Wellesley College: Annual Reports, President and Treasurer, 1903 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Wellesley College: Annual Reports, President and Treasurer, 1903

I have the honor to submit a report of the College for the year ending November 1, 1903.

The year has been an important one, both in the internal and the external history of the College. Long and careful discussions in the Academic Council have resulted in some modifications of the curriculum, which it is believed will make for better scholarship; while the external affairs of the College demanded the fulfillment of the pledge to raise an endowment fund by Commencement time. Problems of internal and external growth have thus at the same time confronted the administration, problems of the utmost importance to the welfare of the College. That two of these questions have been settled within the year, should give the Trustees good ground for rejoicing.

Since the last annual meeting the Board of Trustees has met with losses, the first coming early in the year when on the 6th of December, 1902, the former President of Wellesley College, Alice Freeman Palmer, was suddenly taken from us. Mrs. Palmer had been identified with the College in a most intimate way for almost the whole period of its existence. Perhaps no one of this Board, except Mrs. Durant, knew more of its history, of its ideals, of its development; and certainly she had an important part in all work for the College. Coming to it as she did in 1878, being made President in 1881, and fulfilling six years of most arduous and useful work, she served the College at a time when it was in its most formative period, and impressed her own ideals of scholarship and of right living upon it in an indelible fashion.

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