THE AGASSIZ SCHOOL 49 
returning from Nahant, where he had died, to [their 
house in] Pemberton Square, Lizzie arranged that 
she with my sister Sallie should spend the winter at 
Quincy Street. She could not have done this without 
Agassiz’s approval, which he gave most willingly, 
for he had made himself absolutely one of us and was 
like a son to my mother; but then all duties devolved 
upon the housekeeper. 
Mrs. Agassiz’s part in the school is still more fully de- 
scribed by Miss Schuyler, one of her pupils, in the address 
published below in Chapter XV. The term, “Hostess of 
the School,” that Miss Schuyler applies to her is significant 
of the unusual atmosphere that she gave the schoolroom. 
“She was always to me an ideal gentlewoman,” one of the 
former pupils wrote long after the school days were ended, 
“an American lady whom any nation might be proud to 
claim as queen. I always recall her voice, remembering it 
with the admiration I felt at the time when she reproved 
her schoolgirls for their boisterous manners and trouble- 
some behaviour in the hours when they should have been 
quiet, ending — ‘I expect you to behave as you would in 
your mothers’ drawing-rooms.’” It was in such wearisome 
matters of discipline and in the general supervision and 
direction of the whole that Mrs. Agassiz’s principal share 
of the work lay. But one habit which became of great con- 
sequence to both her and Agassiz was formed in these 
days in the schoolroom. She always attended Agassiz’s 
lectures and took faithful notes of them, which she after- 
wards wrote out. The practice thus gained proved of in- 
estimable value to him for the preservation of later and 
