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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1921-11-20
Text: November 20, 1921 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: Junior Party was a great success--even to the fire-drill that I was in!There were several unfortunate hitches--one was that the fuse burnt out during our scene and consequently the campus lamp went out while we were supposedly outdoors. Another was that the curtain went out of order at the end of the second act and the scenery had to be changed anyhow! Otherwise it was quite a success--loads better than at the dress rehearsal. Eleanor Wolfe...
Show moreNovember 20, 1921 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: Junior Party was a great success--even to the fire-drill that I was in!There were several unfortunate hitches--one was that the fuse burnt out during our scene and consequently the campus lamp went out while we were supposedly outdoors. Another was that the curtain went out of order at the end of the second act and the scenery had to be changed anyhow! Otherwise it was quite a success--loads better than at the dress rehearsal. Eleanor Wolfe had her fourteen year old sister up for it. She certainly is a homely little kid. She was so overcome by having a Junior ask her to dance that it was screaming. I never have been looked up to before! Eleanor treated me to dinner Friday night. We decided that from then on we would go "Dutch". Four of us walked down to the Trussell Notebook Factory in town Friday, to see if I could have my leather note-book repaired. I didn't think for a minute that a factory would take one old notebook and repair it, but I thought before I laid out another five dollars I would see what I could do about it. So we boldly walked up to the office on the second floor and after getting a description of their notebook and making sure that it was one of theirs, they told me to bring it in any morning and I could have it by evening. We were very agreeable, I guess, because we were just starting down the steps when the man asked us if we didn't want to see the factory. With that he took us through from A to Z, and really talked to us as though we did know something about business and machinery. It was exceedingly interesting. It took us an hour and a half. That's what we got for getting up nerve to go in! When I got back Friday evening at six I saw your special, Mother. I knew that there was no chance in the world to cut a class, because you know Thanksgiving is not a scheduled vacation, and is granted every year by the faculty on condition that the students do not ask for any extra time whatsoever. But I thought it would do no harm to show her the letter. So I knocked on her door, and she greeted me with the words, "I hope this isn't a request for vacation. You know the rules. Any other vacation is easier to handle than this one." So I put it to her very frankly, and said also that I would not ask the doctor for an excuse merely for fatigue, because I had had to get doctor's excuses to leave early several times when I was really sick, etc." I could tell that my absolute honesty was winning her over. She said that she would bring it up at the wardens' meeting in the morning, but that she really did not think there was a chance. She told me to stop in at noon. She stopped me in Main the next morning to tell me that they had had their meeting, and that after the session with me she had given the matter a lot of thought and had decided that not so much for my sake, but that for both of yours, it was imperative that I get to A. C. Wednesday night, etc. She and Miss Palmer talked it over at great length, and the result was that my permiss on and that of one other girl were granted. She was so glad, etc. I really have to hand it to her. She certainly hasbeen great to me all through college. She said that she would very much prefer that I cut only one class as long as I could get there Wednesday night anyhow. So I shall leave her on the 2:02, arrive N. Y. at 4:30, leave Pa. station at 5, arrive N. Phila. at 6:46, and leave there at 7:30, arrive A. C. at 8:40. I am quite sure that is right. Thank you for the time-tables. I have ordered a chair for the trip, but not for the return trip, because I did not know if I could stay longer in A. C. if I came back on thre Reading as I did last year. Will you attend to that Mother. If you want me to, wire--because I don't want to be stuck there and not get anything to come back. I imagine there will be a big crowd that day. Marian Cahill is up for the week-end. She is going out to dinner with me tonight, and as she says, "See if we can talk anything but debate". Thanks you for the black satchel. It is fine. I really am ashamed of this typing. I promise to do better from now one. Were you for Yale or Harvard in the game, Pete? Love, Fannie
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: [1922-11-21]
Text: [21 Nov 1922] Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I enjoyed Dr. Conklin's lecture very much last night, although I must say it was unscientific and popular to the extreme. He has a very good sense of humor and is a forceful speaker, as you no doubt know, Pete. I learned nothing new, but then I had an exceptionally good course last year. Is your dinner coming off, Pete? He started out by telling what a wonderful bonfire was in progress at that moment at Princeton! I also heard an exceelent...
Show more[21 Nov 1922] Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I enjoyed Dr. Conklin's lecture very much last night, although I must say it was unscientific and popular to the extreme. He has a very good sense of humor and is a forceful speaker, as you no doubt know, Pete. I learned nothing new, but then I had an exceptionally good course last year. Is your dinner coming off, Pete? He started out by telling what a wonderful bonfire was in progress at that moment at Princeton! I also heard an exceelent lecture on Child Labor by a man whose name I could not get and whose name is not posted, but he is a member of the Child Welfare Board, or whatever it is called. Helen Klee was on probation because she got back late and missed a class after going down to New York to the wedding of her cousin, Louise Strauss, during the week. She is the one you asked me about last year, Mother. Her picture was in the Sunday Times last week. Also, I have it from Hane that Marjorie Klein bumped into Leon Falk unexpectedly and much to her displeasure at the Copley while thre[sic] with Alfred Benjamin. Hence the lack of greeting to you, Pete. Other highly important news I know of not. Splendid English. Love, Fannie
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1920-11-21
Text: November 21, 1920 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I did not telegraph and about the arrival of the coat because I had already announced it in your Sunday special before I got your letter. I wore it to chapel this morning and it felt great. It is a bleak, cold, and icy day. In accordance with my new custom, I slept till nine o'clock this morning, took my time dressing, made breakfast in my room, and then went to chapel. I had intended cutting, but one of my freshmen neighbors has been...
