Part 13 (2/2)

The possibilities which lie before the Wellesley Council may be better understood if we enumerate a few of the activities undertaken by the Councils of other colleges At Princeton, since 1905, more than two million five hundred thousand dollars has been raised by the Council's efforts The Preceptorial Syste slowly developed The university has been brought es are feeling the need of keeping in touch with the preparatory schools, not for the sake of mere nuested that Dartht, ”substantial scholarshi+ps in high schools hich it is desirable to establish relations,”

and the suggestion is orth the consideration of Wellesley women The Yale Alumni Advisory Board has distributed to the ”so-called Yale Preparatory Schools” and to schoolboys in many cities, a pamphlet on ”Life at Yale” And Yale has also turned its attention to tuition charges, ”academic-Sheffield relations”, the future of the Yale Medical School, the Graduate Employment Bureau

All of these Councils are concerned with the intellectual and raduates Wellesley's Graduate Council has a Publicity Co reports of college ee, Wellesley, '03, as iate Committee on Press Bureaus, in 1914, and was at that tier of the Wellesley Press Board, reulate its publicity through its aluives us reason to hope that in tiood e Press Board, as they go forth, naturally become the press representatives of their respective clubs”

The Council has also a Coraduate Activities, whose duty it is to ”obtain inforraduates and fro the conduct of the sae before the general public” This committee proposes a Rally Day and a Freshman Forum, to be conducted each year by a representative alumna equipped to set forth the ideals and principles held by the alu a direct relation to the undergraduate, is one on Vocational Guidance In order to help students ”to find their way to work other than teaching,” and to ”present a survey of all the possibilities open to women in the field of industry to-day,” this coraduate of Smith and for some years a member of the Department of Chemistry at Wellesley, who is now at the head of the Appointment Bureau of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union of Boston Miss Jackson's practical knowledge of students, her wide acquaintance with vocational opportunities other than teaching, and her belief in the ”value of the cultural course as a sound general foundationthe sense of proportion and vision necessary for the college woman who is to be a useful citizen,” make her an ideal director of this branch of the Council's activities, and the college gladly pro the students; the seniors especially welco a model constitution for the use of alumnae classes, the Council has done a piece of hich should arouse the gratitude of all future historians of Wellesley, for theeach class to keep a record which shall contain brief information as to the members of the class and shall be published in the autu each reunion

lf these records are accurately kept, and if copies are placed on file in the College Library, accessible to investigators, the next historian of Wellesley will be spared the baffling paucity of infor the alumnae which has hampered her predecessor

With ten members of the Academic Council on the Graduate Council, and with the president of the college herself an alumna, the relation between the faculty and the Graduate Council is intimate and helpful to both, in the best sense Relations with the trustees, as a body, were slower in for President Pendleton, at the Council's fifth session,--in the third year of its existence,--reported the trustees as much interested in its formation

At the sixth session of the Council, in June, 1914, when the ca, Mr Lewis Kennedy Morse, the able and devoted treasurer of the college, and member of the Board of Trustees, addressed the e Ad as it was frank and friendly In Deceoing up on the site of old College Hall, the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees invited a joint committee from the faculty and the alumnae to meet with them to discuss the architectural plans and possibilities for the ”new Wellesley” The Alumnae Committee consisted of eleven members and included representatives ”from '83 to 1913, and from Colorado on the west to Massachusetts on the east” Its chairman was Candace C Stih Wellesley history as the Chairman of the Alumnae Committee for Restoration and Endowreat nine n for the Fire Fund The Faculty Committee, of five members, chose as its chairman, Professor Alice VV Brown, the head of the Department of Art

Miss Sti of the joint co sense of good understanding and a feeling of great harmony and desire for cooperation on the part of Trustees toward the alumnae”

The Faculty Committee and Alumnae Committee were invited to continue and to hold further conferences with the Trustees' Coht offer” The episode is prophetic of the future relations of these three bodies with one another President Nichols of Dart that Dartoverned at first by one er to be controlled as a monarchy or an empire, but as a republic Such an utterance does not fail of its effect upon other colleges

