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National Museum,Wash.D.C. 23 Jan. 1947. Dear Doris: I awoke from a dreadful nightmare this morning in which I saw you drowning before my very eyes in a canal lock, and I couldn't get back to sleep, so upset was I. Maybe my mental state was comparable to yours on this morning of your history exam. But do keep away from thin ice and cold water. Yesterday afternoon I went to theRadcliffe tea at the Bishop's house on the National Cathedral grounds, and met Pres Jordan again. After everyone had warmed up over a cup of tea and a social chat he gave a little talk on Radcliffe and its problems. He said that the applications for admission were a great headache, as they couldn't possibly fill the place any fuller than its present state, and they did not intend to make it a larger college. He gave some of the ways in which they chose the ones to be admitted. Not all the students were the type that would become scholars, but a certain percentage were chosen because of their one-sidedness in one great interest, either in their moral force, leadership, or some over whelming talent for one thing. Another lot he said that were chosen frankly on a gamble. Often they were not good scholars at all, but there seemed to be something distinctive in them. Then he spoke of the new courses that they were having the students take, in humanities, for a liberal education. I had to leave before the talk was over as I had agreed to meet Dad at 6.30 and I didn't want him waiting outside in 15 degree cold. I had a brief handshake with the man before the talk, and told him that you were shaking in your shoes because of your history exam. He laughed and said that was a tough course. You know he was a history teacher himself. Miss Colcord was there and Edith Foster and a lot more that I knew. It has been the coldest spell of the winter but I think the wind has gone into the south this morning. We shall have our annual last of Jan. snow before we are thru with it. Dad moved the bedding down stairs last night, and would have stayed abed till noon if I hadn't had a nightmare I guess. He is still coughing, but I am dosing him with Waterbury's Compound and have finished with the lamb. Shall have a warming fish chowder tonight. I suppose you will be going out to Stoughton tomorrow. I have sent off a check for $20 to the Bruce boy, - the expenses for material were nearly $13. The waterbill, which he agreed to pay the amount over, was nearly double, but we wrote that we would pay that this time. So I think he is being paid something extra for his work, approximately $10. You see if he has finished. Also try to find the coupons (sugar) in the kitchen bookcase. I suppose you will call on Maude and the others. Maybe you could get Grandma a book too. This icy spell has been hard on her as she doesn't dare step foot outside. There is a long article in the Wall St. Journal about the coming debacle in prices, with a great abundance of both food and clothes that will send prices down. I think you will do well to wait a little longer for your new dress, and you may get a better quality and a later style. They say skirts are coming in fuller and also a little longer. So far I haven't seen much here, but cotton goods is coming in as I haven't seen it for months. Let me know how you get along. I am awaiting a letter. Love, Mother.
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