Scalpel : the 1911 yearbook of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania . 112 sizing up the landlady, and feeling sure she was doing likewise to us,tiiough with far greater experience. Or were we among the fortunateones who had an upper classman as pilot and adviser? I feel sure theresult of that endeavor made us all say my room with satisfaction. That first night we shall never forget: tired and we could not rest;sleepy and we could not sleep, because the scrutinizing landlady heldus in cross-examination until eleven oclock. Once in a while shereferred to her girls of the year before, to e
Scalpel : the 1911 yearbook of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania . 112 sizing up the landlady, and feeling sure she was doing likewise to us,tiiough with far greater experience. Or were we among the fortunateones who had an upper classman as pilot and adviser? I feel sure theresult of that endeavor made us all say my room with satisfaction. That first night we shall never forget: tired and we could not rest;sleepy and we could not sleep, because the scrutinizing landlady heldus in cross-examination until eleven oclock. Once in a while shereferred to her girls of the year before, to emphasize that others. My Room. had been very good payers; very considerate roomers; very gen-erous. That they had used little gas; had always scrubbed the bathtub after using it; had used their own towels, covers, etc.; had notused too much hot water; had never complained about the heater; hadnever cooked in the room; had not been bothered by the children,and numberless nevers, nots, and the like. And then, when the land-lady left us, when at last we tried to sleep, that horrible dream of skeletons and bones, and ghosts 1 The next morning we got up early and went to the college opening exercises were to be held that afternoon and we wantedto see more of the college in the morning. We wandered around the 3 Students Parlor and admired its cosiness. Alfred greeted us, sayingwith a submissive tone of voice which at once impressed us with his faith-fulness and his sense of duty: How do you like the place by this time?Oh, it is a dear old place which you will love as much as I do after youhave been her
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