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Corrected version of text, several minor typos fixed This Etext prepared
by: Stephanie L. Johnson (Wellesley '91) [email protected]

THE STORY OF WELLESLEY
BY FLORENCE CONVERSE

ALMA MATER
To Alma Mater, Wellesley's daughters, All together join and sing. Thro'
all her wealth of woods and water Let your happy voices ring; In every
changing mood we love her, Love her towers and woods and lake; Oh,
changeful sky, bend blue above her, Wake, ye birds, your chorus wake!
We'll sing her praises now and ever, Blessed fount of truth and love.
Our heart's devotion, may it never Faithless or unworthy prove, We'll
give our lives and hopes to serve her, Humblest, highest, noblest--all; A
stainless name we will preserve her, Answer to her every call.
Anne L. Barrett, '86

PREFACE
The day after the Wellesley fire, an eager young reporter on a Boston
paper came out to the college by appointment to interview a group of
Wellesley women, alumnae and teachers, grief-stricken by the
catastrophe which had befallen them. He came impetuously, with that
light-hearted breathlessness so characteristic of young reporters in the
plays of Bernard Shaw and Arnold Bennett. He was charmingly in
character, and he sent his voice out on the run to meet the smallest

alumna in the group:
"Now tell me some pranks!" he cried, with pencil poised.
What she did tell him need not be recorded here. Neither was it set
down in the courteous and sympathetic report which he afterwards
wrote for his paper.
And readers who come to this story of Wellesley for pranks will be
disappointed likewise. Not that the lighter side of the Wellesley life is
omitted; play-days and pageants, all the bright revelry of the college
year, belong to the story. Wellesley would not be Wellesley if they
were left out. But her alumnae, her faculty, and her undergraduates all
agree that the college was not founded primarily for the sake of Tree
Day, and that the Senior Play is not the goal of the year's endeavor.
It is the story of the Wellesley her daughters and lovers know that I
have tried to tell: the Wellesley of serious purpose, consecrated to the
noble ideals of Christian Scholarship.
I am indebted for criticism, to President Pendleton who kindly read
certain parts of the manuscript, to Professor Katharine Lee Bates,
Professor Vida D. Scudder, and Mrs. Marian Pelton Guild; for
historical material, to Miss Charlotte Howard Conant's "Address
Delivered in Memory of Henry Fowle Durant in Wellesley College
Chapel", February 18, 1906, to Mrs. Louise McCoy North's Historical
Address, delivered at Wellesley's quarter centennial, in June 1900, to
Professor George Herbert Palmer's "Life of Alice Freeman Palmer,"
published by the Houghton Mifflin Co., to Professor Margarethe
Muller's "Carla Wenckebach, Pioneer," published by Ginn & Co.; to
Dean Waite, Miss Edith Souther Tufts, Professor Sarah F. Whiting,
Miss Louise