Stanford Student Letters and Memoirs

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[typed] Today I went to church and accepted Mrs. Gilman's invitation to go home with the girls to dinner - such a good dinner as it was ! After dinner I met Kittie Haskell and we went to call on Miss Darrah in Palo Alto we had a most delightful time - She is such a delightful woman and so very encouraging in the teaching prospects. We planned to go to Prof. Anderson's too but didn't have time. Theodora was gone when I got back but I had left her to visit Helen.

Everyday I christen something new that came in your beautiful boxI love the collars and cuffs and the hair brush is a dandy - I am waiting till I wash my hair before I use it. I haven't worn the shirt waist yet but we have a stroke of warm weather so shall have the chance. We lost the Field day yesterday but wome the the debate- just the reverse from last year. The field day was a great surprise as John Bruenton our champion man proved overtrained and stale. I don't like track athletics - it throws too much responsibility on individuals.

I have gotten my pages very much mixed but hope you can make them out. In Browning we have been reading Colombe's Birthday and Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came. Prof. Anderson read the latter so wonderfully well and made it so full of meaning. One always reads so much personal experience into his interpretations- his personality is so rich and yet so buoyant + one of the people whom you know the world over no matter whether you can see and speak with his. I consider it the greatest privilege of my college course to have studied under and to have known him. My other work for the end of the year is coming out very easily and smoothly - I contemplate no very difficult examinations and I have all my note book work done up. There is just one little German Composition examination left over from last semester that I forsee any trouble with - and that lies mainly in making up my mind to take it - like bad medicine. The girls mothers are all coming to see them graduated - Mrs Morrison - Marylyn Main's mother, Mrs. is coming soon just to visit - Marylyn isn't graduated for another year - Alice Colt is so disappointed for Mrs. Colt has just written she can't come - but Mrs.Maclaren will be here for commencement

Thank you very much for all the advice and everything and I'll be good about following the directions

Your Rose.