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would notify Mr. Gilman, and on February 20, the devoted 
committee met at the house of Mr. Gilman in a heavy snow- 
‘storm to hear his report on the replies. Fifty-three had been 
received, the first in the affirmative from Professor William 
E. Byerly; forty-four more were favorable, some of the in- 
structors saying that they were ready to give their services 
without remuneration rather than allow the plan to fail. 
At this meeting “Mr. Greenough was requested to attend 
all meetings as advisor,” and thus formed a nucleus for the 
future Academic Board of Radcliffe College. On March 7, 
it was decided to “ask the professors or a representative 
body of them to meet the ladies for consultation” at the 
house of Mr. Gilman. At this meeting four applications 
from prospective students were read, three of which had 
been received by Mrs. Agassiz. On March 12, Mr. Gilman 
was chosen secretary for the committee of ladies, an office 
which he held virtually until 1894. A few days later an ad- 
visory board of five professors was appointed to act with 
the ladies, and in the following August, the committee 
having by that time received nearly $16,000 in subscrip- 
tions, they appointed Mr. Joseph B. Warner, a well-known 
lawyer of Boston, as their treasurer. 
On September 24, entrance examinations began, and 
Mrs. Agassiz’s diary has the noteworthy record for that 
day, written at Nahant: “To Cambridge. Meeting for 
the Harvard girls.” The “Harvard girls” who began to at- 
tend the courses offered were twenty-seven in number, two 
of whom left early in the year, one to study abroad, the 
other, who lived in a neighboring town, because of the diffi- 
culty of regular communication with Cambridge. The re- 
maining twenty-five continued throughout the year, three 
