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 PAULINE AGASSIZ SHAW 
 
 February 8, 1841 
 February 10, 1917
 
 PAULINEAGASSIZ SHAW 
 
 Tributes paid her memory 
 at the 
 
 ^MEMORIAL SERVICE 
 
 held on Easter Sunday 
 April 8, 1917, at 
 
 FANEUIL HALL 
 BOSTON 
 
 BOSTON 
 
 ^PRINTED 
 1917
 
 McGrath-Sherrill Press, Boston
 
 FOREWORD
 
 WITH the passing of a great personality, a great spirit- 
 ual leader, there remains to the world a rare heritage, 
 a vital benefaction. Exceptional natures filled with the spirit 
 of brotherhood, helpful, courageous, sincere, without preju- 
 dice, and above selfish ambition, reveal by their lives to what 
 humanity may attain. Such a one was Pauline Agassiz Shaw. 
 
 'This little book made from memories of men and women who 
 knew and loved her can give but glimpses of the greatnejj. of 
 her soul, but these glimpses, incomplete as they are, should be- 
 long not only to the intimate group of her friends and co-workers 
 but to a wider circle to all who sympathize with the pur- 
 poses of her life and work. 'These impressions, therefore, are 
 put into print. A few words of biography are added for those 
 who may be strangers to the fafts of her life though not to the 
 influence of her loving spirit. 
 
 'Pauline Agassiz was born in Neuchatel, Switzerland, Feb- 
 ruary 6, 1841, the youngest child of Louis Agassiz and of his 
 first wife, Cecile Braun. Delicate, loving, beautiful, with a 
 mind of unusual insight, Pauline was the idol of her parents 
 and of her brother and sister. 
 
 *After the death of their mother in 1848, the three children 
 lived with relatives in Switzerland till 1850 when they joined 
 their father in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where their educa- 
 tion was completed. On November 30, 1860, Pauline married 
 Quincy Adams Shaw. 
 
 Out of the effort to discover the best methods of training her 
 own five children and the children of some of her friends, grew 
 Mrs. Shaw's practical interest in education. Her school, estab- 
 lished at 6 Marlborough Street, Boston, made a significant 
 contribution to the science of education. It was a pioneer in 
 demonstrating many of the progressive principles of modern
 
 pedagogy. From this interest in children and in education in 
 general developed her devotion to the various causes and phil- 
 anthropies which filled her life with joyous service. 
 
 She had never been so well, nor more actively absorbed in all 
 the vital forces of modern life than in the last two years of her 
 life. While her personal correspondence ; committee work, and 
 other manifold duties filled many happy hours of each day, she 
 found her deepest joy in the companionship of her children and 
 her grandchildren. It was in the midst of such activity and 
 happiness that the summons came swift, unforeseen, inexora- 
 ble. After an illness of little more than a week, she died of 
 pneumonia on February 10,
 
 Fifteen hundred copies 
 
 of this tribute have been printed by the friends of 
 
 Mrs. Shaw under the direction of a 
 
 committee on publication. 
 
 ROSE DABNEY MALCOLM FORBES 
 
 ADELENE MOFFAT 
 
 GEORGE COURTRIGHT GREENER
 
 CONTENTS 
 
 Pauline Agassiz Shaw .... Frontispiece 
 
 Opening of Services Mrs. Norwood Penrose Hallowell . 27 
 
 Opening Address Dr. Charles W. Eliot . . 29 
 
 Kindergartens Miss Laura Fisher . . . 32 
 
 Day Nurseries Miss Adelene Moffat . -37 
 
 Sloyd Gustaf Larsson . . -43 
 
 North Rennet Street Industrial School 
 
 George C. Greener . . -47 
 
 Neighborhood Houses Robert A. Woods . . .50 
 
 Suffrage Mrs. Maud Wood Park . -55 
 
 Peace Mrs. J. Malcolm Forbes . -59 
 
 Address Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth . 63 
 
 OTHER ACTIVITIES OF MRS. SHAW 
 
 The Roxbury Neighborhood House . . . . 70 
 
 Social Service House . . . . . . 70 
 
 The Cambridge Neighborhood House . . . . 7 1 
 
 The Ruggles Street Neighborhood House . . . 72 
 
 The Cottage Place Neighborhood House and Day Nursery . -73 
 The North Bennet Street Day Nursery . . . . -74 
 
