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to you which never got on paper, and I am delighted to get your good letter, yes,

I really was, and I intended to answer it immediately, but the days slip by
unnoticed when one is busy, and I have been VERY

busy this fall. You must believe that. Radcliffe girls are always up to their ears in

work. If you doubt it, you’d better come and see for yourself.

Yes, I am taking the regular college course for a degree. When I am a B.A., I
suppose you will not dare call me a villain! I am studying English—Sophomore
English, if you please, (though I can’t see that it is different from just plain
English) German, French and History. I’m enjoying my work even more than I

expected to, which is another way of saying that I’m glad I came.

It is hard, very hard at times; but it hasn’t swamped me yet. No, I am not
studying Mathematics, or Greek or Latin either. The courses at Radcliffe are

elective, only certain courses in English are prescribed. I passed off my English
and advanced French before I entered college, and I choose the courses I like
best. I don’t however intend to give up Latin and Greek entirely.

Perhaps I shall take up these studies later; but I’ve said goodbye to Mathematics
forever, and I assure you, I was delighted to see the last of those horrid goblins! I
hope to obtain my degree in four years; but I’m not very particular about that.

There’s no great hurry, and I want to get as much as possible out of my studies.
Many of my friends would be well pleased if I would take two or even one
course a year, but I rather object to spending the rest of my life in college….

TO MR. WILLIAM WADE

14 Coolidge Avenue, Cambridge,

December 9, 1900.

…Since you are so much interested in the deaf and blind, I will begin by telling
you of several cases I have come across lately.