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Vassar College. Sept. 22/95.
My dear Mother,—
Here it Is my first Saaday afternoon at college this year, aad
of coarse my first thought Is to write to you. I am pretty well settled
considering the short length of time I have been here. I thing less fewer
girls came on Saturday this year for almost everybody was here when I
got here. We were so surprised to find our room changed, for Mrs.
Kendrick had told us there was almost ao likelihood of it, aad we had not
the least expectation of it. So we each, as we arrived, proceeded directly
to the room we had chosen- Ray opened the door and yelled "Where's Ad? "
and X looked around, when I walked in, and aaw strange furniture, and yelled
"Who's in this room", like the Big Bear. Some Freshmen have it.
We are pleased about it now that we have gotten over being surprised,-
and think It will be very well lor all concerned. When three g the same
girls room together for three years they are not apt to make enough new
friends, and that was oae of the chief reasons why we tried last spring to
get a single and a double, so that we would not be a Kathy and Minnie set.
The rooms over here ^Strong Hall, are so very much pleasanter and more
homelike, and the dining room here is lovely, and the things to eat are nicer
partly because they are cooked In smaller quantity. My windows — two
together they are — look toward the East - the same view X have had ever
since X have been here- The morning sun shines in to make the day begin
Sept. 22, 1895 - 2
grayish drab, so that pictures are not so necessary as ia the other
building where many of the walla are glaring white.
We had enough curtains between us so that I can hare a pair -
and Carrie has a screen which they doaH need, and I am to use it to
put In front of my washstand.
The rugs here are always outlandish colors which swear with
everything In a room - (I think they mast bay them up cheap on that
account)- and my rug unfortunately Is no exception, so that I cannot
expect anything to go well with It. You know my bureau ornaments are
mostly yellow...
...lessons for tomorrow. X have no conflicts so that ray course will not
be changed at all. One thing is nice. I have no recitation the first hour,
so that I will not have to rush right after breakfast, and I think I will
have time enough to get up from New York Monday morning so that X
can epend Sunday there some time.
It is so nice to see all the girls again, even nieer than I realized
beforehand. I was particularly glad to see Mary Mac Coll. She Is Just
as lovely as she can be. She has such an original way of saying things -
I was Messed at her account of her visit to Prof. Ely, whom she went to
consult In regard to her course- Mary started to tell her name and situation.
Sept, 22, 1895 -3
but just as soon ss Miss Ely knew she was out part of last year she said
in her short decisive way, "Well, where have you been? " "Home," Mary
replied. "What have you been doing? " Miss Ely asked, and Mary said,
"Well I have been waiting for curvature of the spine, but I got tired of
waiting so I came back to college." Miss Ely asked hor what she was
doing while she was waiting, and Mary told her she was keeping house-
Mary and Belle room together in a double over in the main building. Mary
Ifi^Vc real well—
I saw Katharine Dunham Saturday evening. She had been to town
all afternoon and came home with her arms full of bundles. She has a
cosy little room, and is making it very pretty.
Miss Macurdy is not coming for a week or so because her mother
is very sick, not expected to live. A number of girls have dropped out of
our class, so that I think it will be a small class by the time we come to
graduate.
Dr. Taylor looks very well- I understand he is going to Europe
just as soon as he gets things started here, in a week or so.
Carrie Abbot was the first girl I saw when I came- She and Louise
fngeraoll and Miss Hamburger (one of Miss Mittelberger's boarders, and a
very nice girl apparently) are rooming together on the first floor in the
main building. They were very glad not to be over at the Windsor- It is
Sept, 22, 1895 -4
now time for the mail, so goodbye- This letter is very rambling- 1
just wrote as each thing occurred to me. With lots of love to all - and
remember me to the neighbors and other friends—
Lovingly Adelaide. ^Clsflin,
My dear Mother,—
Here it Is my first Saaday afternoon at college this year, aad
of coarse my first thought Is to write to you. I am pretty well settled
considering the short length of time I have been here. I thing less fewer
girls came on Saturday this year for almost everybody was here when I
got here. We were so surprised to find our room changed, for Mrs.
Kendrick had told us there was almost ao likelihood of it, aad we had not
the least expectation of it. So we each, as we arrived, proceeded directly
to the room we had chosen- Ray opened the door and yelled "Where's Ad? "
and X looked around, when I walked in, and aaw strange furniture, and yelled
"Who's in this room", like the Big Bear. Some Freshmen have it.
We are pleased about it now that we have gotten over being surprised,-
and think It will be very well lor all concerned. When three g the same
girls room together for three years they are not apt to make enough new
friends, and that was oae of the chief reasons why we tried last spring to
get a single and a double, so that we would not be a Kathy and Minnie set.
The rooms over here ^Strong Hall, are so very much pleasanter and more
homelike, and the dining room here is lovely, and the things to eat are nicer
partly because they are cooked In smaller quantity. My windows — two
together they are — look toward the East - the same view X have had ever
since X have been here- The morning sun shines in to make the day begin
Sept. 22, 1895 - 2
grayish drab, so that pictures are not so necessary as ia the other
building where many of the walla are glaring white.
We had enough curtains between us so that I can hare a pair -
and Carrie has a screen which they doaH need, and I am to use it to
put In front of my washstand.
The rugs here are always outlandish colors which swear with
everything In a room - (I think they mast bay them up cheap on that
account)- and my rug unfortunately Is no exception, so that I cannot
expect anything to go well with It. You know my bureau ornaments are
mostly yellow...
...lessons for tomorrow. X have no conflicts so that ray course will not
be changed at all. One thing is nice. I have no recitation the first hour,
so that I will not have to rush right after breakfast, and I think I will
have time enough to get up from New York Monday morning so that X
can epend Sunday there some time.
It is so nice to see all the girls again, even nieer than I realized
beforehand. I was particularly glad to see Mary Mac Coll. She Is Just
as lovely as she can be. She has such an original way of saying things -
I was Messed at her account of her visit to Prof. Ely, whom she went to
consult In regard to her course- Mary started to tell her name and situation.
Sept, 22, 1895 -3
but just as soon ss Miss Ely knew she was out part of last year she said
in her short decisive way, "Well, where have you been? " "Home," Mary
replied. "What have you been doing? " Miss Ely asked, and Mary said,
"Well I have been waiting for curvature of the spine, but I got tired of
waiting so I came back to college." Miss Ely asked hor what she was
doing while she was waiting, and Mary told her she was keeping house-
Mary and Belle room together in a double over in the main building. Mary
Ifi^Vc real well—
I saw Katharine Dunham Saturday evening. She had been to town
all afternoon and came home with her arms full of bundles. She has a
cosy little room, and is making it very pretty.
Miss Macurdy is not coming for a week or so because her mother
is very sick, not expected to live. A number of girls have dropped out of
our class, so that I think it will be a small class by the time we come to
graduate.
Dr. Taylor looks very well- I understand he is going to Europe
just as soon as he gets things started here, in a week or so.
Carrie Abbot was the first girl I saw when I came- She and Louise
fngeraoll and Miss Hamburger (one of Miss Mittelberger's boarders, and a
very nice girl apparently) are rooming together on the first floor in the
main building. They were very glad not to be over at the Windsor- It is
Sept, 22, 1895 -4
now time for the mail, so goodbye- This letter is very rambling- 1
just wrote as each thing occurred to me. With lots of love to all - and
remember me to the neighbors and other friends—
Lovingly Adelaide. ^Clsflin,