 Long- Sought- For Lodge ....... 74 
 
 The Children's House ....... 74 
 
 The Cottage Place Library . . . . . . 75 
 
 The Vocation Bureau . . . . . . -75 
 
 The Civic Service House . . . . . . 78
 
 A TRIBUTE TO 
 
 PAULINE AGASSIZ SHAW 
 
 FANEUIL HALL 
 EASTER SUNDAY, APRIL EIGHTH 
 
 NINETEEN HUNDRED SEVENTEEN
 
 Order of Services 
 
 * 
 
 MUSIC "Still, Still with Thee" 
 
 BY THE CHOIR 
 
 INTRODUCTION 
 
 His Excellency, The Governor of the Commonwealth 
 of Massachusetts, has been invited to introduce the 
 Presiding Officer. 
 
 OPENING ADDRESS by the Presiding Officer, 
 DR. CHARLES W. ELIOT 
 
 KINDERGARTENS 
 
 MISS LAURA FISHER 
 
 DAY NURSERIES 
 
 MISS ADELENE MOFFAT 
 
 SLOYD 
 
 GUSTAF LARSSON
 
 NORTH BENNETT STREET 
 INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL 
 
 GEORGE C. GREENER 
 
 MUSIC Handel's "Largo" 
 
 NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES 
 
 ROBERT C. WOODS 
 
 SUFFRAGE 
 
 MRS. MAUD WOOD PARK 
 
 PEACE 
 
 MRS. J. MALCOLM FORBES 
 
 ADDRESS 
 
 MRS. MAUD BALLINGTON BOOTH 
 
 MUSIC - "For All Thy Saints" 
 
 BY THE CHOIR
 
 Committee on Arrangements 
 
 JOHN D. ADAMS, Chairman 
 * 
 
 BOSTON SOCIAL UNION 
 
 BOSTON CONFERENCES OF DAY NURSERIES 
 
 BOSTON KINDERGARTEN ASSSOCIATION 
 
 BOSTON EQUAL SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION 
 FOR GOOD GOVERNMENT 
 
 MASSACHUSETTS WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION 
 
 MASSACHUSETTS BRANCH OF THE WOMAN'S 
 PEACE PARTY 
 
 MRS. SHAW'S NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES 
 
 VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE DEPARTMENT OF HARVARD 
 
 SLOYD TRAINING SCHOOL 
 
 CIVIC SERVICE HOUSE 
 
 BOSTON VOCATION BUREAU 
 
 NORTH BENNET STREET INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL 
 
 fj:
 
 PAULINE AGASSIZ SHAW
 
 OPENING OF SERVICES 
 
 <MRS. NORWOOD TEN ROSE HALLO WELL 
 
 We are gathered here to-day to pay our loving 
 tribute to our beloved friend, Pauline Agassiz Shaw: 
 
 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. 
 
 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called 
 the children of God. 
 
 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all gene- 
 rations. Before the mountains were brought forth, 
 or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, 
 even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. 
 
 Whither shall I go from thy Spirit ; or whither shall 
 I flee from thy presence ? 
 
 If I ascend up into Heaven, thou art there. 
 
 If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the 
 uttermost parts of the sea ; even there shall thy 
 hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. 
 
 If I say, surely the darkness shall cover me ; even the 
 night shall be light about me. 
 
 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee ; but the night 
 shineth as the day ; the darkness and the light are 
 both alike to thee.
 
 MY AIM 
 
 I live for those who love me, 
 
 Whose hearts are kind and true, 
 For the Heaven that smiles above me, 
 And awaits my spirit too; 
 
 For all human ties that bind me, 
 For the task by God assigned me; 
 For the bright hopes yet to find me, 
 And the good that I can do. 
 
 I live to hail the season, 
 
 By gifted ones foretold, 
 When man shall live by reason, 
 And not alone for gold ; 
 When man to man united, 
 And every wrong thing righted, 
 The whole world shall be lighted, 
 As Eden was of old. 
 
