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college ever connected with Harvard for this lady who two 
centuries ago gave our University the first money it ever 
received from a woman....The name isalsoa good one— 
Radcliffe College, — dignified and convenient, and the as- 
sociation with this lady of the olden time and her gener- 
osity to Harvard has a certain picturesqueness.” But when 
the name was publicly announced an old friend of Mrs. 
Agassiz wrote to her: “I should prefer to have it the 
‘ Agassiz College,’ and I must think it ought to have been, 
for what are £100 [of money], when compared with more 
than that number of flesh, blood and brains given cheer- 
fully for so many years!” 
Further friendly negotiations were carried on between 
the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the So- 
ciety until on October 31, 1893, at the annual meeting of 
the Society it was voted that proper legal steps should be 
taken to change the name of the Corporation to that of 
Radcliffe College; that the Corporation should give de- 
grees in Arts and Sciences, and that a Committee should 
be appointed by the President to obtain from the Legis- 
lature the necessary power; that the President and Fellows 
of Harvard College should be appointed the Visitors of the 
Corporation; that no instructor or examiner of the Cor- 
poration should be appointed without the approval of the 
Visitors; that in case the President and Fellows of Harvard 
College should accept the powers thus conferred upon them, 
they should be requested to empower the President of Har- 
vard University to countersign the diplomas of the Corpo- 
ration and to affix the seal of Harvard University to them. 
Consent was given to the arrangement embodied in these 
votes by the Board of Overseers of Harvard University 
