EMILIE LOUISE WELLS
1871 - 1916
The community of Vassar College realizes with
peculiar sorrow the loss it has sustained by the
death on April thirteenth, 1916 of Emilie Louise
Wells, Associate Professor of Economics. During
eighteen years of service the influence of her
mind, of her personality has made itself ever more
powerfully felt and the Faculty is anxious to bear
witness to the loss that has befallen the intel-
lectual, as also the communal life of the college.
As a member of the college community, Miss Wells
upheld a high ideal of social service and generous
helpfulness. In general relations she revealed the
fine impersonality of mind which springs from re-
cognition of the larger issues of life, while her
more intimate friends realized the potent attraction
due to her intense human quality. Her scholarship
was clear and logical, and with it she combined an
unusual appreciation of what was best in the world
of art. Her concern for her students extended be-
yond the friendly co-operation of the classroom and
she numbered within the group of those bound most
closely to her several whose love and admiration had
deepened with their experience of later life.
The Faculty by this minute desires to express its
appreciation of a rare and gifted personality and to
proffer to her family a true sympathy in their be-
reavement.
Christabel F. Fiske
Herbert E. Mills
J. Leverett Moore
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