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Once upon a time, as the Senior president explained, Mr. Hunnewell gave a silver pine to Mr. Durant. Wellesley was two years old at the time, and hard up for traditions; and it seemed almost inevitable that the College would still be celebrating Tree Day 74 years later--last Saturday, in fact. Tree Day, as the Senior president explained, is "one of Wellesley College's oldest and most colorful traditions." Most of the two thousand onlookers weren't too sure what was going on; but it was quite enough that it had been going on for one hell...
Crew started even long before Jess. Founder Henry Durant felt it was "Attractive and beneficial to the girls' health." But the first crews' chief function, other than mastering the elementary principles of rowing, lay in entertaining distinguished visitors. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow once took a spin on Lake Waban; it is said he never came back to Wellesley...
Flower Sunday, on the first Sabbath Chapel, further helps the freshmen to lose "that dreadful feeling." After a fire-and-brimstone minister sent one of the first freshmen classes away weeping from his wages-of-sin sermon, founder Henry Durant insisted that the first Sunday sermon be on "God is Love." The freshmen also love the free flower bouquet that goes with...
...above righteousness would be very pleasing to the College's founder of 1875, a Mr. Henry Fowle Durante. Durant, a Harvard man who was born in Hanover, New Hampshire (and who changed his name from Smith because there were far too many Boston lawyers named Smith) had originally planned to call the College the Wellesley Female Seminary...
...prominent holdover from Mr. Durant's Seminary days is a course in Biblical History required of all sophomores. Aside from this the Wellesley curriculum is very similar to that of Harvard, a system on concentration and distribution of courses having been in effect approximately the same length of time as that of the Cambridge institution. Also the immediate post World War II period saw the rise of certain inter-departmental basic courses, roughly parallel to Harvard's General Education series...