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in Bertram Hall, left a worthy memorial of her unusual 
gifts. 
With the death of Mrs. Whitman the summer of 1904 
opened sadly for Mrs. Agassiz. Few, if any, associations 
into which her connection with Radcliffe had led her, had 
become dearer to her than that with Mrs. Whitman. This 
association began in the days of the Society for the Col- 
legiate Instruction of Women, when in 1886 Mrs. Whit- 
man was elected to the Corporation; in 1892 she was made 
a member of the Executive Committee of the Society, and 
in 1894 a member of the Council of Radcliffe College. 
During all these years she gave unstintingly of her time, 
her influence, and her best gifts to the college. As an artist, 
she will be known to future Radcliffe students by two fine 
specimens of her glass that they may often have before 
their eyes — a large window in Memorial Hall and a small 
window in the Whitman Room in the Radcliffe College 
Library. The glowing richness of the former and the del- 
icacy and simplicity of the latter are no less an epitome 
of her character than the figures of Love, Courage and 
Patience that from the Radcliffe window give her lasting 
message to the brief college generations that pass in swift 
succession beneath it. Her earnest religious faith was as 
essential a part of her nature as her artistic gifts, and her 
vitality, which expressed itself in a remarkable power of 
work and unfailing courage, was however under too perfect 
control to betray her into a loss of tranquillity. Her vivid 
interest in human lives, added to an attractive presence, 
made her an agreeably dominating personality. These ex- 
ceptional traits, and her calming yet stimulating presence 
bound Mrs. Agassiz peculiarly to her, and their constant in- 
