Wellesley College - Legenda Yearbook (Wellesley, MA)

Page 13 text:

AT WELLESLEY. A QUESTION OF SCIENCE. NELL BLAKEY had devoted her college life to the study of science. Literature, she said, was a fad. Girls took to it because it sounded well, but for her part, she had never found that there was much satisfaction in it. She preferred to glean a little solid informa- tion about the things that are, rather than live in an atmosphere of fairy-tales and in- ane theories of life. She wanted to work upon a good solid foundation, and she thought the universe would do. Nell was slightly difficult, considered in the light of a room-mate, for the sunniest corners were devoted to the cultivation of small, ill-looking specimens of vegetation ;

Page 12 text:

iv Contents XL— The Claim of the Heathen . .141 S, V. Sherwood XII. — A Senior Schedule .... 175 M. H. McLean XIII. — An Experiment 177 J. S. Parker and I. H. Fiske XIV. — Formerly of ' 96 215 J. S. Parker XV. — Sunset 227 M. H. McLean

Page 14 text:

At Wellesley the place of honor on the top of the book- case held a roughly mounted cat-skeleton ; and the desk and table were strewn with small, half-dissected limbs in all stages of decomposition. The slightest movement of these treasures meant annihilation to the unprivileged ; so the dust gathered upon them, and, during two years of the inconvenient but inevitable, the partner of Nell ' s joys and woes was reduced to a silent negation. Ruth had protested vigorously when her little marble Ariadne was used as a prop for drying frogs. She had objected feebly to the use of a newly-cut Bi ' oivn- ing for pressing ' ' weeds. But this was before she had been tempted into a course in zoology. After that she became long- suffering. She had not lost her head but she understood how easy a matter that would be unless one were well-fortified. At the present stage of her college career Nell was studying comparative anatomy. She was absorbed in the development of the species.