【英文原著类】The Story of Wellesly(威雷斯利的故事).pdf

THE STORY OF WELLESLEY1THE STORY OFWELLESLEYFLORENCE CONVERSETHE STORY OF WELLESLEY2ALMA MATER To Alma Mater, Wellesley's daughters, All together join and ' all her wealth of woods and water Let your happy voices ring; Inevery changing mood we love her, Love her towers and woods and lake;Oh, changeful sky, bend blue above her, Wake, ye birds, your choruswake!We'll sing her praises now and ever, Blessed fount of truth and heart's devotion, may it never Faithless or unworthy prove, We'll giveour lives and hopes to serve her, Humblest, highest, noblest--all; Astainless name we will preserve her, Answer to her every L. Barrett, '86THE STORY OF WELLESLEY3PREFACE The day after the Wellesley fire, an eager young reporter on a Bostonpaper came out to the college by appointment to interview a group ofWellesley women, alumnae and teachers, grief-stricken by the catastrophewhich had befallen them. He came impetuously, with that light-heartedbreathlessness so characteristic of young reporters in the plays of BernardShaw and Arnold t. He was charmingly in character, and he sent hisvoice out on the run to meet the smallest alumna in the group:"Now tell me some pranks!" he cried, with pencil she did tell him need not be recorded here. Neither was it setdown in the courteous and sympathetic report which he afterwards wrotefor his readers e to this story of Wellesley for pranks will bedisappointed likewise. Not that the lighter side of the Wellesley life isomitted; play-days and pageants, all the bright revelry of the college year,belong to the story. Wellesley would not be Wellesley if they were left her alumnae, her faculty, and her undergraduates all agree that thecollege was not founded primarily for the sake of Tree Day, and that theSenior Play is not the goal of the year's is the story of the Wellesley her daughters and lovers know that Ihave tried to tell: the Wellesley of serious purpose, consecrated to t