Wellesley College

Major General B. F. Butler was one of its most widely known citizens.

Henry F. Durant, the founder of Wellesley College, studied law in the office of his father, William Smith, and Major General N. P.

Banks was bobbin boy and afterward editor there.

The late Rev.

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Read by Betty B. O Beautiful for Spacious Skies by Catherine Lee Bates Miss Catherine Lee Bates, professor of English literature in Wellesley College, is the author of this hymn.

She wrote it in 1893 while on a western tour that brought her first to the Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

The patriotic impressions made upon her mind by the wonderful white city she bore westward with her as she journeyed to Colorado, and when at last she stood on the summit of Pikes Peak and beheld the far-spreading panorama below and the spacious skies above her soul was stirred by the thought of the greatness and the god-given destiny of america these lines were said ringing in her heart and into a noble poem she has woven the beauties of that mountain-top vision o beautiful for spacious skies for amber waves of grain for purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain each verse is rounded with a prayer that to the physical beauty of her native land God may add the highest moral beauty.

Hmm.

Now, uh, Wellesley College in the late 19th century, there were 53 female faculty members, and how many do you think were married to a man?

45.

One.

As a high school student, Efron dreamed of going to New York City to become another Dorothy Parker, who was an American poet, writer, and critic.

She then went on to graduate from Wellesley College in Massachusetts in 1962 with a degree in political science.

After graduating, Nora had two goals, move to New York City and become a journalist.

She applied for a job at Newsweek.

He was a guy that wrote mafia books.

Okay.

True or false for you, Rach? When Nora went off to Wellesley College and started writing letters home, her parents liked the letters so much that they adapted them into a play.

I hope that's true.

Thus, indeed, it was the simplest truth of the gospel which he felt himself called to not a bundle of separate messages for separate classes of men.

The very same sermon could serve its purpose for him at Wellesley College and at the Concord State's prison.

A Boston minister, invited to address about 800 physicians at a dinner of the Massachusetts Medical Association, has told of his remarking to Mr. Brooks, I don't know what under the sun to say, and of receiving the characteristic response, It doesn't make much difference what you say, so you do not say what they expect.

Preach the gospel." This was what he himself always stood ready to do, and the most and the least critical were equally ready to hear him.

Thus, indeed, it was the simplest truth of the gospel which he felt himself called to not a bundle of separate messages for separate classes of men.

The very same sermon could serve its purpose for him at Wellesley College and at the Concord State's prison.

A Boston minister, invited to address about 800 physicians at a dinner of the Massachusetts Medical Association, has told of his remarking to Mr. Brooks, I don't know what under the sun to say, and of receiving the characteristic response, It doesn't make much difference what you say, so you do not say what they expect.

Preach the gospel." This was what he himself always stood ready to do, and the most and the least critical were equally ready to hear him.

you know, I mean, for example, women like Hillary Clinton were educated, you know, at these women's colleges.

She went to Wellesley University.

And I went to Wells College and, you know, these colleges were really sort of created, you know, actually Wells was situated very, very close to where the Superjet started.

So Seneca Falls and I was actually, our college was in Aurora, New York.