We had delicious pink ice-cream for dessert last night. Only vegetable

dyes are used in colouring the food. The college is very much opposed,

both from aesthetic and hygienic motives, to the use of aniline dyes.

The weather of late has been ideal--bright sunshine and clouds

interspersed with a few welcome snow-storms. I and my companions have

enjoyed our walks to and from classes--particularly from.

Trusting, my dear Mr. Smith, that this will find you in your usual good

health, I remain,

Most cordially yours,

Jerusha Abbott

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24th April

Dear Daddy,

Spring has come again! You should see how lovely the campus is. I

think you might come and look at it for yourself. Master Jervie

dropped in again last Friday--but he chose a most unpropitious time,

for Sallie and Julia and I were just running to catch a train. And

where do you think we were going? To Princeton, to attend a dance and

a ball game, if you please! I didn't ask you if I might go, because I

had a feeling that your secretary would say no. But it was entirely

regular; we had leave-of-absence from college, and Mrs. McBride

chaperoned us. We had a charming time--but I shall have to omit

details; they are too many and complicated.

Saturday Up before dawn! The night watchman called us--six of us--and we made

coffee in a chafing dish (you never saw so many grounds!) and walked

two miles to the top of One Tree Hill to see the sun rise. We had to

scramble up the last slope! The sun almost beat us! And perhaps you

think we didn't bring back appetites to breakfast!

Dear me, Daddy, I seem to have a very ejaculatory style today; this

page is peppered with exclamations.

I meant to have written a lot about the budding trees and the new

cinder path in the athletic field, and the awful lesson we have in

biology for tomorrow, and the new canoes on the lake, and Catherine

Prentiss who has pneumonia, and Prexy's Angora kitten that strayed from

home and has been boarding in Fergussen Hall for two weeks until a

chambermaid reported it, and about my three new dresses--white and pink

and blue polka dots with a hat to match--but I am too sleepy. I am

always making this an excuse, am I not? But a girls' college is a busy

place and we do get tired by the end of the day! Particularly when the

day begins at dawn.

Affectionately,

Judy

15th May

Dear Daddy-Long-Legs,

Is it good manners when you get into a car just to stare straight ahead

and not see anybody else?




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