, this time -- History. I had a very nice letter from Billy Rafferty this week. He wants me to come to the hop on March 5, the first [plebe?] hop, and also to the fencing inter collegiate in New York next week. That is Third Hall Play, so of course I would not want to anyway. What do you think about the hop?Nine-o’clock - after committee meeting. It is truly wonderful, and I am more than glad to be on it. The girls are interesting, intelligent, original, enthusiastic. Of course the freshman members have practically no responsibility. My sub-committee is decorations. Cherry blossoms are the thing which appeal just now, with a great deal of [...] wor[t?] and smilax. The dance is given in the Main dining room, and there are many problems - gas lights, and so forth, restricted funds -- which we have to meet: and I love it. Just now the business in hand is canvassing to find who are to be here. The date is April 29 - not May - which at first gave me a fright. Mother, this may not mean much in a way, but it does in another -- I am in, I am doing something which is part of thewhole college interest, and makes me feel that I really belong. Last night Isabel [Beaver?] and Ruth Washburn gave a very pretty dinner at the Inn for eight. We had good things to eat and the girls were congenial. Doss will probably be out Saturday or Sunday. She has been very miserable and is not yet what might be called in the bloom of health.We have not had any skating weather for a week, which is discouraging. I have become so accustomed to substituting it for gym that I shall find myself burdened with a number of unsubstantiated cuts soon. We have been reseated in chapel -- which moves me one pew forward, where I do not seem to be able to hear much better than before.I should like the blue dress when it is ready. May we have the cherry blossoms to help out, if they are decided upon? The check for the college arrived safely, but I have not handed it in yet. Also I have not been in Town since you sent the one for Raymond. The dear friends we have, Mother, are too lovely. I am still discovering people who make you have faith in the kindness of the world. Much love to both, Harriett. Thursday night
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Aaron, Fannie -- to Mother, Father, and Pete, April 23,1922
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April 23, 1922 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: Nothing much to report in the way of news except that I spent three hours after lunch and two after dinner on a psych topic, and plan to spend the rest of today on it, except for two hours this afternoon when I got with Maxine Goldmark, as promised about five months ago, to call on miss Salmon. We certainly are having marvelous weather. The dearth of subject matter is evident from the fact that I mention the weather. But it really does annoy me...
Show moreApril 23, 1922 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: Nothing much to report in the way of news except that I spent three hours after lunch and two after dinner on a psych topic, and plan to spend the rest of today on it, except for two hours this afternoon when I got with Maxine Goldmark, as promised about five months ago, to call on miss Salmon. We certainly are having marvelous weather. The dearth of subject matter is evident from the fact that I mention the weather. But it really does annoy me to have to work in this weather. I slept late this morning, much to my satisfaction. Had a thank-you letter from Henrietta yesterday. K. Stein informed me yesterday that she will probably ask Bill Wasserman up to Third Hall. She was working next to me in the libe, and when she went for her mail, she brought mine back along I had just finished reading your letter, Pete, when she asked me if I knew him. If that isn't funny, I'd like to know what is. Wishing you the same, I remain, Yours truly, F. H. Aaron
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Ryerson, Margary A. — to mother, April 30, 1906
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Ryerson, Margary A.
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Dear Mamma, - I got your letter yesterday and cut out the center of the holes in the paper, to see which would fit my fountain-pen. The [crossed out: big one] little hole just slides over my pen, so if the edge of the tape is not thick that one will do very well. But if this measurement is the ^size of the outer edge and the cover is thick you had better [pick?] the big top. If the edge is thin get the little one. There is no special hurry, you can send it when you send the undersle [crossed...
