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...memorial service to Mrs. Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, the first president of Radcliffe College, was held yesterday afternoon in Agassiz House. President Briggs presided and the speakers were President Eliot, Professor Charles Eliot Norton, Professor W. W. Goodwin, and Miss Georgina Schuyler, who was a pupil in the school which Mrs. Agassiz conducted in Cambridge from...
...plan proposed in the petition. Either of two plans would have been acceptable to the committee; that Radcliffe should be an institution entirely separate from Harvard University, or that Harvard should become a co-educational university, admitting women on the same basis as men. The plan advocated by Mrs. Agassiz, President Eliot, and other interested in the welfare of the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women, as it was then called, was that on which Radcliffe is at present conducted, of affiliation with Harvard in the advanced courses and complete separation in the more elementary instruction...
...this hearing the lawyers who presented the petition for the charter, President Eliot, and other gentlemen who spoke in favor of it, made no effect on the bostile committee of the legislature. Then Mrs. Agassiz arose to plead her own cause. Her address was a notable example of the effectiveness of public speaking; at its close the committee...
...Agassiz was born on December 6, 1822, so that the service tomorrow will be also an anniversary of her eighty-fifth birthday. She was active in the founding of Radcliffe, and at its incorporation in 1883 became its first president. She held this office until 1899, when the infirmities of age compelled her to resign. She died on June...
...service tomorrow will be open to all Radcliffe graduates and undergraduates, and by special invitation to friends of Mrs. Agassiz and others connected with the college...