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of the Graduating Exercises for Radcliffe in Sanders 
Theatre. I think my usual correspondents must 
have meant to heighten my pleasure in this most un- 
looked-for piece of news, for no one has ever suggested 
the transfer of the Radcliffe Commencement to 
Memorial Hall, and yet I am sure there must have 
been much discussion and deliberation between our 
Academic Board and the Corporation before the 
two decided upon the matter. There could not be 
a more positive recognition of Radcliffe by Harvard 
than this. It sets the seal upon our final adoption. 
It really has made me feel very happy. When I 
think of our first little Commencement with four 
graduates in Ellen Gurney’s library and of this 
consummation I can hardly believe it. She and 
Gurney have gone beyond college ceremonies and 
have entered upon new Commencements, — but 
I wish they knew it. I really longed for their sym- 
pathy. 
I feel more and more satisfied that it was well 
for me to be away this year. It has given Miss Irwin 
an independent ground. Of course I should never 
have hampered her in any way, but she would 
naturally have deferred to me as the older officer. 
But I am so glad about the ceremonies at Sanders 
Theatre. They seem to me to have been concluded 
very simply with quiet dignity. The fact that our 
Commencement is transferred in this way to the 
place where all the Memorial days of the University 
are kept will settle many doubtful questions about 
the occasion which were always coming up on its 
