364 ELIZABETH GARY AGASSIZ 



ture or science, may go hand in hand with even the 

 homeliest domestic duties, as they may also give a 

 dignity and charm to a home of comparative ease 

 and leisure. Look upon your years of college study as 

 the outer court which may give entrance to the inner 

 temple of life. So considered, your university educa- 

 tion will prove a strong friend and trusty ally in the 

 years to come. Such is my hope and best wish for 

 you all. 



The ideals inaugurated by Mrs. Agassiz were kept 

 steadily in view by her successors when the reins dropped 

 from her hands. We may see how sympathetically they 

 were accepted and transmitted by Miss Irwin if we turn 

 to her address at Commencement in 1895, the year of 

 Mrs. Agassiz's absence in Europe. 



. . . Much, very much, has been done for us, and the 

 College can never be grateful enough to the friends 

 and teachers who have made it what it is — but the 

 students of the Annex deserve much; faithful, diligent, 

 docile, loving to learn and learning because they 

 loved it; needing no spur or goad, craving no prize or 

 reward; running a race, not the race in which all run 

 and only one obtains the prize, but the race in which 

 the runners pass from hand to hand the lamp of life 

 that it may never cease to burn. Moved by the gen- 

 uine love of learning and by no baser motive, such 

 were the students of the Annex, such are the students 

 of the ideal College for man or woman. And of such 

 students as these we hope to hand down the "self- 

 perpetuating tradition." 



