The Yale expositor., 1921-09-01
FROM A FORMER YALE
HIGH SCHOOL GIRL
Seattle, Wash. Aug FL, '2l
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| just received your letter this
morning. | see that it was post
marked June Is, so that it must
have been travelling around for
over two months. 1t was awfully
good of you to remember me, and
| appreciate it ever so much.
l don't know whether | sent
YOU any of the papers or not, but
we were written up in about a
dozen. The pictures of the honor
students came out in one Sundays
Times. Three out of three hun
dred and seventy-five in our class
graduated magma cum laude,"
and | was one of them. 1t is the
highest honors that are given at
this university, and means that
you must have an average of over
ninety-six. Mine was over nine
ty-seven. Things came so easy
for me here. l really did not
think | was doing anything so
very unusual. ] shall always cred
it my good high school training
with it. | do not think I've ever
seen a High school that could
come up to the one at Yale for
thoroughness of work. Fifteen
hours of work a quarter is the
average here for any student to
carry at one time, but / have been
carryin 18 and working too.
This last year I've worked just
three hours day but before that
I've worked between six and ten
1t sure has kept me busy and
now I'm resting, doing just three
hours of work day.
Nineteen months ago | began
working at Frederick & Nelson's
and have been promoted three
times, until now Pm assistant
head with 55 girls under me. In
the three hours that | work we
feed between one thousand and
fourteen hundred people.
| haven't made any plans for
the future and have put off doing
so until after the first. Week af-
ter next l have a vacation with
pay, and I'm going to Mt. Rainier
with the Millers. Dean Miller is
dean of the college of business
administration here and is one of
the finest men I've ever known.
His wife and little daughter;
DR.. De Vries Ga professor) and
another girl and | are going. !
feel highly honored because Dean
Miller is one of the biggest men
in the University.
tried to get. some snaps taken
in my cap and gown, but for some
reason or other none of them
were any good. | wanted them
so much, too, because none of my
folks could be at my graduation.
Not even the McEntires from
Prosset could come because they
couldn't leave the hotel to run
itself. They have always wanted
me to come over there and stay
with them, but it is so hot and dry
over there in the sage brush.
Here it rains all the time except
for a few weeks in the summer,
but it never gets very hot or very
cold. | don't believe We had any
snow al all last winter. How sve",
/ get so don't mind the rain. but
rather ..iiss it when e isn't here
! did THINK some of coming east
this year and then changed my
mind. 1t IS "ather expensive an
did not want to spend what lit
tie | had left.
| don't know when I've enjoyed
anything so much as l have my
college work. / made the honor
airy commerce sorority, Phi Sig
ma Chi, a year ago. l took a
straight business administration
course, which is a mixture of ev-
erything from banking to Stats
tics. | think my head was made
for such things. Pm enclosing a
record of an intelligence test that
was made of $500 students just
before l finished, in which / was
in the upper 2 per cent.
This letter sounds little boast
ing, but thought you'd be inter-
ested in hearing how we'll I've
done here.
They are trying to get me to
take year Of graduate work and
then teach in the University. but
I've told them | would make no
definite plans until later.
Hnm ara Ernd nnd Nnl1rSalf 2