 I live for those who love me, 
 
 For those who know me true; 
 For the Heaven that smiles above me, 
 And awaits my spirit too; 
 
 For the cause that lacks assistance, 
 For the wrong that needs resistance, 
 For the future in the distance, 
 And the good that I can do. 
 
 Let us unite in silent prayer, asking and waiting for 
 the strength which can come only from the loving 
 Father of us all.
 
 OPENING ADDRESS 
 
 T)R. tu'X'Es w. ELIOT 
 
 WE have come here to celebrate the achievements 
 of Pauline Agassiz Shaw, to rejoice in the good 
 work she did for this community and for the univer- 
 sal improvement of education and philanthropy. Her 
 life had in it many trials and sorrows, but also many 
 neart-felt joys and solid satisfactions. 
 
 I first knew Pauline Agassiz as a beautiful and grace- 
 ful girl, a very serviceable daughter in a house which 
 had few servants but abounded in hospitalities. I shall 
 never lose the impression of her grace and beauty 
 when, at an evening party at her father's house, 
 she brought me a cup of coffee across the room. 
 I remember with the utmost distinction her delight- 
 ful aspect when she was a pupil in the unique school 
 for girls which was conducted for a few years in her 
 father's Cambridge house. 
 
 She was married at nineteen, and then suddenly 
 transferred from a house where means were narrow 
 to a house where means were ample ; a house full, too, 
 of beautiful objects of art. There her children were 
 born and brought up. During all her married life she 
 had at her command a large income which she used 
 at her discretion, not for any purpose of private luxury 
 but altogether for purposes of public usefulness and 
 beneficence.
 
 Educational work from the first enlisted Mrs. Shaw's 
 interest and support. I suppose no private person in 
 this country has ever done so much for kindergartens 
 as Mrs. Shaw did. She gave the public demonstrations 
 of the usefulness of kindergartens, and did pioneering 
 work in introducing them into Boston and neighbor- 
 ing cities. After many years of patient work and much 
 expenditure, she had the satisfaction of seeing kinder- 
 gartens adopted in Boston and some other cities as an 
 accepted, and indeed indispensable part of a good pub- 
 lic school system. 
 
 She was interested in developing in public and private 
 schools the kind of teaching which she had seen her 
 father give. Professor Agassiz was descended from a 
 stock of ministers and teachers in Switzerland, and 
 was himself an eminent naturalist and fascinating lec- 
 turer. Her mother was the daughter of a family famous 
 in Germany for both its scientific and its artistic qual- 
 ities and achievements. Mrs. Shaw had both these 
 inheritances in her blood. She was always interested 
 in concrete teaching, in training the senses, in impart- 
 ing the knowledge and the mental training which 
 come in through the eye, the ear, and the hand, and 
 in cultivating through such training the scientific 
 method of thought. Much of her public work for 
 education exhibited this tendency to bring into edu- 
 cation, for all sorts of children and adolescents, a 
 larger proportion of concrete teaching and of prac-
 
 tice in observation, and in the inductive mode of 
 reasoning. 
 
 Mrs. Shaw had the most ardent faith in the prac- 
 ticability of improving greatly education, and social 
 and political organization, and hence in improving 
 the common lot of humanity and so making man- 
 kind happier.
 
 KINDERGARTENS 
 
 J^AURA 
 
 Introduced by Thr. Eliot 
 
 WE are to hear this afternoon several competent testimonies to this hopefulness 
 in Mrs. Shaw which resulted in many forms of beneficent activity. I present 
 to you as our first witness Miss Laura Fisher, who will tell you about the original- 
 ity, scope, and wide-spread influence of Mrs. Shaw's work for Kindergartens. 
 
 MOST people speak of Mrs. Shaw as a great- 
 hearted philanthropist kindergartners like to 
 remember her as a great pioneer in education. For edu- 
 cation was her passion and the kindergarten, as she said 
 only recently, was her first love the one from which all 
 her other loves sprang. No other individual supported 
 the kindergarten so liberally or rendered greater public 
 service by means of it. To realize in some degree the 
 significance of her work we need to recall its history. 
 
