258 ELIZABETH GARY AGASSIZ 



On March 23, 1894, the Governor signed the act for the 

 incorporation of Radcliffe College. 



The new relations with the University made a certain 

 degree of reorganization necessary for the college. The 

 Corporation and the Academic Board were both enlarged. 

 The list of permanent officers was increased by the addi- 

 tion of a regent and a dean. Mrs. Agassiz continued to be 

 president of the institution, Mr. Gilman became regent, and 

 Mr. Warner remained treasurer. Miss Mary Goes, a gradu- 

 ate of the college and later its dean, was made secretary, 

 an office which she continued to hold during the rest of 

 Mrs. Agassiz's We; the college had no more devoted serv- 

 ant and friend, the students no more ready and interested 

 adviser, and her faithfulness and quiet absorption in the 

 affairs of Radcliffe ministered to Mrs. Agassiz in a thou- 

 sand ways more constantly than probably any one, even 

 Mrs Agassiz herself, could have told. The appointment of 

 a dean, which constituted the most important change in 

 the official personnel was felt to be a necessity attendant 

 upon the development into a college. From the beginning 

 of the Annex, Mrs. Arthur Gilman had acted as Chairman 

 of the Students' Committee, and she and Mr. Gilman to- 

 gether had performed many of the duties that in a formally 

 constituted college devolve upon the dean; but much of 

 the voluntary service that had been rendered the Annex by 

 its devoted friends had in the nature of things, when it 

 became incorporated as a college, to be organized upon a 

 more permanent and academic basis. It was the desire of 

 Mrs. Agassiz that the college should have in the dean a 

 social head, a person of such scholarship and experience in 

 teaching that her presence would be of importance on all 



