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Call No.: RG II, Series 1
Repository: Radcliffe College Archives, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Creator: Lebaron Russell Briggs, 1855-1934
Title: Records of the President of Radcliffe College, 1903-1925
Abstract: Official Radcliffe College correspondence of Le Baron Russell Briggs, professor and second president of Radcliffe College.

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BIOGRAPHY

LeBaron Russell Briggs, professor, dean, and college president, was the son of George Ware Briggs, a Unitarian minister, and his second wife, Jane Russell Briggs. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts on December 11, 1855. He grew up in Cambridge and was educated at Harvard, receiving his A. B. in 1875 and A. M. in 1882. He served at Harvard as tutor in Greek, 1878-1881, instructor in English, 1883-1885, assistant professor, later professor English, 1885-1904, and Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, 1904-1925. He was Dean of Harvard College, 1891-1902, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 1902-1925, and Chairman of the Committee on Athletic Sports.

LBRB was one of the first Harvard professors who, at the request of President Charles W. Eliot in 1897, agreed to teach at the newly organized program for the collegiate instruction of women by Harvard professors (later Radcliffe College). He was second president of Radcliffe College, 1903-1923, succeeding Elizabeth Cary Agassiz.

Admired by generations of students for his kindness and benevolent guidance, LBRB had a profound influence on his students who placed him among the very great teachers of English and the classics: "the shrewd genius who created creators," said his biographer Rollo Brown. He was not considered a scholar. His publications included a collection of speeches, School, College and Character (1901), essays on women, Girls and Education (1911) and collections of charades, The Sphinx Garrulous (1929), and Pegasus Perplexing (1931).

He was appointed president of Radcliffe with the blessing of outgoing President Agassiz and President Eliot who believed he would maintain good relations between Harvard and Radcliffe. In the eyes of William Alan Neilson, president of Smith College, he "made Radcliffe respectable."

Among his accomplishments as president of Radcliffe was the growth of the student body from 458 in 1903 to 753 in 1923, the increased geographical diversity of students (the number of students drawn from outside of Massachusetts rose from 19% in 1903 to 33% in 1923), the increased ethnic and racial diversity, and the admission of women to the Ph.D program in medical sciences in the Harvard Medical School 1916-1917.

LBRB, while not a supporter of co-education at Harvard, believed in Radcliffe as a "Harvard College for women" and fought valiantly with President Lowell to maintain the equivalence of the Harvard/Radcliffe degree and the close ties between the two institutions. He firmly supported women's education as long as women were not taught to compete with men. Radcliffe College, he wrote "should maintain a college life of its own, independent of the college life at Harvard, but its intellectual standards must remain those of (Harvard) of which in fact if not in name, it forms a significant part."

LBRB contributed to Radcliffe's physical growth and stability. Under his guidance the college grew from what he described as a "few backyards and an undersized apple tree" to a permanent institution. The Greenleaf estate was purchased in 1905, Agassiz House was constructed as a student center in 1905, and the library opened in 1908. New dormitories were added to the dormitory quadrangle: Eliot Hall, 1907, Edmands house, 1910, Whitman, 1912, Barnard, 1913 and Briggs, 1923. The Endowment Fund (1923) brought salaries of Harvard faculty who taught at Radcliffe up to equality with other Harvard salaries, and the Library Endowment Fund was completed by gifts from alumnae. LBRB also succeeded in establishing the Iota Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in 1914.

LBRB married Mary De Quedville in September 1883, a student in his English course and a magna cum laude graduate of Radcliffe (A. B. 1901 as of 1884). Their children were: John De Quedville, Harvard 1906, Lucia Russell, Radcliffe 1909, president of Milwaukee Downer College, and LeBaron Russell, Jr., Harvard 1916. LBRB received an honorary LLD from Harvard in 1900.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

The papers consist of the incoming correspondence of the President's office, 1903-1925, and carbon copies of the president's outgoing correspondence in indexed bound volumes, 1909-1925. Among correspondents are: Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Charles William Eliot, Abbot Lawrence Lowell, Radcliffe deans: Agnes Irwin, Mary Coes, Bertha May Boody, Christina Hopkinson Baker and Marion Edwards Park, and the Radcliffe Associates (Trustees). Major subjects include: the day-to-day governance of the college, Harvard/Radcliffe relations, the teaching relationship with Harvard faculty, Harvard faculty salaries, course offerings, admissions, financial aid, policies regarding the residence of Afro-American students in Radcliffe dormitories and other Afro-American student issues, the debate over the quota for Jewish students at Harvard and the admission of women to the Harvard Medical School. Letters also discuss fundraising, Radcliffe property, and the construction of dormitories. The letters reveal LBRB's concerned guidance of the young college in its relationship with Harvard.

These papers are arranged in two subseries:

• Series 1.1. Boxes 1-3. Outgoing correspondence in 6 bound volumes, each containing approximately 1000 numbered pages, 1909-1925. The correspondence for 1903-1909 is found in the letter books of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Archives. Each letter book contains it's own index of names. A separate index of subjects is included here.
• Series 1.2. Boxes 4-13. Incoming correspondence, arranged in folders alphabetically by name of correspondent or organization with a separate index of names and subjects.

Letters reveal much of the day-to-day administration of Radcliffe; since Briggs spent only a portion of his time at Radcliffe, he received a good many letters from his deputies.

CONTAINER LIST

• Box 1: Vol. 1-Vol. 2
• Box 2: Vol. 3-Vol. 4
• Box 3: Vol. 5-Vol. 6
• Box 4: 1-14
• Box 5: 15-28
• Box 6: 29-42
• Box 7: 43-63
• Box 8: 64-82
• Box 9: 83-104
• Box 10: 105-123
• Box 11: 124-140
• Box 12: 141-162
• Box 13: 163-178

INVENTORY

• SERIES 1.1: OUTGOING CORRESPONDENCE, 1909-1925
  See also SUBJECT INDEX: Outgoing correspondence of President LeBaron Briggs, 1909-1925
  • Box: 1 Outgoing correspondence
    • Vol. 1 Nov 9, 1909-April 10, 1912
    • Vol. 2 April, 1912-May 8, 1914
  • Box: 2 Outgoing correspondence
    • Vol. 3 May 11, 1914-Oct. 12, 1917
    • Vol. 4 Oct. 22, 1917-Feb. 2, 1921
  • Box: 3 Outgoing correspondence
    • Vol. 5 Feb. 2, 1921-Jan. 31, 1923
    • Vol. 6 Feb. 2, 1921-June 8, 1925

