Wellesley College - Legenda Yearbook (Wellesley, MA)

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PICTURESQUE WELLESLEY

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On the 5,30 from Boston Time. — The afternoon of September 17, 1901. Place. — The Boston train to Wellesley. Persons.- — Miss Ei.Eanor Symonds, 1902. Miss Helen Whipple, 1903. Miss Mary Stevenson, 1904. Miss Margaret Bradford, 1905. I Miss Symonds. |Why, Helen! Miss Whipple. J Whv, Eleanor I I am so glad to see you ! Miss W. Miss S. Miss S. — There ' s a vacant seat we can take. Did you have a good summer? You ' re as brown as you were at Nahant last Easter. How did you happen to come so early ? Miss W. — ell, you see, I thought the Freshmen needed me. Having been through homesickness and exams myself, I know just how to guide, philosophize, befriend. But what brings you here so early ? Are you going to be a mother to all of 1905 ? Miss S. — I ' m going to be a mother to the poor children you won ' t know when you ' re introduced the third time, and that throws half the class on my shoulders. I see you comforting F ' reshmen, Helen Whipple ! You ' ll go driving, wheeling, trolleying, canoeing, golfing, all day long ; but you won ' t speak to a forlorn, red-eyed Freshman unless it ' s to ask her for the salt at luncheon. You 1903 ' s wasted all your attentions on 1904, our rightful