Wellesley College - Legenda Yearbook (Wellesley, MA)

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yr-u-L:[J- II -fix ! ' E TOUCHSTONES OF EDUCA ' L Henry FowLE Durant 6r©d m u fnp plan can prosper without him. it- i V t - - ' , ■ fiaMi sEiO system of education can be in accordance with God ' s laws ' chifinjures healths p - , . i ■ - 1 sefulness; all beauty is the flower of use. loroughness. ' j: ;-i.i Tfee one great truth of higher education which nobl est womanhood ands: viz., the supreme unfolding and development of every power :d faculty of the Kingly reason, the beautiful imagination, the sensitive emotional nature, and the religious aspirations. The ideal is of the highest learning in full harmony with the noblest soul, grand by every charm of culture, useful and beautiful because useful; feminine purity ind delicacy and refinement giving their luster and their power to thef ' j ipst absolute science — woman learned without infidelity and wise without conceit, the crowned queen of the world by right of that Knowl ' dgje which is Power, and that Beauty which is Truth.

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FOREWORD We, the class of 1931, welcome this long- awaited year with a realization of its signifl cance not only to us hut to those who have plann ed and iuor ed so long for the new Wellesley symbolized b the spire on the hill. Years of change and disaster, of renewed zeal and firm endeavor have ensued since the first days of old College Hall, in 1875. J ow, in 1931, luith the completion of this beautiful structure, we see a Wellesle y whose face is steadily becoming a perfect expression of her changeless spirit.

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1 J We wish to express the gratitude of the college to those who have made possible our reconstruction program, especially to Mrs. Matthew Astor V il s and Colonel Edward H. R. Green for the beautiful building given in memory of their mother, Hetty H. R. Green.