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She was then twenty-six years of age and the youngest professor in the college. In 1882 she became president. During the next six years, Wellesley's growth was as normal as it was rapid. This is a period of internal organization which achieved its most important result in the evolution of the Academic Council.
Wellesley's back doors, and by people going to the Police Office, it is scarcely used at all. There is no traffic along it. On Sundays, of course, it is used by people going to the services at St. Lawrence." "Would it be likely to be quiet, unfrequented, of an evening?" "Emphatically yes." "Do you think it likely that any person wishing to enter the Moot Hall unobserved and seeing Mrs.
There could have been no nobler, saner influence for an intellectual boy than the companionship of this unusual woman, and if we are to begin at the beginning of Wellesley's story, we must begin with Mrs. Ripley, for Mr. Durant often said that she had great influence in inclining his mind in later life to the higher education of women.
Lord Wellesley's long and brilliant administration of eight years was virtually at an end: in seven days he was to embark for home.
On June 13 Pinkney wrote home that a verbal agreement conformable to his instructions had been reached concerning the "Chesapeake," and that he was daily expecting a written overture embodying the terms. August 14 this had not been received, to his great surprise, for Wellesley's manner had shown every disposition to accommodate.
A committee of alumnae was appointed, with Miss Candace C. Stimson, of the class of '92 as chairman, to cooperate with the trustees in raising the money, and more than four hundred thousand dollars had been promised when, in March, 1914, occurred Wellesley's great catastrophe which she was to translate immediately into her great opportunity the burning of old College Hall.
As Wellesley's understanding of democracy developed, the faculty realized that a rule of this kind, however wise in itself, cannot be impressed from without; the demand for it must come from the students themselves.
To Wellesley's rejoinder of December 29 he sent an answer on January 14, 1811, "written," he said, "under the pressure of indisposition, and the influence of more indignation than could well be suppressed." The questions at issue were again trenchantly discussed, but therewith he brought to an end his functions as minister of the United States.
Wellesley does not believe in intercollegiate sports for women. In this opinion, the women's colleges seem to be agreed; it is one of the points at which they are content to diverge from the policy of the men's colleges. Wellesley's sports are organized to give recreation and healthful exercise to as many students as are fit and willing to take part in them.
Later in the evening a group of officers in varied costumes stood near one of the entrances criticising the dresses and the company. "By George, that's a magnificent kit," said a Garrison Gunner just arrived on short leave from Bombay. "What's it supposed to be?" "A Polish hussar, I think," replied a subaltern in Wellesley's Rifles.
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