350 ELIZABETH CARY AGASSIZ 
cliffe College has got on fast, and is now in an excel- 
lent position. In fact, I do not see how it can be im- 
proved, so far as its organization and instruction go. 
You ought to take solid satisfaction in your work 
for it. 
Sincerely yours, 
Cares Extot 
TO MISS EMMA F. CARY AND MISS LOUISA FELTON 
Nahant [June 26, 1903] 
I nAvE longed to write to you both, but time has been 
at high pressure for the last week, and notes and letters 
have been at a discount. One thing I will say, — that 
this my last Commencement |June 23] (which has 
kept me awake and frightened me out of my wits 
for the last three weeks) proved to be one of the 
happiest experiences of my long connection with the 
dear Radcliffe, which I now leave where I have so 
longed to see her, in closest touch with the intellec- 
tual outfit of Harvard, sharing her government, her 
instruction, her traditions and associations. 
President Eliot was admirable — full of sympathy, 
eminently satisfied and pleased with our choice of 
a new president from the Faculty, which of course 
sets the seal upon our relation to Harvard. Mr. Ropes 
[Professor James H. Ropes], who was our officiating 
clergyman and who read the annual address, touched 
upon a point to which no one has ever before alluded, 
though it has often been in my own mind. He spoke 
of the College (Radcliffe) as a natural growth out of 
