366 ELIZABETH CARY AGASSIZ 
woman: ‘‘Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let 
her own works praise her in the gates.” 
An even higher ideal, an even finer tradition for Radcliffe 
College to preserve has been best expressed by President 
Briggs in words referring to Mrs. Agassiz: “To a member 
of a graduating class there can be no better advice than this: 
Make your life like hers. In detail it cannot be; in inciden- 
tal privilege it cannot be; but in principle it can. Fix your 
mind on the principle; make it a part of yourself, the con- 
trolling part; learn to apply it in its purity to every task 
of life, and take the tasks one at a time. Then the factitious 
and the unessential drop off as a garment; the knots are 
suddenly untied; the complex becomes simple; the impos- 
sible is done.” 
