'2 SIMON HENRY GAGE 
later in visiting some of the universities the distinguished men 
whom she had met showed her every courtesy in their labora- 
tories and gave her opportunity to study the choicest among 
their series. Among the experiences most cherished were those 
connected with the laboratory of Golgi in Italy and of Ariéns- 
Kappers in Holland. Golgi not only showed her some of the 
specimens already mounted, but mede for her before her own 
eyes some of his incomparable preparations. 
In speaking of college studies above, it was stated that among 
those which gave her the greatest pleasure and inspiration was 
American history; and a few years later while staying with her 
father during a period of family bereavement, she read aloud to 
him Irving’s life of Washington. She was keen in perceiving the 
breadth and foresight of Washington in all educational matters 
and was especially interested in his desire for a national univer- 
sity, for the founding of which he gave a generous share of his 
private fortune. 
Her own intimate knowledge of the need for research oppor- 
tunities in our country, if it were to become a real and a wise 
‘leader among the nations of the earth, led her to ponder deeply 
on such an institution, the crown of our educational system, 
which has not yet been realized in our land. It seemed to her 
that the women of the nation, who were coming into the sun- 
light of opportunity in university education, if they only knew 
of this great hope and desire of Washington and the urgent 
need, would rally with the same enthusiasm as that which filled 
her mind and heart and the greatest of all our American univer- 
sities would arise in Washington City—an institution which 
would represent the highest and best in the university idea, and 
which, being the offspring of the whole country, would realize 
Washington’s dream and hopes far beyond what he could have 
imagined. 
She helped to found the George Washington Memorial Asso- 
ciation to bring about the hoped-for result, and served it for sev- 
eral years as secretary. From 1895 to 1905 she urged in spoken 
words and in writing the fulfilment of this dream of Washing- 
ton with a zeal and eloquence worthy of success. Perhaps her 
