It was one of her jokes that she took two Boston girls on their first pilgrimage to Concord, a joke that greatly tickled John Ware, brooding in his library in Delaware Street.
A few passages from her letters home are illuminative of these college years.

Here are some snap-shots of her fellow students:-- "I never knew before that there were so many kinds of people in the world--girls, I mean.

All parts of the country are represented, and I suppose I shall always judge different cities and states by the girls they send here.

There is a California freshman who is quite tall, like the redwood trees, I suppose.

And there is a little girl in my class--she seems little--from Omaha who lives on a hilltop out there where she can see the Missouri River--and when her father first settled there, Indians were still about.