10, 1887.

When I came to Vassar, I regretted that Mr.Vassar did not give full scholarships.

By degrees, I learned to think his plan of giving half scholarships better; and to-day I am ready to say, 'Give no scholarships at all.' "I find a helping-hand lifts the girl as crutches do; she learns to like the help which is not self-help.
"If a girl has the public school, and wants enough to learn, she will learn.

It is hard, but she was born to hardness--she cannot dodge it.
Labor is her inheritance.
"I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.

I mourn it.
Should I go to a music-school, therefore?
No, avoid the music-school; it is a very expensive branch of study.