• SERIES 1.2: INCOMING CORRESPONDENCE, 1903-1925
  • 1-6: 1903-1904
    • 1. Adams-Clough: Elizabeth C. Agassiz re: Briggs as president of Radcliffe; Caroline S. Atherton on Roxbury House; Ezra H. Baker, treasurer; W. E. Byerly; Ella Lyman Cabot, Frederick P. Cabot on the Greenleaf estate
    • 2. Coes, Mary: admissions; Professor Munsterberg re: "a Mr. Hocking"; fund raising for Library; Helen Keller's degree; scholarships; Mabel Daniels; Bertram Hall living accommodations.
      See supersize folder: "Country Fair for the Radcliffe College Library Fund...," 1905.
    • 3. Conried-Hutchinson: R. H. Dana on the Green leaf estate; Lilian Horsford Farlow, report of the Agassiz House Committee; Isabella Stewart Gardner declining to contribute; Arthur Gilman on Radcliffe College documents; John C, Gray, college business, attitude toward women as Associates
    • 4. Irwin-Lowell: includes Agnes Irwin, college business; Alice M. Longfellow, resignation from the Council
    • 5. Macurdy-Sullivan; John F. Moors, re: Radcliffe Council members; Sarah H. Richardson, president, Radcliffe Alumnae Association; Caroline B. Shaw on Mary Coes; "Special Student" organization
    • 6. Tetlow-Yerxa: M. Carey Thomas re: student Harriet Clough
  • 7-12: 1904-1905
    • 7. Allen-Chase: Ezra H. Baker, Ella Lyman Cabot, Frederick P. Cabot re: Greenleaf estate; George P. Baker on Marlowe performances; LeBaron Russell Briggs; Byerly on recognizing Ethel Puffer as Radcliffe instructor
    • 8. Coes-Curley: Mary Coes on Greenleaf estate; Ezra H. Baker nominated as treasurer
    • 9. Dana-Guild: re: Richard H. Dana on Greenleaf estate; A. M. Dickey re: Elilot Memorial Associatian of Girls High School of Boston; Lilian H. Farlow on Agassiz House and Sarah Wyman Whitman's portrait of ECA
    • 10. Hale-Judd: Henry Lee Higginson re: gift of painting by Ghirlandaio in memory of Sarah W. Whitman; J. A. Higginson re: Elizabeth C. Agassiz' health; Agnes Irwin Bunker's gift of clock to Bertram Hall
    • 11. Kittredge-Pritchett: George Lyman Kittredge, principles of study for the Ph.D; John Albert Macy; Radcliffe article by Helen Keller; John F. Moors on the Greenleaf estate; Sarah W. Whitman bequest to Agassiz House; Grace Norton on Elizabeth C. Agassiz
    • 12. Reilly-Young: M. Carey Thomas re: nursing careers for college women
  • 13-18: 1905-1906
    • 13. Adams-Clarkson: Ezra H. Baker re: Helen G. Coburn bequest; Elizabeth Briggs opposition to the nomination of Mary Coes for the Council, W. E. Byerly re: a gymnasium
    • 14. Coes-Curtis: Mary Coes, college business
    • 15. Damon-Gross
    • 16. Hallowell-Humphrey
    • 17. Irwin-Mezes: George Lyman Kittridge re: English courses for Radcliffe; A Lawrence Lowell
    • 18. Moors-Young: John F. Moors re: Greenleaf property, Mary Coes for Council, objections; Henry S. Pritchett re: Carnegie Foundation Advancement Teaching resolution; Lucy Sprague; Barrett Wendell re: Chester Greenough
  • 19-24: 1906-1908
    • 19. Abbot-Clementine: George P. Baker, English C, discussion of plays; Frederick P. Cabot, Grace Hopkinson Eliot Hall
    • 20. Cobb-Coes: Mary Coes, admissions 1907-1908
    • 21. Comstock-Higginson; Radcliffe Council re: honorary degrees to women; Carnegie Foundation benefits for Radcliffe
    • 22. Hopkinson-Knott: Agnes Irwin re: Kimball's financial contribution to Grace Eliot Hall; dormitory committees; scholarships; Jewish admission at Gilman School and Radcliffe; B. I. Kagan, Jewish Scholarship Fund
    • 23. Leonard-Ross: Charles Eliot Norton at memorial meeting for Mrs. Agassiz
    • 24. Shaw-Lahner
  • 25-28: 1908-1909
    • 25. Arnold-Chapman
    • 26. Coes-Elmore: includes Mary Coes re: admissions 1908-1909; years of teaching and courses of Professors Charles H. Moore and J. H. Wright
    • 27. Farlow-Longfellow: Edwin A. Grosvenor re: Radcliffe membership Phi Beta Kappa; Agnes Irwin's resignation; William Coolidge Lane re: Radcliffe Chapter Phi Beta Kappa; Alice M. Longfellow re: Charles Eliot Norton and his views about Mt. Auburn St.
    • 28. Marsh-Yerxa: John F. Moors re: management of Harvard/Radcliffe relationship; Caroline B. Shaw re: scholarships; Caroline A. Farley as Librarian; Edith G. Wendell, portrait of Agnes Irwin; Sarah E. Withers, black student
  • 29-39: 1909-1910
    • 29. Adams-Byerly: LBRB re: dormitories; scattered references to and recommendations for dean, including Mary Coes and Mary Dewson
    • 30. Cabot-Clough: recommendations for dean; Frederick P. Cabot's opposition to Mary Coes
    • 31. Cobb-Coes: Margaret V. Cobb on negro problem; Mary Coes on Summer School, students and teachers; biography of Agnes Irwin; petition of support for Mary Coes as Dean; volume in honor of Agnes Irwin by Professors Schofield and Kittredge; Beaux portrait; suffrage movement; halls of residence; Harvard men to sing with Glee Club?
    • 32. Coes-Fullerton: Mary Coes on Sarah W. Whitman portrait; scholarships; Charles Eliot Norton Fellowship award to Hetty Goldman; Mary Lowell Stone Fund; President Lowell re: use of Agassiz Museum and labratories; biographical account of Mary Dewson, recommended as dean by E. C. Putnam; Margaret Deland re: invitation to speak; Lillian Farlow on Greenleaf House
    • 33. Gaffey-Grogg: candidates for dean; Arthur Gilman support for, W. W. Goodwin and John C. Gray opposition to Mary Coes as dean
    • 34. Hadley-Hurwitz: recommandations for dean; Henry Lee Higginson's opposition to Mary Coes and support for Mary King as dean; Henry W. Holmes on education course, differences in Harvard and Radcliffe students; Charles Evans Hughes re: commencement
    • 35. Irwin-Lyon: Mary M Kehew on child labor law; Women's Education and Industrial Union fellowships for Radcliffe students; W. C. Lane, Radcliffe chapter of Phi Beta Kappa; A. W. Longfellow re: Sarah Wyman Whitman's portrait by Helen B. Merriman; A. Lawrence Lowell on Radcliffe girls, countersigning (mentions Inez Milholland) Radcliffe diplomas, changing system of studies; National Education Association Convention; scattered recommendations for dean including Mary Coes
    • 36. MacDuffie-Myers; scattered recommendations for dean including Sarah Yerxa (by Josephine Peabody Marks) and Mary Coes; Lucy Madeira re: LBRB's speech at Madeira School; D. Mavor, Rhodes scholar must be born U. S. citizen; Helen B. Merriman, Sarah Wyman Whitman portrait; John F. Moors on opposition to Mary Coes as dean; James P. Munroe, letter to President Lowell re: Committee on Education of Boston Chamber of Commerce
    • 37. National Education Association-Rutan NEA: President Lowell's advisory committee; scattered recommendations for dean including Mary Coes, Mary Dewson, Frances Parkman: Helen B. Merriman's donation of Sarah Wvman Whitman portrait
    • 38. Sage-Stone: deanship candidates
    • 39. Thacher-Lahner: deanship candidates include C. Y. Washburn and Mary E. Woolley re: Mary E. Dewson; Oscar M. Voorhees' Radcliffe Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa; Sarah E. Withers black student
  • 40-46: 1910-1911
    • 40. Allen-Byerly: Ezra H. Baker re: college business, staff lists, wages, job description for dean; possible donors and solicitors for fund; Radcliffe property, Greenleaf House, 15 Appian Way, 77 Brattle Street, 61 Garden Street, the Webster House; Greene property
    • 41. Cabot-Cosmopolitan: Mary Coes on Count Tolstoy's visit; Florence Lincoln; Craig Prize; English 47 Club; Lady Gregory's visit; bequests of Barnard Greene; scholarships Class of 1915; student count; Corporation vote on use of Harvard Library; Helen B. Merriman, changes in Sarah Wyman Whitman portrait; Admissions 1911
    • 42. Daniels-Furst: Margaret Deland, invited to speak
    • 43. George-King: Henry L. Higginson on speaking and on new dean and Mary Coes; International Peace Forum
    • 44. Lowell-Pritchett: A Lawrence Lowell re: Sexual Hygiene course for Radcliffe students; countersigning Radcliffe degrees; Grace E. Machado's resignation as housemistress Grace Hopkinson Eliot Hall
    • 45. Rand-Sweetser: E. K. Rand re: Jonathan Fay biography and Fay Prize
    • 46. Taylor-Yerxa: Mrs. Minton Warren re: her sister Grace Machado; General Leonard Wood cancelling speech because of "Mexican Affair"