Show moreNovember 21, 1920 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I did not telegraph and about the arrival of the coat because I had already announced it in your Sunday special before I got your letter. I wore it to chapel this morning and it felt great. It is a bleak, cold, and icy day. In accordance with my new custom, I slept till nine o'clock this morning, took my time dressing, made breakfast in my room, and then went to chapel. I had intended cutting, but one of my freshmen neighbors has been making such a fuss about the preacher of this morning that I decided to go. It was the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Nothern Ohio--I think his name is De Moulins, of some such thing. They had a real Episcopal service, the first that I have ever seen or heard. It was very interesting and very impressive, certainly the most impressive service that I have attended for a regular service--I mean, not a holiday one. He is a very dramatic speaker, and amused me quite a lot, inasmuch as his text was, "Not by power, nor by might, but by my spirit, sayweth the Lord". Only his Lord was honorable Jesus, and then he proceeded to give an enumeration of said gentleman's miracles. It was very interesting, only how those poor dubs can believe all that bunk is beyond me. I just finished my topic on "Survivals of the Frontier". It is a masterpiece--in stupidity. I am now going to study for my midsemester in Ec. Everybody is cramming for it, but I don't think that I will follow the general example. I like to be individual. He always asks thinking questions anyhow, so I don't see much sense in reviewing a lot of stuff in the book. I went to the first Marston New York Philharmonic Concert of the year last night. I enjoyed it very much--don't laugh, Father,--but I had the most helpless feeling when I left the hall, because I knew perfectly well that if they were to start over the play the whole programme through again, I would not recognize any of it. There are only to be two this year, as well as Kreisler, I could not go to any of them. I expect to go off for supper tonight, inasmuch as it is goo-salad night. Mother, I don't think I'll get a dress in New York for several reasons. In the first pleace[sic], I would rather see the doctor first and see what he says about my vacation programme. I have had too much experience not to see the wisdom of doing what I should in vacation, and I want to see what he says first. In the second place, I plan to take the three fifty-eight Tuesday, because it will not be such a rush getting away from here and because I don't want to spend any more time alone in New York than necessary. It is not so much fun. 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Story & Clark Piano Co., Pittsburgh, Pa« Without obligation oa my part sond mo furtiior Laiorin&tloa about your club player-piano offer. Name Address • ^to-iH-l^^^ec/MiPA Mmfi 801 Liberty Avenue Pittsburgh, Pa. Marcus Aaron Urges Scrapping ÖiAIMn^^ For Benefit of Public Schools Continued From Page One BIG'AMOUNT RAISED FOR DUQUESNE made yesterday thrpugftioiit the diocese, indicate total collections of approximately $350,000.\ One report, ty|pical of what is being done in many paHshes, was made by D. N. Hamill, captain of the teams in St. Oanice's parish, Knoxville. He reported pledges for more than $5,000 to enroll in the! Canfivin club, the three priests of the parish, the Lyceum and the fifth as a memorial to deceased members of the congregation. Other Cane-Tin club members enrolle'd yesterday were the Rt. Rev. Mgr. John Gerzyn-sld, the Rev. Charles M. Keane, the Rev. Frank S. Clifford, deceased priests and parishioners of St. Canice church, St. Canice Lyceum, the Catholic Women's legue, Charles A. Fagan, M. A. Hanlon, Knights of St. George, Thomas McCaffrey, John Francis Regis Burke, the Rev. James Wrobel, Duquesne university class of '16, F. E. McGillick, Mrs. F. E. McGillick, and Mrs. James Reilly. In most of the 290 parishes in the diocese, special collections will be made today to boost the fund. Sermons on the worthiness of Duquesne's appeal will be preached, and the team workers will direct their efforts to having donors double their contributions and to raising special funds to enroll the parish priests and war dead of the parishes in the Canevin club. With only two days remaining to complete the million dollar fund, all of the 5,000 workers^ were on their toes yesterday to finif^h their canvass by Monday night when the campaign ends with a banquet for team captains and other workers in Kaufmann's. In some of the outlying parishes, where dif- have been made to F. W. Ries, Jr., state deputy of the Knights of Columbus, to send one of his "üying squadrons" to help the canvassers. These j^uadrpns are composed of officers of the K. of C. councils and other picked workers, all experienced in conducting mc-<ey-raising drives. They are being insisted in this "clean-up" work by the I^aughters of Isabella. In conection with the donation of $8,000 made Friday by the executors of the W. W. Vilsack estate, tils statement was issued yesterday: "At tlie Duquesne theater for the purpose of securing a fund of $1,000,-000 held yesterday, a statement of not only special interest to the workers present but also of general interest throughout tiie county was made, announcing a subscription of $8f#0O made by Joseph H. Bialas and Terrence J. Sweeney, executors of the estate of W. W. Vilsack, deceased, late of Pittsburg and Braddock, Pa. "It was stated the sum so contributed was to be used as,a fund or endowment which will support four permanent scholarships at said institution, distributive one each to the following boroughs in Allegheny county: Brad-dock, North Braddock, East-Pittsburg and Rankin, said districts N'ng dally named in the will of iht äaid W. W. Vilsack, .deceased, as the benen-ciaries of his large estate, tshich was Harrisburg, Nov. 13.—Making the broad charge that "the wealth of the different school districts in Pennsylvania is divided about as unequally as among individuals," Marcus Aaron, of Pittsburg, member of the state and Pittsburg boards of education, addressing the second annual education congress of the state department of public instruction here today, urged a "50-50" I plan whereby the poorer school districts would be helped by the wealthier school districts through a system of increased state appropriations to education. Urging that our present "antiquated taxing laws" be "scrapped," Mr. Aaron said of the "50-50" plan: "The schools must have just so much money as will enable them to give full educational opportunity to every child in the commonwealth—just so much as will enable them to train, develop and retain for the teaching of all the children, able, contented enthusiastic and zealous teachers with minds and hearts free and independent. "This means that at least in the matter of education no child in Pennsylvania shall be handicapped for life because of the accident of birth or Communal environment, or because of a shortage of properly equipped teachers ^ in such a district. "It