Wellesley College - Legenda Yearbook (Wellesley, MA)

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20 WELLESLEY COLLEGE LEGENDA f 1 I jufl r ■ . Si N i 9 ... 3 . R. . , ' ■ ? tSffl ' , H ments Association organized and Students ' Association was chartered. To President Shafer ' s efforts was due the invitation extended by the Board of Trustees for Alumnae representation. She it was who, ably assisted by the faculty, an ever-increasing body, worked up the new curriculum. With the death of President Shafer began the fourth epoch. Mrs. Julia J. Irvine, from Cornell University, was called from the chair of Greek. One effect of the elective system newly inaugurated was soon manifest in a discontinuance in 1896 of domestic work. It is rumored that such work was done away with because the girls dusted the stairs so conscientiously that people began to slip on them. Many a prank lighted up those halcyon days of service. Eggs and

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WELLESLEY COLLEGE LEGENDA 19 in the local paper ; The Prelude and the Wellesley Magazine, the Legenda preceding the latter by a year, began to speak. The number of buildings was increased by the Farnsworth Art Building in which the Amos W. Stetson collection of paintings found a home. Perhaps the beginning of that building was still farther back. Wood Cottage, the gift of Mrs. Caroline A. Wood, was opened during this period. It was a time more specifically of development than of growth in numbers. Zeta Alpha and Phi Sigma societies were welcomed back. The Art Society, afterwards named Tau Zeta Epsilon, was founded. In two years came the Agora, formed from the Cottage Street Political Club. Later the Classical Society was permitted. Glee and Banjo clubs formed; Student Volunteers and College Settle-

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WELLESLEY COLLEGE LEGENDA 21 coffee were impossible for the same meal since the one group of girls had both sets of cups to wash and stoutly refused to do double duty; a spill of salad dressing changed an election for Senior president; and Henry Drummond innocently created a panic by descending for his breakfast long after the waitresses were engaged with Greek and Mathematics. Mrs. Irvine ' s days saw the buildings increase. The Chemical Laboratory opened and the Houghton Memorial Chapel was given in memory of Mr. William S. Houghton, for many years a trustee of the college. Soon it was announced that Mr. John C. Whitin, also a trustee, would give an astronomical observatory and a telescope. Mr. Charles T. Wilder gave funds for the building of Wilder Hall. The Shakespeare Society House opened. Mrs. Irvine recognized the wisdom of a time to play when she countenanced Barnswallows and the Athletic Association. President Hazard we feel to be our very own. Under her guidance the erstwhile toddler and prattler has grown very thoughtful; as a result Student Government has come as a will o ' the girls. These late, years have been ones of prolificacy for Wellesley. All the societies have found homes for themselves. The Wellesley College Debt and Endowment Fund of $ 1 10,000 from Almanae and friends for endebtedness and $ 100,000 for endowment from Mr. John D. Rockefeller has been completed. Mr. Rockefeller has also given us the heating plant whose chimney we see towering in the days to come green with our class ivy. The years 1904-05 saw the opening of Billings Hall, presented by the action of the trustees of the Billings Estate. Two modern dormitories stand side by side: Pomeroy, the gift of the Pomeroy Estate, and Cazenove Hall, the gift of Mrs. Durant, from the ancestral de Cazenove, a name fittingly suggested by our president. The voice of the students has further expressed itself through a weekly,