Boston Marathon serves up Wellesley College-Babson College rivalry we’ve been waiting for

April 22, 2025

Wellesley College students were on their Boston Marathon sign game with a mix of funny, encouraging, and not-so-friendly messages for participants.

While we’ve always found Wellesley College and Babson College to co-exist rather peacefully alongside each other in town, one Wellesley College student held aloft a sign with some fighting words on it: “If a Marathon was Easy it would be called Babson College.” (We saw racier versions of this describing certain family members…)

Did Babson students have an answer to this shot from Wellesley College further down the course?

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The sign reads: “If a Marathon was Easy it would be called Babson College”

More signs:

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“Who needs toenails anyway?

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“Keep Going: I trained hard to hold this sign”