means an annual expenditure of at least double what was paid in prewar days, even assuming that the cost ^ of living will rapidly approach the cost i of those days. I "We have learned through the war, I and particularly through the selective draft, that by saving money in public education, 'we are debasing the cur-I rency of the republic.' I "The high cost of ignorance is greater than any possible cost of education. "We have seen the results of the absence of education in Russia with its illiteracy and its ignorance, and the results of the absence of the right kind of education in Germany, where education was perfected to materialistic and militaristic ends. j "When in our own country 10 per cent, of our men betwen the ages of 18 and 25 years cannot sign their own names; when 25 per cent, cannot read a newspaper or write a letter; when a still greater proportion are physically unfit, we may well tremble for the safety of our institutions. At least 2,000,000 children in the United States leave school every year at about the age or 14, or under, to enter industry. More than three out of every four have not reached ; the eighth grade; hardly more than one in two reached the seventh grade.. Al-= most half have not finished the fifth grade. "These children have been in the hands of women teachers almost exclusively, a dangerously large proportion of whom had nothing above a grade school preparation for teaching, and practically all of whom taught for less than laborers' wages. "What are the future prospects for a high human product with this quality of raw materials? "In the past, and very recently, the American people as a whole have shown a gratifiJDg ability to think straif?ht^ through complicated situation "and to register their conclusions by a referendum which was as great and solemn as the occasion demanded. "But we are facing an unknown future. While it seems probable that our nation may retain the power to think straight, to shoot straight, if and when absolutely necessary, and to vote straight, the dangers from an opposite course are by no means past. "It is easy for a free people to forget how its liberties were Won and the difficulties through which it labored to survive. An ignorant electorate is ever the prey of a Lenine or a usurper on horseback. ' "Nothing is more difficult to preserve than the true love of freedom in a free country. I "Being habituated to it men cease to consider by what sacrifices it was obtained and by what precautions and safeguards it must be defended. Liberty itself is the greatest lesson and, in learning it, and encompassing it, we need teachers—the learned, the wise, the just, the free in mind and in spirit. "Thanks to the sincerity, the vision and earnestness of Governor Sproul, who has gone from one end of the state to the other preaching educational preparedness, the controversy over teachers' salaries is over. "Public opinion has crystallized upon the suggestions of Dr. Finegan and all that remains is to write into the statutes of the commonwealth a salary schedule for its teachers that will no i longer bring the blush of shame to the I cheeks of a Pennsylvanian. i "While the people are unanimously in,favor of the immediate correction of the long-standing injustice to its teachers, and the consequent outrage to the most elementary rights of its children, there is only a negative unanimity behind the method of providing the means. "Every group agrees that some other group should pay thf bill; some urge that they are already over-taxed; some that they are sufficiently taxed, while others who have long been peculiarly exempted from forms of taxation commonly employed, have, come to believe that the exemption is by 'Gottes Gnaden,' or, by the grace of ^od. "The average citizen unfortunately is usually too busy with his own affairs to pay much attention to the public's, or even to the affairs of the public's children. Certain legislative and executive machinery has been created, and to it has been delegated the management of the common interests of all the people: At rare intervals the public conscience has been aroused, and thought of the individual diverted from self to the good of all; the occasion over, it generally relapses into a statei of indifference best expressed—'Why »ot let well enough alone?' "The public conscience now awakened must not be allowed to go to sleep. "It is hardly within our province to suggest to the legislature the ways and means of providing the funds. That is for the accredited representatives of the people to work out. "Whether they will scrap our antiquated laws as we do with a piece of :nachinery out of date, and in their given to charity. It was f#iher an- place give us a sample of modern think- ® -. . J;—M___oxrofom nf tflYfitif»« that Will SCl- nounced that the successful jipplicants for these scholarships would selected by the executors of said esHtfe. regardless of creed, from the poor of sa^id boroughs, thus assisting in the general cause of higher education. "This is the first public utterance given by the executors of tht estate as to their intentions and plans df administering the fund of said estate for charitable purposes, the desire of ?aid executors being to create su«fe<eharities ing—a system of taxation that will scL entifically, equitably and automatically provide all the revenue a wealthy and populous state requires—or whether they will patch the old boiler in the hope that it will last yet, awhile, is for them to consider and decide. "It is hardly likey that in this day and generation, and with the people in their present temper, that the schools of the commonwealth shall again be told: 'You can have what is left We ficuu/ ha^bern foundTn covering the as^le^^s^irieVdent^advoVa^^^^^ during ' are sorry it is no more, but we cannot ground within the time limit, appeals his life time.- iee our way dear to levy new taxes/ "Education is the primary business of the state—every child is entitled to a fair and an equal chance. The taxing machinery as at present devised is so framed as to make it impossible for many children to get that 'fair and equal chance.' 'The wealth of school districts is divided about as unequally as among individuals. The result is that there are very material disparities in educational opportunities for the different sections of our state. The great seriousness of these inequalities can only be realized when we stop to think of the fact that in the districts where the people are the poorest we generally find the most children and frequently the greatest poverty of opportunity. We have then the circi^stances that the section of the population where there are the greatest number of children and where these children are in need of the most careful and the most intensive teaching, since they cannot remain as long in school as the children in the richer districts— that these very children are the most nearly neglected by our school system. "The units of assessments for taxation are too small; the assessments are inequitable; the state has no control over assessments upon which local school taxes are levied. "The school districts should be so enlarged and so organized as to equalize the burden as well as the opportunities. Wealthy neighborhoods should bear a portion of the burden of the more needy neighborhoods. "All districts should be compelled to collect locally a substantial amount-say as a minimum of its requirements, one-half—and, above all, the state should contribute the other half. "The state has reserved to itself practically every source of revenue but ■•^one.'