 As early as 1867 Miss Peabody began her efforts in 
 the interest of the kindergarten and was succeeded by 
 others, notably Miss Garland and Miss Weston in 
 connection with their private school. It was not, 
 however, until 1877 that the kindergartens in Boston 
 really came to stay. In that year Mrs. Shaw opened 
 two kindergartens, one in Jamaica Plain and one in 
 Brookline. Gradually others were established in Bos- 
 ton and Cambridge until in 1883 Mrs. Shaw supported 
 3 1 free kindergartens. Many of these were located in 
 public school buildings but all the expense of salaries 
 and maintenance was borne by Mrs. Shaw. 
 
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 Under the able direction of Miss Laliah Pingree, 
 without whom even Mrs. Shaw could not have accom- 
 plished her results, the kindergartens became a power 
 in the educational system of Boston. In 1888 at the 
 invitation of Mrs. Shaw the School Committee made 
 an investigation into the value of the kindergarten, 
 with the result that the 14 kindergartens in Boston 
 supported by her, were taken over by the city. 
 
 It was a glad day when the city adopted the kin- 
 dergartens but it was a sad day when they passed 
 out of Mrs. Shaw's keeping. I wish I might give you 
 some idea of what her personal touch meant to every- 
 body ! Who can ever forget those wonderful days 
 when the boxes of flowers arrived, sent by Mrs. Shaw 
 to make the kindergartens beautiful ? Or when " the 
 fairy god-mother " herself appeared with her wistful 
 gaiety and made all hearts glad ? Which one of us 
 fails to remember her modesty and humility as she 
 sat and listened to young upstarts in education who 
 thought they carried the salvation of the world on 
 their shoulders ? Her presence turned everything into 
 poetry and every kindergarten into fairyland. 
 
 One great significance of Mrs. Shaw's work was the 
 fact that she initiated the kindergarten movement in the 
 East. Isolated attempts to establish public, private 
 and charitable kindergartens had been made in various 
 places, but with Mrs. Shaw's organized system of 
 model kindergarten work under expert supervision 
 
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 and direction the kindergarten became a part of a 
 great educational movement, and from her success 
 Philadelphia, New York and other cities took heart 
 and the kindergarten was planted in the East for good. 
 
 I wonder how many of you know how far-reaching 
 the influence of her kindergarten was. Do you realize 
 that Mrs. Shaw's kindergartens were the first social 
 and educational centers connected with the schools, 
 and that her kindergartners were the first social 
 workers and visitors who went from the school into 
 the home ? Are you aware that Mothers' Meetings 
 and Parents' Clubs originated in these kindergartens 
 and that Mrs. Shaw provided instruction in many 
 subjects, besides the care and education of children, to 
 grown people ? 
 
 Her kindergartens were the first Community Centers 
 where little children were helped to realize their rela- 
 tion to the larger world surrounding home and school. 
 By the kindergartners they were taken on excursions 
 to field and garden, pond and stream, to workshops 
 and public buildings, that they might know some- 
 thing of the great world in which they lived. Great 
 national days and great national heroes were celebrated 
 in song and story, and exercises to kindle in young 
 hearts the first spark of patriotism and thrill them 
 with the first faint sense of citizenship. 
 
 We forget now that the schools have adopted so 
 many of the ideas and practices of the kindergarten, 
 
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 and imagine that they originated them ; we forget 
 that here in Boston Mrs. Shaw's work was their begin- 
 ning and that she had the wisdom and the imagination 
 that enabled her to realize their value and their 
 meaning. 
 
 Like Froebel she saw the child in the light of its 
 possibilities and relationships. Seeing, as has been said, 
 "the uncommon quality in the common man " she was 
 ready to bend every effort to abet its development. 
 
