Word: agassiz
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...under the title of "Private College Instruction for Women", describing the provisions made and stating that "no instruction will be provided of a lower grade than that given in Harvard College." The circular was distributed with the signature of Mr. Gilman as secretary and the names of Mrs. Louis Agassiz, Mrs. Josiah P. Cooke, Mrs. Arthur Gilman, Mrs. James B. Greenough, Mrs. E. W. Gurney, Miss Lilian Horsford and Miss Alice, M. Longfellow. Under less favorable sponsorship and without the firm support of President Eliot of Harvard it would hardly have become firmly established or have survived long...
...Agassiz, who had made and hung curtains for the rooms and who was untiring in her devotion to the work, was made president in 1882. Three years later she helped raise the $20,000 necessary for the purchase of the historic Fay House, and when in 1890 still more space was needed, she was again a foremost worker in raising the needed funds. She and the others of the group of seven saw the work gradually but steadily extended and prosper until, in 1893, under Mrs. Agassiz's leadership negotiations were diplomatically conducted for Harvard to take over the management...
...Agassiz's personal charm and earnestness gained her great triumph for the society in overcoming the opposition of the Committee on Education, at the State House, on Feb. 28, 1894. She received the major credit for effecting the incorporation of Radcliffe College, which the Governor authorized by his signature on March 23, 1894. Many honors were awarded to her and all Radcliffe felt its loss when she resigned the presidency...
Radcliffe profited greatly from Dean Briggs's administration, as it had profited from Mrs. Agassiz's services. Dean Briggs's permanent values to the college were also clearly marked. He fused a loose student sentiment into great loyalty: he found ways to enlarge the curriculum, and he had a large share in bringing Radcliffe's resources to a little more than $4,000,000 in 1923. Under his guidance Radcliffe adhered to the policy of counting only Harvard courses toward the A.B. degree, and it shared in Harvard's decision to preserve certain courses as graduate in character...
There will be a Students League of Nations Assembly in Agassiz House, Radcliffe, on Saturday...