The strength of folded granite, and the calm
Of choiring pines, whose swayed green branches strow
A healing balm.

* * * * * * *
"For lovely is a mountain rosy-lit
With dawn, or steeped in sunshine, azure-hot,
But loveliest when shadows traverse it,
And stain it not."

[From a poem, "A Mountain Soul," by Katharine Lee Bates, 1904.]



CHAPTER IV

THE STUDENTS AT WORK AND PLAY


The safest general statement which can be made about Wellesley
students of the first forty years of the college is that more than
sixty per cent of them have come from outside New England, from
the Middle West, the Far West, and the South. Possibly there is
a Wellesley type. Whether or not it could be differentiated from
the Smith, the Bryn Mawr, the Vassar, and the Mt. Holyoke types,
if the five were set up in a row, unlabeled, is a question. Yet
it is true that certain recognizable qualities have developed and
tend to persist among the students of Wellesley.

Wellesley girls are in the best sense democratic. There is no