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Excerpt from Annual Reports Number: President and Treasurer 1928-1929 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 service 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 with great power of concentration, and it constantly touched with quickening power the minds of her students and her colleagues. She lent to academic life the pungency of wit, the gentleness of humor and of kindliest sympathy. 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.