Wilder Hall
10:30 (or thereabouts) P.M.Dear Sister:-
This is a pretty time to be writing isn't it? But to tell the truth I forgot all about you until just as I was starting for the concert. I have until ten minutes of eleven so I will have to be brief. (I have found out I have longer.) Dr. Hooker gave us a cut in Botany the last hour to-day on condition we should spend an hour down in the plant house before Monday & study the ferns there. So I got
outthrough at four & went down to the greenhouse to get some green for the tables. I helped trim the dining, got dressed for dinner and did bell work so I was busy. The tables looked fine with a griffin at each place, a menu card of green edged with gilt & W.H. on it in gilt;fourtwelve brass candle sticks with the green shades & yellow candles, abanmound of laurel leaves at the place where the two tables were joined, and four bunches of daffodils. We had laurelatover the gas. Eight men were missing at 6:14 so the rest of us went in to dinner & the Juniors came in nearly half an hour later - two men missing. Christine Strout's man didn't come till afterwards & Dorothy Rowell's didn't show up at all. He missed connections some where. The Juniors had soup & bread sticks; chicken, potato, peas[,] lettuce, cranberry sauce; salad; sherbert; & I think coffee. The rest of us had chicken & the fixing & sherbert. I am wearing my yellow dress to-night & shall wear my pink for festivities to-morrow P.M. I met Ruth Johnson's man to-night. She is going home to-morrow. He seemed very nice & full of fun.I went to the concert with Elizabeth Sheffield & went rush. We had seats in next to the back row but they were not at all bad for a concert. They sang a medley (
two) & in one place it went"If you want to go to college
Just come along with me,"
"To Amherst, fair Amherst."The Amherst men clapped then.
They sang "O Holyoke, When Upon thy Campus," the Campus Song and "Holyoke." The Mandolin Club gave that Melody in F by Rubenstein, and, well, I thought I was going to tell you but I can't. The programmes are brown tied with green & 1908 on them in gilt figures. There may be more to write but I am sleepy & can't think of it. Please thank Auntie for sending the "Youth's Companion." My blue skirt is getting so that it looks rather shabby[.] What shall I do about it? A busy happy day for me to-morrow. Are you folks all well? Good-night.
With love,
Molly.