enforced; nonetheless, Cleveland had received permission to write her and did so to propose their romantic relationship. In 1887, she joined the college's board of trustees, and served in her position for over 50 years.
In August 1888, the college's main building was destroyed in a fire. Its replacement was planned by architect William Henry Miller and rebuilt over the two years following the fire.
An 1890 volume by W. T. Harris named nine women's colleges that offered an educational quality on par with coeducational and men's colleges; Wells was listed among them, alongside Bryn Mawr College, Elmira College, Ingham University, Mount Holyoke College, Rutgers Female College, Smith College, Vassar College, and Wellesley College.
In the mid-1960s, Wells College was included in the Finger Lakes Colleges Computing Center, later the Finger Lakes Area Computing Center, a computing center born out of a National Science Foundation grant awarded to Cornell University. The project utilized time-sharing of an IBM 360/67 …
