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in Bertram Hall, left a worthy memorial of her unusual 

 gifts. 



With the death of Mrs. Whitman the summer of 1904 

 opened sadly for Mrs. Agassiz. Few, if any, associations 

 into which her connection with Radcliffe had led her, had 

 become dearer to her than that with Mrs. Whitman. This 

 association began in the days of the Society for the Col- 

 legiate Instruction of Women, when in 1886 Mrs. Whit- 

 man was elected to the Corporation; in 1892 she was made 

 a member of the Executive Committee of the Society, and 

 in 1894 a member of the Council of Radcliffe College. 

 During all these years she gave unstintingly of her time, 

 her influence, and her best gifts to the college. As an artist, 

 she will be known to future Radcliffe students by two fine 

 specimens of her glass that they may often have before 

 their eyes — a large window in Memorial Hall and a small 

 window in the Whitman Room in the Radcliffe College 

 Library. The glowing richness of the former and the del- 

 icacy and simpHcity of the latter are no less an epitome 

 of her character than the figures of Love, Courage and 

 Patience that from the Radcliffe window give her lasting 

 message to the brief college generations that pass in swift 

 succession beneath it. Her earnest religious faith was as 

 essential a part of her nature as her artistic gifts, and her 

 vitality, which expressed itself in a remarkable power of 

 work and unfailing courage, was however under too perfect 

 control to betray her into a loss of tranquillity. Her vivid 

 interest in human lives, added to an attractive presence, 

 made her an agreeably dominating personality. These ex- 

 ceptional traits, and her calming yet stimulating presence 

 bound Mrs. Agassiz peculiarly to her, and their constant in- 



