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ment into that of ascertained use and value. We need 
many subscribers, for less than $100,000 would surely 
make us, financially speaking, an unsafe acquisition 
for the University. Of this $100,000, something more 
_ than $36,000 have been subscribed in the last three or 
four weeks. 
Even if we should succeed in raising the whole of 
this sum, it could not put the education of women on 
‘a par with that of men at Harvard. Indeed we are ad- 
vised that, considered as a permanent foundation for 
so large a scheme, it would be quite insufficient. But 
it might give the College the means of continuing, on 
a somewhat broader basis, the work already begun, 
and would be a nucleus around which additional re- 
sources would gather as soon as the character of the 
undertaking was fully understood. Good work wins 
good will, and we cannot but hope that if the College 
accepts us, we too shall have, when we have secured 
the recognition of the community, our occasional 
gifts, our bequests and legacies, like other depart- 
ments of the University. 
We learn what the further fortunes of the enterprise. 
were from passages in Mrs. Agassiz’s informal address in 
June, 1884, when she had invited the second class that 
had completed the regular four years’ course of study to 
her house in Quincy Street for their ““Commencement exer- 
cises.” The response to her appeal in March which she re- 
ports here demonstrates her possession of one of the prime 
requisites for the president of a budding institution — an 
unusual power of persuasion. This power rested not at all 
upon either eloquence or art, but chiefly upon her utter 
