Word: wellesley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bradford Academy, Bradford, Mass. "Oldest institution in New England for the higher education of women," founded 1803. Long an active inter est for Alice Freeman Palmer, famed poet-president of Wellesley College. Principal: Marion Coats, Vassar graduate. Specialties: Music, Fine Arts, Expression...
Dana Hall, Wellesley, Mass. Founded 1881 as an incubator for Wellesley College matriculants. Headmistress: Helen Temple Cooke. Specialties: "The highest ideals of womanhood, Thorough Scholarship, General Cul ture." In the college town of Wellesley, Dana Hall girls can be distinguished from the Welleslilassies by the hats they are oibliged to wear when walking...
Among the resolution-signers are Dr. W. T. Forbes, entomologist at Cornell, Dr. William Wheeler, dean of Bussey Institute (Harvard), and faculty members of Brown, Syracuse, Barnard, Wellesley, the Universities of Maine, South Carolina?many of whom were once members of the Clark faculty but left subsequent to Dr. Atwood's incumbency...
...selection of students. The thirst for knowledge has become a commonplace. Hundreds of students are turned away (especially by the colleges for women) because of the inadequacy of the facilities. At Vassar, 298 Freshmen were admitted out of 539 candidates; at Wellesley 424 out of 1,337; at Mount Holyoke, 338 out of 680; at Smith, 600 out of 1,835. Selection having become necessary, the problem of whom to select has arisen. Admission on the basis of an aristocracy of brains is considered unsatisfactory...
...following, seven men have completed their requirements except for the summer camp. They will be awarded their commissions at the conclusion of the training period at Camp Devens on July 26. These men are: George Upham Baylies '25 of Boston: Raymond Thayer Bunker '24, of Wellesley Hills: Clark Cummings Curtis '25, of Roxbury: John Gardiner Flint '24, of Walpole, N. H.; Julien Donald Hills '24, of Clarion, la.; Allen Edward Norman '24, of Van Buren, Ark.; and Richard Leland Thompson '24, of Bellows Falls...