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.
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