I have seven advanced students, and to-day, when I looked around to see who should be called to help look out for meteors, I could consider only _one_ of them not already overworked, and she was the post-graduate, who took no honors, and never hurried, and has always been an excellent student.
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We are sending home some girls already [November 14], and -- -- is among them.

I am somewhat alarmed at the dropping down, but -- -- does an enormous amount of work, belongs to every club, and writes for every club and for the 'Vassar Miscellany,' etc.; of course she has the headache most of the time.
"Sometimes I am distressed for fear Dr.Clarke [Footnote: Author of "Sex in Education."] is not so far wrong; but I do not think it is the study--it is the morbid conscientiousness of the girls, who think they must work every minute.
"April 26, 1882.

Miss Herschel came to the college on the 11th, and stayed three days.

She is one of the little girls whom I saw, twenty-three years since, playing on the lawn at Sir John Herschel's place, Collingwood.
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