Chapter 9
Week 4, Instructor Calendar October 1898
Never before were women so utterly regardless of the unbecoming as they are when on a bicycle. ~Mrs. John Sherwood
Concordia awoke early on her day off, opening the curtains to a beautiful fall morning. Many of the trees had already shed their leaves, but the sun felt warm and the sky was a boundless blue. There was just enough time for a bicycle ride before she was to meet her mother and Sophia in town.
She heard a few students stirring overhead as she put on her cycling attire. The shortened skirt, bloomers, and fitted leggings allowed for greater freedom of movement, though it revealed a fair amount of limb. Fortunately, no one on campus batted an eye anymore at such an outfit. President Langdon had at last caught up with modern tim
