Identifier: twentyyearsathul00inadda (find matches)
Title: Twenty years at Hull-house, with autobiographical notes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Addams, Jane, 1860-1935
Subjects: Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 Hull House (Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: Northern Illinois University
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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dubbedB.A. on the very day that Rockford Seminarywas declared a college in the midst of tumultu-ous anticipations. Having had a year outside ofcollege walls in that trying land between vaguehope and definite attainment, I had become verymuch sobered in my desire for a degree, and wasalready beginning to emerge from that rose-coloredmist with which the dream of youth so readilyenvelops the future. 64 TWENTY YEARS AT HULL-HOUSE Whatever may have been the perils of self-tradi-tion, I certainly did not escape them, for it requiredeight years — from the time I left Rockford in thesummer of 1881 until Hull-House was opened inthe autumn of 1889 —to formulate my convictionseven in the least satisfactory manner, much lessto reduce them to a plan for action. During mostof that time I was absolutely at sea so far as anymoral purpose was concerned, clinging only to thedesire to live in a really living world and refusingto be content with a shadowy intellectual or aes-thetic reflection of it.
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Ellen Gates Starr. CHAPTER IV The Snare of Preparation The winter after I left school was spent in theWomans Medical College of Philadelphia, but thedevelopment of the spinal difficulty which hadshadowed me from childhood forced me intoDr. Weir Mitchells hospital for the late spring, andthe next winter I was literally bound to a bed inmy sisters house for six months. In spite of itstedium, the long winter had its mitigations, forafter the first few weeks I was able to read with aluxurious consciousness of leisure, and I rememberopening the first volume of Carlyles Frederickthe Great with a lively sense of gratitude that itwas not Grays Anatomy, having found, likemany another, that general culture is a much easierundertaking than professional study. The longillness inevitably put aside the immediate prose-cution of a medical course, and although I hadpassed my examinations creditably enough in therequired subjects for the first year, I was very gladto have a physicians sanction for giv

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