. . . "It has the means at hand to collect, if it but devises the method. "It can place its charge where it will be least felt and supplement the revenue of the local district—narrowed in its source to real estate. "Until the federal government becomes the third contributing member of the partnership, as it is already the profit-sharing member, the state can do nothing better than share 50-50 with the school district, the latter being so organized as to enable it more readily to meet the charge upon it. "Education in America has been too long considered a purely local problem. There is an obligation upon both the state and upon the nation. At present 1 per cent, of our national expenditure is for education, while 68 per cent, is for expenses arising from recent and previous wars, and 25 per cent, is for the maintenance of the war and navy liepartments. "England has learned to her cost that education is a national as well as a local responsibility. "In the very midst of the war s passed the Fisher bill, providing millions of ponunds for education, half of which is paid by the nation as a whole and half by the local community. "Ours is the wealthiest nation npoh the face of the earth and bur state is at least second in population and in wealth of all the «tates of the Union. ' "The "statistics of mine, farm and factory of Pennsylvania make a fascinating story. "The earnings of our citizens would have seemed fabulous a few short years ago. Our fortunes have accumulated by leaps and bounds and our balance sheet runs into many billions. "Pennsylvania is properly proud of her history, of her traditions, of her wealth and of her industrial supremacy. "But sometimes pride goes before a fall. " '111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates and men decay.' "The state's educational record is a blot upon her otherwise great record of achievement. ^ "The latest official reports show the following: In 1890 Pennsylvania ranked as the tenth state in education ; in 1900 Pennsylvania ranked as the fifteenth state; in 1910 Pennsylvania ranked as the sixteenth state; in 1918, Pennsylvania ranked as the twenty-first state. She was-passed by 11 states during that period. "The question is. How long can Pennsylvania hold her industrial record level with an educational record running constantly and rpaidly down hill? How long will it take the better-trained competitors to pass her? "It is well to be reminded that much of the industrial supremacy of Pennsyl vania is, after all, the result of the material treasure found in the soil of our state. "It is very important for the happiness of our people that ^e hold our po sition industrially; that we grow from strength to strength. It is more important that we do not lose our souls. "The final wealth of Pennsylvania is not its coal, its iron, its gas, its oil, nor any material thing—but its children. "Industry can never hope to triumph while education dies. "The industries of Pennsylvania successfully convert practically all (sf its , material into gold. But thus far Pennsylvania has not been so successful in re-converting that gold into the only thing that gives it real value—human welfare. And just as the real wealth of Pennsylvania, the final asset, consists of the character of the children and the quality.of the youth, so the real conservation must concern itself not with the forest and the mine, but with the resources of intelligence and of moral worth. It is only through these that our people will become socially responsible, loyal and contented. "Real wisdom as well as the soundest and most far-sighted business policy would be to make Pennsylvania and the nation safe by saving for future service every latent ability in every child in Pennsylvania. \ "Col. Roosevelt once said: 'The most expensive crop is ignorance. And the best of all the crops is the children.' "He might have added that the greatest of industries is that which develops from the raw material of ,-cluldhoQd an approved American citizen, sound in body, free in mind and generous in spirit. "For the conservation of that asset, to get the things done that are necessary to be done so that the 2,000,000 children now in the public schools of the commonwealth^ and those that will fc'llow them, are given their chance; for the sake of our state and the permanency of our beloved country and its institutions, we must all of us get behind Dr. Finegan in the constructive work about to be inaugurated. We must, as I know Dr. Finegan intends to do, enlist the interest and support of our captains of industry. We must make them give us a few hours from out of their busy lives to help us in our un- On Thurßday we advertised $0 new Piano^ Player^Piano (xnd Grand Outfits at special prices^ We were besieged by buyers on Friday and Saturday, The response was greater than %oe expected. 20 oi^ these splendid outfits were sold in two days. Only 30 left at these prices, it will pay yon to come early Monday to seem re yomr type of instrument at these reduced prices and terms^ 30 New Complete Piano, Player-Piano and Grand Outfits at Special Prices Used Pianos At Reduced Prices First Come, First Served MASON & HAMLIN, CßAfl walnut casi> . . ^ O U U I/UDWIG, fltlun ebony case ^ I DU STEINWAT, C'^fJE: malio^any case ..,. iP O Ä O S. HAMILTON CX>., maiiogany CAse ö KNABE, mahogany case ., ® f nJ DEOKER, C19C ebony case .. L £äO A. B. CHASE, ^ e 9 C malio^ny case »^ . ^ O Ä O HARDMAN, C 1 ß C ebony case «»t^tP 1 OO McCAMMON, C Q K ebony case • KIJRT5CBIANN, walnut case ..$155 A $2S down payment will be accepted on some of these used Uprights. Xmas delivery if de" sired. Main Store^ New Upright, $295 $25 Cash Payment Convenient Monthly Terms, New Player-Piano, $425 $35 Cash Payment Convenient Monthly Terms, New Small Grand, $875 $50 Cash Payment Convenient Monthly Terms. To get any one of these special priced instruments yon 11 have to come quickly—^before t^ese 30 new outfits are sold, They^re here —on sale at once. But only sale-priced now—to avoid tfie rush of Christmas shopping. So come now to secure yours. Delivered at Xmas if requested. All These Used Player - Pianos Are wnderpriced tor tills »«!«• OnlT « limited »wmber available« Don't delay» he ^«re early tomorrow morning. Main Store. S. HAMIL.TOPr FlxAYMH-PlAWO $595 AMERICAN P I- A Y ER- CQQ^ PIANO, malftoi?. case.....-»pifCF^f $600 KENSINGTON PI.ATER- CJAft PIANO, makds. case,. .. KURTZMANN PI.AYER-PIANO, maiiosrany case. <Only Used a Short Time) MCHNER A SCHOENBERGER PI.AYER-PIANO. ma- CJCI^iL Itoicany emme ............. ^MkU^ß .......