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My dear Mother,----
I am glad papa is better and can go back to work. He must have had grippe. Everybody has been having it here. — I mean, a few people have.
Before I forget it, I must tell for Bess's benefit that our room is number 117. Room 68 is in the double alley way on the second south, whereas our room is the single alleyway on the third south — the Senior corridor.
This week we had considerable excitement--- The Washington's Birthday Celebration on Monday. We celebrated the day a good deal more than
Algebra for February 22.
Problem:
if a Faculty should take from some students a national Holiday, how much Patriotism would be left?
Let F (known quantity) — Faculty.
"P (unknown " ) - Patriotism.
"s (aggravated " ) - Students.
Take Patriotism from Faculty.
(impossible since P > F.
Add Patriotism to Students.
(impossible since S contains P).
Answer:
Since S contains P and P is greater than F it is unreasonable for a Faculty to take a national Holiday from some Students.
Friday night our class had a delightful time in celebrating the birthday of our president, Mary Chambers. All the Senior tables were put together into one long table and they were decorated in pink, with smilax. The girls all wore light evening dresses, and we had icecream and cake for dessert. We sang all together a class song, the words of which Mary Chambers had written at the first of the year, and then we sang a [...] song to her composed for the occasion. Besides these we sang some of our Trig Ceremonies songs and Alma Mater. The rest of the people in the dining room clapped us after each one and we marched out two by two singing - and we felt like a bridal procession.
The bell has rung for the first recitation so love to all, from your lo[ving?]
Adelaide. [Claflin,]
March 2. 1897.
Distributed in English Class - Feb. 22, 1897
A Revised Edition of Shakespeare’s Tragedy.
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
Edited for the delectation of the Faculty of Vassar College by its devoted admirers-- THE STUDENTS.
To show the genera! tenor of the alterations we give the following extracts:
ACT I. SCENE 1——Vassar, a Corridor.
Enter Faculty and a rabble of students.
Fae. Hence, hence you idle creatures, get you to the library.
Is this a Holiday? What! know you not
Being Academical you ought not to walk
Upon a laboring day without the sign
Of your profession! —- Speak. what course art thou?
And wherefore art not in thy den to-day ?
Why dost thou lead these girls about the halls?
1st Stu. Indeed, sir, we make holiday to commemorate George Washington and to rejoice in our country.
Fae. Wherefore rejoice ? We care not for the cause,
Its spirit long ago is dead and gone !
Stu. You blocks, you stones, you. worse than senseless things !
Oh you hard hearts, you cruel men of books,
Knew you not Georgie?
Fae. Indeed we knew him ; but so long ago
His memory cannot draw us from our books.
And do you now cull out a holiday?
And do you now put on your best attire?
And would you now cast books and work away
For Georgie ?
Stu. We surely have and surely will do so
Until your books have crumbled into dust.
Our Country's Father best deserves our love,
We'lI give it him in spite of all you do.
