Word: wellesley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cleveland, Ohio, June 12, Alumnae of Wellesley College are raising money for their endowment fund by selling stuffed gray elephants, at two dollars apiece in Cleveland hotel lobbies. They report large sales to the thousands of visitors from will over the country...
Bishop Charles L. Slattery '91, of Boston, since 1922 Bishop Coadjutor of Massachusetts in the Episcopal Church, member of the Board of Preachers of Harvard, and a trustee of Wellesley college...
After having become the principal of East Saginaw High School, she migrated to Wellesley, became President at the age of 26. Her interest in the cause of higher education for women overflowed the precincts of Wellesley and she founded no less than 15 preparatory schools for girls...
...Alice Freeman became engaged to Professor George Herbert Palmer of Harvard. Her friends were amazed, felt that her marriage would be an unsupportable loss to Wellesley, suggested many means of enabling her to continue her great work, pointed out that Professor Palmer might resign from Harvard, take up residence at Wellesley?all to no avail. The couple were married and disappeared into an obscure honeymoon bicycling in England and France...
Last week the memory of Alice Freeman Palmer was honored at New York University when her venerable husband, gowned in his academic robes, unveiled a bust by Evelyn Longman in the Hall of Fame. The likeness was given by Wellesley College, the presentation made by Dr. Ellen Fitz Pendleton, President of Wellesley, the speech in praise of Mrs. Palmer and her great importance to the nation delivered in a simple and appreciative manner by Dr. James R. Angell of Yale University...