Part 12 (1/2)
Lake of white at holy night, In the ,-- Softly o'er the wooded shore, Silver radiance strea,-- On thy wavelets bear away Every care we've known to-day, Bring on thy returning way Peaceful, happy drea, the Hunnewell cup is presented for the crew coin to flash up fro clubs, in the first decade, there were tennis clubs, and occasional outdoor ”ular organization co in one association all the separate clubs until 1896-1897, e hear of the formation of a ”New Athletic association” There is also record of a Field Day on May 29, 1899 In 1902, we find the ”new athletics”--evidently a still newer variety than those of 1897--”recognized by the trustees”; and the first Field Day under this newest regime occurred on November 3, 1902 All the later Field Days have been held in the late autumn, at the end of the sports season, which now includes a preli and a final season in the autuanized sportboth seasons, unless disqualified by the physical examiner, and must confine herself to the one sport which she has chosen During both seasons the members may be required to practice three times a week
The Athletic association, under its present constitution, dates froible for anized sports are ipso facto members of the association, and the Director of Physical Training is a member ex officio An annual contribution of one dollar is solicited from each member of the association, and special funds are raised by voluntary contribution In the year 1914-1915, the association included about twelve hundred , however
The president of the Athletic association is always a senior; the vice president, who is also chairman of the Field Day Committee, and the treasurer are juniors; the secretary and custodian are sophoanized Sports elect their respective heads, and each sport is governed by its own rules and regulations and by such intersport legislation as is enacted by the Executive Board, not in contravention to regulations by the Departiene In this way the association and the departanized sports at Wellesley are: rowing, golf, tennis, basket ball, field hockey, running, archery, and baseball The unorganized sports include walking, riding, swi Each sport has its instructor, or instructors, frorouped in class squads governed by captains, and each class squad furnishes a class team whose members are awarded numerals, before a competitive class event, on the basis of records of health, discipline, and skill Honors, blue W's worn on the sweaters, are awarded on a similar basis Interclass competitions for trophies are held on Field Day, and the association hopes, with the development of outdoor baseball, to establish interhouse coala days are, besides Field Day in the autu at the end of the indoor practice, ”Float” in June, and in winter, when the weather perh the Athletic association, new tennis courts have been laid out, the golf course has been remodeled, and the boathouse repaired
In 1915, it wasplans for a sheltered amphitheater, bleachers, and a baseball diaatory,to appreciate the work of the association and to assume responsibility toward it
Wellesley does not believe in intercollegiate sports for woreed; it is one of the points at which they are content to diverge froanized to give recreation and healthful exercise to asto take part in them Some students even disapprove of interclass coht that the interhouse teams for baseball will serve as an antidote to rivalry between the classes
The only intercollegiate event in which Wellesley takes part is the intercollegiate debate In this contest, Wellesley has been twice beaten by Vassar, but in March, 1914, she won in the debate against Mt Holyoke, and in March, 1915, in the triangular debate, she defeated both Vassar and Mt Holyoke
In Septeranted a charter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and the Wellesley Chapter,--installed January 17, 1905, is known as the Eta of Massachusetts
CHAPTER V
THE FIRE: AN INTERLUDE
On the est building on the Wellesley campus, was destroyed by fire
No one kno the fire originated; no one knoho first discovered it Several people, in the upper part of the house, seem to have been awakened at about the same time by the sht was thick with fog, and the little wind ”that heralds the daas not strong enough to disperse the heavy vapors, else havoc indeedvillage
At about half past four o'clock, two students at the west end of College Hall, on the fourth floor, were awakened and saw a fiery glow reflected in their transo in the zoological laboratory across the corridor, and one of theistrar, and Miss Davis, the Director of the Halls of Residence, both of whoirl hurried off to find the indoor watchreat japanese bell in the third floor center
In less than ten
The story of that brief ten minutes is packed with self-control and selflessness; trained ency with an autoh unbelievable
Miss Tufts sent the alarm to the president, and then went to the rooms of the faculty on the third floor and to the officers of the Doirl to ringing the fast-fire alarirls in ki, each one on the staircase she had been drilled to use, after she had left her roo and its corridor door shut
In the first floor center the fire lieutenants called the roll of the fire squads, and reported to Miss Davis, who, to make assurance doubly sure, had the roll called a second tiainst the rules of the drill
For a brief space there was no sound but ”the oave the order to go out, the students walked quietly across the center, with e about the s at the sides of the front door
And all this in ten minutes!
Meanwhile, Professor Calkins, who does not live at the college but had happened to spend the night in the Psychology office on the fifth floor, had been one of the earliest to awake, had wakened other members of the faculty and helped Professor Case and her wheel-chair to the first floor, and also had sent a man with an ax to break in Professor Irvine's door, which was locked As it happened, Professor Irvine was spending the night in Cae, and her room was not occupied Most of theas soon as the students did, but two or three, in the east end away froered to save a very few of their smaller possessions
The students, once out, were not allowed to re-enter the building, and they did not atte fire line which was soon lengthened by girls froe Hall to the library Very few things above the first floor were saved, butline of students to find temporary shelter in the basement of the library associate Professor Shackford, rote the account of the fire in the College News, from which these details are taken, tells us how Miss Pendleton, patrolling this busy fire line and questioning the half-clad workers, was met with the immediate response, even from those ere still barefooted, ”I'm perfectly coht, Miss Pendleton” Miss Shackford adds:
”At about five o'clock, a person co-room and Center, apparently froh, clear flames with very little smoke Suddenly the whole top seemed to catch fire at once, and the blaze rushed doard and upward, leaping in the dull gray at With a terrific crash the roof fell in, and soon everyin the front of College Hall was filled with roaring fla toward the east, framed in the dark red brick hich served to accentuate the lurid glow that had seized and held a building al fury, the crackle of brands, the s iron, filled the air, but als who saw the irrepressible blaze consu but the brick walls
”The old library and the chapel were soon filled with great billows of fla more space for action, made a spectacle ofthe black-walnut bookcases, and all that dark frareat strides the blaze advanced, until innuh a spot always hushed 'in the quiet and still air of delightful studies' The fire raged across the walls, in and around the sides and the beautiful curving tops of the s that for so rass on which fitful shadows had fallen, to be dreaenerations of students
In the chapel, tre al, as they erased the texts frolass s, defaced, but did not coraven over theusts swept fro in and out of the s in brilliant light and color Seen fro loonificent even in the havoc and desolation it was suffering”
At half past eight o'clock, four hours after the first alarm was sounded, there stood on the hill above the lake, bare, roofless walls and sky-filled arches as august as any medieval castle of Europe Like Thoht in fairyland, and waked a thousand years old Roh their dis Arthur's castle of Cae Hall fro Weeks, --like old enchanted Merlin--into the impenetrable prison of the air There will be other houses on that hilltop, but never one so permanent as the dear house invisible; the double Latin cross, the ten granite colueless pal the heavenay”,--to eyes that see, these have never disappeared
At half past eight o'clock, in the crowded college chapel, President Pendleton was saying to her dazed and stricken flock, ”We know that all things work together for good to them that love God,--who shall separate us froiven thanks, in prayer, for so many lives all blessedly safe, there ca tere calendar This was the voice of one who actually believed that faith would remove mountains And it did By the faith of President Pendleton, Wellesley College is alive to-day She did literally and actually cast the mountain into the sea on that seventeenth of March, 1914 St Patrick hireater miracle