Wellesley College
Has Lied to Its Alumnae Before
MassNews Staff
July 2002
See the Evidence
Yourself!
See how Prof. Helen Horowitz
and Wellesley lied to alumnae in order to raise their
hostility toward men.
Wellesley College has made
obvious and egregious lies to its alumnae before,
particularly in 1995. The story in the Winter issue
that year was a major reason for the establishment
of MassNews.
That story told the history
of the address by the President of Harvard, Charles
W. Eliot, to Wellesley in 1899. But the College called
it a "hateful" address.
The headline was, The
'Hateful' Wellesley Inauguration Address; In 1899,
the president of Harvard called colleges for women
'superfluities.'
Of course he didn't say
that. Nobody in their right mind would believe that
the President of Harvard would come to Wellesley and
insult them like that.
It was so obvious a lie
that we went to the stacks at Wellesley to discover
what Eliot really did say.
What he actually said on
October 3, 1899 was, "The colleges for women
are still regarded by many people as luxuries
or superfluities…" [emphasis added]
This was another clumsy
attempt by Wellesley to ignite the passions of all
women against men.
The distinguished author
of the alumnae article, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz '63,
is a professor of history and American studies at
Smith College.
She opined that this statement
by Eliot showed how "the battle lines over gender
were drawn at the turn of the century by America's
most progressive educators."
But can't Prof. Horowitz
read a simple sentence or does she lie on purpose?
It is clear to any second
grade student that Pres. Eliot did not call colleges
for women "superfluities."
My wife became so upset
with her alma mater at that point that she produced
and distributed 1000 copies of a 16-page booklet at
the college reunion in 1995. But no one appeared bothered
by the lies and the blatant attempt to spawn discord
between the sexes.
No one knows what mail
the college received from angry alumnae in protest.
They obviously hide all that mail.
Sidebar:
Wellesley College - A Disaster
for Women
When the beloved President
of Harvard University, Charles W. Eliot, traveled
ten miles out into the country in 1899 to address
an inauguration celebration for the President of the
newly established Wellesley College, he gave this
challenge - Wellesley should prove to everyone that
the education of women will be profitable to society.
He said there were "great
opportunities" for the college to show that the
education of women would be a benefit to all.
However, a century later,
the College appears intent on proving that Eliot was
wrong.
Was he wrong? Were the naysayers from 1899 correct
when they said that women are "too emotional"
and "not logical?" Are those negative people
looking down now at the "scholarship" from
Wellesley in 2002 and saying, "We told you so!"
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