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was to become the Woman's College of Harvard 

 University. That day witnessed the fulfilment of an 

 important career, the rounding out and perfecting of 

 a noble exceptional character. It is a privilege, it is 

 an education to let the mind dwell upon that charac- 

 ter, but other friends of hers, here today, will speak 

 of this. What she was to Radcliffe, you know. \Miat 

 she was as the head of Radcliffe, you have witnessed. 

 That noble presence — that poise — that dignity — 

 that graciousness of manner which veiled the force 

 of her character — her reticence — her kindness — 

 all this Radcliffe knows — but Agassiz School had 

 it too ! As she told us, she was always there — as in a 

 sense she is here today. God grant her influence, and 

 the blessing of it, may be here — for years and years 

 to come. 



PROFESSOR GOODV^IN 



The earliest distinct recollection I have of Mrs. 

 Agassiz is a very pleasant one. When we were begin- 

 ning, more than thirty years ago, to read Greek trage- 

 dies and comedies to the Harvard students, I was 

 about to read either the Antigone or the Frogs one 

 evening, when Mrs. Agassiz and Mrs. Robert Storer 

 came into the room with their Greek books and fol- 

 lowed the reading most attentively. I could not have 

 had a more delightful addition to my audience. 

 These ladies represented a company of cultivated 

 women, who read the classics intelligently and with 

 pleasure, long before there were any women's colleges 

 to teach them. Mrs. Storer, who survived Mrs. 



