Wellesley College

Wellesley College occupies a five-hundred-acre campus defined by the wooded shores of Lake Waban and a collection of buildings ranging from Gothic stone to modern glass. Founded in eighteen seventy by Henry and Pauline Fowle Durant, the college was established with the radical intent of providing women with an education equal to that offered at men’s institutions. Henry Durant famously declared at the outset that women could do the work, and he intended to prepare them for great reforms in social life.