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Show A WOMAN EDUCATOR. M Scattered throughout the south thert H aro many graduates of Wellcsley col- H lege this excellent Institution ol learning, situated on the Charles river, some few miles out from Boston, Mass , heads the long Bit of well-equipped female colleges In the United State. Just at present much Interest center! about the personality of the young woman who, at the age of 3, has bean called to the executive head of tblt great achool for the education of girls. fH Miss Caroline llarird, the newly elect- ed president ot Welletley, Is said to possess every Important requisite HJ which her distinguished position re- M quires. Her executive ability Is of tht HJ right order, and though not herself one HH of the finished products of collegiate Instruction, she comes of learned slock and hss Improved her opportunities HJ for eauctlnsnersltMn'wvTy ttnoe - tsnt branch of thought. Few women In America are more thoroughly equipped for advanced educational JAb work than Mlaa Haiard. Her grand- father waa Itowland dlbaon Haiard, the welt-known commentator on phllo- BH sophlral subjects, Her father la How- land Haiard, the distinguished pbllsn- throplst He Is possessed ot great wealth and la celebrated for hi many philanthropies, the most Important ot M which Is his model colony about hla mills at Pcacedale, II, I. Tht new bead of Wellcsley Is not unknown to tha HJ American reading public through ber HB many papers on historical subjects and through her verses Miss Haiard Is the second member of ber family to preside over the affairs of Wellcsley M |