Show moreDear Mamma, - I got your letter yesterday and cut out the center of the holes in the paper, to see which would fit my fountain-pen. The [crossed out: big one] little hole just slides over my pen, so if the edge of the tape is not thick that one will do very well. But if this measurement is the ^size of the outer edge and the cover is thick you had better [pick?] the big top. If the edge is thin get the little one. There is no special hurry, you can send it when you send the undersle [crossed out: aves] ^eves. We all went over to the dance the other night and sat on the steps watching the girls [crossed out: walk] promenade. They danced in the dining-room in Main and promenaded up and down the [crossed out] corridors, which were all fixed up with [mission?]-[crossed out: wood] furniture and palms. Lady K. received in the parlors and some of the rest of the faculty. The girls looked dear, and we had lots of fun discussing them and their men. I should not have thought they would have wanted us gazing at them. In the afternoon I [...red] around with Margery Fulton. There was a lecture by President Hadely of Yale. We tried to make up our minds to go, but as we were afraid [crossed out: to] ^we would make a noise going in late and he did not look a bit interesting we decided just to take a good look so we could say we had seen him. You have no idea how funny it is to see men every way you turned, a third of the people at that lecture were men. Saturday morning the upper class girls who had men for the dance, chartered a boat and all went for the morning on the Hudson. I can’t find my gold chain [crossed out: any] anywhere. Did I leave it home? Won’t you look and write me right away, for I don’t want to lose it. If I did leave it home, don’t be scared, for I may find it yet. I know it is not in my trunk or beaurow [sp:bureau], but I am not perfectly sure of every other place yet. My locket was not with it. I have that. There really was [not?] much [crossed out] ^more happened to tell about. Today I have been wandering around, about everywhere. Before church I went to see some girls on the other street, that is Helen and Vera, then I took a walk with a girl, who used to live in [Euolia?], next I went to chapel, then took a walk with two other girls. The father of one of them is a professor of Greek at Bowin College, and we were wondering if it could have been he, who wrote that address of Dana’s once. After lunch I started this letter and when I got about two pages of it done, Doris Ockley came in. She is the girl, who used to like in Newbur[y?]. After a while I walked back to the campus with her and went to see Bess Walson. I happened to see some water-color paintings on her wall and ask who made them. It was her mother, I said mine modeled [crossed out: at that …]. We had a strong bond of sympathy, and she siezed my hand as we both told how we had been taken to art gallerys - the Metropolitan especially - and told how wonderful the statues and paintings were. How we had ^been forced to gaze [crossed out: d] at them [crossed out: f] hours, until our mothers finished admiring them. But we ended, by agreeing that after all there was some good in it, for when we came to writing English themes and see the things as statues, it was [crossed out: some] a little easier for us than for the girls who had never tried to see beauty in them before. Later I went to see [...] Evans. She is an awfully nice girl like everybody else, quite a wonder. She is only just twenty, that is twenty last February and has had almost every mathematic course in the college. [crossed out: But … she is a] Well I stayed with her a while and [then?] she walked back with with me and I walked back with her, and then came home & had supper, and am now writing again, and as I have to get up early tomorrow, am going to bed at eight o clock -- With lots of love to you & Papa Margery Mrs. David [A.?] Ryerson 107 Second Street South Orange New Jersey
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Mansfield, Adelaide (Claflin) -- to father, Feb. 7, 1897:
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Vassar College. Poughkeepsie. N.Y. (Feb. 7, 1897, My dear Father,-— Mamma*s letter came Friday, telling of your sad Journey this week. Dear papa, it was a hard week for you, and it was hard for Uncle Henry to come home from Toronto and start right off again to Albion. I hope you have not been having such severe weather as you were a while ago; it is much milder here: in fact it has been raining all day today and yesterday, which has spoiled the skating.It has been dark and foggy today. I was...
Show moreVassar College. Poughkeepsie. N.Y. (Feb. 7, 1897, My dear Father,-— Mamma*s letter came Friday, telling of your sad Journey this week. Dear papa, it was a hard week for you, and it was hard for Uncle Henry to come home from Toronto and start right off again to Albion. I hope you have not been having such severe weather as you were a while ago; it is much milder here: in fact it has been raining all day today and yesterday, which has spoiled the skating.It has been dark and foggy today. I was out for a short walk this after- noon and we went into water up to the tops of our rubbers for a good deal of the way. We are really into our work for the new semester now- We are plunged into work in no time. I had some trouble with my Electives, because my History and Biology were scheduled to meet at the same hour. I decided to let the Biology go, as the regular professor of Biology is not here, aad the History professor is, of course, a good deal finer than the Biology assistant. I have not had Biology since last June, so that I had not a course to drop, as it would be if I had droppedhistory. Our history is going to be the most interesting history course I have had, I think. It is a brief study of the Constitution of the United States, first, and then a study of the history of American political parties. Bess and I intended to learn the Constitution last summer; I wish now that I had done it, for it would be very convenient for me now, and I am afraid I can't spend the time now. We have to tell how many Congressmen there are from our state, and what is the ratio of representation, and who our senators are, and what are the powers of the President and of Congress and all such interesting things. We had to look up some things in the EleventhCensus report, and in the Senate Journal etc. I have only two hours of Greek this semester, instead of three, but I think it will be more interesting for we are reading Aeschylus' Agamemnon. Instead of the Biology which I had to drop, I elected a course in Theory of Art, which has a reputation of being very fine, and a one-hour course in Latin Prose, to recall my Latin to me. There was not any good three-hour course that I could begin now, so had to fill up with these two, I have kept on with my English and my German, both of which I find very interesting. When I come home next summer I want to talkGerman with Bess, and any body else in the family who is willing— I know she will be; for she wanted to last summer. Yesterday