Diary, 1908/1909
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- Box 1, Folder 4
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In addition to daily activities, Ruth mentions events during her senior year at Tudor Hall, such as winning the office of secretary in school elections, resuming music lessons at a local School of Music, attending Junior and Senior dances, working on the school annual, being elected president of the Junior King's Daughters, and upon graduation being elected recording secretary of the Alumnae. She visits her brothers at Purdue University and a former schoolmate at DePauw University and goes with some friends to visit another friend in Williamsport. In the year following graduation, she does not go to college but instead takes up watercolor painting, attends a series of lectures, and enrolls in a literature class. In September 1909 Ruth and her parents move into a six-room flat on Talbot Avenue and rent out their house on North Meridian, the boys having gone back to college. 1 volume, 7 x 8½ inches, with lined sheets, two-hole punched, and held together with red string; 215 pages (every tenth page number is penciled in).
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