ollege Hall makes me realize afresh what
Wellesley has meant to me, and I want to give till I feel the pinch.
I am writing (the treasurer of the Mission Board) to send you
five dollars a month for ten months."

From nearer home: "My sister and I intend to go without spring
suits this year in order to give twenty-five dollars each toward
the fund; this surely will not be sacrifice, but a great privilege.
Then we intend to add more each time we receive our salary....
I cannot say that I was so brave as the girls at the college, who
did not shed a tear as College Hall burned--I could not speak,
my voice was so choked with tears, and that night I went supperless
to bed. But though it seems impossible to believe that College Hall
is a thing of the past, yet one cannot but feel that from this
so great calamity great good will come--a broader, higher spirit
will be manifested; we shall cease to think in classes, but all
unite in great loving thought for the good and the upbuilding--in
more senses than one--of our Alma Mater."

And the messages and money from friends of the college were no
less touching. The children of the Wellesley Kindergarten, which
is connected with the Department of Education in the college,
held a sale of their own little handicrafts and made fifty dollars
for the fund.

One who signed himself, "Very respectfully, A Working Man," wrote:
"The results of your college's work show that it is of the best.
The Student Government is one of the finest things in American
education. The spirit shown at the fire and since is superb."

Another man, who wished that he "had a daughter to go to Wellesley,
the college of high ideals," said, "I should be ashamed even to
ride by in the train without contributing this mite to your
Rebuilding Fund."

A woman in Tasmania sent a dollar, "for you are setting a great
ideal for the broad education of women.... We (in Australia) have
much to thank the higher democratic education of America for."

From many little children money came: from little girls who hoped
to come to Wellesley some day, and from the sons and daughters
of Wellesley students.

The business men of Wellesley town subscribed generously. Many
men as well as women have expressed their admiration of the college
in a tangible way.

And from Vassar, Smith, Bryn Mawr, Mt. Holyoke, Radcliffe, Barnard,
Wells, Simmons, and Sweet Briar, contributions came pouring in
unsolicited. Harvard, Yale, the Unive