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==Evanston==
I had enjoyed teaching and really thought if only I could go to college and graduate, I would make teaching my life-work. On my return from Berlin, I found that two of my Sycamore classmates were going to the Northwestern Female College at Evanston. How I did wish to go with them! I could scarcely think of anything else. Father gave the matter due consideration. "Are you sure that after graduation you will resume teaching?" I suppose he thought to graduate from college and then get married would be a waste of money. But I was <u>sure</u> I would teach all my life. So I was prepared to go to college with my two friends. Perhaps this was "putting the cart before the horse", for, after teaching five years, I was now going to school to prepare for teaching.
Evanston, situated on Lake Michigan, twelve miles north of Chicago, was the seat of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwestern_University Northwestern University], the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett_Evangelical_Theological_Seminary Garrett Biblical Institute] and the Northwestern Female College. I believe it was the year after I graduated that the college was reorganized under the name of the "Evanston College for Ladies", with Frances E. Willard as president. Subsequently it was incorporated in the Northwestern University. I should utterly fail did I attempt a description of Evanston, the beauty of its situation, the charm of its classic groves on the shore of Lake Michigan.
The first year, Mary White, Mary Smith and I rented rooms near the college and boarded ourselves. We settled down to very simple housekeeping and hard study, often studying until 11 P.M. with an occasional bite of a sour pickle to keep us awake. Not being in the college building, we were not subject to rule, "Lights out at ten o'clock". At the end of that year, Miss Smith, a fine scholar, went to take charge of a "Young Ladies' School" at Forest City, north of Evanston. Miss White continued another year, while I remained three years, finishing the four year course in that time.
* ''Anna (and the two Mary's) MAY have been among the very first female students of Northwestern University.''
My father and mother were living alone in Sycamore. Why should they not rent their house and come to Evanston, so I could live at home? This they did, but instead of living in a cottage near the college, as they meant to do, my father took the position of Steward at the college. The duty of the Steward was to purchase supplies, see to their dispensing, and a general oversight. They were given pleasant rooms in the basement. I petitioned for a room alone, on the top-most hall. A view of the college grounds, and the branches of a giant tree sweeping against one of my windows, delighted me. I wanted no company save my books. Yet I would not have liked to be a day scholar, and so apart from the college life.
The Chapel exercises every morning, the Tuesday evening meeting for prayer and testimony, and the occasional Sunday afternoon lecture were full of interest to me. Prof. Bugbee was a retired clergyman, and godly. I am sure he had the spiritual welfare of the young ladies much on his heart.
* ''Rev. Lucius Halen Bugbee (b. 1830 Gowanda, Cattaraugus, N.Y. - d. 1883 Evanston, Cook, IL), according to "Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography" graduated from [https://www.amherst.edu/ Amherst] in 1854, became a teacher, was ordained a minister in the Methodist Episcopal church, and was principal of Fayette Seminary, now known as [https://uiu.edu/about/uiu-history/ Upper Iowa University] from 1857-1860, then pastored a Chicago church 1861-1863, then served as President of Northwestern female college at Evanston 1865-1868, then of Cincinatti Wesleyan college, now [https://www.indwes.edu/ Indiana Wesleyan College] 1868-1875, then [https://allegheny.edu/ Alleghany College] in Meadville, PA.''
==My Marriage==
==Our Journey to Vinton==