$650 A SS6 »aym^ent will' be »lafflcient for Immediate delivery »ome of these Player». Or we wiU deUver it Xmas if yon say so. SPECIAL—A Few Used Grand Pianos Also in This Sale CnBridCERING. mahosaiay ease, at .................. $460 $450 TERMS IF DESIRED Other Stores MHlvale and Wilkinsburg a m ilton s MAIN STORE: 815 and 817 LIBERTY AVE. East Liberty Store 6006-8 Peim Ave, dertaking. From their efforts greater dividends, financial, and of the spirit, will come to them than on any investment they have ever made. ''I believe in the'American business man, and particularly in the business man of our commonwealth. Nowhere else in the world, unless it be in England, can his equal be found in integrity, in vision, and in idealism. His greaest fault lies in failure to .express himself more forcibly in the public's business. "To have him think deeply for an hour upon our problem is to settle it for all time. knows that the^only practical protection of human life and of real property is by the careful, laborious [lucation pf that majority which will i whether right or wrong, in any well managed industry, in-surence is included in regular operating expenses. The cost of this insurance is Äff'ivays proportioned to the risk and the danger. "There are three imminent risks to industry at present: (1) The risk from ignorant Bolshevism; (2) the constant risk and loss from incompetency; (3) th^ risk and loss from dissatisfied em- is has been abundantly shown re-^iy a social e:!Cplosion is far more ;erous and costly than any other. „ 'i' industry to neglect this insurance would be to invite destruction. "A good American public school is the cheapest and best social insurance iu the world. all, because our captains of indufitry have a sense of social justice we may depend upon their co-operation. "Industry has been singularly shortsighted in allowing the radicals, the U^^orant, the discontented to put out itii t^e propaganda. "Again, the only practical and per-majient remedy for error is truth. Truth co^ifs sometimes by inspiration, but for the most part it is the result of earnest inquiry and disinterested study. It may always be spread by education and .training. "IndustrJ^ is justly proud of its part in the preparation for war. But war involves protection and necessarily destruction. » Peace, on the other hand^ is concerned with prevention and construction. "The most profitable thing for industry is to prepare for peace. A nation will always more profitably and wisely spend money for its schools than for shot and shell. . "So, let us have our drive for education. Let us harness the same elements that during the war rose to the occasion to put across the Red Cross, Liberty bonds, the war chests, etc. Let us utilize these same forces and instru-mentaliti-es to create a sentiment throughout the state in behalf of our children that will place the Pennsylvania schools where its wealth and the spirit of its citizens would have them— at th^ very top of the list. "If the public schools are our second line of defense, and I believe they are the first line, we may well conclude that in proportion as we succeed or fail in giving to all the children of all the people their full chance, will we 'nobly save or meanly lose' our last best hope on earth." Today's was the cloMng session of the educational congress, in session three day% With Dr. J. George Becht, deputy sup.öl'intendent of public instruction presiding, the speakers,. besides Mr. Aaron, were: Auditor General Charles A. Snyder, Representative John G. Marshall, Beaver, chairman of the state tax revision commission; Dr^ M. S. Beatus superintendent of schools, Gam- Local Man Possesses Full List Of Electors Who Voted in City When lt Was Classed asBorough Containing the names of some of the oldest families in Pittsburg, a list of the voters in the "Borough of Pittsburg" was recently found by William Robinson, 306 Brushton avenue, among the effects of his father, the late William Robinson, for many years employed at the court house and one of 1 the best known men in the city. The list contains many familiar names, among them Smith and Jones, and subscribed to the bottom oi the document, torn and yellow with age, is this statement: "We do hereby certify that the above is a true and correct list of those persons who voted at the general election held at Pittsburg, in and for the borough of Pittsburg on the eighth day of October, 1805.»' Signed: L. Stewart and Alex Johnston, clerks. The list of names follows: John Wilkins, John Scull, George Cochran, Daniel Kellar, William Eich-baum, John Reed, George Stevenson, John Whelan, James Gibson, George Steward, Joseph McClung, John Os-bom, Henry Haslet, Steel Semple, Alex Johnson, James Ritchey, Tarleton Bates, Hugh Kelly, Samuel McCord, Jacob Haffery, George Shinas, James Dodds, Joseph Gold, Michael Farner, Abraham Watkins, William Boggs, John Spear, Jeremiah Barker, William Lane, Joseph Davis, Thomas Maloney, Alexander McKeever, William Gazzam, Henry Weidner, Alexander Spear, Thomas Lewis, John Sweetman, Abner Updegraff, William Armstrong, James Hardy, James Harrison, Henry Baldwin, Henry By er s, Peter Declary, John Harrison, Thomas Enochs, Robert Campbell, Alex McNickle, David Harlin, Nathaniel Campbell, Thomas Morgan, John MeGreegory, James Riddle, Lewis Reed, Ralph Culbertson, Andrew Richardson, James Stevenson, Arthur Brown, Andrew Robertson, Samuel McG«e, William Irwin, Edward Bnsell, Jesse Cornelius, Robert McGee, William Barrett, Ebenzer Denny, Thomas Baird, Thomas Ferree, Joseph Harper, Robert Henderson, James Kerwin, William Earle, Abner Barker, Thomas Greenough, Thomas Bracken, Joseph Harris, John Wrenshall, John Johnston, John Wilkins, Jr., Samuel Roberts, Isaac Craig, Pressley Nevill, Walter Tannehill, John Neely, Aleic Morrow, William Davis, David McGonigle, Aaron Good- bria county; Dr. Tracy T. Allen, superintendent of schools, DuBois; Maj. Fred Engelhardt, director administration bureau,state department of public instruction, and Dr. Harlan Updegraff, pro^ fessor educational administration, University of Pennsylvania. The congress was called" by. ? Dr. Thomas E. Finegan, state superintendent of public instruction, te find why Pennsylvania was placed twenty-first among states of the union in education, and for suggestion of members. Among the speakers was Col. Leonard P. Ayres, director department of education of the Russell Sage Foundation, whose report placed .Pennsylvania as the twenty-first state in education. win, Robert Semple, David Evans, Nathanial Bedford, Fergus Johnson, Robert D. Taylor, Vallintine Kinzer, James^ O'Hara, Jeffery Scaiff, William Scott/ Isaac Gregg, George Robinson, Peter Mo wry, George McGonigle, Robert Steele, William Herd, James Young, Neal Darrah, William Graham, Charles Campbell, William Martin, George Turner, William Morrow, James Arthurs, Samuel Mercer, John Simms, Lazarus Stewart, James Briseland, William Woods, Boyle Irwin, John Ferree, Robert Simpson, John Irwin Merch, John Darrah, William Roberts, Michael Miller, James Tucker, Robert Smith William Cunningham, John Johnson, Henry Bolinger, Morgan Neville, Thomas Roe, Lewis Warner, John