Wellesley College - Legenda Yearbook (Wellesley, MA)

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771 oma Haqe Proc ter Thomas Hayes Procter, retired Professor of Philosophy, for twenty-eight years taught Wellesley students the ethics of Aristotle and Kant and tl1e archetypes of Plato .... As a minister he told us God is Love .... As an educator he taught us tl1e necessity to reason, and stimulated us, above all else, to think for ourselves .... But the girls who walked to Sage Hall for the lectures of 2l1, who crowded into 107 to hear il recitation of Socrates, death speech, went, not to hear a professor, but to hear a man .... In a May-warm room on the first floor of Founders, a class wept, not for a professor, but for a man they loved and respected, a man who was giving his last lecture at Mfellesley College .... Thomas Hayes Procter was a tradition at Mfellesley . . . but tradition has become legend . . . and a small man, with gray-white hair, a soft voice, and twinkling eyes, is one of the most beloved impressions which students recall in these days before leaving ....

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To mi Ilia gal-et lapp President of Wellesley College She entered with us as freshmen, and at her inau- guration on St. Patrick's Day the color green was doubly significant. The keys of the college were given into capable hands, for it has been her con- cern with the spiritual, academic, and community life which has been our guide.

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