I went to a tea in the room of Fraulein Herholz, my German teacher, who Is a motherly German woman. She had invited the girls in the Senior class who take German of her, and —- I ought to have put them first — President and Mrm. Taylor and a few members of the Faculty* She had a friend from Germany there, who can speak only a few words of English. The girls who have had German for a number of years could converse with her without anytrouble. The rest of us stood back and listened, or listened to Dr. Taylor talking in English. "VVe had a lecture Friday night by Prof. James of Harvard, on "Psychology and Relaxation". He is noted for mixing his psychology very decidedly with every-day life and language — even slang. His lecture was a plea for taking life more quietly and calmly, and not wasting nervous energy unnecessarily all the time, as Americans are said to do. He said that college girls wore themselves out by trying to wear a "bright and interested expression" all the time, and should cultivate more than they do, the "stolid expression and codfish eye" of their European sisters.I mailed home yesterday the pictures which Mr. Capen took of our room, which I shall be glad to keep in my possession. It was very kind of him to give W inifred and me copies of them. Dr. Grace Kimball, was the chaperone, while he took them, so he took a picture of her. That is she sitting in the rocking-chair in the corner of our room. Ray is standing by her desk, and Winifred on the other side of Dr. K. I am standing in my bedroom door. The other door, right by it, leads into Winifred's bedroom. It is too bad that Ray's eye Is spoiled, but I think It is a pretty good picture of Winifred. The pictures make our room look so much bigger than it is: X suppose because Mr. Capan pushed the furniture all over towards theopposite wall. The plaster cast of Hermes on the bookcase shows off finely; that belongs to Winifred. One picture shows a desk in the foreground at the left: that is mine, which I bought from Katharine Durham. The light showing through the portiere is my bedroom window, which opens to the corridor. That is a picture of Ray's mother hanging over her desk, and a rattlesnake skin hanging beside the desk. Carrie asked me to come to her home in Summit, N.J. for a few days of the Easter vacation; I have not given her a definite answer, as I had expected not to spend any more money in travelling, and I would not mind staying here. Give my love to all the friends, and of course I send lots to the family- Lovingly your daughter, Adelaide. (C laflin, Feb. 7, 1897.
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Pease, Julia M. -- to mother, Feb. 1872:
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Vassar Collage Feb. 25, 1872. My dear Mamma, This is a very gloomy Sunday, but very much like a spring day. The last week has seemed so much like March weather. It has been quite warm with blustering winds which sometimes were cold. Then too the ground is so "soft" that the walking is not very agreeable. Yesterday, however, the road had become quite dry and Birdie Bell and I were anti- cipating such a pleasant walk into Po'keepsie today to attend church, but this morning we...
Show moreVassar Collage Feb. 25, 1872. My dear Mamma, This is a very gloomy Sunday, but very much like a spring day. The last week has seemed so much like March weather. It has been quite warm with blustering winds which sometimes were cold. Then too the ground is so "soft" that the walking is not very agreeable. Yesterday, however, the road had become quite dry and Birdie Bell and I were anti- cipating such a pleasant walk into Po'keepsie today to attend church, but this morning we were disappointed, because it rained a good deal last night andthe roads are again muddy. Miss Tarry is very good to us. Anyone can go in to church the first Sunday in the month and we Episco- palians can go any or every Sunday we please. Then we can go into Po'keepsie on Saturdays without a teacher which is very nice. I never go in because I have nothing in particular to do and do not enjoy trudging about the streets doing nothing. In the spring vacation I shall go in how- ever. About dresses which is always a womans greatest nuisance. I think I had better have my last year's suit made over into a polonaise. The waist is much soiled and the sleeves are worn out so that I shall have to try and get some stuff to match it: if I cannot, I do not know what I shall do. I have wornthe dress a great deal but still I thought it would last better than it has done. But you remember that I am very hard on my clothes. There has been a daughter of one of the Lelands here at college. Her father keeps the Stuyvesant house in New York and is building a fine hotel somewhere near the park. This girl seemed rather peculiar, had red hair, a fiery temper and was much too familiar with the College servants. One day last week her father came to the College bring- ing with him a lieutenant in the army. When Miss Leland received them in the parlor her father informed her that she must leave school immedi- ately and marry the Lieutenant. Miss Leland had only seen the gentleman two or three times before and very much disliked him, and so she told herfather she would not marry the man for she hated him. Thereupon the father became enraged & she grew also. It finally ended by her leaving College. She told the girls that she was in deadly fear of her father and would have to obey him. She left here Wednesday saying if she married at all it would not be until some time this week. Great then was our astonishment at reading in a New York paper that she was married on Thursday, the day after leaving here. It seems her father is a very pas- sionate man, who treated his wife so badly that she separated from him. There were four children. The mother took two and the father two. This one fell to the father: she herself says that neither father or mother care what becomes of her. Her father became very much in debt to the Lieu- tenant and gives his daughter to him for pay; isn't it dreadful? Lieutenant Conckline and his wife start for Texasvery soon. Such a thing occurring in our midst has excited us and caused a great deal of talk. The young lady was over twenty and I think could not be compelled to marry against her wish. I will write to Carrie today and so will close this. Remember me to all my friends in Austin. Accept much love from your , loving Julie (Julia M. Pease, '75)
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Slocum, Harriet (Palmer) -- to Mollie, Apr. 1869:
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Vassar College N.Y. April 21. 1869 My dear Mollie. You do not deserve an answer to your letter so quickly but as I have more time than usual, and also the inclination, I am going to write you a short letter. It is very warm and I am sitting in my room on the bed with Amanda by my side studying German. You will probably be quite surprised to hear that we have had a short vacation. Last Wednesday we had a meeting of the Student's Association and sent a petition to the Faculty for a few...