 Again, like Froebel, she believed that in this land 
 of ours with its conscious ideal of freedom the kinder- 
 garten would find its true home and its adequate em- 
 bodiment. She knew that the soul of America must 
 be stirred into life in the souls of little children and 
 that through the child in its midst the grown - up 
 world would be born anew. But she was not content 
 to regenerate the poor alone. She saw that the "poor 
 little rich child and the rich little poor child " had 
 many needs in common. That they all trailed clouds, 
 not always of glory and that for all alike citizen- 
 ship in heaven must be won by painful and persistent 
 effort. So her last venture was the opening of a Kin- 
 dergarten and a Kindergarten training school in 
 connection with her private school at number 6 
 Marlborough Street. She was anxious that the divine 
 spark in every child should be fed and nursed into 
 living flame ; upon whom should the task fall ? 
 Whose is this greatest of privileges ? Mrs. Shaw's 
 
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 reply could be but one, the mother's. Her training 
 school was established not only to prepare professional 
 kindergartners. She had in view the education of all 
 girls for the vocation of Motherhood. This to her 
 mind constituted the highest education of women. 
 We ask ourselves, what do all these efforts signify? 
 I think the answer is Mrs. Shaw dreamed dreams. 
 She had a vision. She, too, saw a new heaven and a 
 new earth, a holy city, and at its heart she beheld 
 divine childhood nurtured by divinely inspired 
 motherhood. 
 
 May consecrated obedience to this vision help to 
 bring forth that redeemed humanity from which shall 
 spring once again the healing of the nations.
 
 DAY NURSERIES 
 
 Introduced by 'Dr. Eliot 
 
 WE are to hear next about Mrs. Shaw's day nurseries. Day Nurseries had 
 previously existed in Europe, but I believe Mrs. Shaw's results were better 
 than any that had been previously obtained. They were an important part of 
 her remarkable pioneering in social work. I present to you Miss Adelene Moffat. 
 
 A1ONG all the things that Mrs. Shaw has loved 
 tenderly, two from the earliest years of her deli- 
 cate childhood, she has seemed to love more than 
 others : children and flowers. This love was a part of 
 the intimate fibre of her being, she was like a child, 
 and she was like a flower. Once she said to me, "I 
 have always thought that if I had had to earn my liv- 
 ing, I should have opened a greenhouse. " I replied, 
 " But what a wonderful matron of a day nursery would 
 have been lost!" With that youthful, rippling laugh 
 that all of us who love her will cherish in our memo- 
 ries, she glanced radiant with happiness at the photo- 
 graphs of her children and grandchildren which she 
 loved to keep near her and said, "Isn't a matron of a 
 nursery exactly what I have been ! " And this is true 
 in a much larger sense than she intended to convey. 
 Her all - embracing motherliness has for more than 
 thirty years gathered into safe shelter forlorn little 
 ones deprived of their mothers' care through poverty, 
 or illness, or desertion, or death. While she, herself, 
 was only a little girl she used to seek out families of 
 
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 neglected children and give them such comfort and 
 help as she could compass. No one seems to remember 
 how she found them. Perhaps some of them she dis- 
 covered on those long walks to a Cambridgeport 
 greenhouse where she used to spend, what was no 
 doubt, a very extravagant proportion of her little 
 allowance to buy seeds and slips from her friend " the 
 greenhouse man." These she would bring home to 
 her sunny window where everything flourished as if 
 at magic touch, and it was her delight to see how 
 many plants she could grow from these small begin- 
 nings, gathering her choicest blossoms and taking 
 them to eager half-starved little souls in neglected 
 neighborhoods. In this loving service the child fore- 
 shadowed the woman. One can visualize her : slight, 
 ardent, vivid, delicate, very beautiful, with singular 
 radiance of expression, that enthusiasm, that gaiety 
 of spirit which people who knew her as a child re- 
 member, and those who are children now will remem- 
 ber of her later years. In these visits she would know 
 no distinction of color, or race, or creed, almost none 
 of good or bad. Selfishness, egotism, cruelty, meanness, 
 untruthfulness, badness of heart, were revolting to her 
 in a measure not easily understood by less delicately 
 tempered natures, but her faith that these qualities 
 were recessive, that good was dominant, gave her a 
 constructive basis for work and the courage to persevere 
 in the face of every difficulty. 
 
