Roble Hall Matron: application of Mrs. H.E. Wright, acceptance and statement of rules, 1903

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San Francisco, California. July 29

Mrs. H.E. Wright

Dear Madam:-

Your communication dated July 20th just at hand. I read it through with interest and having met your daughter and being prepossessed in her favor, inclines my judgment to believe that you would be a fitting person to take charge of the young ladies in Roble Hall, and I have decided to engage you, and would like you to

[stamped: Office Leland Stanford Jr. Uni July 30, 1903]

take possession of Roble Hall as soon as possible. Your salary will be seventy dollars ($70.00) a month. From this you will be expected to pay Miss Gardner fifteen dollars ($15.00) a month for board and five dollars ($5.00) a month for your room, which leaves fifty dollars ($50.00) for your self. In regard to the responsibilities allow me to say that the young ladies occupying Roble hall, will, one and all, be under your supervision. You are supposed to give them wise counsel in case of their

reposing their confidence in you and ask you for counsel. You will also be required to see that they conduct themselves with propriety and in a lady-like manner. Young gentlemen are never to be allowed to visit the young ladies in their own private rooms under any consideration whatever. A certain time should be appointed for young men to call and to be received in the public parlor and under your supervision, appointing a day or evening for such

visits. Promiscuous running in of young men at all times and any time, is not to be allowed. Young ladies should be expected, except on very rare occasions, to be in the building not later than 10 o'clock, and when later than that, should ask permission and the matron should know of their whereabouts. In fact, rules such as are carried out in respectable families by mothers regulating the conduct of their daughters, should be enforced in Roble Hall. Permission for social

2. gatherings should be limited to a moderate extend, and Roble Hall is not to be used, under any consideration whatever, for private plays, and only entertainments by students themselves without special permission from the Board of Trustees. These are the conditions that will be required of you upon entering Roble Hall to assume its responsibilities, and in case of any insubordination or breaking the above rules, you are promptly to report to the Board of Trustees as they