This Etext prepared by: Stephanie L. Johnson (Wellesley '91) sljhnsn@ma.ultranet.com
WHY GO TO COLLEGE? an Address
BY ALICE FREEMAN PALMER Formerly President of Wellesley College
To a largely increasing number of young girls college doors are opening every year. Every year adds to the number of men who feel as a friend of mine, a successful lawyer in a great city, felt when in talking of the future of his four little children he said, "For the two boys it is not so serious, but I lie down at night afraid to die and leave my daughters only a bank account." Year by year, too, the experiences of life are teaching mothers that happiness does not necessarily come to their daughters when accounts are large and banks are sound, but that on the contrary they take grave risks when they trust everything to accumulated