RADCLIFFE COLLEGE 339 
is exclusively drawn from the faculty of Harvard. 
We have the whole body of instruction of our old 
University, and this we owe to the generosity of 
Harvard, to the sympathy and interest of its pro- 
fessors and teachers; therefore, to Harvard, we owe 
the allegiance and loyalty of a younger to a much 
older institution, and we must contribute our share 
to her laurels. 
Let us strive, therefore, to maintain a high stand- 
ard of excellence, not only in study, but in gentle 
manners and in all that contributes to a home in 
the best sense. 
A little later Mrs. Agassiz sent to the contributors to 
the Students’ Hall the following letter of thanks: 
To the friends who by their exertions and contribu- 
tions collected the fund for a Students’ Hall at 
Radcliffe College. 
36 Quincy Street, Cambridge, December 25, 1902 
My Frienps: A long cherished wish of mine for 
Radcliffe College was fulfilled in the most touching 
way on my 80th birthday. 
Knowing the needs and desires of our students, 
I have long hoped that we might provide fitting 
conditions within the precincts of the college for 
the maintenance of a social, domestic, and, as it 
were a family life among them, side by side with 
their daily studies. Friends within and without 
the College, and even the students themselves had 
worked toward this end but had failed thus far 
