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uted by the alumnae and other friends of the college. 

 This building Mrs. Agassiz did not live to see. 



The site for Agassiz House was chosen in the Radcliffe 

 Yard, next to the Gymnasium, and to Mrs. Agassiz's 

 great satisfaction the architect selected for the building 

 was Mr. A. W. Longfellow. On April 6 of the next year she 

 noted in her diary: "A most interesting meeting con- 

 cerning Elizabeth Gary Agassiz House. I think the plan 

 is admirable and very ingenious considering the various 

 uses to which it is to be put." Before work upon the house 

 was begun, however, other events occurred, which should 

 be recounted in their turn. 



In the spring of 1903, Mrs. Agassiz decided that Rad- 

 cliffe had grown beyond her strength and that it was best 

 to resign her position as Honorary President. Her resigna- 

 tion was presented to the Council on May 26 and in def- 

 erence to her wish was accepted to take effect at the end 

 of the academic year. At the same meeting, in order to 

 strengthen and emphasize the connection between Har- 

 vard University and RadcHffe the Dean of the Faculty of 

 Arts and Sciences in the University, LeBaron Russell 

 Briggs, was nominated as President of Radcliffe. At a 

 meeting of the Associates on June 10, Mrs. Agassiz pre- 

 sented her formal resignation and Dean Briggs was unan- 

 imously elected President. *' What Mrs. Agassiz has been 

 and still is to Radcliffe College, no one needs to say," Miss 

 Irwin wrote in her report for the year to the President 

 of Harvard University. " What Mr. Briggs has been to 

 Harvard College in the past, w^hat he surely will be to 

 Radcliffe College in the future, no one can know so well as 

 the President of Harvard University." Letters and other 



