Part 14 (1/2)
The list of her books includes, besides her collected poems, ”America the Beautiful and Other Poems”, published by the Tholish and Spanish travel, on the English Religious Drama, a Chaucer for children, an edition of the works of Hawthorne, and a forthco edition of the Elizabethan draraduate days, when she wrote the poems for Wellesley's earliest festivals, down all the years in which she has been building up her Departiven herself without stint to her Alma Mater In Wellesley's roll call of alumnae, there is no name more loved and honored than that of Katharine Lee Bates
III
”Hear the dollars dropping, Listen as they fall
All for restoration Of our College Hall”
These words of a college song fitly express the breathless attitude of the alumnae between March 17, 1914, and January 1, 1915, the ninecarried on to raise the fund for restoration and endowment, after the fire
And they did rew, and as the dollars fell, caught theers They fell ”thick as leaves in Vallombrosa”
Between June, 1913, and June, 1915, 1,267,23053 was raised by and through Wellesley won for a Million Dollar Endow the salaries of the teachers Salaries at Wellesley were at that tie, but one, in New England
The fund had been started with an anonyift of one hundred thousand dollars, and the committee, with Candace C Stimson as chairman, planned to secure the one million dollars in two years
By March, 1914, a second anonyift of one hundred thousand dollars had been received, the General Education Board had pledged two hundred thousand dollars conditioned on the raising of the whole aiven fifteen thousand dollars, and there had been a few other gifts from outsiders The amount still to be raised on the Million Dollar Fund at the time of the fire was five hundred and seventy thousand dollars
President Pendleton, in a letter to Wellesley friends, printed in the News on March 28, 1914, ten days after the fire, writes: ”Our Can for the Million Dollar Endowment Fund must not be dropped we have between five and six hundred thousand dollars still to raise All the new buildings must be equipped and maintained The sum that our Alma Mater requires for immediate needs is two million dollars But this is not all Another million will soon be needed, properly to house our departments of Botany and Che, and sufficient dormitories to house on the ca in the village We are facing a great crisis in the history of the College The future of our Alma Mater is in our hands Crippled by this loss, Wellesley cannot continue to hold in the future its place in the front rank of colleges, unless the response is generous and immediate
”To sum up, Alma Mater needs three million dollars, two million of which must be raised immediately Shall we be daunted by this sue and self-control of those dwellers in College Hall, both Faculty and Students
Shall we be outdone by theeous, less resourceful? The public press has described the fire as a triumph, not a disaster Shall we continue the triue in equipe Beautiful? We can and weappeal was instant and ardent The committee for the Million Dollar Endowment Fund, with its valiant chairman, Miss Sti contract,” they said, ”it cohters of Wellesley are not rich in this world's goods All this we know, but we know, too, that the greater the need the erly will love and loyalty respond”
Then came the offer of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars by the Rockefeller Foundation, if the college would raise an additional million and a quarter by January 1, 1915 The intrepid Coed the two funds, and adopted the new name of Alumnae Committee for Restoration and Endowment
Mary B Jenkins, Wellesley, '03, the committee's devoted secretary, has described the plan of the can in the News for March, 1915
As the Wellesley clubs present the best chance of reaching both graduate and non-graduate members, a chairman for each club was appointed, and eographical section, whether they were members of the club or not In states where there were no clubs, state coraduates Fifty-three clubs appear in the report, twenty-four state con countries,--Canada, Mexico, Porto Rico, South America, Europe, Turkey, India, and Persia Every state in the Union was heard from, and contributions also can actually circled the globe By June, 1914, Miss Jenkins tells us, the appeals to the clubs and state committees had been sent out, and many had been heard from, but in order to make sure that no one escaped, the as now taken up through committees from the thirty-six classes, from 1879 to 1914 In March, 1915, when Miss Jenkins's report was printed in the News, 3823 of Wellesley's daughters had contributed, and belated contributions were still coraduates had responded Every member of the classes of '79, '80, '81, '84, '92, sent a contribution, and the class gift froest froest The class gifts include not only direct contributions froraduate with the class, but gifts which alumnae and former students have secured fro classes, five show a contributing list of more than ninety per cent of the hty and ninety per cent; and fifteen between seventy and eighty per cent Besides the aluraduates had contributed None of Wellesley's daughters have been raduates
An analysis of the ah Wellesley woifts of fifty thousand dollars and over, all of which caifts of from two thousand dollars to twenty-five thousand dollars, three quarters of which caifts of less than two thousand dollars, ”only a negligible quantity of which cahout the nine n, the Alu in close touch with each other
Doctor George Herbert Palmer, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Harvard, was the chairman of the committee from the trustees, and he describes himself as chaperoned by alumnae at every point of the tour which he so successfully undertook in order to interview possible contributors To him, to Bishop Lawrence, the President of the Board of Trustees, and to Mr Lewis Kennedy Morse, the treasurer, the college owes a debt of gratitude which it can never repay No knight of old ever succored distressed damsel more valiantly, entlear h the activities of the trustees were secured the provisional gifts of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars from the Rockefeller Foundation, and two hundred thousand dollars froie's 95,44627, to be applied to the extension of the library, and gifts froe, Mrs David P Kimball, and many others Mrs Lilian Horsford Farlow, a trustee, and the daughter of Prof Eben N Horsford, to whoave ten thousand dollars toward the Fire Fund; and through Mrs Louise McCoy North, trustee and alu which stands on the hill above the lake Because of the modesty of donors, it has been iifts
Froraduate classes, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, and froifts and activities, came 60,57204, raised in all sorts of ways,--from the presentation of ”Beau Bru of shoes at ten cents a shi+ne One 1917 girl earned ten dollars during the su at all her father's jokes, whether old or new, during that period of recreation Other enterprising sophomores ”swatted” flies at the rate of one cent for two, darned stockings for five cents a hole, shampooed, mended, raked leaves
Members of the class of 1916 sold lead pencils and jelly, scrubbed floors, baked angel cake, counted knot holes in the roof of a su lessons and sold vacuue Hall at the ti ten cents for every ti The class of 1918, entering as freshmen in September, after the fire, raised 5,54060 for the fund when they had been organized only a feeeks
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The Southern California Club started a College Hall Fund, and notices were sent out all over the country requesting every aluive a dollar for every year that she had lived in College Hall
Seven hundred and fifty dollars came in There were thes dansants, musicales, concerts, of which the Sousa concert in Boston was the arden parties, costue parties; a -picture film of Wellesley went the rounds of land and the Middle West
An alumna of the class of 1896 ”took in” 94920 for subscriptions to azines, with a profit of 17575 for the fund She co the fact that the Atlantic Monthly ”received by far the largest nuirl in Colorado baked bread, ”but forsook it to give dancing lessons, as paying even better!” In New York, Chicago, and other cities, the tickets for theatrical perforain at advanced prices A book of Wellesley recipes was co of College Hall and sold it on a post card; another, also of '92, wrote and sold a poe
The Cincinnati Wellesley Club held a Wellesley market for three Saturdays in May, 1914, and netted somewhat over seventy-five dollars a day for the three days One Wellesley club charged ten cents for the privilege of shaking hands with its ”fire-heroine”