Show moreVassar College N.Y. April 21. 1869 My dear Mollie. You do not deserve an answer to your letter so quickly but as I have more time than usual, and also the inclination, I am going to write you a short letter. It is very warm and I am sitting in my room on the bed with Amanda by my side studying German. You will probably be quite surprised to hear that we have had a short vacation. Last Wednesday we had a meeting of the Student's Association and sent a petition to the Faculty for a few days vacation. They granted it on condition that every girl who went away would give word of her honor that she would returnat the proper time. So we had from Thursday night until Monday night and I staid at the College (That's so no chapel on Sunday. Thermometer 90<> in shade, consequences two girls in night apparrel on the bed. That is by Miss Amanda.) I had a very pleasant vacation for the weather has been so delightful that I have been out doors most of the time. Amanda and I went down town on Friday and had some pictures taken together, but they are the most wretched things I ever saw. That is positively my last attempt until I am obliged to have my class pictures taken. We made some very pleasant plans for the vacation. One of them was an excursion to West Point. Twelve of us, mostly Juniors among whomwere Amanda, Sophie Storke, May Norris, Fannie Case and myself, proposed going down to West Point Saturday morning with Prof. Farrar and Miss Braislin and returning at night by the boat. We were all delighted with the idea, but when we referred it to Miss Lyman she was not quite as much so, in fact, she would not let us go. We were very much disappointed, and so was Prof. Farrar. Miss Lyman's excuse was that the trustees did not approve of excursions and that our names would be put in the paper. Prof. Farrar sald the trustees had never taken any action on it and he got quite angry at Miss Lyman. I never saw him so much excited Mary Gilbert had a telegram the other day saying that her Father was very sick and she went directly home. She has written since that thedoctors gave very little hope of his recovery. She did not know as she should come back to preside Founder's Day, and if she does not Jennie Denton will preside Abby Goodsell also had a telegram that her Father could not live and she has gone home. She will not come back to graduate. Emma Colby felt so very badly that it has made her real sick. Now, Mollie you will not be surprised to hear something very sad, but something you have long expected. Mr. Mitchell died last evening just at sunset. He had been slowly fading away for a week and last night he just dropped asleep. I know none of the particulars of his death now. One of his sons and two of his daughters were with him. They left for Nantucketspoke beautifully of Mr. Vassar and Mr. Mitchel, and said it was so beautiful that no one of the students have ever died, but that God had appointed these two holy men to lead the procession into the shadowy land. I think Mr. Mitchell's death has affected everyone, he was so universally beloved. I think we all have much more respect for him than for Mr. Vassar don't you? I know this is a short letter, but I do not feel in the mood for writing more tonight, if I should attempt to name the girls who send love I should have to take another sheet so I will only name Gertie, Bessie and Sophie, and your Harriet who sends oceans. Hattie Palmer Harriet (Palmer) Slocum, '70. Do write just as soon as you can. I will send those exercises and that waits of Chopins In a short time.this morning and as it was not possible to have any service in the chapel all the students and the Faculty formed in a procession and accompanied the carriage from the observatory to the lodge. The exercises of the College have, of course, been suspended today and also the Cecilia which was to have been this eve. Delta's entertainment was also put off on this account and they think now they can not have it all for all the evenings are taken up. Mills and Mrs. Ritter are coming up again this Friday to give another concert like the one they gave last year. Evening. We have Just come from chapel where the President has been talking to us nearly an hour of Mr. Mitchell and his life. How beautiful his life was. Dr. Raymond
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Aaron, Fannie -- to Mother, March 13,1919
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Mar. 13, 1919 Dear Mother, I didn't play par-ticularly well today. Father and I played this morning. I didn't add up my score. This after-noon. <Father> Gov. B. and I beat Father and Chan-cellor McCormick eight up, counting best ball and the sum of each side divided by two. The chancellor plays and looks like a [sawed]-off-hammered-down choppy butcher. He almost cries overhis game. I trimmed him. Father suggested that he and I play Gov. B. + Mr. McC, but the Gov. saw my first...
