toward educational matters. He meant Wellesley to be a university
some day. There is a pretty story, which cannot be told too often,
of how he stood one morning with Miss Louise Manning Hodgkins,
who was professor of English Literature from 1877 to 1891, and
looked out over the beautiful campus.

"Do you see what l see?" he asked.

"No," was the quiet answer, for there were few who would venture
to say they saw the visions in his eyes.

"Then I will tell you," he said. "On that hill an Art School,
down there a Musical Conservatory, on the elevation yonder a
Scientific School, and just beyond that an Observatory, at the
farthest right a Medical College, and just there in the center a
new stone chapel, built as the college outgrew the old one.
Yes,--this will all be some time--but I shall not be here."

It is significant that the able lawyer did not number a law school
among his university buildings, and that although he gave to
Wellesley his personal library, the gift did not include his law
library. Nevertheless, there are lawyers among the Wellesley
graduates, and one or two of distinction.

Mr. Durant's desire that the college should do thorough, original,
first-hand work, cannot be too strongly emphasized. Miss Conant
tells us that, "For all scientific work he planned laboratories
where students might make their own investigations, a very unusual
step for those times." In 1878, when the Physics laboratory was
started at Wellesley, under the direction of Professor Whiting,