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of them continued to share her responsibilities even after 
the Annex was merged into Radcliffe College, their opin- 
ions and their friendship may be counted as important 
factors in her daily life. 
The paramount object accomplished by the managers 
when they obtained their charter from the Commonwealth 
was that the Society was thereby placed in a position where 
it could legally hold and administer funds for its purposes, 
and could properly attempt to raise a sufficient endowment 
to establish its work on a permanent basis. In the late win- 
ter of 1883 the Executive Committee determined to solicit 
money for an endowment fund to be transferred to the 
President and Fellows of Harvard College whenever this 
could be done to advance the purposes of the Society. Later 
in the spring, in accordance with a suggestion made by 
Mrs. Agassiz, parlor-meetings were held in Boston at- 
tended by friends who were interested in the experiment, 
at which Mrs. Agassiz read a report of the previous work 
of the Society. This at once brought not only the Society 
but Mrs. Agassiz herself into greater prominence and 
identified her with the education of women in the mind 
of the public as she had never been before. There is no 
better way of telling the history of the years from 1879 to 
1883, with the varying phases of which Mrs. Agassiz’s 
thoughts had been daily occupied, than by republishing 
selections from this address, the first of any consequence 
that she made on behalf of the Annex. It was adopted by 
the ladies of the Executive Committee as their report and 
printed with a slightly different introduction in 1884. 
We propose this afternoon (I speak for all the la- 
dies of our Committee and at their request) to tell you 