Show moreMar. 13, 1919 Dear Mother, I didn't play par-ticularly well today. Father and I played this morning. I didn't add up my score. This after-noon. <Father> Gov. B. and I beat Father and Chan-cellor McCormick eight up, counting best ball and the sum of each side divided by two. The chancellor plays and looks like a [sawed]-off-hammered-down choppy butcher. He almost cries overhis game. I trimmed him. Father suggested that he and I play Gov. B. + Mr. McC, but the Gov. saw my first drive + he decided he wanted me as a partner. Father told him that I thought perhaps I had no business to play along. He said he didn't want to hear any more of that kind of talk from me, that I should know I was always welcome to play along. When he picked me; I couldn't quite make out if he was ditching [the Chan-cellor], or if he really wanted me. I slept an hour before lunch, and shall rest now. Father went withMr. Wells to the [Tin Whistle] banquet at the club last night, so after dinner, I came up and finished up my type writing. I fogot to say that I had 109 this after-noon, I won several holes that we would otherwise have lost, + I helped on the other point in score-keep-ing so I didn't feel that I was superfluous. I missed a lot of putts - I don't seem able toget under 100. I hate to go home without realizing my Pinehurst ambition. I got a letter from Helen Hirtz. She said she saw you one day, and you looked "sad and lonesome". I hope it wasn't true. It's a nice thing to write. The chamber-maid told me today she has one room that the persons who have it always take sick in. (excuse the grammar) She said there has been sickness in it all winter. That sounds funny. She said, "One of the finest looking young men I ever saw ied of pneu-monia there." It was Lester's friend, Louis Rothschild Love, FannieMy dear Stella Papa is tired just having finished a days work but so that you will have a word from us Saturday here goes the word. We had a good time at the dinner last night + Fan did not miss me - she finished her typing. Fanny read a letter from Helen in which she said [she] saw you and that you looked "sad and lonely." I [am sure] that she did not take a full look. I pray so anyway. Cheer up we will be home soon and [Blair] me I am as [anxious] to get back with you as I was to come here for the golf and exercise. I think it has done Fannie good. I am not satisfied with myself. I tire too easily but with better sleep at home than I get here I hope too to show the [bright resulting] from my [ontring]. Lots of love and kisses from Your Old Man
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Aaron, Fannie -- to Mother, Father, and Pete, October 3,1921
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Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: Mother has^- no doubt told you about Philadelphia and will tell you about Woodmere, so, inaenuch as I .have a class In five minutes, I will make this short, sweet, and to the point. By- the way|^ Mother, you mi :ht send me the letter of Pete's which I missedThere is no such one here. I should be Yery.^lacl to go to the ::,ame with Harold under a^^reeable conditions. I don't know what you mean by "due arrangements", but I do know that I would...
Show moreDear Mother, Father, and Pete: Mother has^- no doubt told you about Philadelphia and will tell you about Woodmere, so, inaenuch as I .have a class In five minutes, I will make this short, sweet, and to the point. By- the way|^ Mother, you mi :ht send me the letter of Pete's which I missedThere is no such one here. I should be Yery.^lacl to go to the ::,ame with Harold under a^^reeable conditions. I don't know what you mean by "due arrangements", but I do know that I would not be particularly keen about going over from New York alone, unless such is commonepractice. You knov/ about that better than I do. I ce!.n go out to Aunt Bessie's Saturday night, so Harold would not need to v^orry about cIrnsing me into New York. I am per« fectly capable of going back alone. Another thing, did you induce the invitation? I should not like to so unless the invitation was really meant. Last night after I came baOöc I was up In Helen's room for a few minutes. She asked me what T did while I v/as avmy. I told her I went to Temple Sunday night and Mohcay morning, etcand after I left Dorothy Krolik, about whom I told you yesterday, said to her, "'I didn't know she v/as Jewish!'! I induced the Italian fruit-vender to carry my suitcase to_the car last night. I preferred that to a taxi, inasmuch as I looked the taxis over before deciding./ Love, Pannie October third, I think, but I have not set my calendar yet
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Elwell, Marion F. — to family, March 4, 1904
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March 4 1904 Dear People: I have been just terribly busy lately, but have had lots of fun too. One of the girls had a birthday party the other night. Our table got devil’s food cake and ice cream to celebrate, for she hadn’t had a birthday for eight years. She had a grand box from homeand had a party Sunday night which was lots of fun. The hall play was last Saturday. The play was Monsieur Beaucare and Esta Saville was the leading man. She comes from Newton. She spoke broken English and acted...
