The Story of Wellesley

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Florence Converse Converse. The Story of Wellesley

The Story of Wellesley

Table of Contents

PREFACE

CHAPTER I

THE FOUNDER AND HIS IDEALS

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II

III

IV

V

VI

CHAPTER II

THE PRESIDENTS AND THEIR ACHIEVEMENT

II

III

IV

V

VI

CHAPTER III

THE FACULTY AND THEIR METHODS

I

II

III

CHAPTER IV

THE STUDENTS AT WORK AND PLAY

II

III

IV

V

CHAPTER V

THE FIRE: AN INTERLUDE

CHAPTER VI

THE LOYAL ALUMNAE

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II

III

IV

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Florence Converse

Published by Good Press, 2019

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This helps us to understand his desire that Wellesley should welcome poor girls and should give them every opportunity for study. Despite his aristocratic tastes he was a true son of democracy; the following, from an address on "The Influences of Rural Life", delivered by him before the Norfolk Agricultural Society, in September, 1859, might have been written in the twentieth century, so modern is its animus:

"The age of iron is passed and the age of gold is passing away; the age of labor is coming. Already we speak of the dignity of labor, and that phrase is anything but an idle and unmeaning one. It is a true gospel to the man who takes its full meaning; the nation that understands it is free and independent and great.

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