Excerpt from The Wellesley Prelude, Vol. 1: May 17, 1890 In the future there is to be a race of women who shall not depend upon the passing whims, fads and fancies of the hour for an interest in life. Three wom en who represent to -day here in New England this higher idea of culture spoke of it for an _hour, Saturday afternoon, to a number of young girls who are getting ready to receive the best that college education can give them. Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer of the State Board of Education and Miss Vida Scudder of. Welles ley - following the introduction by Miss Elizabeth Howe, president of the Boston branch of the Society of Collegiate Alumna - spoke on the liberation of the mind by study, and on the relation of college women to the social life of the time. 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.