. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . he existence ofsuch splendid insti-tutions of learni ngfor women as Welles-ley has wiped thatreproach from theface of history. ThecoUeg e of whichMiss Shafer is thehead became a fac-tor in our ci\ilizationwhen the corner-stone was laid , 1871. Thefounders ideas wereentirely unconv e n-tional. He stipu-lated that men andwomen should con-stitute the Board ofTrustees, but thatwomen should con-stitute the most rad i c a 1departure from thecon
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . he existence ofsuch splendid insti-tutions of learni ngfor women as Welles-ley has wiped thatreproach from theface of history. ThecoUeg e of whichMiss Shafer is thehead became a fac-tor in our ci\ilizationwhen the corner-stone was laid , 1871. Thefounders ideas wereentirely unconv e n-tional. He stipu-lated that men andwomen should con-stitute the Board ofTrustees, but thatwomen should con-stitute the most rad i c a 1departure from theconventional rut liesin the fact thatthere is no marking system indicating class rank and honors, the idea beingthat knowledge should be acquired for itself alone. Itis also part of the original platform of AVellesley thatthe Bible should be recognized as the foundation of alllearning. Helen A. Shafer is a native of New graduated at Oberlin College in 1863. From 1865to 1875 she had charge of the mathematical instructionin the Central High School at St. Louis, Mo. From1877 till her election to the presidency at Welleslev, she. HELEN A. SHAFER. was the professor of mathematics at the latter 1878 she took the degree of master of arts at Ober-lin. Her work in mathematics at St. Louis broughtMiss Shafer national renown, and was highly commendedby Dr. \Mlliam T. Harris, the eminent educator. Aspresident of the college, Miss Shafers executive abilityhas proved no less remarkable than her mathematicalattainments, and is attested in the character of theinstitution o\er which she presides. Holding to the Wellesley idea thatthe college shouldallow a wide rangeof elective Shafer hassteadily advanced itsintellectual and ethi-cal progress. Sheis, however, a firmbeliever in the im-portance of classicaland mathematicaltraining. The sys-tem at Wellesley isa judicious minglingof what is good inthe systems obtain-ing both in the oldand the new
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