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...Waban, Mass...
Smith answered immediately in the negative, while the Lake Waban oarsmen frowned but could not reply definitely until the return of the athletic director...
...their campus by the shores of Lake Waban, the students of Wellesley (Mass.) College last week celebrated ''Tree Day." Chosen as Wellesley's prettiest senior, Marion Chapman, 22, daughter of a Portland, Me. attorney, let down her golden hair, supervised the planting of a golden oak near Pendleton Hall...
...college's endowment by $7,000,000, ruled it with an iron hand. Early in President Pendleton's term the famed 1914 Fire burned most of Wellesley to the ground. Undismayed, the president set out to build a vast neo-Gothic plant which now covers the Waban campus with tons of imposing stone. Big (1,500 students) and expensive ($500 tuition), Wellesley thinks of itself as a happy compromise between studious Bryn Mawr and social Smith and Vassar...
Thence to a little nap, but not being down long, the phone did ring: "Would you like to skate?" Whereupon I did put on some new flashy breeches and a cape which did make me look like a monk--at least so she did say--and so to Lake Waban. She, being very expert, did lead me a merry chase; and did top off her victory with a most silly remark that, my best form of exercise was "jumping at conclusions". Whereupon I did wash her pretty face in snow and so to tea at The Cabin...