COMMEMORATION ADDRESSES 401 
was to become the Woman’s College of Harvard 
University. That day witnessed the fulfilment of an 
important career, the rounding out and perfecting of 
a noble exceptional character. It is a privilege, it is 
an education to let the mind dwell upon that charac- 
ter, but other friends of hers, here today, will speak 
of this. What she was to Radcliffe, you know. What 
she was as the head of Radcliffe, you have witnessed. 
That noble presence — that poise — that dignity — 
that graciousness of manner which veiled the force 
of her character — her reticence — her kindness — 
all this Radcliffe knows — but Agassiz School had 
it too! As she told us, she was always there — as in a 
sense she is here today. God grant her influence, and 
the blessing of it, may be here — for years and years 
to come. 
PROFESSOR GOODWIN 
Tue earliest distinct recollection I have of Mrs. 
Agassiz is a very pleasant one. When we were begin- 
ning, more than thirty years ago, to read Greek trage- 
dies and comedies to the Harvard students, I was 
about to read either the Antigone or the Frogs one 
evening, when Mrs. Agassiz and Mrs. Robert Storer 
came into the room with their Greek books and fol- 
lowed the reading most attentively. I could not have 
had a more delightful addition to my audience. 
These ladies represented a company of cultivated 
women, who read the classics intelligently and with 
pleasure, long before there were any women’s colleges 
to teach them. Mrs. Storer, who survived Mrs. 
