Wellesley College - Legenda Yearbook (Wellesley, MA)

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r To Edith Souther Tupts We Dedicate the 1931 Legenda

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Edith Souther Tufts In 1880, when Wellesley was but five years old, two girls came from Dover, New Hampshire, to enter the freshman class. They were Edith Souther Tufts and Mary Hale Young, college room-mates for four years and life-long friends. From Miss Young we learn how Miss Tufts, presi- dent of ' 84 since her senior year, has been the best loved member of the class, the center of its reunions and for many years hostess to her college friends who have come back to Wellesley. Since 1885, when she received her B.A. in Music, Miss Tufts has spent the greater part of her time here. She was a teacher at Dana Hall from 1885 to 1898 and in 1893-94 an instructor in Greek at the college. She received her M.A. at Yale in 1895 and from 1898 until 1900 taught at the Norwich Free Academy. In 1902-03 she was again an instructor in Greek at Wellesley and in 1903 became registrar, keeping her position as instructor. She became Dean of Residence in 1919 and retired in 1930. Miss Tufts has the honorary degree of LL.D. from the University of New Hampshire. Mr. and Mrs. Durant were still hving when Miss Tufts came to college. She has known all six presidents and has been in the midst of the many changes which have taken place. Beloved by students in every class, she was made honorary member of the class of 1911. Our first memories of Miss Tufts are of her little talk at Barn Recep- tion that first week of Freshman year and of tradition nights in the Vil when she came to tell us stories of old College Hall. At Eliot, she would say, ' Tm sure Miss Young remembers . . . and Miss Young would return, Why, Edith Tufts, you know youVe remembering things that never happened in the world! But Miss Young says that Miss Tufts ' memory is really remarkable. Gradually we came to know her as a gentle guide in the little diffi- culties of our first years, as a gracious hostess at Tower Court and as a person whose presence brought sweetness and light to any gathering. To us she is the symbol of all that is fine in Wellesley. Miss Tufts has gone back now to the old house in Dover where her father and mother began housekeeping, and there, in remodelling and redecorating, she finds work for hands that cannot be idle. There she is hostess to her friends, among them the many Wellesley people who miss her here and find little visits with her happy and inspiring.

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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.