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36 Cabot Hall, Radcliffe
Cambridge, Mass.
March 7, 1947

Dear folks,
      
Here come hour exams: Bio Saturday, Eng Monday, Hist and Music the following Mon and Tue. I got A- on the last Hist test - am slipping. Bio lab man is named Talmadge, and suits his name: is from Texas; he stammers a little, overcomes his nervousness by petty fault-finding (it is against his principle to grade high; he made some obvious mistakes on Ina's last test); is just now taking this course for the first time. Cap Weston in lectures sits just behind us and takes 3 times as many notes as I do. He has the habit of walking about the halls before lecture talking to everybody -- he knows us all by name now. I have been trying to find the letters in which you spoke of persons & happenings to tell him of; isn't there some message you would like to give him, Dad? Mr. Raup, the present lecturer, is dull & elementary -- too, tho' perhaps good for many girls. He is a nice fellow, tho'. Barghoorn, who [[strikethrough]] wh [[/strikethrough]] we had before him, had a rigid mask-like face--very uninspiring. Guess the test can't be bad. 

Had a music quiz yesterday in which I successfully got composer - Schubert - but not form - stupid, stupid mistake. Some very [[strikethrough]] p [[/strikethrough]] beautiful Schubert songs we have heard: "Mittern in Schwimeren", "Das Haidenröslein", etc. Have reached Wagner: what a complicated man! 

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We are having it mild and springy, and the snowdrops that were up before the snow have

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