in 1918, wellesley college awarded him a special honor of making him an honorary member. this was very important because his wife, frankie, was a member of that society. she and his three daughters died in a fire at the presidio in san francisco three years before that. he had not gotten over mourning the loss of his wife and daughters. when the society made him an honorary member, he was so touched that he sent them this flag so they would have that as a remembrance of frankie. a few years ago, one of the trustees of wellesley college got it donated from the college to the museum and it has held a place of pride ever since. one of the tools that general pershing had at his disposal was one of the first tanks. the operative -- that were developed during the war. they were used on a limited basis in 1916. by 1917, they had come into their own. the french two-man tank behind me, this was one of the main battle tanks used by the americans during the latter year of the war, especially in 1918. it is interesting, when you think about the people who came out of the war and beca

to the trump campaign but it made a lot of sense that the two of them would connect if you are a wellesley glad -- graduate he is not your cup of tea. [laughter] but if you eat steak and the york city real-estate developer and want to be the of the mail that is exactly flow you connect with that is the power he has it isn't a political but more personal. >> i was fascinated by the research institute as a possible model for trumpet in the job family so how much money was put into that and how do they organize that?. >> so i say in the book that without bannon trump may not be president and i make that for two reasons. really the "avatar" of the populist nationalism with millions of voters who in previous re-elect in one election had not been turned down but the other way that bannon helped trump initially was it supposed to help trump's specifically but mitt to tear down hillary clinton but what drew me to bannon originally was he had a very astute analysis why conservatives failed to adopt a bill clinton that conservatives had become so convinced that their own righteousness against bill c

writing to wellesley college where she was a student, was later offered a job by alinsky and so both obama and hillary i think i.t. time of life imbibed you might say the alinsky kool-aid. i want to talk a little bit about that alinsky coolly to see if it is recognizably the fourth, destructive force i was a behind the america we live in now. most people think to figure out alinsky yet to go read the rules for radicals because gee, there's the dedication to lucifer in one of the opening pages, and that tells you all you need to know. i think the book tells you relatively little about alinsky. first of all the dedication itself is highly problematic. alinsky was an atheist. probably like a good many of you in this room. he didn't believe in god and naturally didn't believe in lucifer. so why does a guy who does not believe in god or lucifer dedicated book to the guy he doesn't believe in? clearly this is not about alinsky say i want to the devil. clearly something else is going on. remember alinsky itself embraces machiavelli and one of machiavelli keys piece of advice is not to play

charlotte anita whitney, at the time of her arrest, was described as a woman nearing 60, a wellesley graduate long known both for her philanthropic work and her sympathy for leftist causes. police arrested her under a california criminal syndicalism act in 1919 for helping organize the communist labor party in the state. whitney denied at her trial that the communist group had ever intended to become an instrument of crime or violence, and the state never offered evidence that she or the party had ever engaged in acts of violence. but such was the temper of the country during the red scare that the trial court found her guilty. justice sanford, utilizing the band tendency test, upheld the conviction. and because whitney's lawyers had relied on the due process clause in their argument, held that the clause did not protect one's liberty to destroy the social and political order. because of technical issues, brandeis chose to concur, rather than dissent. at her trial, whitney's lawyers had failed to raise first amendment claims, and so technically, the court could not at this date reach

these are also wellesley students. annie cannon was the third from the right pitcher was working in a physics lab that had been modeled on pickering's lab at m.i.t. and annie cannon's teacher had been pickering students and that's why her education equipped her to be the first woman of the observatory who could use the telescope as well as a computer. >> it's important and is come up the number of times to acknowledge the impact of the women's college. this is incredibly impactful. pickering knew it. he thought very highly of the women's college and there was a lot of aggression against them. he would say all you have to do is look at what these women are producing to understand the impact. it people just knew they could see the contributions they were making to science of people would understand the importance of women's colleges. >> and to add to the context of time and was going on in the world at this point when he's hiring the computers comment still 40 years before women get the right to vote. that's just mind-bl

joining us is oscar fernandez, professor of math at wellesley college. here >> thank you very much for having me here >> i wish my calculus teacher had laid a little bit of this on me it's good for you. it can bring you happiness and wealth explain that to us >> the most common question that you get in a math class is when am i ever going to use this stuff. >> right >> what's interesting is that, you know, when you talk about math at this level, the math tigss are very aware of how this comes up the students want personal relevance. how does this relate to my life? this book is all about that. health, wealth, and love >> give me a great example how i can use math to make myself happier. >> let's talk about nutrition for one second common question we all have during the day, how many calories should i eat. turns out there's an equation for this and there are a few components to the equation. one is total daily energy expenditure. it dependsen your weight, your height, your age -- >> how about love? how do you use calculus to find love >> i want to ask him