Word: wellesley
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...trustees of the Dean Academy have unanimously resolved to change the academy into a college for young ladies. After this year the young men are to be withdrawn, and another Wellesley started...
...Wellesley.- When Ole Bull visited the college a short time since, the young ladies decorated the building with flowers, amused him with gymnastic exercises, and then listened with decorous attention to his playing...
...petition is now before the Massachusetts Legislature asking that power be granted to the trustees of Wellesley College to confer degrees. It is claimed that this power is necessary to place the college on an equal footing with similar ones. Dr. Clark, in favoring the petition, said "that it was the intention of the trustees that no graduate should receive a degree unless having attained the highest standard of any college in the land...
...Although the standard for entrance to Wellesley has been raised, the present Freshman class has double the size that the last had. Over three thousand volumes were added to the library last year...
...greater reward. He says that if we thus introduce ourselves to the notice of the young ladies in question, it cannot fail to challenge their admiration, while their gratitude may be relied on to an unlimited extent." Is the author sure that he is not promising more for our Wellesley sisters than they are prepared to accord...