She gave thirty thousand dollars to endow a professorship in the Andover Theological Seminary at Andover, Massachusetts.
She grew old gracefully, never soured by her infirmities, always denying herself to help others and make the world better for her living in it.
Her name must stand side by side with the men who founded Vassar, Wellesley, and Barnard, and that of Mary Lyon to whom women owe the college of Mt.

Holyoke.
As Walt Whitman wrote: I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men.
She was a martyr physically, and mentally a heroine.

Let us never fail to honour the woman who founded Smith College.
Extracts from a letter replying to my question: "Is there a full-length portrait of Sophia Smith, now to be seen anywhere in the principal building at Smith College, Northampton ?" How I wish that some generous patron of Smith College might bestow upon it two thousand dollars for a full-length portrait of Sophia Smith to be placed in the large reading room, at the end of which is a full-length portrait of President Seelye.

The presence of such a commanding figure seen by hundreds of girls every day would be a subtle and lasting influence.
I like to nibble at a stuffed date, but do not enjoy having my memory stuffed with dates, though I am proud rather than sensitive in regard to my age.
Lady Morgan was unwilling her age should be known, and pleads: What has a woman to do with dates--cold, false, erroneous, chronological dates--new style, old style, precession of the equinoxes, ill-timed calculation of comets long since due at their station and never come?
Her poetical idiosyncrasy, calculated by epochs, would make the most natural points of reference in woman's autobiography.

Plutarch sets the example of dropping dates in favour of incidents; and an authority more appropriate, Madame de Genlis, who began her own memoires at eighty, swept through nearly an age of incident and revolution without any reference to vulgar eras signifying nothing (the times themselves out of joint), testifying to the pleasant incidents she recounts and the changes she witnessed.