1904 May 2

"I am sorry...that an increase in tuition is necessary. I have been teaching for four years in order to make college education possible to my two children...and of course under the new arrangement, the weight is greater; I am sorry from another point of view also--to make Bryn Mawr the most expensive college, is to mark it as representing not the bone and sinew of the land, but the fibre that has grown without effort. If such criticism appears, in a stranger, unwarrantable, allow me to say that one cannot subscribe to a college without having in it a sense of ownership, and responsibility regarding its attitude toward the world." Folder contains a typed copy of this letter.