My early writings as a Freshman

When I was at Washburn College we wrote weekly themes and I think they are kind of funny now. First one I received a C. It was called my introduction to Washburn College in Topeka. I first met Washburn at the age of two. We had moved from Polk Street to Jewell which was 4 blocks from Washburn where my parents had met. "In the summer when my father was out of town my mother took us on picnics. We went and sat on the hill and Mother would tell us stories about Washburn. Later when I was older I rode my bike up there. I would climb up the metal fire escapes and peek in the windows. Once we went up the one on Rice Hall and a professor opened the window and invited us in to see his snakes. When my parents had attended they had a fire there and threw out the chairs and carried the rocks down carefully. Along with the snakes he had a new crate of monkeys but they were dead. When they played KU football they beat them. That was 1913. I do not think my coming to Washburn but a meeting of new friends. She gave me a C and said I left out stuff.