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 In 1877 she started her first day nursery in connec- 
 tion with one of the kindergartens. In 1879 anc ^ J 88o 
 seven others followed in and near Boston. From the 
 first, her rare, constructive mind saw beyond the con- 
 fines of the nursery into the worlds of the little ones 
 when they should leave its hospitable care. Education 
 of the child and of the mother and of the community 
 became at once an integral part of the plan. One of 
 the very earliest reports says "the aim has been not only 
 to provide for the care and training of the children in 
 the kindergarten method but to reach the home 
 through the influence of the work and the visiting of 
 the matron in them. * * * Mrs. Shaw regards these 
 nurseries as elementary kindergartens. * * * In connec- 
 tion with the nursery, mothers' classes have been held 
 where instruction in nursing, hygiene, temperance, 
 has been given. Classes in sewing, cutting, mending, 
 are held for women and girls. Even clubs for boys 
 and girls are also a part of the work." In another 
 place effective cooperation with other organizations 
 is noted. This is a quotation from a report of the 
 nurseries of thirty years ago ! It would be considered 
 progressive in any nursery to-day. The stand that 
 she took on the age of nursery children, on other 
 than nursery aid for the family, has since been 
 generally accepted as axiomatic. Very justly Mrs. 
 Shaw has been called one of the great pioneers in 
 social work. 
 
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 With her able, enthusiastic, and devoted assistant 
 and friend, Miss Pingree, she was among those who 
 started the Boston Conference of Day Nurseries. The 
 first meeting was apparently called by them. This 
 conference, composed of the nurseries of greater Bos- 
 ton and other cities of Massachusetts, has been in 
 operation for more than twenty - five years and has 
 been a strong educative force. 
 
 One of the interesting features of Mrs. Shaw's nur- 
 series is the attitude of those who spent their childhood 
 in them. They look back upon the nursery with no 
 sense of its having been a charity or an institution 
 but more as if it had been a home or school. Mrs. 
 Shaw felt always that the care of the body and of the 
 mind was but a part. The utmost patience and wis- 
 dom must be engaged that sensitive little hearts should 
 not be hurt, that timid spirits should not be oppressed. 
 Three well-mannered, well-dressed, capable looking 
 young women in good business positions, came up to 
 me once in one of the Neighborhood Houses, their 
 arms around each other ; health, cheerfulness, intelli- 
 gence, shone from their smiling faces. One said to 
 me almost a stranger " Don't you think we are 
 a good advertisement for Mrs. Shaw's nursery ? That 
 is where we first became acquainted with each other 
 and we've been friends ever since." 
 
 To work with Mrs. Shaw was to feel that the world 
 was somehow a roomier, pleasanter, friendlier place 
 
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 to live in than one had thought it to be. Her sincerity, 
 her directness, her fine democracy, her sweetness 
 cleared up complications as opening the blinds will 
 show the way to a person stumbling through a dark- 
 ened room cumbered with useless furniture. Her mind 
 compelled awe for its quality, for the extraordinary 
 combination revealed. An exceptional mathemati- 
 cian, she might easily have become distinguished in 
 that field. Inheriting scientific instincts and methods 
 of reasoning from her father, and the vision and cre- 
 ative imagination of the artist from her mother, she 
 had powers seldom found united in one person. She 
 had the ability and the will both to see things in 
 their largest relations and to concentrate on detail, 
 leaving no smallest item unappraised or overlooked. 
 With all these endowments, she was the most modest 
 person I have ever seen. 
 
 Her vision of what needed to be done so far out- 
 stripped any possibility of attainment that what she 
 did accomplish seemed to her negligible, and even 
 for that she was unwilling to take credit to herself. 
 It distressed her when people spoke of it. She always 
 felt that they were giving her more appreciation 
 than was her due. She could never believe that she 
 had, herself, done anything or taught anything. She 
 was eager that the entire credit should be given 
 to her workers, to her friends, or to her wise and 
 sympathetic husband.
 
 We might be able to measure in bricks and mortar 
 and money what Mrs. Shaw has contributed to the 
 safety and happiness, education and equipment of 
 others, but who can measure what will have been 
 her contribution to the world in the terms of human 
 life ? We know only this, that there will go on from 
 generation to generation through her less fortunate 
 neighbors, as by the laying on of hands, something 
 of her spirit, something of her sweet wisdom, of her 
 hope, her faith, her holiness of living, and her 
 gaiety of heart !
 
