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Show 127 Washington's birthday is observed in Philadelphia with flags "waving from every window" and Ellis herself involved in the "bustling and jostling and crowding and jamming" in the city's streets-something she has heretofore only heard or read about. February's days and nights are filled with such experiences as watching an operation where the woman patient has refused anesthesia and, feeling "every stroke of the knife," yet bears it well; a visit to the College from Reverend Phoebe Hanifred (do the women's movement historians know that females were ordained that early?); Bard's ninth birthday; letters from Milford filled with expressions of "love and devotion" which, if "heard frequently" would perhaps "not seem so precious" to her. Attendance at the Commencement Exercises of the Dental College on Saturday evening brings these recollections, "interwoven" for Ellis with thoughts of home. The Building (Academy of Music) most elegant, audience fashionable, music delightful, flowers sweet and beautiful, and the awarding of diplomas extremely impressive upon my senses...I cannot enjoy an intellectual sentence, a musical echo, or a delightful odor without those beloved associations. 28 On Sunday, February 27, as she does not feel well, Ellis remains in bed until seven. Seven in the morning!--after which she performs some "necessary duties" and writes home. In the evening she attends a lecture by Mr. Lyman whom she characterizes as "one of the finest speakers" she has ever heard-"almost" equaling Milford, from whom she receives another "cherished missive." A leap-year notation marks a milestone in her schooling. |
