CHAPTER XV 



COMIMEMORATION ADDRESSES, AGASSIZ HOUSE 

 DECEMBER 8, 1907 



ON the afternoon of Sunday, December 8, 1907, a 

 meeting in memory of Mrs. Agassiz was held in 

 Agassiz House. President Briggs presided and the speakers 

 were Miss Georgina Schuyler of New York, representing 

 the Agassiz School, Professor William Watson Goodwin, 

 Professor Charles Eliot Norton, and President Charles W. 

 EHot. Perhaps nothing that was said that afternoon bet- 

 ter conveyed the influence of Mrs. Agassiz*s personality 

 than the closing sentences of the few words spoken by 

 President Briggs: 

 "If it is true that 



'Prayer is the soul's sincere desire. 

 Uttered or unexpressed,' 



whoever came into her presence prayed; and his prayer 

 was, * Create in me a clean heart, O God.' " 

 The addresses follow. 



MISS GEORGINA SCHUYLER 



Allow me to express to the Faculty and the students 

 of Radcliffe College the gratification of a pupil of 

 Agassiz School that the School is to be represented 

 here today, and her appreciation of their indulgence 

 in listening for a few minutes to the recollections of 

 fifty years ago. It is the beloved and revered memory 

 of Mrs. Agassiz, that unites School and College, that 



