Wellesley College - Legenda Yearbook (Wellesley, MA)

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R S. MILDRED M c A F E E H R T N I, HE President of a woman ' s college is required to have one attribute not perhaps considered essential in other College Presidents. She must have implicit faith that the college work will, sooner or later, manifest itself in the lives of the women students who undertake it. President Norton, in the example she has set, in the influence she has exerted, has richly proved this faith. It is easier to tally the results of men ' s education. But women, particularly those who undertake no profession, may appear to have slipped through college largely unchanged by anything they learned there. But for Wellesley ' s President, the value of college education to women, if hard to calculate, is no less rich. Some come to college in full awareness of what they seek there. Others find it somewhere in the course of the four years. But most often it is manifested, much later, in women who are producing something noteworthy, holding down important jobs, or running happy and successful homes. These women are putting into practice, in a way hard to tally, something they gained, perhaps in unawareness, from their years at college. In addition to her belief in them, President Horton has set for her students an example of how an educated woman may make herself felt in the world. As head of the WAVES, as a member of an educational mission to Japan, she has served her country well. And the University of Buffalo, which this year awarded Mrs. Horton an LL.D. degree, echoes the college ' s pride in her accom- plishments.

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