History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . also a school. It is now kept by Miss Mary , with an average of two hundred letters dis-tributed daily. Meridian Lodge of Masons was organized at theLower Falls, in a hall in a building owned by JohnPulsifer ; declined in anti-Masonic days ; was removedto Natick, where it is now a flourishing lodge. Sincerity Lodge of Odd-Fellows was organized in1875 in Wellesley, and is now in excellent condition,with (1883) Freeman Phillips as chief officer andsixty-four members. The Welle
History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . also a school. It is now kept by Miss Mary , with an average of two hundred letters dis-tributed daily. Meridian Lodge of Masons was organized at theLower Falls, in a hall in a building owned by JohnPulsifer ; declined in anti-Masonic days ; was removedto Natick, where it is now a flourishing lodge. Sincerity Lodge of Odd-Fellows was organized in1875 in Wellesley, and is now in excellent condition,with (1883) Freeman Phillips as chief officer andsixty-four members. The Wellesley Soldiers Club, George H. Robbinscommander, composed of soldiers who served in thelate war, succeeded Grand Army Post No. 62, andhas about twenty-five members. Very much matter which would naturally be lookedfor in a work like this respecting early history willbe found in the history of the town of Needham,while numberless historical memoranda of great localinterest and of great interest to families and individ-uals are necessarily shut out from want of space andthe aeneral character of the work. it^ __. VIEW OF WELLESLEY COLLEGE, CHAPTER XXXVIIL WELLESLEY- (Gontinned).WELLESLEY COLLEGE. IIY REV. D. S. RODMAN. As an illustration of one of the developments inthe intellectual life of our country Wellesley Collegestands pre-eminent and worthy of note. It wasfounded by a single individual for the higher educa- tion of women. Its first corner-stone laid only thir-teen years ago (1871), it already contains the largestnumber of students in any college for young womenin the world. It is in a location which, for suitableness and influ-ence, it would be difficult to surpass; has buildingsunexcelled for convenience and beauty; a body oftrustees composed of some of the most prominent WELLESLEY. 483 friends of education in the land ; libraries containingmore than twenty-five thousand volumes, to which largeadditions are constantly made; scientific apparatusand other appliances of most a
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