Show moreMarch 4 1904 Dear People: I have been just terribly busy lately, but have had lots of fun too. One of the girls had a birthday party the other night. Our table got devil’s food cake and ice cream to celebrate, for she hadn’t had a birthday for eight years. She had a grand box from homeand had a party Sunday night which was lots of fun. The hall play was last Saturday. The play was Monsieur Beaucare and Esta Saville was the leading man. She comes from Newton. She spoke broken English and acted simply finely. Every body was wild about her. The next day she was unanimously elected our class marshall to marshall the seniorsOn Commencement day, for she took her honors so well, and wasn’t a bit self conscious, or conceited about it, as many girls who had minor parts were. The Sunday after the play she had to march out of chapel from where she sits which is way up front and everybody in the chapel was watching her, but shewas as unconscious as if she hadn’t been in the play at all. Our class [crossed out: are] is terribly proud of her. In both of the hall plays this year, a Sophomore has had the leading part. We went to the play in the afternoon and so in the evening while the Juniors had gone to the play, we Sophomores in Lathrop had stunts.There are three tables of Sophomores in Lathrop, and each table got up a stunt. One table all dressed up as different kinds of animals, and then they performed all kinds of stunts. One girl was a monkey and was perfectly killing, another was the Italian hand-organ man. Then the other table had a cute stunt. One girl came in dressedas a travelling woman. She made a most elaborate speech about her travels and the dolls she had collected. [Then] the dolls (girls of course dressed up) were brought in one at a time. There was a Japanese Doll, one from Germany, France, Switzerland, a southern colored [mamy?] & c. Then the woman wound them up and they all sangsongs in various languages. One doll was a boy doll and he couldn’t sing so when he was wound he jumped just like a jumping jack. The whole stunt was simply perfect. Then our table had the last act, and we all dressed in white [duke] suits, borrowed maid’s aprons, put a white bow on our hair like the maids wear and served lemonade and macaroons. Weall had chafing dish trays and marched in a line all around the parlor singing a song that one of the girls made up. It was a grind on the college food. We had lots of fun. After it was all over Margaret Mann, (she is our president) and I went around and opened all the Juniors beds. It was lots of fun to see all therooms. Some were awfully pretty, but most of them looked like sin, for the beds, if made at all, were literally covered with things. Of course that isn’t the way the rooms look always, only that night, every body had dressed in a hurry to go to the play, for they dressed in Washington’s birthday costumes for dinner and then had to change after dinnerfor the play. I’ve just written an invitation to a Freshman to go to the masquerade ball. It is a week from Saturday, Grand-daughters and the current Topic’s club to-gether. I think it will be lots of fun. Must stop[,] With love, Marion P.S. I’ll bring home sweaters & c, and I have the mileage. It has 8 miles on it. That will be enough won’t it?AMHERST, MASS. MRS. L. H. ELWELL.
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Aaron, Fannie -- to Mother, Father, and Pete, October 21,1919
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October 21, 1919. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I had no letter from you today, Pete. What is up? I got your postcard written from the station, Father. I also got your Sunday's letter, Mother. I had to waste an hour this afternoon again resting. It is very encouraging, when I was in bed a little after nine. The shift in the English sections took place today. Miss Buck kept the best. The list was posted yesterday afternoon of the new sections, and I could tell from those of my class...
Show moreOctober 21, 1919. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I had no letter from you today, Pete. What is up? I got your postcard written from the station, Father. I also got your Sunday's letter, Mother. I had to waste an hour this afternoon again resting. It is very encouraging, when I was in bed a little after nine. The shift in the English sections took place today. Miss Buck kept the best. The list was posted yesterday afternoon of the new sections, and I could tell from those of my class whom she still had that she had the best group. She told them so today. Judging by the appearance of those of my division, I got into the thirteenth of the thirteen sections. I have Miss Kitchel. Do you know anything of her? She seems quite human. I am sure I shall like her better than Miss Buck, but it hurts my foolish standards of work not to have been kept in her section. If mine were the second of third division it would not be so bad. We got our papers back from the written test in history that we had the other day. There was no mark on my paper, but a few corrections. Miss Thallon simply told us that there were none startlingly brilliant, neither were there any ver[sic] poor. I discovered yesterday that a girl in my history class is a granddaughter of President Taylor. She haild from Idaho, and looks like a butcher's daughter. Also, ever since college started I have been staring at a girl that I was sure I saw in Del Monte. She was in swimming almost every day when I Was. She was at Mohonk the other day, and I aksed her what her name was. It is the girl who was in Del Monte, so I take back what I said, Pete, that Vassar does not go travelling around the country. I went rowing yesterday afternoon