  • 47-53: 1911-1912
    • 47. Allen-Brainard: Ezra H. Baker re: audit of Radcliffe; Samuel Barnard bequest
    • 48. Brown-Craig: Emilie C. Burford re: John F. Souther and Ella J. Souther bequests; W. E. Byerly and Archibald Cary Coolidge re: relation of Radcliffe to Harvard Library; J. T. Coolidge Jr. on Beaux portrait of Agnes Irwin
    • 49. Daniell-Greene: Margaret Deland to speak; Francis J. Garrison re: Mary Church Terrell to speak to students on educated black women
    • 50. Harriman-Lyon: Bertha I. Kagan, to offer instruction in German
    • 51. Machado-Pritchett: Grace Machado, in charge of dormitory
    • 52. Reist-Sykes: Moorfield Storey in support of Mary C. Terrell; race problems
    • 53. Taylor-Wunderbaldringer: Mary C. Terrell address to Radcliffe students," the progress of colored women"; Mary E. Woolley re: Radcliffe chapter of Phi Beta Kappa
  • 54-65: 1912-1913
    • 54. Addams-Cobb: Jane Addams cannot speak at Radcliffe; Christina H. Baker accepts Gilman portrait; Ezra H. Baker re: Radcliffe buildings and property; Vincent Y. Bowditch re: Grace Machado's health; W. R. Bowie re: college for women at University of Virginia, Radcliffe presence undesireable at Harvard?; George H. Browne re: Browne and Nichols and other Radcliffe property
    • 55. Coes: re: Sylvia Platt poetry prize; Alexander portrait of Sarah W. Whitman; Margaret Gilman, mistress of Sarah W. Whitman Hall; Harriet D. Buckingham, mistress of Grace Hopkinson Eliot Hall; Edith Coe to replace Grace Machado at Bertram Hall; Madame Curie not to lecture at Harvard or Radcliffe ("under University censure in Paris"); student admissions; Harvard-Radcliffe dancing class; plans for James and Augusta Barnard Hall; Dunbar portrait of Gilman; "unclassified students"; Radcliffe admission to Phi Beta Kappa;" Radcliffe seniors in men's duds"; Harvard admission's "sixteen points"; Bertram Hall construction plans; Eleanor Taussig candidate for AM in Zoology
    • 56. Coes: Marian A. Curtis scholarship
    • 57. Coes: letters of condolence
    • 58. Coit-Evarts: C. T. Copeland, re: health; Deland re: paper on restricted suffrage; L. S. Earle re: Bertha Oppenheim Kagan as phonetic teacher; Martha May Eliot, "students handbook"
    • 59. Farlow-Guild: Lillian H. Farlow re: Mrs Collard bequest; Kuno Francke re: Bertha Kagan as reader; W. W. Goodwin biography, founder of the Annex; Harriet Cordelia Gould re: Montessori-Froebel School; C. H. Grandgent re: Bertha Kagan's work; C. N. Greenough re: Kenneth P. Kempton; Curtis Guild from Embassy in St. Petersburg re: social service, political climate in pre-revolutionary Russia
    • 60. Hamlin-Hurlburt
    • 61. Irwin-Lyon: Agnes Irwin re: Head Mistress Association; Bertha Kagan re: german diction course; Julia James Knapp re: Federation of College Progressive League; William C. Lane re: Radcliffe chapter of Phi Beta Kappa; Marjorie H. Leighton re: value of Kagan's german diction course; Mabel Harris Lyon suggestion of Greenleaf House be the president's house
    • 62. McGrady-Morgan: L. L. McCrady re: problems with Harvard Appointment Office, salaries and need for Radcliffe appointment office; Grace L. Machado re: ill health and Bertram Hall appointment; Eleanor F. Mason on the origin of Harvard Annex; Edwin D. Mead re: World Peace Foundation; Lucia A. Mead re: Massachussetts Peace Society
    • 63. Oller-Putnam: H. T. Parker (HTP of the Boston Transcript) re: German-American parent of student; Ellen F. Pendleton re: Mary Coes' death
    • 64. Reynolds-Sylvia: Louise L. Reynolds re: Arthur Gilman portrait; Clinton Scovell re: Mary Coes ruling on student dress; Thomas A. Storey re: the Fourth International Congress on school hygiene
    • 65. Thayer-Yoffie: William G. Thompson re: Mary Coes' will; Charles F. Thwing re: Carnegie bequests; Radcliffe's Phi Beta Kappa charter granted; J. A. Walz re: Mrs Kagan and A. A. degree; Anna F. Wellington re: LBRB's salary; Mary L. Wheeler re: Grace Machado's health
  • 66-70: 1913-1914
    • 66. Adams-Berle: Jane Addams re: speaking engagements; Annie W. Allen re: LBRB to move into Greenleaf House; Ezra H. Baker re: audit of the Radcliffe books; Greenleaf House becomes president's residence; purchase of 53 Garden Street; legacies of Ellen Gardner, Sarah Parker, John Sweetser, Mrs. Guild
    • 67. Boody-Byerly: Bertha M. Boody, arrangements for her deanship; Mary Gibson's financial problems; LBRB' health; Eleanor M. Buckingham's resignation as head of Grace Hopkinson Eliot Hall; Harriet D. Buckingham re: academic record of Mary Gibson; Mrs. C. J. Bullock re: suffragette influence on Radcliffe girls
    • 68. Cabot-Cushing: Mary Coes her biography
    • 69. Daley-Dummere: Sarah M. Dean re: Radcliffe chapter of Phi Beta Kappa
    • 70. Deanship
  • 71-82: 1913-1914
    • 71. Eaton-Evarts: Abigail A. Eliot re: memorial service for Mary Coes
    • 72. Farlow-Furness: Frederick P. Fish re: Radcliffe chapter of Phi Beta Kappa; President Lowell on Harvard-Radcliffe course requirements; Mrs J. K. Frank contributes to fund for Jewish women; Vida Hunt Francis re: Association of Collegiate Alumnae on Mary Coes
    • 73. Gardiner-Grosvenor: Mary M. Gibson's academic record at High School; Edwin A. Grosvenor re: Radcliffe chapter of Phi Beta Kappa; Chester N. Greenough re: Mary Lee's criticism of English A
    • 74. Hall-Hyams: Gerard C. Henderson re: Radcliffe socialist club
    • 75. Irwin-Knutsson: re: Bertha O. Kagan's course; Edward C. Jeffrey re: Ruth Holden's fellowship
    • 76. Lake-Lyon: Florence G. Lane re: Massachussetts Society for the University Education of Women resolution on Mary Coes; William C. Lane re: Radcliffe chapter Phi Beta Kappa; Mary Lee re: criticism of English A; Margaret H. Leighton re: Bertha I. Kagan; Walter Lippmann re: Radcliffe chapter socialist clubs; A. W. Longfellow re: gift of vase from Mrs. J. B. Richardson; conditions of admissions to Harvard and Radcliffe; A. Lawrence Lowell re: admissions
    • 77. MacDonald-Osgood: Frederick McCormick, Asiatic Institution re: vandalism of antiquities in China
    • 78. Page-Potts: Anne Page re: a socialist and a suffrage club; J. M. Page re: proposed women's college at University of Virginia; requests for information on Harvard-Radcliffe financial arrangements; Phi Beta Kappa initiation ceremony, by-laws
    • 79. Rand-Russell: C. F. Redmond re: H. C. Lodge's health; Margaret Robinson re: Radcliffe in suffrage parade; F. N. Robinson re: Mary Lee on English A; J. E. Russell re: appointment of Miss Brody as dean
    • 80. Savage-Swanson: Howard J. Savage re: English 31; Jessie G. Smith re: Bertha I. Kagan as dean
    • 81. Tarbell-Voorhees: Ida M. Tarbell re: speech at Radcliffe; E. R. Thayer re: Pound of Harvard Law School; William R. Thayer re: Harvard Graduate Magazine; M. Carey Thomas re: Mary Coes; William G. Thompson, executor of Mary Coes' will, furniture and articles in Greenleaf House; Oscar M. Voorhees re: by-laws of Radcliffe chapter of Phi Beta Kappa
    • 82. Walcott-Yerxa: Booker T. Washington re: speech at Radcliffe; Kenneth G. T. Webster on admissions policy; Anna F. Wellington re: election of dean; choice of electives; Mra. Agassiz' letter on early Radcliffe history; Dr. Hugh Williams re: cause of Mary Coes' death; J. Whitridge Williams re: acceptance of Martha Eliot as a student at Johns Hopkins Medical School; Mary P. Winsor re: "sixteen point" students
  • 83-88: 1914-1915
    • 83. Addams-Burkhardt: Jane Addams re: speech at Radcliffe; Ezra H. Baker re: will of Mrs. Mary O.H. Longstreth; memorial tablet for Mary Coes; Mrs. Mayhew's will; Joseph H. Beale re: private law school for women; Bertha M. Boody re: "new plan" of admission of the freshman class
    • 84. John T. Coolidge re: Mary Coes' memorial tablet; Radcliffe Council salaries
    • 85. Ginsburg-Kimball: Agnes Irwin's death
    • 86. LaFon-Moore: Henry Cabot Lodge re: speech at Commencement and his opposition to woman suffrage; A. W. Longfellow on Mary Coes' tablet; C. S. Mayhew re: Francis LeBaron Mayhew Scholarship and lecture fund
    • 87. Neighbors-The Sun (New York)
