V«smr College.
Fob. 4, 1877'.
Dour Grandmother,
Mama wrote ma that you wasted me to write to you* so
I do it, especially as I had intended to lor soma time past. I suppose
mother has written that I like it vary much here, that is usually what
everyone asks ma tha first things I wish I had counted how many
times I have been asked it. I like It very much, and as a general
thing, I like tha girls vary much. I am going to have another room
next year, if 1 can. as I don't like the girls well enough to be with them
all tha time. I dont know but X shall make a change in that before the
yaar is out. Wo have a very nice time and a grant deal of fun, wo hava
plays or something of the kind every Friday evening, and can goAdance
in the Gymnasium every Friday and Saturday evening. We have had
gymnastics now for the last two months or more, and I like them very
much. My muscles are getting-vary^qulte strong, I swing from rings,
snd hang by my hands and arms so much. I am Just as well as I can be;
every body says so. People look at me, and say, "Well, you are evi-
dently nut studying too much at Vassar." We had splendid coasting for
or three weeks until about a week ago, and since then It has
been so warm that the willows are beginning to get yellow at the tips of
the branches. This is the last week of the first semester, or half-year,
and we are all studying quite hard, as we have to review everything that
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we have been over during the semester. Besides that, 1 am on one
or two committees to get up plays, aad all sorts of things of that sort,
so for title last week I have been, and all next week Z will be busy
from morning till night. But then the new semester begins and Z
haven t much to do until Ju&e. We have been having lectures on sur-
veying last week from our Professor of Mathematics, and 1 am very
anxious to surve/. Z think It must be real fun, aad Z am going to aak
the Professor if she won't let me go out and survey with the Class next
spring. Zm»> must stop now, aa Z must write some more letters, for
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Sunday is my only writing-day just now, aad Z have a dreadful stack oa
hand that want answering. Tell Freddy Z will answer his letters as
soon as possible. Give my love to grandfather. Aunt Annie and Uncle
Charles, Freddy and Emma, from your loving granddaughter
Lilian Taylor.
Lillian (Taylor) Klllani, ex-'79