354 ELIZABETH CARY AGASSIZ 
May 8, [1904] 
Dear Mrs. Brices: It was a great pleasure to have 
your note after the Radcliffe dance the other evening. 
I was very sorry not to go and very glad that you were 
there. It is such a good thing that you are in sym- 
pathy with their pleasure as well as with their studies. 
The fact of your having been a “college girl’ your- 
self is so valuable for them and for us. I remember 
that an English instructress from one of the Oxford 
Halls for women said to me, “‘Try always to have a 
college-bred woman among the officers — you will 
find it an immense help.” I think she was right. 
With affectionate regard, 
Yours truly, 
EizaBetu C. AGASsIz 
During the time that the reorganization of the college 
was being effected, owing to the exceptionally high cost of 
building, the work on Agassiz House was being delayed, and 
it was not until March that, according to the record in 
Mrs. Agassiz’s diary, the clearing of the site, which had 
been begun in the summer of 1903, was resumed. The 
building was not completed until 1905, when on June 16 
it was opened for inspection by invited guests, and on June 
19 the Auditorium was dedicated by the first performance 
of Marlowe, a play by Josephine Preston Peabody, a 
former student of the college. Like Bertram Hall the build- 
ing owed its perfect appropriateness for its purposes and 
its beauty of proportion and detail to the architect and to 
the unerring taste of Mrs. Henry Whitman, who, although 
she did not live to see the work completed, has in it, as 
