352 ELIZABETH CARY AGASSIZ 
nizing, as it were, — which meant a good deal. With 
that our evening ended. 
TO MRS. WILLIAM B. RICHARDSON, PRESIDENT OF THE 
_RADCLIFFE COLLEGE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION 
Nahant, June 30, 1903 
My pear Mrs. Ricuarpson: You must let me tell 
you how much I enjoyed the evening with our Alum- 
nae, and howcharmingly I thought the whole occasion 
was presided over by you. It was a lovely close to my 
social relations with that pleasant company of stu- 
dents which have made year by year so great a part 
of the interest and charm of my life. I do not speak 
of the “close” as if it meant the end of that companion- 
ship, for I trust that I shall meet our students often 
and often in close and cordial association. I only 
mean that the bright and pleasant meeting of the 
Alumnae ended the day for me delightfully. 
With affectionate remembrance, 
ExvizasetaH C. AGassiz 
On June 24 Mrs. Agassiz had written in her diary: 
“The day I had so much dreaded is over and was one of 
the happiest I have known in my connection with Rad- 
cliffe. And now my presidency is over, and Dean Briggs is 
installed, and I feel that the position of Radcliffe is assured.” 
“Now that I am losing courage in these later days,” she 
wrote at this time to a friend, “it is a joy to feel that there 
are younger people to take up the cares and responsibili- 
ties and bear them along with fresh hope and faith,” and 
the following letters still further illustrate her attitude 