    • 88. Terrell-Zabriskie: R. H. Terrell re: Mary Gibson; Madeline M. Waxer re: Jewish Scholarship Fund
  • 89-95: 1915-1916
    • 89. Askowith-Baker: Robert Bacon unable to speak at Commencement; Ezra H. Baker re: gifts, bequests, real estate; Phi Beta Kappa prize; Mary Coes Memorial Fund
    • 90. Blattner-Bush: Bertha M. Boody re: Jewish Scholarship; LBRB re: effect of dance performance; H. P. Broughan on dangers of automobiles on campus; A. W. Burman on Jewish Scholarship
    • 91. Cabot-Furst: Frederick P Cabot re: will of Mrs. Whitney and Abigail W. Howe; Archibald Cary Coolidge re: Radcliffe student use of Widener Library in evening; testimonials for Mary Cosette Faust
    • 92. Gallison-Hunt: Myron Herrick, Oliver Wendell Holmes unable to speak at Commencement
    • 93. Inglis-Moors: Henry C. King to speak at Commencement; Susan C. Lyman's report on grounds; John F. Moors re: college investments
    • 94. O'Reilly-Sykes: Elizabeth B. Piper, Class of 1906 gift to Mary Coes Endowment Fund; Elizabeth C. Putnam re: the Radcliffe Bureau of Occupations; Frederick N. Robinson re: English Department; Elihu Root unable to speak at Commencement; Emily M. Skilton re: The Florence Crittenton Rescue League; J. W. Stephens re: student request to study at Arnold Arboretum, Charles S. Sargent and A. Lawrence Lowell response
    • 95. Telfer-Zimmer: General Leonard Wood to speak at Radcliffe
  • 96-106: 1916-1917
    • 96. Allinson-Baker: Ezra H. Baker re: fire safety of dormitory and buildings; purchase of Saw in House; Abigail W. Howe's will; Supreme Court and Mrs. Varnum's claim for services against Abigail W. Howe estate
    • 97. Baltimore-Buckingham: Bertha M. Boody re: Bertha I. Kagan's financial support of students and freshmen scholarships for Mildred Sherman, Augusta Roberts, and Frieda Silbert
    • 98. Cabot-Cunningham: Frederick P. Cabot re: medical degrees for women, admission of women to Harvard Medical School
    • 99. Daniels-Furst: John H. Finley's visit to French schools in wartime
    • 100. Galer-Greenough: in Laura B. Galer: Heywood Broun's article on Radcliffe students writing sexual plays; George P. Baker's response; Mary Gibson re: financial support and grades; Chester N. Greenough re: English A
    • 101. Hardon-Jowett: Lawrence G. Henderson re: Radcliffe degrees for work done in Harvard Medical School; Henry M. Hutchings re: Bertha I. Kagan's will
    • 102. Kalback-Lyman: Kirsopp Lake unable to apeak at Commencement. A. Lawrence Lowell re: military training courses at Radcliffe and education of women in medicine; Susan C. Lyman re: military training for women
    • 103. Mack-Ober: Rev. Walter D. McClane re: Mary Gibson and her mother; Helen McGregor Noyes re: first issue of Radcliffe Quarterly
    • 104. Park-Rominger: Charles Lathrop Park re: women's response to Emergency Food and Garden Commission; Ellen F. Pendelton re: women's war work; Henry S. Pritchett re: Carnegie Foundation resolution on retirement age; Elizabeth C. Putnam re: Radcliffe Bureau of Occupations; Fred N. Robinson re: medical degrees for women
    • 105. Schmidt-Tufts: Elizabeth Hoar Storer re: Mary Gibson; Frances Susman re: death of Bertha I. Kagan and Jewish Scholarship Fund
    • 106. Van Allen-Young: William H. Van Allen re: Mary Gibson
  • 107-113: 1917-1918
    • 107. Armstrong-Bumpus: Ezra H. Baker re: farm work for Radcliffe girls; George P. Baker; Christina H. Baker re: Dr. Augusta Williams service on the Wellesley Unit for France; Herbert Barry re: National Security League resolution and loyalty Bertha M. Boody re: women in Medical School
    • 108. Cabot-Evans
    • 109. Feakins-Guilder: John H. Finley; Edith Emerson Forbes re: Elizabeth C. Agassiz; Mary Gibson; Miss Guilder re: PhD in Medical Sciences for women
    • 110. Hallam-Hurwitz: Wirt W. Hallam re: Illinois Vigilance Association's efforts to suppress prostitution; Henry W. Holmes re: students in education and woman assistant to Professor Inglis; Herbert Hoover re: college women to aid Food Administration
    • 111. Intercollegiate Committee-Mott: Intercollegiate Committee report on Women's War Work abroad; Kirsopp Lake; Henry N. MacCracken re: war service and nurses training at Vassar; Rev. Walter D. McClane re: support for Mary Gibson; Delia West Marble re: Woman's Land Army of America
    • 112. Nelson-Sussman: Virginia A. Patch re: league to abolish capital punishment; Lucy A. Paton re: Elizabeth Cary Agassiz; Ellen F. Pendleton re: women in Harvard Medical School; Margaret B. Robinson re: propaganda in Harold Laski's class; W. T. Sedgwick re: need for trained women in Public Health; Frances E. Sussman re: Jewish Scholarship Fund
    • 113. Templin-Yerxa: M. Carey Thomas re: appointment of a woman in mathematics department; University Extension statistics in Massachusetts; Elizabeth Odlin Whittemore re: death of Lucy Fletcher as nurse in France; Samuel B. Woodman re: law for smallpox vaccination
  • 114-121: 1918-1919 Includes scattered references to Ruth Holden.
    • 114. Baker-Buckingham: Ezra H. Baker reports on Ordway gift of farm at Dummer Academy; bequest of Charlea Follen Atkinson; Bertha I. Kagan scholarship; Charles Church Drew estate; LBRB'S report on Radcliffe College 1916-1917, including medical training for women
    • 115. Cabot-Curtis: Frederick P. Cabot re: Bertha M. Boody report on Eleanor M. Fox for overseas work; Louise G. Caton; Annette Crocker re: report on Radcliffe Farm
    • 116. Daniels-Greenough: Sarah M. Dean re: memorial to Agnes Irwin in Cathedral of St. John the Divine; Emily Lovett Eaton; Katharine Dummer Fisher re: Radcliffe Athletic Association; Edith G. Forbes; Marie Gallison; Julia George; Mary M. Gibson; Chester N. Greenough re: suggestions for Radcliffe Associates
    • 117. Haggerty-Kitchin: Carrie A. Harper; Lucile Harrington: Catholic Club's regret at the death of Miss Carey; Sophie C. Hart; Ernest Hartford re: women in war work; Margaretta K. Hilles; Henry W. Holmes re: Radcliffe attitude toward teacher training; Herbert Hoover re: college assistance in food conservation program; Leslie K. Hopkinson; Caroline L. Humphrey re: gymnasium; Charles S. Ingham re: Radcliffe Unit and Dummer Academy Farm Program
    • 118. Leslie-Monroe: Henry N. MacCracken; John F. Moors; Edith S. Morss; W. B. Munroe re: Radcliffe pay to absent professors
    • 119. Neilson-Puckette: William Allen Neilson; Lucy A. Paton; Ralph Barton Perry re: compensation from Radcliffe for teachers in war work
    • 120. Radcliffe-Vogt: Radcliffe Farm accounts; Mary M. Radcliffe re: resolution of Women's organization of Maryland; E. K. Rand; Fred N. Robinson, acting president of Radcliffe; Annie L. Sears; Caroline F. E. Spurgeon re: graduate scholarships for women; William G Thompson re: influenza epidemic; Kathleen Drew Tolman; Anna G. Trefethen; Alice C. Valliant
    • 121. Waldo-Yerxa: War arrangements of salaries; Mary L. Wheeler re: women's war work abroad; Amey L. Willson; Anna Wellington Wolbach re: Mary Gibson and Ruth Holden; Sarah F. Wolverton; Mary E. Woolley re: League of Nations; Sarah Yerxa
  • 122-131: 1919-1920
    • 122. Adams-Byers: American College for Girls at Constantinople; Christina H. Baker as Acting Dean; Ezra H. Baker includes Briggs-Boody correspondence on President, Dean and student relationships; Bertha M. Boody's list of applicants for graduate scholarships
    • 123. Cabot-Curtis: Archibald Cary Coolidge re: use of library by Radcliffe students
    • 124. Danforth-Furst: Katharine Munroe Day re: Radcliffe Alumnae Association war work committee; re: Deanship candidates: Christina H. Baker, Antoinette Bigelow, Harriet Bradford, Bernice Brown, Sarah Dean, Helen F. Greene, Margaret Judson, Florence V. Keys, Adele Lathrop, Eleanor Lord, Alice H. Luce, Ethel Lyons, Nathalie Matthews, Marion Park, Elisabeth Cabot Putnam, Anna Almy Raymond, Amy Louise Reed, Hilda Smith, Alice Howard Spaulding, Mary Tweedee, Mabel Weeks, Alice I. P. Wood: Sarah M. Dean; Abigail A. Eliot on her post-graduate work at Oxford
    • 125. Gallison-Hyde: Mary A. Gallison; Mary M. Gibson; Chester M. Greenough re: Boody resignation; Edwin H. Hall re: teaching Physics at Radcliffe; Ida A. Higginson re: scholarship gift; William Ernest Hocking; Arthur N. Holcombe recommends Bernice Brown as instructor in Government
