Some nice poems have come in to us.

I think the Vassar girls, in the main, are magnificent, they are so all-alive....
"May 20, 1882.

Vassar is getting pretty.

I gathered lilies of the valley this morning.

The young robins are out in a tree close by us, and the phoebe has built, as usual, under the front steps.
"I am rushing dome poetry, but so far show no alarming symptoms of brilliancy." A former student writes as follows about the dome poetry: "At the time it was read, though it seemed mere merry nonsense, it really served a more serious purpose in the work of one who did nothing aimlessly.