" From Mt. Holyoke, her Alma Mater,
Miss Howard received, in the latter part of her life, the honorary
degree of Doctor of Letters.
II.
Wellesley's second president, Alice E. Freeman, is, of all the six,
the one most widely known. Her magnetic personality, her continued
and successful efforts during her administration to bring Wellesley
out of its obscurity and into the public eye, her extended activity
in educational matters after her marriage, gave her a prominence
throughout the country which was surpassed by very few women of
her generation. And her husband's reverent and poetical
interpretation of her character has secured for her reputation a
literary permanence unusual to the woman of affairs who "wrote
no books and published only half a dozen articles", and whose many
public addresses were never written.
It is from Professor Palmer's "Life of Alice Freeman Palmer",
published by the Houghton Mifflin Co., that the biographical
material for the brief sketch following is derived.
Alice Elvira Freeman was born at Colesville, Broome County, New York,
on February 21, 1855. She was a country child, a farmer's daughter
as her mother was before her. James Warren Freeman, the father,
was of Scottish blood.
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