Sketches of Representative Women of New England (Classic Reprint)

BIOGRAPHICAL*. LIZ ABET H CARY AGASSIZ, the first President of Radcliffe College and its constant benefactress, is destined, through the scholarship that bears her name and the hall which is to be erected in her honor on the college grounds, to be held in grateful, lasting remembrance as a pioneer advocate and promoter in the nineteenth century of the higher education of women. In former years, as the wife and helpmeet of a naturalist of world-wide reputation, and later as the editor of his Life and Correspondence, she was well known in literary and scientific circles. Her subsequent work as an educational leader brought her name more directly before the public; and the celebration in December, 1902, in Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, of the eightieth anniversary of her birth was widely reported in the papers as an occasion of general interest. Born in Boston, December 5, 1S22, daughter of Thomas Graves and Mary (Perkins) Gary, she comes of long lines of New England ancestry, and per

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