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of them continued to share her responsibilities even after 

 the Annex was merged into Radchffe College, their opin- 

 ions and their friendship may be counted as important 

 factors in her daily life. 



The paramount object accomplished by the managers 

 when they obtained their charter from the Commonwealth 

 was that the Society was thereby placed in a position where 

 it could legally hold and administer funds for its purposes, 

 and could properly attempt to raise a sufficient endowment 

 to establish its work on a permanent basis. In the late win- 

 ter of 1883 the Executive Committee determined to solicit 

 money for an endowment fund to be transferred to the 

 President and Fellows of Harvard College whenever this 

 could be done to advance the purposes of the Society. Later 

 in the spring, in accordance with a suggestion made by 

 IVIrs. Agassiz, parlor-meetings were held in Boston at- 

 tended by friends who were interested in the experiment, 

 at which Mrs. Agassiz read a report of the previous work 

 of the Society. This at once brought not only the Society 

 but Mrs. Agassiz herself into greater prominence and 

 identified her with the education of women in the mind 

 of the public as she had never been before. There is no 

 better way of telling the history of the years from 1879 to 

 1883, with the varying phases of which Mrs. Agassiz 's 

 thoughts had been daily occupied, than by republishing 

 selections from this address, the first of any consequence 

 that she made on behalf of the Annex. It was adopted by 

 the ladies of the Executive Committee as their report and 

 printed with a slightly different introduction in 1884. 



We propose this afternoon (I speak for all the la- 

 dies of our Committee and at their request) to tell you 