    • 126. Jackson-Lyon: Harold Laski re: attitude of a student in his History class; A. Lawrence Lowell re: salaries
    • 127. MacCracken-Munroe: H. V. MacCracken; John F. Moors re: Dean Boody's resignation; W. B. Munroe re: appointment of Bernice Brown
    • 128. Nouca-Porter
    • 129. Radcliffe-Ryan: Theodore Roosevelt
    • 130. Savage-Switzer: Mary C. Schofield re: Women's Land Army of America; Caroline B. Shaw re: salaries; Mary E. Switzer re: invitation to Emerson debate
    • 131. Taylor-Zepin: Erica Thorpe (Longfellow's granddaughter) re: application to Medical School; Anna Wellington Wolbach re: Mary Gibson, and the resignation of Dean Boody; Mary E. Woolley re: Massachusetts Womans Suffrage Association
  • 132-146: 1920-1921
    • 132. Abbott-Babcock: Joseph Auslander re: Radcliffe Poetry Club
    • 133. Baker, Christina Hopkinson (Acting Dean) re: college business, includes letter from LBRB re: scholarships in Scandinavian Universities open to women; also re: Mary Switzer's and Madame Curie's autograph at Fay House
    • 134. Baker, Ezra H. re: college business, financial needs, polio scare, and bequests; Marion Edwards Park's use of 77 Brattle Street; Mary Lowell Stone Loan Fund
    • 135. Baker-Buttrick: George P. Baker; George Paul Baxter re: dinner for Madame Curie; E. H. Bradford re: women in the Harvard Medical School; John DeQ. Briggs
    • 136. Cabot-Curtis: Charles Townsend Copeland
    • 137. Daniels-Everett: Mabel Daniels re: Lucy Ware's collections of autographs and shoes; Archibald T. Davison; Elise Ravenal Duane re: Madame Curie's visit, honorary degree, attendance at scientific dinner, use of Sanders Theatre
    • 138. Farlow-Fuller
    • 139. Gallison-Huntington: Mary Gallison; Mary M. Gibson re: loan payments, Dunbar High School appointment; Alice Hamilton declines invitation to be the Commencement speaker; Herbert Hoover re: American relief for European students; F. W. Hunnewell re: Lowell on Radcliffe students in the School of Education
    • 140. Jackson-Lyman: George Lyman Kittredge discusses the tutorial system
    • 141. Mack-Oveson: Marian B. Miller re: Marion Edwards Park as Dean; J.P. Morgan declines to serve on Advisory Committee Endowment Fund; National Council of Women in USA
    • 142. Paine-Putman: Marion Edwards Park re: appointment as Dean; Alice Lord Parsons re: International Federation of University Women; Lucy A. Paton re: graduate students' dissatisfaction, need for separate dean; Thomas Nelson Perkins re: Radcliffe Endowment Fund and Lady Hood; Elizabeth C. Putman re: admission of women to Harvard Medical School
    • 143. Radcliffe-Rowe: Theodore W. Richards re: Madame Curie
    • 144. Sabin-Svecenski: Ellen C. Sabin re: election Lucia R. Briggs as President of Milwaukee-Downer College; Rose Sherman re: library personnel, salaries; Lucy Ward Stebbins; Lyman Beecher Stowe
    • 145. Talbot-Vanderbilt: Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. re: Japanese "question" in America
    • 146. Webster-Young: Salome Machado Warren re: Clara Bertram Kimball memorials; Mary H. Watson re: honorary degree for Marie Curie; E. W. Wells re: Lady Hood
  • 147-163: 1921-1922
    • 147. Abbot-Aydelotte: Associates re: minutes 1921-1922; Frederick C. Aulsbrook re: New York Times photograph Radcliffe student "hiking" for Endowment
    • 148. Babcock-Baker: Charlotte F. Babcock re: Endowment Fund Campaign; Christine H. Baker re: student regulations
    • 149. Baker-Bytel: Ezra H. Baker re: Howe, Hecht, Whitney bequests; Alfred A. Benesch re: Jewish admission to Radcliffe; Mary Brandegee; Lucia Briggs; H. H. Burbank re: differences Harvard-Princeton tutorial systems
    • 150. Cabot-Curtis: Frederick P. Cabot re: A. Lawrence Lowell on undergraduate department for women; Charles T. Copeland; Council minutes 1921-1922
    • 151. Damlamian-Everett: Endowment Fund includes letters from E. M. Grossman et al raising questions about discrimination against Jews at Harvard and Radcliffe, also report that Radcliffe in a hot bed of socialism
    • 152. Farlow-Fuerst: Frederick P. Fish re: effect on Endowment drive of new relations with Harvard; Abby M. Fiske
    • 153. Galpin-Griffel: Colonel E. Green (son of Hetty Green) declining to give to Radcliffe
    • 154. Hale-Hunnewell: Richard W. Hale re: Radcliffe charter; Ida A. Higginson re: tribute to Elizabeth C. Agassiz; Ellen Hood fund; Eliza Mason Hoppin re: return to college staff
    • 155. International-Jones: Henry James re: endowment; Edward C. Jeffrey re: graduate instruction at Radcliffe; Hamilton H. Johnson re: training of colored men and women in the South; James W. Johnson re: NAACP and Anti-Lynching Bill; Eugene Kinck la Jones re: National Urban League enclosing letter from President Warren G. Harding; Rufus M. Jones re: Marion Edwards Park as President of Bryn Mawr
    • 156. Kellogg-Lyon: Marguerite Kimball re: Radcliffe Club of Boston; Susanne Knauth Langer re: study and travel in Central Europe; Henry Cabot Lodge re: speaker from International Conference for Radcliffe Club of Boston; A. Lawrence Lowell re: separation of Radcliffe from Harvard; John Livingston Lowes; Susan C. Lyman re: Endowment Fund donors; Mabel Harris Lyon re: relations between Harvard and Radcliffe and the resignation of Marion Edwards Park
    • 157. McClary-Music: Marion Blackall Miller re: Associates resolution on future Harvard-Radcliffe relations
    • 158. Nash-Osgood:
    • 159. Paine-Putnam: Marion Edwards Park's resignation as Dean to become President of Bryn Mawr; Henry Pennypacker re: music courses
    • 160. Radcliffe-Rusk: Theodore William Richards re: honorary degree for Madame Curie; Fred N. Robinson re: committee on the future of Radcliffe
    • 161. Sampaio-Sylvester: Rose Sherman
    • 162. Talbot-Turner: Fritz B. Talbot re: Bussey Institute and Radcliffe degree; M. Carey Thomas re: rules for resident students at Bryn Mawr; Count Tolstoy's tour
    • 163. Uribe-Wright: The Woman Citizen re: Women's colleges
  • 164-176: 1922-1923
    • 164. Associates-C. H. Baker: Associates Report 1921-1922 includes: letter of Elizabeth C. Agassiz to Arthur Gilman re: future of Harvard Annex; Christina H. Baker re: her nomination and duties as Acting Dean and Henry James' gift of father's portrait
    • 165. Baker-Bush: Ezra H. Baker re: college business including, buildings and maintenance, will of Margaret Coleman Waites
    • 166. Cabot-Cushman: Ada Comstock re: her inauguration; F. L. Crafft enclosing clippings re: Lady Astor's gift to Radcliffe and Vera Michaeles Dean as actress
    • 167. Dailey-Eycleshymer: Archibald T. Davison re: Radcliffe Choral Society; Garrett Droppers with newspaper clipping on Ada Comstock; Charles W. Eliot re: Miss Hoppin
    • 168. Endowment-Fund: A. A. Benesch re: "Jewish question" at Harvard and Radcliffe
    • 169. Fackenthal-Guth: Frederick P. Fish re: current situation in Harvard-Radcliffe relations and his resignation; Marie Gallison; Stella S. Gilman
    • 170. Hale-Hutchins: Alice Hamilton to lecture; F. L. Higginson: arrangement for the visit of M. Georges Clemenceau; Ida A. Higginson re: gift of books
    • 171. James-Lyon: Henry James re: his father's portrait; Edward C. Jeffrey re: Botany courses
    • 172. Mackenzie-Murray: Edward C. Moore re: impropriety of Radcliffe students
    • 173. Nash-Quinn: Marion Park re: college business; Lucy A. Paton; Ralph Barton Perry
    • 174. Radcliffe-Sutton: Margaret G. Robinson re: Massachusetts Public Interests League and the opposition to League of Women Voters' meeting at Radcliffe
    • 175. Tallandier-Vickers:
    • 176. Walcott-Zook: Sarah Wambaugh re: Associates; Katharine Ward re: J. P. Morgan's pledge; Kenneth G. T. Webster re: letter to Lowell on Radcliffe degrees; Annie W. Allen; Martha E. White re: Massachusetts League of Women Voters; Sarah E. Withers re: Agnes Irwin School for colored girls in Danville, Kentucky
  • 177-178: 1923-1924, 1924-1925
    • 177. Baker-Frye: Bernice V. Brown re: freshman scholarships and Mary Gibson; Ada Comstock
    • 178. Gorham-Weiffenbach: Grace E. Machado; Sarah Wambaugh

