Word: wellesley
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...eyes of any one who wanders by the banks of Lake Waban cannot fail to be attracted by the towers of Wellesley College. Mine were, when, after a rather unsuccessful afternoon's sport in the pretty pond, - whose waters were stocked with black bass at about the same time that its shores were stocked with pretty girls - I walked along its wooded banks...
...throwing down my rod and basket, seated myself on the grass at her feet. After a rather painful silence of a few moments, during which she scanned my face with a somewhat naive curiosity, I rushed into the breach in the conversation with, "Are you at Wellesley College?" "Yes, I am," said she. "Guess you're a Harvard boy." I confessed to this accusation; but as I never carry an obtrusive crimson handkerchief, and do not dislocate my elbows in walking, I don't see how she knew. "Been a-fishin'?" was her next remark. I said...
...enough; I said I had an engagement to dinner, and left, while she called after me, "Come round again some afternoon, - I'm' most always here fine days, - and we might have a row on the lake." I accepted the invitation" with pleasure," and departed from Wellesley next day in a hurry...