366 ELIZABETH GARY AGASSIZ 



woman: "Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let 

 her own works praise her in the gates." 



An even higher ideal, an even finer tradition for Radcliffe 

 College to preserve has been best expressed by President 

 Briggs in words referring to Mrs. Agassiz : '*To a member 

 of a graduating class there can be no better advice than this : 

 Make your life like hers. In detail it cannot be; in inciden- 

 tal privilege it cannot be; but in principle it can. Fix your 

 mind on the principle; make it a part of yourself, the con- 

 trolling part; learn to apply it in its purity to every task 

 of life, and take the tasks one at a time. Then the factitious 

 and the unessential drop off as a garment; the knots are 

 suddenly untied; the complex becomes simple; the impos- 

 sible is done." 



