Word: wellesley
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Mary Roberts Smith who was an instructor in history at Wellesley a few years ago, has just been appointed assistant professor of economics at Stanford University...
...American colleges which cooperate in the support of the school are over twenty in number. Three of these are women's colleges,- Wellesley, Mount Holyoke, and Vassar. All students who have taken the bachelor's degree in any one of these colleges, and a few others who are eminently qualified, are given free use of the privileges of the school. On the other hand, students are obliged to pay all their own expenses while living at Athens...
Tickets for the Harvard-Yale debate are going even more rapidly than was expected by the committee of arrangements. A hundred tickets have been taken at Wellesley and the Annex. Thurston has sold a large number. The first hour he sold about 150. Since that time there has been no news of the sales. The tickets will be left at Thurston's until next week...
There will be, as there was last year, a delegation from Wellesley and another from Radcliffe College. After the debate it is hoped to have a very small banquet to the Yale speakers, the officers of the two debating societies, and others prominent in speaking at Harvard. The most encouraging feature of the debate is that members of the University are coming to regard the debate as an important intercollegiate affair...
Endeavors to introduce out-of-door athletics at Wellesley have met with marked success. Up to the opening of 1892 no systematic out-of-door work had been given the students. Rowing was then introduced under careful supervision, and aroused such interest that 175 of the young women competed for positions on the crews. The class of '96 raised $2,500 to build a boat-house last year, and Dr. W. A. Brooks, a former oarsman of Harvard coached the crews...