 SLOYD 
 
 QVSTAF J&CRJ1SON 
 
 Introduced by 'Dr. Eliot 
 
 MRS. SHAW took a keen personal interest in all the teaching institutions she 
 established. She founded and supported generously for many years a school in 
 the North End of Boston for teaching sloyd and training teachers of sloyd. 
 She believed warmly in the value of that training, and adhered loyally to the 
 interesting experiment which she launched. She developed the School into a 
 School of craftsmanship and design. Mr. Gustaf Larsson has been for many 
 years her skilful demonstrator and manager of these modes of teaching. I pre- 
 sent to you Mr. Larsson. 
 
 IN the summer of 1888, now nearly twenty -nine 
 years ago, it was my good fortune to meet Mrs. 
 Shaw and to discuss with her the possibilities of arous- 
 ing in teachers an interest in the Swedish system of 
 manual training known as sloyd. 
 
 Mrs. Shaw had already (1887) presented to the City 
 of Boston her established kindergartens with equip- 
 ment and trained teachers, and it was in two of her 
 summer-vacation schools that I was given an oppor- 
 tunity to demonstrate this work in the teaching of 
 boys. After painstaking and thorough observation 
 Mrs. Shaw became convinced that sloyd was founded 
 on the same principle that underlies the kindergarten 
 system, namely, that the mental and moral growth 
 of the human being must be the first consideration 
 of every teacher and that occupations, whether of 
 mind or hands, must serve only as means to that end. 
 
 Mrs. Shaw believed that this fundamental principle 
 of human development and education might in time 
 
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 become incorporated in all forms of teaching, and she 
 therefore decided to offer free instruction in sloyd to 
 teachers engaged in work in kindergartens and graded 
 schools. As teachers could come to us only out of 
 school hours it was in June, 1892, that the first class 
 of twenty-three sloyd teachers was graduated. During 
 these first years of experiments Mrs. Shaw's faith 
 never faltered. I believe we owe it solely to Mrs. Shaw 
 that the late director of manual training in Boston 
 has been able to say " It is certain that they (the sloyd 
 teachers) have been an important factor in determin- 
 ing the high standards which I believe Boston has 
 finally established." 
 
 In order to make the principles and methods of sloyd 
 widely known Mrs. Shaw sent examples of work 
 together with leaflets to several exhibitions. She had 
 a "Life Exhibit of Children at Work" at the 
 World's Fair, Chicago ; exhibits at Paris, and at St. 
 Louis. Here her exhibit received the award of Grand 
 Prize. 
 
 The first course offered by the School was confined 
 to wood-work, but in response to the more recent 
 demand for wider activities, Mrs. Shaw again gave 
 to the School the means of offering courses in forging, 
 machine work, metal work, bookbinding, printing, 
 cement work, furniture making ; and in connection 
 with this technical work, courses in design, and in 
 psychology as applied to teaching. 
 
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 All these changes necessitated accommodations that 
 differed materially from those where, in four different 
 quarters, the School had done its first twenty years 
 of work; and in 1909 Mrs. Shaw erected the build- 
 ing on Harcourt Street, where, in furtherance of her 
 aims, we are endeavoring to uphold high standards in 
 craftsmanship and design; to test and to systematize 
 such arts and crafts as are useful in schools; and to 
 select and prepare suitable persons for efficient leader- 
 ship in manual training. 
 
 For more than twenty years Mrs. Shaw gave free 
 instruction in her school, but in 1910 she granted our 
 request that a yearly tuition fee of $100 might be 
 asked and that scholarships might be established for 
 the benefit of worthy and needy students. 
 
 It is not easy to estimate the abundance of good that 
 has gone forth from Mrs. Shaw's school nor its far- 
 reaching influence. Over four hundred students, repre- 
 senting almost every state in the Union, have been 
 graduated from there. Fifty-seven graduates are teach- 
 ing in the public schools of Boston, and several are at 
 work in foreign countries ; moreover, it is due to the 
 influence of Mrs. Shaw's school that three of the 
 largest states in India are to-day training sloyd teachers 
 under the authority of their respective governments. 
 
