Mt. Holyoke
Nov. 26, 1905.My dear Mary,
I am going to answer your very nice letter.I suppose you are interested in the big football games of the day. We were especially interested in the Dartmouth Brown game, as it was played in Springfield. Lots of the girls went down[.] It was played yesterday afternoon. It was very exciting as it was very uncertain who would win the teams were so even but it came out 24 to 6, I believe, in favor of Dartmouth I suppose you know by this time, or will know by the time you get this letter. The campus has been well dotted with Dartmouth and Brown men to-day. I suppose they stayed over for a good time. The two colleges gave a glee club concert in Springfield Friday evening, and a good many of the girls went down to that. It was fine they said. We hope we can have Dartmouth Glee Club here this year. It is the Sophomores who get the glee club to come and give a concert. Everyone says that Dartmouth has a fine club this year. There were lots of the fellows down and Springfield was a very noisy place, they said, that evening. The boys of course did a great deal of cheering and there were posters of all kinds about the city. The Harvard Yale game was 6 to 0 in favor of Yale. They were even in the first half and if it hadn't been for a little slip Yale wouldn't have gotten the touch down and it would have been a tie. It must have been an exciting game, though I should think the Harvard students would feel awfully for their captain has just died from some accident in a game. I haven't seen any Dartmouth students I know, though I saw one fellow this afternoon who looked something like Forsaith at a distance.
The Thanksgiving Proclamation was read in church this morning, which seemed to affect Bessie. She said she almost wept. Professor Mure [?] of Harvard Theological Seminary preached. He had a fine sermon on the importance of making Sunday worship and church attendance a practice.
I expect to go home home [sic] Tuesday, December 19th on that same train which gets to Nashua at seven. I wish I might go on the one which gets to Nashua at four, but I have a recitation the last thing in the morning, so I can't get away so early. Pearl Kimball of Manchester is going with me, I don't know about Helen Smith, but Bessie is going home with her room mate as far as Bonsville, so she can start out early the next morning on the first train. You see she couldn't get to Derry that night if she went on the train I do, as there is no train from Nashua to Windham.
I have been out for a walk to-day and I took one yesterday also. Yesterday I went with Fannie Bixler, and we are planning to take a nice long walk Wednesday if it is a good day. I think Bessie will go too. We hope Elizabeth Thompson and the two Groses can come over one of the vacation days. Mary was going to write and tell them to come over. We spoke about it when we were over there. They expect a box of good things from hom[e]. Bessie's folks are going to send her some things too, a squash pie and a trunk strap for two things[.] I expect to have the benefit of some of her box, not of the trunk strap however.
All the Sophomores of this house got together to-night and had sophomore table[.] There were seventeen of us at a table for fourteen but we crowded up so we had a jolly time of it.
Friday evening a quartet of negro singers from the Hampton Institute gave a concert at the chapel. There were also a negro graduate and an Indian graduate who spoke of the work which is being done for their races there. It was very interesting and the singing though not very deep and solid was funny and quite restful. Their voices were quite good, though I should think they were not very well trained.
In English we are to write on the subject "Does education increase Negro criminality?" I have been reading an interesting piece on the affirmative and an answer to it by Booker T. Washington[.] It is quite an interesting subject.
Well I will close now with lots of love to you my dear sister and to all the rest of the family. Carrie.