Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Harriet Webber at St. Mary's College


Family history records note that Harriet Webber attended "St. Mary's College, Indiana".  I sent an inquiry to St. Mary's College in South Bend, Indiana, a sister school to the University of Notre Dame, from where Harriet's husband, John Cushing, graduated.  They found the above ledger for the school year 1904-05.  John graduated in 1906 and they married in September of that year.  The ledger reads:


Miss Harriet Webber, Cambridge, Nebraska p465

1904 Sept 28
To Entrance Fee 10.00     Board & Tuition 175.00     Piano 35.00                              220.00
" Harmony 10.00    Vocal 30.00     Dancing 5.00     Lectures & Concerts 5.00                50.00
" Library & Literary 2.00      P.M. afc 4.05     Rhetoric 1.20     Literature 1.25                 8.50
" Tablets .25     Ink .10     Veils 2.35   :   Extra Practice 20.00 :                                   22.70
" Art Embroidery 10.00    Arlo Bates 1.50     P.M. afc (a/c?) 93.80                              105.30
By Rhetoric 1.20     By Literature 1.25      By Cash 4.05      By Dft. (Oct. 5) 400.00                 406.50
By Dancing 5.00     By Absence 114.80     By Dft (April 6 -'05) 150.00                                   269.80

1905 Feb. 1
To Board & Tuition 175.00     Piano 35.00     Vocal 30.00     Ex. Pradisi 30.00           260.00
" Harmony 10.00    Library & Literary 2.00     Lectures & Concerts 5.00                       17.00
" Art Embroidery 10.00     T. Paper .25     Ink .10 :                                                   10.35
By P.M. ofc 17.55                                                                                                17.55

                                                                                                                                693.85   693.85


I'm looking for a history book to describe the school at this time.  I suspect that Harriet was not enrolled in a degree program.  Both she and John graduated from Cambridge High School in 1900.  I wonder where she was before and after the 1904-05 school year in South Bend?

Notes about ledger: Arlo Bates was a well known author and taught at MIT.  The credit for absence may mean that she withdrew before completing the year.