Friday 28th (February)
Friday has come at last but after having a meeting last night
we have not met this afternoon. I am so glad for I would had to have had a composition.
We loitered about the school-house all the afternoon, spent part of the time in
the Lyceum room and then heard a few budget pieces read by Mr Lippett and were
then dismissed after a few comments on the pieces by Prof Lippett.
Lucy Herron Parker will write reminiscences of the college
and of the Young Ladies’ Lyceum, which she will read at the last public meeting
in the College Chapel in 1866. She will describe the “Budget Box,” which is the
“medium through which the pent-up feelings of the soul might find escape.” The
students use pseudonyms such as “Hettie Hyacinth or Katie Caudle,” write about
problems in society, and how they might be remedied (The Alumna 1866:10).
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