with the girl that lives across the hall. The lake is so shallow that you can touch the bottom in the middle with the oars. The boats are very wide and flat-bottomed. It is like the pool--you get dizzy turning the corners. We rowed fro[sic] an hour, and it seemed just like a merry-go-round. I'll try it again next spring. Doctor Baldwin thinks my ankle is better. She said I don't have to go back again. It was pretty wabbly for a while, so I am glad I had it strapped. I am going to ride horseback with Lucy for an hour tomorrow afternoon. I want to go before the leaves are gone. She signed up for me as wanting a lesson. That means a man goes along and I get aperfectly safe horse. It costs two tickets to get someone to go along, but I shall fell much safer on an Eastern saddle that way. We had to turn our schedules in at the gym yesterday so that they can arrange the gym work for after Thanksgiving. They require one hour of class work, one hour of some elective gym work, and one hour of outdoor or gym work. i signed up for apparatus or games, (indoor baseball, etc.) Are you coming Saturday, Father? I really would like to know. You know you said something once about coming the twenty-sixth and seventh. Mother, you asked about what we are reading in English. It is all theme work, and I am sick of it already. It must be a family failing not to like things of that sort. Otherwise there is nothing new. I go to Miss Wiley's lecture soon. That is the way the afternoons fly without getting much work done. If Brym Mawr is worse than this, good-night. Talking about Brym Mawr, Pete, did you know that Grace Lubin came out first in her class Freshman year. [Fannie]
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Aaron, Fannie -- to Mother, n.d. [postmarked February 8, 1923]
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NovemberT5, Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: Your conGlusion as to why I would not telegraph aboutdgbate were quite right, Mother. ' \¥ould you stop at the First Hat' 1 Bank sometime Yrtien you are in tow i Mother and get me some blank check books—fillers for my book, 1 mean. I have only t?/o checks left. Then send them to me, please. I am still dead tired and feel generally punk. Love, FannieT. History " ' ■Ji-^.Mediaeyal and modern—thisiyear entered on med. EXMIPTION 2...
Show moreNovemberT5, Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: Your conGlusion as to why I would not telegraph aboutdgbate were quite right, Mother. ' \¥ould you stop at the First Hat' 1 Bank sometime Yrtien you are in tow i Mother and get me some blank check books—fillers for my book, 1 mean. I have only t?/o checks left. Then send them to me, please. I am still dead tired and feel generally punk. Love, FannieT. History " ' ■Ji-^.Mediaeyal and modern—thisiyear entered on med. EXMIPTION 2,Ancient ^nEnglish 4'Ainerican ^ -7 T * * . 2. La^uage 1 . 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 1 2. Latin Greek\ Prenchl as at present German \ s^ye reason for not differentiating between ancient Italian! and modern Spanish j 3. Physical science Physics Ofeemlstry ----------J J t67 freshmen entered on science this 3. year 4. Q-eology 4. Biological science 1 2. 3. 4. life t. 2. 3. Botany Aniaial biology PsychSoir^^^T^^^st have entered on science thematics Trigonometin/ Analytical gemmetry r ^ Solidgeometry ' U Only Engll'b^^equired fresh, year. Pcur Ghancek for free electives, but d. in additW to groups, only history of art, applied art, Bible and*" music \5pen to her Therefore i^ milimlarili^ passing off requirements and still has freedom \ d. Must elect frto first two groups, and from c-t out of last 3 before end ofssoph, year 2. li xiem subjects added to curriculum^—can be based on present \GataH a. This does not mean that ne?/ courses canH be added in timipguef 3. Includes all subjects called fundamental in present syateti 3. This plan only su^^estion^ illustrative of more abstraat prin- ha^^been tried in Smith, Mt. Holyoke, ciple Goucher, We\lesley, Amherst, Yale. 1 . They hav\come to groups after absolute requirements 4. Uiity of kn^ledge m!^ let stud^t establish unity herself We see to^t that she has the 4 methods 1. Scientific 3. Linguistic HistoricX 4. Creative Ifiaaar^s preogress has alv/ays been toward freedom f I a. See old catalogues lb. Present plan does not mean satisfaction with conditions, only a lull in struggle6. Op5 lec • mro: ortiinity of choice does away with repetition of subjects stud» . in prep school and provides for adaptability of foundation and L»UTION&&NOT revolution individual interes ^ — Conclusion 1» !Intellectually passive is taken care of as olfi system did 2- i " active must be " " " II. Present plan fails, but we 1 . |Give freedom and /guidance 2. 'Tpvke over all good in old system and supplement it III* Added |Not direct continuation of .high-school 2. 4. Experlaeiit and still some restriction Only four ^ in colle years short Freedom to choose ^ii^-for freedom a. In all educatior^^h^ progress has been evident b. Present plan a step in progress over what preceded it c. A freer elective system is a step in progress, the next step d. And this step is evolutionary, not revolutionary Because it t^es over v/hat is good in present system and supplementi^hie added advantage of freedom creative histor 1. EC method Critical study of sources and opinions 2* Relation between movements--soiirce-and events--continuity in 3* history distinct from other histories lingrui^tig method t. tTalue of literature 2. style and structure 3. derivation sgientIepig method t. Scientific habit of mind 2. pbaervation of fact 3^ Apparatus and experimmtt 4. Hypothesis lAppreciatärön of Nature history ^^ 4 g'-ir a tfc:.