Added entries

Other Descriptive Data

INDEX: Index to LBRB's correspondence, alphabetically arranged by name, subject or title of organization.

• Addams, Jane 54, 66, 83
• Admissions-Radcliffe College 41, 55, 76, 82, 83
• Afro-Americans 28, 31, 49, 52, 53, 155, 176
• Agassiz, Elizabeth Cary 1, 10, 11, 23,82, 109, 112, 154, 164
• Agassiz House 3, 9, 11
• Agassiz Museum (see Museum of Comparative Zoology) 32
• Alexander, John White 55
• Allen, Annie Ware (Winsor) 66, 176
• Alumnae Association 5
• Annex, Harvard 59, 62, 164
• Arnold Arboretum 94
• Asiatic Institution 77
• Associates of Radcliffe College 3, 116, 147, 157, 176
• Astor, Viscountess (Nancy Witcher Langhorne) 166
• Athletics 116
• Auslander, Joseph 132
• Bacon, Robert 89
• Baker, Christina Hopkinson 54, 107, 122, 133, 148, 164
• Baker, Ezra Henry 1, 7,8, 13, 40, 47, 54, 66, 83, 89, 96, 107, 114, 122, 134, 149, 165
• Baker, George Pierce 7, 19, 100, 107, 135
• Barnard, Samuel 47
• Barnard Hall 55
• Beaux, Cecilia 31, 48
• Beale, Joseph Henry 83
• Benesch, Alfred Abraham 149, 168
• Bequests 11, 13, 32, 47, 48, 59, 65, 66, 83, 86, 89, 91,96, 101, 114, 149, 165
• Bertram Hall 2, 10, 55
• Boody, Bertha May 67, 79, 83, 90, 97, 107, 114, 115, 122, 125, 131
• Bowditch, Vincent Y. 54
• Bowie, W. R. 54
• Brandegee, Mary 149
• Briggs, Elizabeth 13
• Briggs, John DeQuedville 135
• Briggs, Le Baron Russell 7, 29, 65, 66, 67, 90, 114, 122
• Briggs, Lucia Russell 144, 149
• Broun, Heywood 100
• Brown, Bernice Veazey 125, 127, 177
• Browne and Nichols School 54
• Buckingham, Elinor Mead 67
• Buckingham, Harriet Dean 55, 67
• Bureau of Occupations 94
• Byerly, William Elwood 1, 7, 13, 48
• Cabot, Ella Lyman 1, 7
• Cabot, Frederick Pickering 1, 7, 19, 30, 91, 98, 150
• Capital Punishment 112
• Cary, Emma Forbes 117
• Carnegie Foundation 18, 21, 65, 104
• Catholic Club 117
• Caton, Louise G. 115
• Clemenceau, Georges 170
• Clough, Harriet 5
• Coe, Edith 55
• Coes, Mary 2, 5, 8, 13, 14, 18, 20, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 41, 43, 55, 56, 57, 62, 63, 64, 65, 68, 71, 72, 76, 81, 82, 83, 84, 86, 89, 94
• Collard, Martha Fiske (see Ezra Henry Baker) 59
• Comstock, Ada Louise 166, 167, 177
• Coolidge, Archibald Cary 48, 91, 123
• Coolidge, John Templeman 84
• Coolidge, John Templeman Jr. 48
• Copeland, Charles Townsend 58, 136, 150
• Council-Radcliffe College 4, 5, 21, 84, 150
• Craig Prize 41
• Cronkhite, Bernice Brown (see Bernice Veazey Brown)
• Curie, Marie Sklodowska 55, 133, 135, 137, 143, 146, 160
• Curtis, Marian A. 56
• Dana, Richard Henry 3, 9
• Daniels, Mabel Wheeler 2, 137
• Davison, Archibald Thompson 137, 167
• Day, Katharine Munroe 124
• Dean, Sarah Maria 69, 116
• Dean, Vera Micheles 166
• Deanship 29, 30, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, 43, 70, 124
• Deland, Margaret 32, 42, 49
• Dewson, Mary Williams 29, 32, 37, 39
• Duane, Elise Ravenal 137
• Eaton, Emily Lovett 116
• Eliot, Abigail Adams 71, 124
• Eliot, Charles William 167
• Eliot, Hall 19, 22, 31, 44, 55, 67
• Eliot, Martha May 58,82
• Endowment Fund 148, 151, 152, 156
• English Courses 17, 19, 73, 80, 94, 100
• Farley, Caroline Amelia 28
• Farlow, Lilian Horsford 3, 9, 32, 59
• Faust, Cosette 91
• Federation of College Progressive Leagues 61
• Finley, John Huston 99, 109
• Fish, Frederick Perry 72, 169
• Fisher, Katharine Dummer 116
• Fiske, Abby M, Brooks 152
• Flebbe Beulah Dix re: Hollywood 152
• Fletcher, Lucy 113
• Florence Crittenton Rescue League 94
• Forbes, Edith Emerson 109
• Forbes, Edith Glidden 116
• Forty Seven Club 41
• Fox, Eleanor May 115
• Gallison, Marie Reuter 116, 125, 139, 169
• Gardner, Isabella Stewart 3
• George, Julia 116
• Gibson, Mary 67, 73, 88, 100, 103, 105, 106, 109, 111, 116, 121, 125, 131, 139, 177
• Gilman, Arthur 3, 33, 54, 55, 64, 164
• Gilman, Arthur-Portrait of 54, 55, 64
• Gilman, Margaret 55
• Gilman, Stella Scott 169
• Girl's High School of Boston 9
• Goldman, Hetty 32
• Goodwin, William Watson 33, 59
• Gould, Harriet Cordelia 59
• Gray, John Chipman 3, 33
• Green, Colonel Edward Henry 153
• Greene, Barnard 41
• Greenleaf House 1, 3, 7, 8, 9, 11, 18, 32, 40, 61, 66, 81
• Greenough, Chester Noyes 18, 59, 73, 100, 116, 125
• Gregory, Lady 41
• Grosvenor, Edwin Augustus 73
• Guild, Curtis 59
• Gymnasium 13, 116, 117
• Hale, Richard Walden 154
• Hall, Edwin Herbert 125
• Hamilton, Alice 139, 170
• Harding, Warren Gamaliel 155
• Harper, Carrie Anna 117
• Harrington, Lucile 117
• Hart, Sophie Chantal 117
• Harvard-Graduate Magazine 81
• Harvard Medical School 98, 101, 104, 107, 109, 112, 135, 142
• Harvard Medical School-Admission of Women 98, 102, 104
• Harvard/Radcliffe Relationship 28, 31, 34, 41, 44, 48, 54, 55, 62, 72, 98, 101, 152, 154, 156, 157, 169
• Harvard University Extension School 113
• Hecht, Lina Frank (see Ezra Henry Baker) 149
• Henderson, Lawrence G. 101
• Herrick, Myron Timothy 92
• Higginson, Francis Lee 170
• Higginson, Henry Lee 10, 34, 43
• Higginson, Ida Agassiz 125, 154, 170
• Hilles, Margaretta Kendall 117
• Hocking, William Ernest 2, 125
• Holcombe, Arthur Norman 125
• Holden, Ruth 75, 116, 117
• Holmes, Henry Wyman 34, 110, 117
• Holmes, Oliver Wendell 92
• Hood, Ellen 154
• Hood, Lady 142, 146
• Hoover, Herbert 110, 117, 139
• Hopkinson, Leslie White 117
• Hoppin, Eliza Mason 154, 167
• Hughes, Charles Evans 34
• Humphrey, Caroline Louise 117
• Hundley, Mary Gibson (see Mary Gibson)
• Hunnewell, Francis Welles 139
• Influenza epidemic 120
• International Federation of University Women 142
• International Peace Forum 43
• Irwin, Agnes 4, 11, 22, 27, 28, 31, 48, 61, 85, 116, 176
• James, Henry 155, 164, 171
• James, Reverend Henry-portrait of 164, 171
• Japanese question 145
