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class then applied for
permission to hold its
ball in the Vendome, at
San Jose. To this the
committee assented on
condition that the special
train return at midnight,
that they should take
a dozen ladies as chaperones
and that this consent should
not be a precedent for the
future. To this arrangement
I consented, thinking it
better than any {other ?{
practiceable one.
But Mr. Lathrop reminds
me that he thinks that I
promised you that the girls
should not be allowed to
leave the campus for any
balls. If this is true, I
have no recollection of it.
We agreed that there should
be but two parties held in
Encina. I have said many