Harriet (Hallie) Sophia Hyde Letters

[right] [Nov. 13, 1894]

L. S. J. U. Nov- 13-

My dear Mamma:-

It made me laugh to read your remark about the marmalade. If you were here you wouldn't wonder or be surprised that it goes. Several hungry girls can easily make way with a quart of marmalade in a week or so. We have no Jam or Jelly or pickles, oh I do want a bottle of Jim's delicious crisp pickles.

It distressed me to learn that you had sent the lamp you use. I thought it was one you had Where is your big one?

We need a lamp - because when we are out late we have to undress in the dark - But I will bring

[left page] pretty good but not wholesome.

We always have mush for breakfast & hot breads either biscuit rolls or coffee cake, & toast. The meat is as a rule chops or steak and on Sunday ham & eggs cooked the way you wish. We have chocolate Sunday Also.

For lunch we have either baked or boiled potatoes, huge ones - milk is always on the table (blue), cold meat ususally & pie.

For dinner soup mashed potatoes - lamb, roast-beef or something else - one vegetable - and desert, which defies analysis. On Sunday we have ice cream.

But the way the things are cooked don't compare with Jim's delicious wholesome things. There are six long tables - longer than ours at home. And

it back to you on Monday and if Daisy will be obliging she will take it over to you so as to save those poor eyes.

I have a little over two dollars which will about bring me there & back with a slight margin & then we have to pay for our wash every time we send it. So if Daisy will bring me some Monday or else if you will send some before Thanksgiving day.

I haven't seen Miss Pitchers for a long time & get no chance to ask her & Miss [Wheeler?] don't like her, but have a great [mind?] to bring a Miss Gales with me. She knows no one around here - & is a sweet, lovely girl, only a la Eleanor B. type that is born & bred in the country & has a heart as big as the University. I went over on the

row to study with her last night and got back at a little past ten. I find my self locked out. Poor Mrs. Thompson had to skip out of bed to open the door. They close as I learned at ten. Don't you think that is queer? When the lights don't go out until 10.30? and here at a University.

I did not know that Sing I mean Wah had gone to China. Don't you think that is an excellent picture of Sing?

We have breakfast here at a quarter past seven Students, boys, wait on the table. The food is

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his wife and three young boys sit. And the other table the long one. Sit A Mr. Hall. Prof Kellog, Prof Symmington, Prof. Hussy, Prof. Howard & his wife Mrs. Lina. & Prof. Hudson and his wife. All the Prof's here are young and many unmarried.

Prof Hewcomer, my English prof. looks like a Young Jap - and Prof Kellogg looks like a student.

I like class work very much. It isn't very hard. In English I am studying Thurber's select essays of Maccaulay. And as there are no notes we have to annot= ate it ourselves. It isn't hard. The German is

One has to exercise a good deal here. It is a five minute walk to the Quad and 1/3 of a mile around it And flying around from one class to another to the library and back keeps one pretty busy. Our Class was victorous in the rush.

Miss Purdy is a freshman and special. She is very [nice?] & quiet and ladylike And knows Mrs. Davidson.

The Mortons have a ranch between St. Helena & Rutherford and know the Favells & Mrs. Davidson. Miss Purdy knows Mrs. Fletcher Katie [Post?] slightly too. Could my racket be sent to me?

I think the temperature here must vary between

Brandt's Grammar reader easy. My Algebra and Geom are lectures & we take notes. Chemistry is two afternoons a week laboratory work and notebook. If anyone wants to be credited in Physics of Chemistry, be sure to have them have, Laboratory notes. Astronomy I will begin next week. I am not going to take Phys-Cul= I don't like the way it is taught and again it confllicts with my studies.

My hours are as follows:

8:30 9:30 10:30 11:30 2-5 Mon. Eng. 3. Germ. Alg. Ast. Chem. Tues. Geom. Wed. Eng. 3. Ger. Alg. Ast. Chemistry Thurs. Geom. Fri. Eng. 3. Germ. Alg. Ast.

You see on Tuesday and Thursday I have only

one hour. My hours amount to seventeen.

I am positive Berkeley will win at foot ball this year. By the way. Address my letters c/o Mrs. Morton Stanford University, not with Palo Alto. It's almost the same if you put Palo Alto on my letter besides Stanford as if I wrote to you 1825 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, Alameda, Cal.

Tell the Magee's to let me know when they are coming down - for I surely must see them.

Always give my love to them. I met Ray Sherman. A short time ago down here, & he immediately said, "What are you doing down here?"

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Rah! Rah! Rah! Rah! Rah! Rah! Rah!!! Rah!!! Stanford!

My dearest Mamma

Hurrah!!!!!!!!! We've won!!!!!! You should have heard the hulla baloo yesterday at 11.30 When the news was first heard the wildest excitement pervailed. I was going over to Roble from the P.O. when the first yell reached me