Salt Lake Tribune | 1896-01-05 | Page 16 | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's Girlhood

elizabeth stuart phelphs Phelp ss girlhood the life of 0 a professors daughter in a a university town Is always a little different from the lives of other girls but the difference seems to me unless she bo be by nature entirely alien to it in III favor ot of the th parl were I 1 to sum in one word my impressions of tile the influences fluen ces of andover life upon a lobust young mind and heart I 1 should call them centle As soon as wo we beran began to think we saw a community engaged tit in studying thought As aa soon as 03 we betin bein to feel we were aware of a neighborhood that did not feel superficially at least in certain higher directions when wo we began to ask ash the questions of lite life which vilich all intelligent inh oung people ask sooner or later we found ourselves in a ellaro ot of three institutions eions and their dependencies committed to the pursuit of 0 an ideal 0 of f education tor for which no amount of later or w u list hat we call broader brander training ever gives us any better word th than christian such things tell fell andover garli did not baltz altz or suffer bucter summer enrage ments nt at liar bill Hf bor a new one every year neither lid did they mad ead absen or yellow novels nor did they handle tho the r french ac n ch stories that are arc hidden irom parents parent though they were excellent french scholars scholar in their ilay day I 1 do 10 not even know that ono can call them more serious than their city for we vve here a a merry lot at h 1 apt my lot wore were but they were I 1 belle believe vr especially openhearted open hearted gentle minded atris elizabeth stuart phelps in mcclures mcclunes McC lures magazine for or january