• Jeffrey, Edward Charles 75, 155, 171
• Jewish question 149, 168, 72 151, 22, 90, 105 112; see Students, Jewish
• John Southern Scholarship Fund (see Emilie C. Burford) 48
• Jonathan Fay Prize 45
• Jones, Rufus Matthew 155
• Kagan, Bertha Oppenheim 22, 50, 58, 59, 61, 65, 75, 76, 80, 97, 101, 105
• Keller, Helen Adams 2, 11
• Kehew, Mary Morton 35
• Kempton, Kenneth Payson 59
• Kimball, Clara Bertram 146
• Kimball, Marguerite 156
• King, Henry Churchill 93
• King, Mary 34
• Kittredge, George Lyman 11, 17, 140
• Knapp, Julia James 61
• Lake, Kirsopp 102, 111
• Lane, William Coolidge 76
• Langer, Susanne Knauth 156
• Laski, Harold 112, 126
• League of Women Voters 174, 176
• Lee, Mary 73, 76, 79
• Libraries 41, 48, 91, 123, 144
• Lincoln, Florence 41
• Lippmann, Walter 76
• Lodge, Henry Cabot 79, 86, 156
• Longfellow, Alexander Wadsworth 35, 76, 86
• Longfellow, Alice Mary 4, 27
• Lowell, Abbott Lawrence 17, 32, 35, 36, 37, 44, 72, 76, 94, 102, 126, 139, 150, 156, 176
• Lowes, John Livingston 156
• Lyman, Susan Cabot 93, 102, 156
• Lyon, Mabel Harris 61, 156
• MacCracken, Henry Mitchell 111, 118, 127
• Machado, Grace Elizabeth 44, 46, 51, 54, 55, 62, 65, 178
• Macy, John Albert 11
• Madeira, Lucy 36
• Massachusetts Peace Society 62
• Massachusetts Public Interests League 174
• McCrady, Louisa Lane 62
• Merriman, Helen Bigelow 35, 36, 37, 41
• Milholland, Inez 35
• Miller, Marian Blackall 141, 157
• Mitchell, Lucy Sprague, see Lucy Sprague 18
• Montessori-Froebel School 59
• Moore, Charles Herbert 26
• Moore, Edward Caldwell 172
• Moors, John Farwell 5, 11, 18, 28, 36, 93, 118, 127
• Morgan, John Pierpont 141, 176
• Morss, Edith Sherman 118
• Mower, Sarah Yerxa, see Sarah Yerxa
• Munroe, James P. 36
• Munroe, W. B. 118, 127
• Munsterberg, Hugo 2
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, see Agassiz Museum
• Music 160
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 155
• National Council of Women (USA) 141
• National Education Association 35, 37
• National Security League 107
• National Urban League, 155
• Neilson, William Allan 119
• Norton, Charles Eliot 23, 27
• Noyes, Helen McGregor 103
• Nursing 12, 111
• Park, Marion Edwards 134, 141, 142, 155, 156, 159, 173
• Parker, Henry Taylor 63
• Parkman, Frances 37
• Parsons, Alice Lord 142
• Paton, Lucy Allen 112, 119, 142, 1
• Pendleton, Ellen F. 63, 104, 112
• Pennypacker, Henry 159
• Perkins, Thomas Nelson 142
• Perry, Ralph Barton 119, 173
• Phi Beta Kappa, Iota Chapter 27, 35, 39, 53, 55, 61, 65, 69, 72, 73, 76, 78, 81, 89
• Piper, Elizabeth Bridge 94
• Platt, Sylvia 55
• Poetry Club 132
• Portraits 9, 31, 32, 35, 36, 37, 48, 54, 55, 64, 171
• Pound, Roscoe 81
• Prizes 41 (Craig), 45 (Jonathan Fay)
• Prostitution 110
• Puffer, Ethel Dench 7
• Putnam, Elizabeth Cabot 94, 104, 142
• Radclliffe Athletic Association 116
• Radclliffe Club of Boston 156
• Radcliffe College, see Deanship
• Radcliffe College, Property and Possessions 31, 40, 54, 66, 89, 93, 96, 114, 115
• Radcliffe Farm 114, 120
• Radcliffe, Mary M. 120
• Radcliffe Quarterly 103
• Rand, Edward Kennard 120
• Richards, Theodore William 143, 160
• Roberts, Augusta 97
• Robinson, Fred Norris 79, 94, 104, 120, 160
• Robinson, Margaret G. 174
• Roosevelt, Theodore 129
• Root, Elihu 94
• Roxbury House 1
• Russia, Pre-Revolution 59
• Sargent, Charles Sprague 94
• Savage, Howard James 80
• Scholarships 28, 32, 35, 41, 56, 86, 125
• Schofield, Mary C. 130
• Sears, Annie Lyman 120
• Shaw, Caroline Barnard 5, 28, 130
• Sherman, Mildred 97
• Sherman, Rose 144, 161
• Silbert, Frieda 97
• Socialism at Radcliffe 157
• Socialist, Club 74, 76, 78
• Souther, John F. and Ella J. 48
• Sprague, Lucy 18
• Spurgeon, Caroline F. E. 120
• Stebbins, Lucy Ward 144
• Stone, Mary Lowell 32, 134
• Storey, Moorfield 52
• Stowe, Lyman Beecher 144
• Student Life and Customs 31, 44, 55, 64,90, 100, 147, 172
• Students, Jewish 22, 72, 88, 90, 97, 101, 105, 112 149, 151, 168
• Students, Special 5
• Suffrage 31, 55, 58, 67, 78-79, 86, 131
• Sweeney, Colonel 191
• Switzer, Mary Elizabeth 130, 133
• Talbot, Fritz Bradley 162
• Tarbell, Ida Minerva 81
• Taussig, Eleanor 55
• Terrell, Mary Church 49, 52, 53
• Terrell, R. H. 88
• Thayer, Ezra 81
• Thayer, William Roscoe 81
• Theater 7, 19, 55, 100
• Thomas, Martha Carey 6, 12, 81, 113, 162
• Thompson, William G. 120
• Thorpe, Erica 131
• Tolman, Kathleen Drew 120
• Tolstoy, Count Leo 41, 162
• Trefethen, Anna G. Annable 120
• Ullian, Frieda Silbert, see Frieda Silbert
• Valliant, Alice Clapp 120
• Vanderbilt, Cornelius 145
• Wambaugh, Sarah 176, 178
• Warren, Salome Machado 146
• Washington, Booker Tallaferro 82
• Watson, Mary H. 146
• Webster, Kenneth Grant Tremayne 82, 176
• Wellington, Anna Florina (see also Wolbach, Anna Wellington) 65, 82
• Wells, E. W. 146
• Wendell, Barrett 18
• Wheeler, Mary L. 65, 121
• Whitman, Sarah Wyman 9, 10, 11, 32, 35, 36, 37, 41, 55
• Whitman, Sarah Wyman-Hall 55
• Whitman, Sarah, Wyman-portrait 9, 32, 35, 36, 37, 55
• Whittemore, Elizabeth Odlin 113
• Williams, Dr. Augusta 107
• Willson, Amey Lemoine 121
• Winsor, Mary P. 82
• Withers, Sarah Elizabeth 28, 39, 176
• Wolbach, Anna (Wellington) F. see also Wellington, Anna Florina 121, 131
• Wolverton, Sarah Foss 121
• Women's-Education, (includes medical education) 78, 83, 98, 102, 104, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 114, 115, 117, 119, 120, 121, 125, 131, 133, 139, 150, 155, 163, 176
• Women's Education and Industrial Union 35
• Women's Suffrage 31, 67, 78, 79,86, 131
• Wood, General Leonard 46,95
• Woolley, Mary Emma 39, 53, 121, 131
• World Peace Foundation 62
• World War, 1914-1918-war work 12, 102, 104, 107, 110, 111, 117, 119, 121, 124, 130
• Yerxa, Sarah 36, 121

