Arts+Culture
Summer 2014
A raucous 12-piece marching band surprised students at various points on campus on May 7, even showing up next to The Sleepwalker.More
Summer 2014
I was having trouble hearing her. With rolling blackouts in Lahore, Pakistan, and a faulty Skype line, we wouldn’t get far that day. Through rough crackles, I heard Humaira say, “Dearest, I can’t hear you!…More
Summer 2014
Set during the turbulent years of the Vietnam War, The Beauty of Ordinary Things, the newest novel by Harriet Scott Chessman ’72, explores young Benny Finn’s return to everyday American life after his wartime…More
Summer 2014
Neither Dan Chiasson nor his English 120 students realized how telling their discussion would be on the morning of April 14. Chiasson, an award-winning poet and critic, looked deceptively casual—as he always does—when he entered room 126 in Founders Hall.More
On Sept. 10, 2012, the College community gathered to take part in Wellesley’s oldest tradition: Flower Sunday. Photos by Richard Howard.More
Summer 2014
Thunk! Julie Moir Messervy ’73, out for a walk in the springtime woods in southern Vermont, pitches a fallen branch into the underbrush beside the trail. And another one—thunk! “I can’t help myself,” laughs Messervy, whose vocation is shaping landscapes into places of beauty and inspiration.More
Spring 2014
This year, as in every year at Wellesley, we engaged in discussion and debate on campus about many issues.More
Spring 2014
The Girl in the Road , the enthralling debut novel by Monica Byrne ’03, takes place in a world where “Wave” is the next frontier of artificial energy.More
Spring 2014
Madeleine Korbel Albright ’59 was not only the first female secretary of state but also the first top diplomat to turn jewelry into a communication tool.More
Spring 2014
Back in 1879, the Wellesley College Calendar proudly declared that “a large and costly collection of models of plants which was prepared for, and exhibited at, the French Exposition, in 1878, by Auzoux, of Paris, has been lately imported for the College and added to the Botanical Department.”More