Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1920-01-21

NO. 45
Miss Florence Minis Visits
Wellesley College Near
Boston.
Dear Advertiser:
Yesterday I tramped through deer,
snow over the campus of Wellesley
College. 1t seemed more like some
extensive English estate, with it's
Shakesperian cottage and castle tow
ers and wonderful buildings with
coats of arms, furnished in the most
elegant fashion.
Our mind unconsciously connects
this cottage with Alice Freeman Pal
mer who was one Of it's early presi-
dents, woman of great vision, and
strength to make visions come true
for Wellesley. In. her honor a beauti-
full chapel has been built with mel
low stained glass windows. At one
corner is most exquisite marble
slab with the figure of Mrs Palmer
standing behind a young student,
who is bearing a book in one hand
and in the other an old Roman lamp.
This is symbolic representation of
the great woman's guidance of the
students whom she was so interested
in during her life time.
On the slab which stands upright
are these words: "Here rest the ash
es of Alice Freeman Palmer in the
heart of the cottage she loved" It
makes one think of the heart of Liv-
ingston buried in the midst of Afri-
ca, the land that he so loved.
Wellesley was founded by a DR..
Durant. When the corner stone was
laid he placed a Bible within, saying
that he wished the college to be
founded on the teachings of this
Book.
One of the many interesting dor
mitories and society homes on the
campus is a cottage modelled after
Shakespeare,s own home. The day I
was there some of the girls with an
artistic sense of proportion and
strong sense of humor had construct.
ed a Shakesperian snow man which
was instantly rec ognizab!e with his
high brow and classic face He was
lstapdiag with ms ert,el.ss
viewing the campus. It seemed a pity
that the first warm sunlight would
melt him into ordinary dampness.
Northern college girls are essen
tally sports-women. We came upon
a crowd of them with sleds coasting
down a steep hill. One invited me to
coast with her ,and although I was
alarmed at the Alpine descent, got
on the sled and was soon tearing
through space at rate that seemed
to me, to be hundreds of miles an
hour. Then with painful step and
Slow" we dragged the sled to the top
of the hill again. After that was un-
certain as to whether I cared to ride
any more for the hill seemed to ex-
tend into a mountain as we scram-
bled up with the clumsy vehicle. They
were all so hardy looking, those stu
dents, with healthy red cheeks and
strong frames caused from all the
good out door sports that Northern
winter affords.
The boarding students number
about sixteen hundred. About two
thousand students attend the college.
I was impressed with the taste and
good form which was displayed in all
the architecture. Some of the stu
dents rooms were very lovely over
looking the huge lake. Though some
dormitories are much newer and
Ihandsomer than others, each student
has the same chance to enjoy them.
The rooms are distributed by having
each student draw, and in that way
there is a democratic distribution.
In one of the new buildings where
There are many class rooms, the COR
ridors and windows are built on the
old Gothic style. In facs, the whole:
building looks like an up-to-date
monastery, but with quite different
| tpye of inmates. College students
make the walls echo with such laughs
and shouts as monastery walls have
never harbored.
The sophomore, who is a friend of
mine, showed US around, and I knew
how proud she must have been of all