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Show Mrs. Agassiz, the widow of the iircat teacher of science, was herself ai much interested in the cause of cdu cation as was her famous husband The first president of Radcliffc College, Col-lege, she was all her life the warm friend and personal sympathizer with and adviser of young women; and her great wealth was used, not for ostentatious luxury, but for many quiet charities. "A memory written all white" is the beautiful way in which Mrs. Julia Ward Howe summed sum-med up her life. They do some things belter in Great Britain rewarding public servants, ser-vants, for example. It is announced that Lord Cromer, who served his country as diplomatic agent in Egyjt for many years, is to receive a gift of fifty thousand pounds in recognition recogni-tion of what he has done. The sum is enough to enable him to live In comfort the rest of his days, and to maintain a position in society fitting for an cx-officcr of his distinction. If lie had devoted his great abilities to the accumulation of a fortune fn private business, h night have been receiving an anir omc fully cqu-. al to that of the proposed gift, and perhaps much greater. iFJxchangc. |