McClintock, David Pride, Nathaniel Irish, Joseph White, Joseph Simnall, 'Benjamin Herr, A. Kirkpatrick, John Simnall, William Nixon, Paul Anderson, Andrew Herty, James Falkner, James Lake, Benjamin Wilson, Moses Foster, William Ralston, Alexander Wills, William Anderson, David McKeeham, William Bleakley, David Pratt, Joseph McCUillough, William Cecil, Jr., Oliver Ormsby, John Patterson, Alexander Fowler, Moses Price, Jonathan Swisher, Francis Logan, Charles Cecil, Thomas Morrow, Nathanial McEwen, John Wills, Peter Wagnier, Joseph McCullpugh, William McCune, John Riggs, Loughlin Campbell, William Bennett, Benjamin B, Hopkins, J^mes Russell, James Copper, John Cooper, Robert Huston, Anthony Drevon, Joshua McCroskey, Timothy Ward, Aaron Ward, James Wills, Jeremiah Sturgeon, James Wills, Jr., James Ross, Archibald Darragh, David McKee, William Hays, Charles Magee, John McLeod, James Rosa, Robert? Knox, James Grant, L. A. Tannehill, Abraham Reichard, David Davis, William Torrence, James Douglafs, William Porter, Robert Knox, John Smith, Samuel Hubbey, John McDowell, Stephen Wiley, Joseph Barker, Lewis Peters, Andrew Robertson, Jr., Thomas Kelly, Robert Peebles, William Dunning, John Heineberger, Robert Spencer, . John Ward, Philip Bradley, Charles Craig, Alexander McLaughlin, Levi Taylor, William Anderson, William Shinas, Peter Kintner, Adam Craig, John Herd, Philip O'Hara, John Hannon, Robert McKee, John Liggit, Samuel Gordin, John Harmin, Lewis Ilger, Samuel Deal, Robert Auld, John Ridenhour, John Roseburgh, James B. Clow, Robert Giffin; James McGonigle, Thomas Wilson, John Fei'is, Daniel McHenry, Samuel Bennett, Eneas McDonald, James Clingan. William Governor, Richard Hancock, James Willock, James Rattle, Noble Willock, John Irwin, Patrick Brannon, Henry Wolf, William B. Irish, Joseph Harbison, John Wise, James Miller, Isaac Boon, Samuel Miller, John Mcllwaine, Elections Tudor, James Irwin, • William Sample George Sutton, Andrew Willoby, John Carson, Walter Lisgoe, Robert Patterson, John Hancock, David Stewart, George Cochran, Paul Vandavert, Thomas Liggit, William Porter, William Fox, William Wusthoff, Samuel Jones, .John Ryan, John Marshall, Robert Peebles-j Alexander Willock, John Thaw, Isaiah Hulton, William Magee, Robert Watson, John Taylor, William Welsh, Jacob Miller, Ladock Cramer, John Fosbrook, Abraham Barclay, Alexander Miller, Woplman Gibson, Matthias Evans, William Mason, Robert Adams, Robert Whitaker, Mathew Barnwell,J John Abright, Peter Vandevert, Simor Small, Henry Perry, John Alford, RoU ert I. Clow, Nathaniel Snowden, Man J field Banton, Riohard Robinson, Andrev» Jamison, Walter Forward, James CaJ, hoon, Joseph Oliver, Daniel Dawson, Philip Qilland, James Robitfsoh, John D. Littleford, Abraham Armstrong, James Morrison, John Barclay, James Mountain, Philip Charker, William Watson, Patrick Newman, Owen Newman, Thomas Magee, William Deal, Richard Cavit, John McCombs, John Little, Benjamin Richards, Edward Bradfield, William Cowan, Isaac Gil-more, James Whelan, John Roseburgh, Jr., John Robinson, John Hains, John Sanderson, John Miller, James Smith, Timothy Murphey, Alexander Shaw, Edward Gowdy, John Gormley, Moses Reed, David Matthews, Anthony Beelen Daniel Craig, John Hastings, John Niniss and William Watson. Well-Known Pastor Is Taken by Death At Allentown, Pa. By Associated Press Allentown, Pa., Nov. 13.—Rev. Milton Ü. Reinhard, a Lutheran minister, who, until his retirement several yeara ago, served a number of congregations in this state, died suddenly of heart failure this ^orning, aged 54 years. 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All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MONDAY MORNING, NOV. 15, 1920. News Is Colorless. A BLOT ON PENNSYLVANIA. Pennsylvania lias done so much for the Nation and '^o much for the world that it^ importance from the standpoints of patriotism and altruism can never 1)0 minimized. It pays one-tenth of the internal revenue of the United States, this amounting, for the year ended June 30, 1920, to $555,"725,086. It has furnished its share of geniuses in the realm of invention. Its industrial leadership is unquestioned. But, while Pennsylvania hae been so patriotic and so generous in meeting world calls for help, what has it been doing for its own people in the way of education and progressive legislation? What of statesmanship .does it show in dealing with its own social pro'b-lems? Plow does its standing in culture compare with its industrial record? While it is prompt, as it should (be in view of its wealth, |n subscribing millions to aid the needy of other lands, how is its wealth being distributed at home toward the end of providing equal educational opportunities for its own children? .. While demanding, as we must, full recognition o! the great things in patriotism and industry Pennsylvania has accomplished, patriotism and social justice also demand that attention be given to matters in v/hich the Keystone state has been falling behind. Marcus Aaron of Pittsburgh, a member of the state "board of education and also of the board of public education of this city, has given the citizens of the commonwealth something- that should startle them into heroic action to place their state in a fitting educational rank. Among other things, in an address to an assemblage of school men in Harrisburg, he said: ''The state's educational record is a blot upon her otherwise great record of achievement." One of the ^;xplanafions is found in the fact that in Pennsylvania today there are 4,500 teachers who have only an elementary grade education. Overcrowded buildings are another cause. Children in some districts are on l]aif-day sessions. I.ack of teachers has threatened even to closo some of the schools. Kelatlvc to the s-iiUz's educational rank, Mr, Aaron 5ay?;: In J 890, Pennsylvania rank<->d as tenth state in rciucation; in j900, l-flG<-nth; in 1910. sixteenth;'in twenty-first. She lias taetn passed by H state-s , during this period. The question ir^: "How long-can PennsJyU'^ania hold her indus':rial record'With an educational rccord running—-and rapidly—down inll? How long-will it t:Ake better trained ■petitors to. pass her?" It is well to be reminded that much of the industrial supremacy of Pennsylvania is, after tJI. the result of the tnaterial ireasure.s found in the soil of our state. .It is rery importtant for the happiue'ss of our people that we hold our iioi^dtion industri-ally; tha.t we 14row from, streng-th to strength. It is more important that we do not lose our souhs. The final N^'^ealtii of Pennsylvania is not its coai, its iron. Us gas. its oil, nor any material thing—but its chiloren. . That is putting it plainly, but the time has come for plain talk. We must not forget that much of the vs^ealth of the state, its natural resources, was stumbled upon rather than produced by extraordinary skill and mentality. It now remains to apply a just share of this wealth to intellectual advancement. The outlay for education should be in keeping with the financial capacity of the commonwealth. In calling for increased state ap.propriations