Friday eveningDear Folks,
Your letter came today I conclude that we are to put up with one this week instead of two since the Tuesday one failed to put in an appearance.
We had the Smith Ethics Professor to speak in meeting tonight. Mrs Gulliver is still here and there is quite a lot of company all the while now and probably will be until commencement.
Miss Noble says that there will be thirteen of the fifty years class back this year if all come who intend to and she hasn't heard how many twenty five years people will be here.
Professor [John] Fiske the great History man has given two lectures here last night he kept them one hour and fifty five minutes a longer time than the folks wanted to stay then he kept some of the teachers who entertained him, up until half past eleven Miss Noble said today. They were sleepy and wished he would go to bed but as he slept yesterday until eleven oclock he wasn't sleepy. I hope they will remember that when the girls men don't go quick as the flash comes. The lights went out but that made no impression on him they lighted one, I heard them when they broke up for the night way up here in the end of the corridor.
Another girl came down with the mumps Sat or Sunday and wasn't shut up until Monday and she went visiting and to meals until then so we are even better peppered than usual. We had strawberries for supper tonight and I had all I wanted for once, two dishes of them.
We have had saltines instead of the usual kind of crackers to eat between meals and I had to have two or three of those of course. They were extra good. You ought to have been present today to have heard Dr Lowell give her lecture on corsets she exhibited the beautiful qualities as [s]he calls them, and gave the History of them. And next week the class are to air out their opinions on the topic to her. She says she never yet met anybody who wore their corsets tight in their own opinion not hers etc. etc.
I can't think of any more to say so I guess I will not say it. Miss Nutting wants me to do domestic work for her next year if I come back. Sweep the library I mean brush it up mornings and take care of the reading room putting in new papers and such, if I do that she wants me to room on the second floor Faculty Hall. I can have the room on shady side which is a large nice one with a good view or a sunny one with brick walls if I do.
I am to let her know in two or three days. It implies getting up at the half hour in the morning and helping her at twenty minutes of ten at night but I guess it is good work, and if there is any possibility of being here I might feather my nest if that would do it. It would be cleaner any how than scraping dishes but rather responsible. She said she was told not to tell the plans but she thought it was planned for Seffie to room with another assistant but perhaps it wasn't wholly decided[.] I must stop now.