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signature of the College. I would rather have a foot- 

 hold in the College on such terms as the Corporation 

 may be willing to grant than any sum of money — 

 much as we should like the latter, — I think, however, 

 the form of our diploma should be carefully consid- 

 ered, — that it should not be differentiated from the 

 "A.B." of the College as a "ladies' degree." Work 

 is work, and must be judged without fear or favor by 

 its own value. 



6th. Here again is a most important point in our 

 favor, — a place in the Catalogue. 



Your seventh point would be for us our culminating 

 point, — taken with what precedes it seems to me 

 all we can reasonably ask at present. This is much 

 more than half a loaf and promises more than it grants. 

 I am so glad you have taken the pains to set it before 

 me with such clearness. It was very good of you, and 

 very kind in Mrs. Gray to suggest it. Please thank 

 her for me. 



The fruits of this plan are seen in the following letter 

 from President Eliot, which Mrs. Agassiz read at a meeting 

 of the Society on June 6, 1893. It makes the foregoing letter 

 more intelligible, since the numbered items in both are 

 evidently the same. 



TO MRS. LOUIS AGASSIZ 



May 29, 1893 

 Dear Mrs. Agassiz: At the Corporation meeting 

 today I was authorized to say to you — the Presi- 

 dent of the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of 



