I give a few extracts: We wish to record the fact that this has been, in a unique degree, your personal work.

If you had given the original sum which called the College into being, and had left its administration to others, you would have been less truly the creator of the institution than you have been through your executive efficiency.

Your plans have seldom been revised by the Board of Trustees, and your selection of teachers has brought together a faculty which is at least equal to the best of those engaged in the education of women.

You have secured for the teachers a freedom of instruction which has inspired them to high attainment and fruitful work.

You, with them, have given to the College a commanding position in the country, and have secured for it and for its graduates universal respect.
The deep foundations for its success have been intellectual and spiritual, and its abiding work has been the building up of character by contact with character.
Fortunate in her location, fortunate in her large minded trustees, fortunate in the loyal devotedness of her faculty and supremely fortunate has our College been in the consecrated creative genius of her illustrious president.