258 ELIZABETH CARY AGASSIZ 
On March 23, 1894, the Governor signed the act for the 
incorporation of Radcliffe College. 
The new relations with the University made a certain 
degree of .reorganization necessary for the college. The 
Corporation and the Academic Board were both enlarged. 
The list of permanent officers was increased by the addi- 
tion of a regent and a dean. Mrs. Agassiz continued to be 
president of the institution, Mr. Gilman became regent, and 
Mr. Warner remained treasurer. Miss Mary Coes, a gradu- 
ate of the college and later its dean, was made secretary, 
an office which she continued to hold during the rest of 
Mrs. Agassiz’s life; the college had no more devoted serv- 
ant and friend, the students no more ready and interested 
adviser, and her faithfulness and quiet absorption in the 
affairs of Radcliffe ministered to Mrs. Agassiz in a thou- 
sand ways more constantly than probably any one, even 
Mrs Agassiz herself, could have told. The appointment of 
a dean, which constituted the most important change in 
the official personnel was felt to be a necessity attendant 
upon the development into a college. From the beginning 
of the Annex, Mrs. Arthur Gilman had acted as Chairman 
of the Students’ Committee, and she and Mr. Gilman to- 
gether had performed many of the duties that in a formally 
constituted college devolve upon the dean; but much of 
the voluntary service that had been rendered the Annex by 
its devoted friends had in the nature of things, when it 
became incorporated as a college, to be organized upon a 
more permanent and academic basis. It was the desire of 
Mrs. Agassiz that the college should have in the dean a 
social head, a person of such scholarship and experience in 
teaching that her presence would be of importance on all 
