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express our estimate of the value of her services, or 

 the respect and the affectionate regard which we feel 

 for her; and now that she feels entitled to resign 

 her more active work to others, we congratulate 

 ourselves that she is willing and able to remain as 

 our honorary president, and I am sure it is the 

 unanimous prayer of all our friends that in this new 

 relation she may long be with us as our best friend 

 and our best adviser. 



An adviser to the College Mrs. Agassiz continued to be 

 in the next important advance made after her resignation. 

 This step was the purchase in May, 1900, of some 300,000 

 square feet of land lying between Shepard, Linnaean and 

 Walker Streets and the college property on Garden Street; 

 here, on Shepard Street, within five minutes' walk of Fay 

 House the site was selected for the hall given by Mrs. Kim- 

 ball, which was called Bertram Hall, in memory of her son, 

 who had borne her own family name, Bertram. This in- 

 vestment was a source of great satisfaction to Mrs. Agassiz, 

 for the college thus acquired a Homestead where there was 

 ample room for future dormitories as well as space for 

 open-air sports. 



Bertram Hall was begun in March, 1901, and was ready 

 for occupancy when the college opened in the autumn. 

 With Mrs. Henry Whitman as chairman of the committee 

 who had it in charge, and Mr. A. W. Longfellow, Jr., as 

 architect with freedom to carry out his designs, its artistic 

 excellence in every detail was ensured, and it was, in fact, 

 almost the first public building that had been erected in 

 Cambridge for many long years that is architecturally 

 agreeable. Extracts from Mrs. Agassiz*s diaries show 



