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uted by the alumnae and other friends of the college. 
This building Mrs. Agassiz did not live to see. 
The site for Agassiz House was chosen in the Radcliffe 
Yard, next to the Gymnasium, and to Mrs. Agassiz’s 
great satisfaction the architect selected for the building 
was Mr. A. W. Longfellow. On April 6 of the next year she 
noted in her diary: “A most interesting meeting con- 
cerning Elizabeth Cary Agassiz House. I think the plan 
is admirable and very ingenious considering the various 
uses to which it is to be put.” Before work upon the house 
was begun, however, other events occurred, which should 
be recounted in their turn. 
In the spring of 1903, Mrs. Agassiz decided that Rad- 
cliffe had grown beyond her strength and that it was best 
to resign her position as Honorary President. Her resigna- 
tion was presented to the Council on May 26 and in def- 
erence to her wish was accepted to take effect at the end 
of the academic year. At the same meeting, in order to 
strengthen and emphasize the connection between Har- 
vard University and Radcliffe the Dean of the Faculty of 
Arts and Sciences in the University, LeBaron Russell 
Briggs, was nominated as President of Radcliffe. At a 
meeting of the Associates on June 10, Mrs. Agassiz pre- 
sented her formal] resignation and Dean Briggs was unan- 
imously elected President. “What Mrs. Agassiz has been 
and still is to Radcliffe College, no one needs to say,” Miss 
Irwin wrote in her report for the year to the President 
of Harvard University. “What Mr. Briggs has been to 
Harvard College in the past, what he surely will be to 
Radcliffe College in the future, no one can know so well as 
the President of Harvard University.’ Letters and other 
