Word: wellesley
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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That was a wise plan which gave to the students of Wellesley College Monday, as a day of recreation. It was in self-defense. On every other day of the week there blazes over the college entrance the old legend "Let no man enter in on pain of death." If one desires to visit Wellesley the visit must be made on Monday. The reason of this strange choice of a "play day" is very evident. Wellesley is pre-eminently a college
...have been informed that a canvass was made recently among the students of Wellesley College to ascertain their choice for President, and that this canvass resulted in a majority of the votes for Edmunds. This is truly gratifying. The principal objection men seem to have now a-days to woman sufferage is that if women were empowered to vote they might disagree with the 'Iords of creation' in political matters as, it is said, they have a habit of doing in many others; but the way in which Wellesley supports the views of Harvard, as expressed by the canvass made...
President Porter's idea that Yale is doing its full duty toward young women by educating young men to "influence" them is thoroughly mannish. The best influence commonly comes from the other side. At the same time, we rare that Wellesley or Vassar is better for the girls than Yale or Harvard. [Herald...
...large party of young ladies from Wellesley College, who came in to attend the Wagner concert on Thursday evening, found that they had missed the train on reaching the station to return home, and that they were obliged to stop in town for the night. Their chaperone was somewhat alarmed over the situation, but the young ladies thought it a jolly lark...
...Arthur Wellesley Peel, the new speaker of the English House, is a graduate of Eton and Oxford...