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Radcliffe had two locations: the Yard on Garden Street with Agassiz on one end, Mallinckrodt on the other end, Fay House on the right side, the Radcliffe library on the left side. There was an ancient cherry tree in the Yard with a wooden seat around the base of it that was Radcliffe’s logo and a favorite photo-op, a sort of substitute for John Harvard’s statue in Harvard Yard...
...indoor sports, from modern dance to swimming to fencing took place in Agassiz. There was also a theatre in Agassiz where Radcliffe’s drama society, the Idler Players, staged their productions. Radcliffe Administration was housed in Fay and if you needed to speak with one of the three female deans, Fay House is where you would find them...
Meyer contended that because naming records for the school do not exist, the elementary school could have been named for Louis Agassiz’s wife, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, a founder of Radcliffe and a local educator...
Though many institutions in Cambridge and Harvard also bear the Agassiz name, neither Mayor Sullivan nor Counter had heard of any motion to further expunge Agassiz’s name...
Just before he passed away, Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology Stephen Jay Gould said that he needed 20 more years to complete his work. “I’d take 30 if anybody would give it to me, but I need 20,” he said. Uncharacteristically, Gould was mistaken; his accomplishments in the 60 years that he lived far exceeded what the rest of us could do in twice that time. Had he the additional 20 years of life that he desired, Gould might have surpassed the other evolutionary biologist to whom...