364 ELIZABETH CARY AGASSIZ 
ture or science, may go hand in hand with even the 
homeliest domestic duties, as they may also give a 
dignity and charm to a home of comparative ease 
and leisure. Look upon your years of college study as 
the outer court which may give entrance to the inner 
temple of life. So considered, your university educa- 
tion will prove a strong friend and trusty ally in the 
years to come. Such is my hope and best wish for 
you all. 
The ideals inaugurated by Mrs. Agassiz were kept 
steadily in view by her successors when the reins dropped 
from her hands. We may see how sympathetically they 
were accepted and transmitted by Miss Irwin if we turn 
to her address at Commencement in 1895, the year of 
Mrs. Agassiz’s absence in Europe. 
. . . Much, very much, has been done for us, and the 
College can never be grateful enough to the friends 
and teachers who have made it what it is — but the 
students of the Annex deserve much; faithful, diligent, 
docile, loving to learn and learning because they 
loved it; needing no spur or goad, craving no prize or 
reward; running a race, not the race in which all run 
and only one obtains the prize, but the race in which 
the runners pass from hand to hand the lamp of life 
that it may never cease to burn. Moved by the gen- 
uine love of learning and by no baser motive, such 
were the students of the Annex, such are the students 
of the ideal College for man or woman. And of such 
students as these we hope to hand down the “‘self- 
perpetuating tradition.” 
