that her resignation means to us not only the loss of an honored
president, but the absence of a friend."

Miss Hazard's honorary degrees are the A.M. from Michigan and
the Litt.D. from Brown University. She is also an honorary member
of the Eta chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, which was installed at
Wellesley on January 17, 1905.


VI.

On Thursday, October 19, 1911, Ellen Fitz Pendleton was inaugurated
president of Wellesley College in Houghton Memorial Chapel.

Professor Calkins, writing in the College News in regard to this
wise choice of the trustees, says: "There has been some discussion
of the wisdom of appointing a woman as college president. I may
frankly avow myself as one of those who have been little concerned
for the appointment of a woman as such. On general principles,
I would welcome the appointment of a man as the next president of
Bryn Mawr or Wellesley; and, similarly, I would as soon see a woman
at the head of Vassar or of Smith. But if our trustees, when
looking last year for a successor to Miss Hazard in her eminently
successful administration, had rejected the ideally endowed
candidate, solely because she was a woman, they would have indicated
their belief that a woman is unfitted for high administrative work.
The recent history of our colleges is a refutation of this conclusion.
The responsible corporation of a woman's college cannot possibly
take the ground that 'any man' is to be preferred to the rightly
equipped woman; to quote from The Nation, in its issue of June 22,