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Aaron, Fannie -- to Mother and Father, February 28,1921
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February 20, '21. Dear Mother + Father: The delayed letter was one I forgot to mail and found in my notebook. "Scuse" me! I am writing this in Ec lecture. Was that where you used to write letters, Mother? I have a full day today again, with lab. at 4:15 the squad and committee have their pictures taken for the Vassarion. I had a good sleep last night again. I think I'll manage not to [overtax] my strength, Mother, as long as I can rest up over the week-ends this way. Are...
Show moreFebruary 20, '21. Dear Mother + Father: The delayed letter was one I forgot to mail and found in my notebook. "Scuse" me! I am writing this in Ec lecture. Was that where you used to write letters, Mother? I have a full day today again, with lab. at 4:15 the squad and committee have their pictures taken for the Vassarion. I had a good sleep last night again. I think I'll manage not to [overtax] my strength, Mother, as long as I can rest up over the week-ends this way. Are you coming up here, Father? Love FannieMr. and Mrs. Marcus Aaron, 402 S. Winebiddle Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa.
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Frantz, Edna (Bachman) — to Rosemarie Boyle, June 2, 1915
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308 Davison, Vassar. June 2, 1915. Dear Rosemarie, Your card came yesterday and I am following your suggestion as you see. It really is shameful the way I’ve neglected everyone this spring, but then I never have flitted about so much as I have since Spring vacation. This is examination week and I still have two to take. I just returned from Junior Week at Colgate University last Sunday. Lucile Cook, another Junior, went with me and stayed at the same fraternity house. “Cookie” and I left last...
Show more308 Davison, Vassar. June 2, 1915. Dear Rosemarie, Your card came yesterday and I am following your suggestion as you see. It really is shameful the way I’ve neglected everyone this spring, but then I never have flitted about so much as I have since Spring vacation. This is examination week and I still have two to take. I just returned from Junior Week at Colgate University last Sunday. Lucile Cook, another Junior, went with me and stayed at the same fraternity house. “Cookie” and I left last Wednesday and met our friends in Utica. We arrived in Hamilton just before dinner. Both of us had been �2. to Phi Gamma Delta house-parties before, so we felt awfully glad to get back with our old friends. That night the Dramatic Club gave “The Fortune Hunter”. Cookie’s man was the hero. It was perfectly splendid. After the party we watched the “Frosh” bury their Algebras, then went back to the house to dance. Thursday morning we went to chapel and to classes. In the afternoon Colgate played Syracuse. During the game I received a telegram from college, bearing the cheerful news that I had won a music scholarship for next year. After the game the Freshmen gave a circus, featuring Charlie chaplin. It was really very amusing. In the evening the Musical Clubs gave an excellent concert. We visited the Dekes and Phi Psi’s that night and danced until four.3. Friday Colgate played Middlebury (soon to be my third “Alma Mater”-) In the evening the Junior Dance began. It was the prettiest dance I’ve ever been to. The gym was arranged and decorated to look like an Oriental temple. Incense was burned before the dance started. [Zita’s?] orchestra furnished the music. During a number of the dances the lights were turned out and colored lights thrown on the dancers. You can imagine how lovely the effect was. During one dance the men carried little spotlights and Japanese umbrellas. The prom lasted until five and then we danced at the house until nine. Saturday there was an inter-fraternity dance which lasted until twelve, then we all sat around the fire in the dining room. 4. “Cookie” and I had to leave Sunday as we had examinations on Monday so we missed the Phi Gam picnic at Lake Morain. All Spring I’ve been going away visiting and having company. Several weeks ago I was in Troy. We motored to Saratoga Springs, went to the theatre, had a card-party and a dinner party. It was a very gay week-end. I had the Troy girls visit me in May over Founder’s Week-end - Third Hall play “Medea” was given and was a big success. Field-Day gave 1916 a chance to show her colors. We won the track banner and also the Song Contest cup. Sophomore Tree Ceremonies were very beautiful. Druid worship and dances from the Orient were the features. 5. One week-end we went to Slabsides to visit John Burroughs, the great naturalist. Two weeks ago a big party of us went on a mountain-climbing expedition in the Catskills. I’m afraid it’s going to be hard to ever settle down again after all this “batting” around. I expect to be home some time next week and want to see a lot of you as in two weeks I’ll be leaving again for Vermont. Lots of love to you, Teddy.
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