for the schools, Mr. Aaron emphasizes that "the wealth of the different school districts in Pennsylvania is divided about as unequally as among Individuals.'' He %vould have a system of tax distribution devised so that the wealthier -districts would help equalize con-/lltions in the poorer. Is not that merely in keeping with the functions of a government aiming to provide equal opportunities? Is not it in keeping with the ftpirit of civilization? In view of ^%at is provided by Americans to aid the cause of education in foreign lands, there should be no drawing of the line by wealthy districts against aiding the weaker at home. Particuiafiy when we recollect that Allegheny county, after ifreeing its toll roads and bridges, has had to contribute to freeing those of other counties, some of them also noted for their wealth. It all sums up to this: That Pennsylvania has fallen seriously behind in education and that only the broadest-minded views, backed by corresponding action, will enable it to catch up. The situation is one that will show us and the world just what our com-ro on wealth has in statesmanship or its lack of it. A legislature devoted to small politics at a time like this would worse than humiliating. Forbid that the children of the poorer districts of the state 'be cheated further. Ill fares the land, to hastening* ills a prey. Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 11/2/19
Text: November 2, 1919. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I worked in the library yesterday afternoon on English and a Mlle. Champy French assignment. It rained so there was no chapel last night, but there was too much excitement around to study. i forgot to mention that we had a stunt party meeting. I think the performance will come off all right. It is to take place between nine-thirty and ten tomorrow night. I got togged up after dinner last night, and after I was all dressed Dorothea sewed me...
Show moreNovember 2, 1919. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I worked in the library yesterday afternoon on English and a Mlle. Champy French assignment. It rained so there was no chapel last night, but there was too much excitement around to study. i forgot to mention that we had a stunt party meeting. I think the performance will come off all right. It is to take place between nine-thirty and ten tomorrow night. I got togged up after dinner last night, and after I was all dressed Dorothea sewed me into the lace collar that goes with the costume. Helen Reid pinned a hair ribbon on the right spot of my pig-tail, so I was properly fixed up. It poured all last night. There were two colonial gentleman in the party, and two women. i am not crazy about my wife, so i let her shift for herself most of the time. Our costumes did matdh[sic] exactly, though. By the way, Aunt Hattie did not make this, did she? The party was great. It took place in Student'. There was some fine fancing dancing, but that was merely incidental to the whole performance. There were all kinds of various college scenes, does that give enough diversity? That is what it was, anyhow. The performance lasted till nine-thirty. There were also some take-offs on college authorities. The Freshman costumes were very good. There were some fine pirates. One kid went as Dr. T's model for night, all rigged up in flannel nightbown with long sleeves. She told us that people of unusually strong mentality wear sleeves on their nightgowns in winter. Her roommate went as Dr. T's model for day, carrying the egg and pepper, etc. The whole thing was good. We danced till eleven, shocking for college. Mlle. Champy said good evening to me so often that I concluded she wanted to dance, so I asked her, and she was muchly tickled and excited. She dances like a French house on fire, though. My courage was admired by many who fear her in class, Ha, ha! Father, I have your tie and I'll send it with the next laundry. Pay day comes soon. By the way, I have always forgotten to write about this, Mother. The Christian Association must be very different from what it used to be, or you would not have said not to join it. From all I have heard and noticed and read, it is about the only and also a very effective charitable organization. They do mightly good work in Poughkeepsie, and in supporting good settlements. They also bring most of the good lecturers to the college. I think religion is a very very small and insignificant part of it. I was also told that all the Jewish girls belong to it. So I think it will meet with your approval if I join it. I won't be able to hear from you in time. I have to start acting on my own hook, though. Also, in case the Red Cross drive involved giving in addition to membership dues, what should I give? I would like to know that. I staid in bed till nine-fifteen this morning. I concluded a reat[sic] would do me good, although I could not sleep. I straightenedup my room, among other things. I also studied considerably. After dinner I took a walk out into the country with two other girls. It was a wonderful day. I don't believe there is much else to tell you. Cousin Pauline sent some instant chocolate. It is supposed to contain the milk and chocolate and shugar, and all that is necessary is to pour water on it. I tried it this morning, but it is awful tasting stuff. For the little that I fix in my room, tea does very well. I have to write some letters tonight, but I probably won't get to it. I forgot to tell you that when I got back last night, there was this note on my door:--"although 23's bed is complicated, 21 loves you enough to turn it down. Happy dreams!" I discorvered that it is customary for some juniors to come around and turn down Freshie's beds for them the night of Soph. party. They also put your picture on my bed, Pete. Evidently you don't look like me. I probably won't get time for a letter tomorrow, because it is a fool[full] day and we will have rehearsal for the stunt party. I worked ahead as much as I could. We are to go to Junior party next week as our ambitions. I said so once before. I rather think I'll borrow Helen's cap and gown. Have you any suggestions? I'll be very formal for once--Pardon the mistakes, but it is almost supper time and I don't want this letter to miss the mail. There was no letter from you, yesterday, Mother. Love, [Fannie]Ticket [stub] tucked in envelope for 2 NOV 1919 [the Syria Mosque was in Pittsburgh]CL8 Sec. Left Row.____ No.____ Orchestra Circle. SYRIA MOSQUE Tuesday Eve., Nov. 4, '19 Retain This Check
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1920-11-02
Text: November 2, 1920. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I don't know how long my letters will be the next few days as I shall be very busy. I have to finish my history topic, write up the last four chem lectures in a very finished form, and get launched on an English topic before Friday. The worst part of the English work is that I cannot think of anything to take for my topic. Well, Mother, I had a new experience today. Heretofore I have always heard the old man's praises sung by...
