Vassar College. April 13. 1896.
My dear Mother, —
I mm writing this time on Monday morning before break-
fast, because last evening, which I intended to spend in writing, I spent
over at the W indsor. You know the Sunday evening prayer-meetings
over there are led by some girl from the Junior or Senior Class here,
who takes along two other girls to take part and help the meeting along.
So last night X was asked to go along. The Sunday Evening prayer-
meetings over there are very small, because, to begin with, there are
only fifty girls left over there now, and then since they are so near
town, a good many of them go to church in the evening, and then, too, a
smaller proportion to the whole number stay there than here, anyway.
The Freshmen over there are quite a problem not only to the Christian
Association, but also to the Self-government Committee. You see,
without any upper-classmen to influence them, they are Just like boarding-
school girls, who try to break all the rules they can and make all the
noise they can. And that won't do under Self-government. The Students1
Association expects to have a time with them next year when they get
over to the main building. For these reasons it is very unfortunate for
the college to have to have girls over at the Windsor.
They say that one hundred and seventy girls have already paid...
{Adelaide Claflin,