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I pick up the thread here. I was telling you about my 
first visit to Lily Motley. Her husband was very cor- 
dial and extremely amusing. He came in when lunch 
was half through from his office, bringing with him a 
very pleasant man who works with him. They were 
making up that mysterious package called “The 
Budget,” so Lily said, and were fearfully busy. Sir 
William, though a Liberal, seemed by no means in 
sympathy with modern reforms; bicycles and higher 
education for women were equally under his ban, and 
he said the nineteenth century had become intolera- 
ble and the twentieth would be worse, and he was 
glad to think how soon he should bid good-bye to 
both. He and his party are very unpopular. “I am 
old and likely to go out of office soon.” It is curious 
how one gets interested in the local political talk 
when one is on the spot. 
... My next will be from Oxford, and I shall not 
be sorry. Pleasant as it all is, I shall be very glad to 
drop social and educational responsibilities and be off 
with Mollie to Italy and Venice. 
Mrs. Agassiz’s visits to Cambridge and Oxford had a 
direct influence upon her policy in regard to the establish- 
ment of halls of residence at Radcliffe. In 1897 she gave an 
account of some of her experiences at the English colleges 
for women to the Emmanuel Club at Radcliffe, from which 
the following extracts are made. 
When you first arrive in Cambridge, if you stay, as 
we did, in the old tavern, The Bull, your first outlook 
upon the street will give you the sense of antiquity, 
