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Published: 2015-08-05

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ISBN-13: 9781332279319

Excerpt from Annual Reports Number: President and Treasurer 1928-1929 To the Board of Trustees: I have the honor to present a report for the year closing June 30, 1929, the 54th year of the College. On March 28, 1929, Katharine Lee Bates, Professor Emeritus of English Literature, died at her home in Wellesley after a long illness. Miss Bates graduated from Wellesley in 1880, the second class to receive degrees from the College. She received the Master of Arts degree in 1891. Middlebury College gave her the honorary degree of Litt. D. in 1914, Oberlin College in 1916, and she was one of the three alumnae who were awarded the LL. D. by Wellesley at the fiftieth anniversary celebration in May, 1925. Although Miss Bates retired from active teaching in 1925, she was up to the time of her death a very real part of the College. Her service to her Alma Mater can be no better described than in the following minute adopted by the Academic Council at the time of her death: In the death of Katharine Lee Bates, Wellesley College suffers an immeasurable loss. From the time of her entrance as freshman to the day of her death as Professor Emeritus, her life was interwoven with the college fabric, and her distinctive individuality made itself felt in all her relationships, as student, instructor, professor. Possessing great strength of character, imaginative insight, resolute idealism, she gave her powers unsparingly to the ser ice of the College and of her friends. As head, for many years, of the English Literature Department, she brought to her office productive scholarship, high standards, intellectual and moral, and unwearied patience in the search for truth. Her mind had the rare combination of delicate intuition M-ith great power of concentration, and it constantly touched with quickening power the mands of her students and her colleagues. She lent to academic life the pungency of wit, the gentleness of humor and of kindliest sympathy. To her creative work she brought the same gifts of mind and of spirit; many volumes of prose and of verse give enduring expression to her devotion to truth and to beauty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.