II

The woe Alumnae association, numbered in 1914-1915 five thousand and thirty-five The ree froree and have applied forht to vote Non-graduates who pay the annual dues receive the Aluister, and the notices and publications of the alumnae, but do not vote

Authoritative statistics concerning the occupations of Wellesley women are not available About forty per cent of the alumnae are married The exact proportion of teachers is not known, but it is of course large The Wellesley College Christian association is of great assistance to the alu in touch with Wellesley missionaries, but even the Christian association disclaims infallibility in questions of numbers An article in the News for February, 1912, by Professor Kendrick, the head of the Department of Bible Study, states that no record is kept of missionaries at work in our own country, but there were then missionaries from Wellesley in Mexico and Brazil, as well as those ere doing city missionary work in the United States The missionary record for 1915 would seem to indicate that there were then about one hundred Wellesley wo japan, China, Korea, India, Ceylon, Persia, Turkey, Africa, Europe, Mexico, South America, Alaska, and the Philippines

From time to time, the alumnae section of the News publishes an article on the occupations and professions of Wellesley graduates, with incoed in Law, Medicine, Social Work, Journalis, Business, and all the other depart; and frolean a few general facts, but no trustworthy statistics

In 1914, the list of Wellesley women, most of ere alumnae, at the head of private schools, included the principals of the National Cathedral School at Washi+ngton, DC; of Abbot Academy, Andover, Walnut Hill School, Natick, Dana Hall, the Weston School, the Longwood School, all in Massachusetts, and two preparatory schools in Boston; Buffalo Seminary; Kent Place School, and a coeducational school, both in Suleside School, Taconic School and the Catherine Aiken School, in Connecticut; Science Hill, at Shelbyville, Kentucky; Ferry Hall, at Lake Forest, Illinois; the El Paso School for Girls; the Lincoln School, in Providence, Rhode Island; Wyo Seminary, another coeducational school; as well as schools for Airls in Germany, France, and Italy This does not take into account thepositions of irahout the country

The tentative list of Wellesley wo positions of importance in social work, in 1914, is equally impressive The head workers at Denison House,--the Boston College Settlement,--at the Baltimore Settlement, at Friendly House, Brooklyn, and Hartley House, New York, are all graduates of Wellesley Probation officers, settleue secretaries, pro Girls' Clubs, ue, showtheir nu at the Hind the poor whites; another is General Superintendent of the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind; another is associate Field Secretary of the New York Charity Organization Departator for the Massachusetts Babies' Hospital

The Superintendent of the State Reformatory for Girls at Lancaster, Massachusetts, is a Wellesley graduate who is doing work of unusual distinction in this field Mary K Conyngton, Wellesley, '94, took part in the Federal investigation into the condition of woress in 1907, and has made a study of the relations between the occupations, and the criminality, of women Her book ”How to Help”, published by The Macanized charities, investigations for i, and other industrial and ton received a perton, DC

Wellesley has her lawyers and doctors, her architects, her journalists, her scholars; every year their tribes increase

Anes Edwards Rothery, 1909

Of her poets, novelists, short story writers, and essayists, the names of Katharine Lee Bates, Estelle M Hurll, Abbie Carter Goodloe, Margarita Spalding Gerry, Florence Wilkinson Evans, Florence Converse, Martha Hale Shackford, Annie Kimball Tuell, Jeannette Marks, are familiar to the readers of the Atlantic, the Century, Scribner's and other azines; and the more technical publications of Gertrude Schopperle, Laura A Hibbard, Eleanor A McC Gamble, Lucy J Freeman, Eloise Robinson, and Flora Isabel McKinnon, have won the suffrages of scholars

Her most noted woman of letters is Katharine Lee Bates, Wellesley, '80, the beloved head of the Departlish Literature

Miss Bates's beautiful hymn, ”America”, has achieved the distinction of a national reputation; it has been adopted as one of A by school children all over our country