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signature of the College. I would rather have a foot- 
hold in the College on such terms as the Corporation 
may be willing to grant than any sum of money — 
much as we should like the latter, —I think, however, 
the form of our diploma should be carefully consid- 
ered, — that it should not be differentiated from the 
“A.B.” of the College as a “‘ladies’ degree.”” Work 
is work, and must be judged without fear or favor by 
its own value. 
6th. Here again is a most important point in our 
favor, — a place in the Catalogue. 
Your seventh point would be for us our culminating 
point, — taken with what precedes it seems to me 
all we can reasonably ask at present. This is much 
more than half a loaf and promises more than it grants. 
I am so glad you have taken the pains to set it before 
me with such clearness. It was very good of you, and 
very kind in Mrs. Gray to suggest it. Please thank 
her for me. 
The fruits of this plan are seen in the following letter 
from President Eliot, which Mrs. Agassiz read at a meeting 
of the Society on June 6, 1893. It makes the foregoing letter 
more intelligible, since the numbered items in both are 
evidently the same. 
TO MRS. LOUIS AGASSIZ 
May 29, 1893 
Dear Mrs. Acassiz: At the Corporation meeting 
today I was authorized to say to you — the Presi- 
dent of the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of 