Show moreNovember 2, 1920. Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I don't know how long my letters will be the next few days as I shall be very busy. I have to finish my history topic, write up the last four chem lectures in a very finished form, and get launched on an English topic before Friday. The worst part of the English work is that I cannot think of anything to take for my topic. Well, Mother, I had a new experience today. Heretofore I have always heard the old man's praises sung by teachers, etc., but today I heard yours. I managed to get up the courage to introduce myself to the rambling genius, otherwise known as Miss Salmon, and I says to her, says I, "Miss Salmon, my mother has been writing to me to introduce myself to you------Do you remember S. H, '99?" And her face lit up immediately so that I knew she was not bluffing. She said, "Do I remember her? How could I forget her? And you are her daughter! Well, I am certainly glad you told me, and when you write to her give her my very best regards, and if she ever comes here to see you, be sure to bring her to see me. But what I find fault with is, 'why did you wait so long in introducing yourself to me?'" I said, "Well, I wondered how you could remember people after so long a time has past since you saw them". She said, "My dear little girl, don't you know that it is only the colorless poeple[sic], those that go along without taking any interest in anything and that contribute nothing, whom one forgets. But your mother was a very bright, interesting, lively, wide-awake young woman, who was distinctly worth knowing and remembering". !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope that will bring me a drag! I think I shall follow the crowd tonight to Students' and watch the election returns. It only happens once every four years. There is to be a French lecture of some sort eitheth hour. I am going and I'll know more about it after I have been there. We spent the hour in History this morning discussing the value of a protest vote. Miss Salmon is very strong for it, but I cannot see the great value of it. If it accomplished some positive good it might be worth something. She said among other things that the platform of each of the two big parties devoted about fifty per cent of its space to singing the praises of past administrations, forty-eight to knowing the other party, and two percent to a constructive program for the future; whereas the four small parties devote very little space to knocking and none to history of the past. I said then, that is these small parties had ever had any administrations before they would devote just as much space proportionately to telling about them. The whole class started to laugh, but I cannot see the joke in it. She said perhaps that was so. What's so funny in it?Millsy has another Ec sections now, so I guess that means that we gett someone else. I don't think I told you anything about Sophomore Party. The first act takes place in the garden of the hotel of a European summer-resort. Some Vassar Girlds, who have just seen the battlefields, are talking to some ladies who are guests at the hotel. They tell about college, etc., and that gives a chance for about six different choruses to appear and sing songs about college things. The second act is a party the ladies give the Vassar girls in return for the entertainment they had recieved. In this a lot of the talent of the class in fancing dancing was brought out. There was some wonderful interpretive dancing and some very fine exhibition dancing of modern dances. The choruses were all perfectly trained and very well costumed. It is too bad that you did not see it. After the party there was dancing. I danced off and on for about an hour and did not feel any worse for it. My job that night was to usher at the balcony door where all the faculty and people with guests come in. There were a whole lot of faculty who said good-evening to me, including Prexie--who never would on any other occasion! I was supposed to keep all juniors and seniors out. Some managed to get by the first door, and tried to get by me. Certain committees of juniors are allowed in though, also the Phil fire-captains, and their ranks surely swelled that night. I asked one young lady what class she was, and she said, "Miss Sprague, of the Physical Training Department". I felt like such a nut that I looked three times before asking people what class they were after that. I sent the night-letter, in accordance with your instructions. I am continuing to feel better. I recieved your special, Father, and "contents noted", as Grandpa says. Otherwise nothing new. Love, Fannie Hope your expedition to a little town seventeen miles from Boston is successful, Pete.Mr. Marcus Aaron, %Hotel Bellevue Stratford, Philadelphia, Pa.403 Davison House, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie N. Y. [F. H. Aaron]
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Creator: Aaron, Fannie
Date: 1922-11-02
Text: November 2, 1922 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I think I am really better this time. I went to bed at five yesterday afternoon, to be on the safe side. I missed an English required lecture in the evening by so doing, but I thought it best to be on the safe side. I still have a slight cold and am not strong yet, otherwise I am really better. I think I am finally discharged from the Infirm, although I haven't seen Dr. T. yet. Nothing new--I am busy catching up with my work. I have to...
Show moreNovember 2, 1922 Dear Mother, Father, and Pete: I think I am really better this time. I went to bed at five yesterday afternoon, to be on the safe side. I missed an English required lecture in the evening by so doing, but I thought it best to be on the safe side. I still have a slight cold and am not strong yet, otherwise I am really better. I think I am finally discharged from the Infirm, although I haven't seen Dr. T. yet. Nothing new--I am busy catching up with my work. I have to take a Faculty to Senior Parlor Opening for faculty tomorrow night. I swore a few weeks ago, I wouldn't go, because it seems such a dumb performance to me, but yesterday I got a note please to take someone as they must all be invited. The note was from our class president, so I thought I had better be obliging. I had to take a left-ver, though--Miss Gilman, whom I had in Zo quiz last year. She isn't half bad. Have to wear my red evening dress. I wish i had my white one 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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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: 1922-11-27
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: 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: 1922-11-03
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 1922-11-05
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: 1920-11-06
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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. 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. 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 10/1/19
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: 1920-10-01
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 1921-10-14
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: 1922-10-14
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: 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: 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: 10/16/19
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: 1920-10-16
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: 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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