Mount Holyoke College - Llamarada Yearbook (South Hadley, MA)

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THE LLAMARADA 9 President Woolley AN APPRECIATION IN 1901, with the beginning of a new century. President Woolley came to Mount Holyoke, and in these years has completely identi- fied herself with every interest of the college, and has won the ardent support and loyalty of every girl. South Norwalk, a town in Connecticut, the state where her Puritan ancestors had settled in 1665, was President Woolley’s birth-place. She studied at Wheaton Seminary, and after her graduation taught there before entering Brown University. She specialized at Brown in history besides doing much work in Latin and German, and was the first woman to be graduated from the university. After a year of graduate work at Brown, she w'as called to Wellesley as professor of Biblical Literature, and remained there five years. In 1901 she gave up her work at Welles- ley to become the president of Mount Holyoke. From Brown she has since received the degree of Litt. 1)., and from Amherst the degree of L.H.D. It was President Woolley’s problem to preserve for the constantly growing college what was best and noblest in its rich inheritance, and at the same time to stimulate it to a still fuller and richer life. To read one of President Woolley’s reports is to see how deeply she feels the need of a larger endowment and of buildings for science and music. She feels deeply, and she works untiringly, as in her efforts to make the new library possible. Not only did she never lose heart herself because of disappointments, but she kept others from getting discour- aged. During these five years, recognition of high scholarship has been advanced by the appointment of honor scholars from the Sophomore and Senior classes and by the establishment of a Phi Beta Kappa chapter. Every phase of college feels her pervading influence. She aims to bring the noblest ideals into the religious life of the college and to make