SUBJECT INDEX: Outgoing correspondence of President LeBaron Briggs, 1909-1925

A simplified form of subject index has been adopted, omitting routine items such as applications for teaching positions and thank you notes. The purpose of this index is to emphasize events relating to the history of Radcliffe and the history of women.

N.B. To look up an event or subject in the incoming letters (not included in this list), first check the subject index below. Then note the recipient's name and the date of the out-going letter. Finally, refer to the incoming letters under the appropriate name and date. As noted above, the incoming letters are arranged by academic year and thereunder alphabetically by name of correspondent.

• Academic Board Appointments, v.2: 155, 159, 353. v.6: 200
• Admissions, v.2: 41, 649, 802, 812-818; v.3: 658
• Agassiz, Mrs. Elizabeth Cary, v.4: 135, 138
• Allen, Annie Winsor 88, v.1: 135, 708, 714, 732, v.2: 27
• Alumni Association-Membership, v.3: 878
• Annual Report, v.1: 177
• 12 Appian Way, v.1: 351-356, 357-359, 378-380, 411
• Appointment Office, v. 3: 35, 82, 951
• Bertram Hall, v.1: 549
• Black Students, v.3: 91, 93, 111, 115, 251, 677-680, 711, 713-717, 774, 787-790, 819, 829-831, 926, 975; v.4: 72, 263, 311, 368, 391, 429, 430, 573; v.6: 350, 352
• Boody, Miss Bertha Boody (Dean 1916-1920), v.4: 110, 242, 329, 405, 588, 626, 706; v. 5: 907
• Briggs, Lucia, v.2: 163, 268, 567, 579, 587, 589, 614, 663, 785, 792, 981, v.5, 368, 372, 373
• Brown, Bernice Veasey, v.4: 762
• Cambridge Law School for Women (1915- ), v.3: 155, 159, 164, 208-269, 348, 355
• Catholic Club, v.4: 884
• Chapel, v.1: 623, 678, 744; v.2: 84-86, 90, 398, 930; v.3: 62-65, 69, 320, 321, 915, 945, 686; v.4: 17, 405; v.6: 346
• Choral Society, v.2: 340, 341, 561. v.5: 41. v.6: 141, 147, 215, 217-219, 260, 281
• Classes, non-credit, v.1: 865, 879, 980; v.2: 239, 247, 332
• Clubs, v.2: 504, 530
• Coes, Miss Mary (Dean, 1910-1913), v.1: 133-134, 143, 270, 273; v.2: 408-419, 515, 604, 620
• Commencement, v.2: 753, 923, 985
• Commencement speakers, v.1: 131, 132, 135, 242; v.3: 3, 257, 261, 265, 305, 306, 508, 513, 545, 762
• Committee on Administrative Officers, v.5: 870, 871, 886, 887, 922, 953
• Committee on distant work, v.1: 22, v.2: 671
• Committees, v.1: 49, 54, 62. v.2: 855
• Coolidge, Professor Archibald (Harvard's Librarian), v.1: 755, 758
• Courses, v.1: 87; v.2: 210; v.3: 33, 155, 180, 276, 556, 644, 707; v.4: 355, 520, 851; v.6: 220
• Courses, graduate, v.2: 370-373, 378, 380-382, v.5: 280
• Courses, law, v.3: 155, 158, 180, 268, 326, 348, 355
• Courses, medical, v.2: 227, 251; v.3: 818, 821, 922, 992; v.5: 159
• Courses, war influences, v.3: 963, 964, 966, 972
• Curie, Madame, v.2: 18; v.5: 151, 176, 182, 210, 219, 244, 250, 259
• Dean, acting, v.2: 514, 518, 557; v.3: 108; v.4: 798; v.5: 803, 815
• Dean, appointment of, v.1: 2a, 133, 221, 228, 232, 250, 263, 265, 270, 273; v.2: 584, 614, 617, 625, 626, 632, 659, 662, 676, 683, 697, 708, 734, 755, 757, 761, 783, 799; v.4: 710, 725, 735-739, 745, 747, 764, 774, 786, 799, 800 801, 806, 817, 836, 837, 844, 855, 878, 898; v.5: 639, 667, 802, 870, 871, 886, 922, 953; v.6: 131
• Dean, duties of, v.2: 734, 584; v.4: 765, 800
• Dean, resignation of, v.4: 623, 625, 626, 631, 666
• Degrees, v.1: 184, 562, 777, 821, 833; v.2: 261, 345, 840; v.3: 258, 632, 922; v.5: 214, 286, 383, 541, 975
• Degrees, A.A. (see also general heading Degrees), v.1: 59, 244, 777
• Degrees, Honorary, v.1: 971; v.2: 933; v.5: 210, 219, 244, 250, 259
• Degrees, S. B., v.2: 173, 212, 223, 261
• Deutcher-Verein, v.1: 745
• Discrimination at Harvard and Radcliffe, v.5: 896-898
• Discipline, v.2: 4, 255, 258, 276; v.3: 212; v.5: 573, 881; v.6: 52
• Dormitories, v.1: 837
• Dormitories; rooming houses in contract with Radcliffe, v.2: 12, 475
• Dormitory funds, v.1: 185, 191, 202, 214, 223, 234, 239, 346, 561, 600-601, 615 643, 645, 649, 608, 660
• Dormitory, mistress, v.1; 396, 426, 438, 439, 443, 445, 571, 791, 792; v.2: 30; v.6: 295
• Dramatic club, v.1: 7; v.3: 450, 457, 858, 863
• Dramatics, censored, v.2: 516
• Dramatics, for charity, v.1: 889, v.3: 99
• Dramatics, with Harvard, v.2: 163, 169, 178
• Edmands House, v.5: 579
• Elective Courses, v.1: 70, 89-90; v.2: 514, 965, 979; v.3: 46
• Elocution, v.1: 55.60
• Endowments, v.1: 191; v.3: 187-89
• Endowment Fund Appeal (selected letters), v.5: 2-4, 18, 88-90, 143, 154, 168, 228, 240, 253, 254, 261, 284, 291, 318 387, 417, 418, 442, 486, 495, 526, 548, 702, 724, 734, 750, 753, 875, 929; v.6: 82
• Faculty, v.1: 79, 104, 111, 163, 180, 196, 402, 770, 811, 973, 999; v.2: 18, 113, 352, 501, 704, 748; v.3: 31, 502, 644
• Faculty and staff, retirement, v.1: 517, 527, 721-24; v.2: 37, 291; v.3: 385, 857, 909, 912; v.4: 628; v.5: 396
• Faculty, salary, v1: 521, 936, 939; v.2: 113, 210, 240, 352, 514, 585, 695, 747, 923; v.3: 865; v.4: 633, 642
• Farley, Miss Caroline, (Librarian), v.1: 90, 91
• Fellowships, v.1: 117, 930; v.2: 417
• Forty Seven Workshop (vols. 2-3 include critiques of plays), v.2: 201, 300, 304; v.3: 854; v.4: 65, 145, 174, 193, 337, 411
• Freshman, concentration and distribution, v.2: 868, 972, 979
• General Education Board, v.5: 269
• General Examinations, v.5: 253, 388
• Gibson, Mary M. 1918, see Black Students,
• Gifts, v.1: 85, 193, 245, 606, v.2: 50, 507, 515, 644, 785, 789, 809, 810; v.3: 40, 52, 101, 177
• Gilman, Mr. Arthur, v.1: 780; v.2: 96, 97, 267; v.3: 509
• Girl Scout Movement, v.3: 837, 824
• Gymnasium and athletics, v.1: 9, 948; v.2: 502; v.4: 112, 326, 329, 332, 385
• Harvard-Radcliffe Liberal Clubs, v.4: 971; v.5: 337
• Harvard, relations with, v1: 97, 111, 173, 225, 643, 645, 648, 684, 555, 766, 768, 859; v.2: 155, 242, 360, 387, 461, 665, 812-20, 954, 966; v.3: 58, 323, 502, 653; v.4: 730; v.5: 492, 605, 711, 802, 813; v.6: 81
• Hurd, Marjorie, 1908, v.1: 996-998
• Idler Club, v.1: 23, 24, 231, 888; v.2: 516, 517, 983; v.3: 99
• Inauguration of President Comstock, v.6: 173-175, 178, 179, 184, 193, 203, 205, 209, 225, 226, 237, 242, 254, 255, 263, 267, 274
• Infirmary, v.1: 542
• Irwin, Agnes Dean, v.1: 33, 79, 133, 134, 252, 350, 450; v.2: 267
• Keller, Helen 1904, v.2: 778, 784, 803
• Law School, admissions, v.3: 155
• Library, v.1: 51, 100, 101, 210, 210a, 211, 212, 590, 591, 750, 648, 731; v.2: 508, 752; v.3: 165, 542; v.4: 954; v.5: 949
• Mass Meetings, v.1: 10, 23, 24, 26, 27, 36, 39, 43, 44, 48, 56, 57, 68, 80, 107, 113, 129, 130, 135, 143, 145, 166, 338, 701, 829, 834; v.2: 18, 284, 285, 293, 296, 725, 781, 808, 826, 999; v.3: 100, 120, 154, 225, 255, 415, 461
• Massachusetts Association of Women Workers, v.1: 920
• Medical School, Ph.D. in Medical Sciences See Courses, medical
• Medical services, v.1: 234, 290; v.2: 220
• Monograph fund, 1: 277
• Morison, Professor, Samuel Eliot, v.1: 402
• Park, Miss Marion, v.5: 558, 565, 566, 608
• Park, Mrs. Maud Wood v.2: 10
• Phi Beta Kappa, v.1: 97, 194, 229, 284, 369, 963; v.2: 389, 442, 467, 635, 698, 720, 746, 770, 771, 784, 828, 833, 852, 861, 871, 872, 875, 877, 882, 905, 913, 938, 940, 949 957, 963, 973, 976, 991; v.3: 11
• Phi Beta Kappa, By-Laws: 2: 835-37, 860, 861, 973
• Physical Examinations, v.1: 311
• Poetry Club, v.5: 542, 543
• President of Radcliffe, v.1: 89, 356; v.3: 723, 750; v.4: 244, 879; v.5: 617, 622, 641, 963
• President, appointment of (see also Committee on Administrative Officers),v.5: 926, 93, 937, 940; v.6: 10, 40, 63, 118
• President, acting, v.4: 256, 274, 363
• President's residence, v.2: 580
• Press, relations with, v.1: 948; v.3: 420, 422, 423, 611
• Prizes: v.1: 12, 890
• Property, purchase of, v.1: 776, 782; v.2: 78, 673, 678, 70; v.3: 430, 551
• Property, renting of: v.1: 29, 34
• Radcliffe Associates, v.1: 968,; v.3: 2, 325
• Radcliffe, Auxiliary, v.3: 293, 298
• Radcliffe-Boards, v.3: 547
• Radcliffe Council, v.1: 281, 294, 363; v.2: 822, 850; v.3: 323
• Radcliffe farm, v.4: 243, 246, 286
• Radcliffe, Founders of, v.1: 61, v.2: 96, 220, v.5: 369
• Radcliffe Glee Club, v.1: 868
• Radcliffe-organization, v.2: 405; v.3: 294, 784-786, v. 4: 444
• Radcliffe-and World War I (war work and war courses); v.3: 413, 460, 891, 897, 963, 972; v.4: 227, 265, 268, 272, 361, 362, 461
• Scholarships, v.1: 573, 603, 605; v.2: 118; v.3: 116, 129, 570; v.4: 235, 278, 960; v.5: 5, 50, 113, 752; v.6: 301
• Scholarshhips, -Jewish Scholarship Fun; v. 3: 1, 129, 411, 454, 694-5, 699, 705, 738, 951; v.4: 234
• Shaw, Bernard, v.2: 516-517
• Shaw, Miss Caroline (Mrs. Sherer) 1901, v.6: 125, 127, 136
• Special Students, v.1: 1, 25, 498, 778, 783; v.2: 472, 477, 647, 649, 684, 697, 714, 729, 732, 801, 802, 812-818, 843, 846; v.3: 78, 461, 462
• Student Government Association, v.1: 24; v.2: 4, 276
• Student relations (See also Black students), v.1: 5, 8, 18, 53, 67, 92, 167, 203, 402, 729, 730, 817, 863, 868, 880; v.2: 4, 12, 28, 47, 65, 255, 258, 891; v.3: 212-215, 240-242, 245, 246, 887; v.4: 535, 537, 548, 561, 580, 588, 590, 613, 623, 987; v.5: 311, 317, 444, 536; v.6: 83
• Students, graduate, v.2: 665; v.6: 345, 374
• Suffrage Club, v.2: 530
• Summer School, v.1: 51, 100, 101, 760; v.4: 580, 830
• Switzer, Mary 1921, v.5: 64
• Tutorial System v.5: 108
• Wendell, Professor Barrett, v.2: 102, 104
• Women, Blacks (See also Black Students), v.1: 828, 853, 914, 934
• Women speakers at Radcliffe; see also Mass Meetings, and Women, Blacks: v.1: 36-38, 56, 74, 80, 132, 135, 150, 152, 693, 747, 920; v.2: 994; v.3: 3, 227, 255
• Women's Education Association, v.1: 72
• Women's employment at Radcliffe, v.1: 104, 112, 864, 957; v.2: 52,; 239, 247, 269, 283, 324, 332; v.3: 34; v.4: 5, 133, 141, 162-64, 239
• Women's rights and suffrage, v.1: 36, 888, 949, 996; v.2: 10, 504, 530; v.3: 446