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Sunday May 24
Dearest dad,
I shall be starting home on Wednesday afternoon June the tenth which is two weeks from next Wednesday and seventeen days from to day! I shall see my beloved family then at luncheon on Thursday -- Hoorah! I don’t imagine any of the Shipp family will be
exactly sad on that occasion! Margaret Starr and I have arranged to get a section together on the sleeper. I don’t think we will get any reduced rates this time as the freshmen come home at one time, sophomores and juniors at another, and the seniors still later, so I’ll have to have twenty-five dollars for travelling expenses. I’ve
had to take some tutor lessons this year and I can’t pay for them out of my regular allowance -- there have been too many things like class dues, student taxes, clothes etc to pay for this month. Likewise there is at the end of each year a “senior auction” where the seniors sell many useful things at low prices. As there are some little things which I will have to get for my room next year, I think it would be economy to get them at that sale. If you feel that you can then, I’d like ten or fifteen dollars. If not just send five or six for the tutor lessons.
I think I have worked harder the last three days that I ever did in my life before, on an essay for English class, and I feel as if a hundred pound weight had been
lifted off my shoulders, for I actually got it done last night and handed it in to my adorable Miss Keys. I hope to goodness she will like it.
Last Friday night the small boys of the Riverview Military Academy in Poughkeepsie who are commonly known as the “Waterbabies,” came up and drilled on the campus from seven till eight in the evening.
‘Twas a very pretty sight to see them in their soldier uniforms on our pretty campus. Little Dickey Taylor, president Taylor’s little scamp of a son, is one of the members of the school, and how he did try to look solemn when all the girls clapped for him!
Last night the sophomores gave a party to the freshmen out in the athletic circle.
About twenty of the sophomores gave a show, a take-off on a Latin play which the freshmen have to read, and it was just as funny as could be, with lots of good songs and local hits.
Ruth Underhill is coming about the fifteenth or sixteenth of June. She wants to stay with her family for a little while before coming west, but she wont come too late to have a good time.
Well, I don’t believe anything else exciting has happened, so I’ll say farewell. I’ll have to cram all next week for exams, worse luck, so I’ll hardly have time to write any long letters
Farewell
Peg.
Dickie Taylor Pres. T.’s son. More money.
POUGHKEEPSIE MAY 25 930AM 1903 N.Y.
Mr Joseph P. Shipp
1010 N. Delaware Street
Indianapolis
Indiana
INDIANAPOLIS. IND. MAY 26 1230PM 1903
Dearest dad,
I shall be starting home on Wednesday afternoon June the tenth which is two weeks from next Wednesday and seventeen days from to day! I shall see my beloved family then at luncheon on Thursday -- Hoorah! I don’t imagine any of the Shipp family will be
exactly sad on that occasion! Margaret Starr and I have arranged to get a section together on the sleeper. I don’t think we will get any reduced rates this time as the freshmen come home at one time, sophomores and juniors at another, and the seniors still later, so I’ll have to have twenty-five dollars for travelling expenses. I’ve
had to take some tutor lessons this year and I can’t pay for them out of my regular allowance -- there have been too many things like class dues, student taxes, clothes etc to pay for this month. Likewise there is at the end of each year a “senior auction” where the seniors sell many useful things at low prices. As there are some little things which I will have to get for my room next year, I think it would be economy to get them at that sale. If you feel that you can then, I’d like ten or fifteen dollars. If not just send five or six for the tutor lessons.
I think I have worked harder the last three days that I ever did in my life before, on an essay for English class, and I feel as if a hundred pound weight had been
lifted off my shoulders, for I actually got it done last night and handed it in to my adorable Miss Keys. I hope to goodness she will like it.
Last Friday night the small boys of the Riverview Military Academy in Poughkeepsie who are commonly known as the “Waterbabies,” came up and drilled on the campus from seven till eight in the evening.
‘Twas a very pretty sight to see them in their soldier uniforms on our pretty campus. Little Dickey Taylor, president Taylor’s little scamp of a son, is one of the members of the school, and how he did try to look solemn when all the girls clapped for him!
Last night the sophomores gave a party to the freshmen out in the athletic circle.
About twenty of the sophomores gave a show, a take-off on a Latin play which the freshmen have to read, and it was just as funny as could be, with lots of good songs and local hits.
Ruth Underhill is coming about the fifteenth or sixteenth of June. She wants to stay with her family for a little while before coming west, but she wont come too late to have a good time.
Well, I don’t believe anything else exciting has happened, so I’ll say farewell. I’ll have to cram all next week for exams, worse luck, so I’ll hardly have time to write any long letters
Farewell
Peg.
Dickie Taylor Pres. T.’s son. More money.
POUGHKEEPSIE MAY 25 930AM 1903 N.Y.
Mr Joseph P. Shipp
1010 N. Delaware Street
Indianapolis
Indiana
INDIANAPOLIS. IND. MAY 26 1230PM 1903