 The debt of gratitude is heavy on us. We owe the 
 existence of the Sloyd Training School, its progress 
 and its achievements to the energy, the patience, the 
 
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 constructive imagination of one woman. We of this 
 school cannot repay the debt. It remains to us to be 
 faithful guardians of the ideals she illumined for us, 
 to embody these ideals in the conduct of her school, 
 and everywhere to hold in unforgetting honor the 
 name of Pauline Agassiz Shaw.
 
 NORTH BENNET STREET 
 INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL 
 
 QEORGE C- 
 
 Introduced by 'Dr. Eliot. 
 
 IN this country most of the pioneering work in education and philanthropy is 
 done by private persons and societies who spend their own money on public 
 needs. That is especially true in the field of education, from kindergartens 
 through universities. This is one of the great hopes of the American Republic, 
 the readiness of well-to-do American men and women to devote their time, 
 thought, labor, and money to the advancement of religion, education, 
 and charity. 
 
 Mrs. Shaw had a strong expectation of good from new experiments in edu- 
 cation; and she had the means of trying costly experiments. One of her most 
 judicious and fruitful experiments was the North Bennet Street Industrial 
 School. We are to hear next from the Director of that School, Mr. George 
 C. Greener. 
 
 a daughter of a scientist, Mrs. Shaw rightfully 
 possessed an inquiring mind. If she had de- 
 voted herself to art or literature some museum or 
 library might have been enriched by her work; but 
 since she gave herself largely to the great human 
 problem, not with a vague altruism, but with a perfect 
 sincerity of having an engagement with human life, 
 she has left us an eternal memorial living and 
 multiplying. 
 
 She chose, perhaps, the most discouraging field for 
 creative or experimental work education. 
 
 Traditional methods and outworn moulds of thought 
 blocked the path for new educational projects. If it 
 were not for people like Mrs. Shaw with clear vision 
 
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 the faith of the miracle worker and compre- 
 hending patience, the current systems of education 
 would give us little pride. 
 
 That educational experiments require a large ex- 
 penditure of money and that Mrs. Shaw could meet 
 that requisite was true, but she gave a rarer and more 
 lasting gift an unswerving faith. 
 
 It is interesting to note the reason why Mrs. Shaw's 
 mind turned in this direction. Her own carefully 
 supervised education differed widely from the accepted 
 schooling. In deciding the education of her own 
 children Mrs. Shaw moved in almost untrodden and 
 pioneer paths of teaching. 
 
 With her broad mind and wide outlook the next 
 step was to consider thoughtfully how the facilities 
 at their command met the needs of the less fortunate 
 children. She found their curriculum inadequate, and 
 ill fitted to prepare them for the highest citizenship. 
 Education to them was a meaningless drill, bearing 
 no relation to real life. All this Mrs. Shaw saw in 
 what Matthew Arnold called " a dry light." 
 
 With full comprehension of and with no criticisms 
 for the existing systems, she understood that educa- 
 tional experiments are the function of private enter- 
 prise, rather than of public institution. Some day 
 there will be a public school experimental bureau 
 and a special school for testing out new possibilities 
 
 - passing on the fruit of its success, considering its 
 
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 failures as a legitimate part of its machinery, and hav- 
 ing a place in its policy for illuminating failures. 
 
 This experimental work appealed strongly to Mrs. 
 Shaw and for thirty-five years she was the mainspring 
 of this work at North Bennet Street. Because of the 
 children who came to us from the public school, 
 new projects have been examined and tested out and 
 could be suitably added to the public school courses. 
 
 In this way, through Mrs. Shaw's expectation of 
 good from the untried, social work, kindergartens, 
 day nurseries, manual training, prevocational and in- 
 dustrial classes now enrich and broaden the lives of 
 our young people. Life to her was large and broad 
 and her ideas have spread across the country. 
 
 While she had the joy of achievement and saw the 
 success of her effort in terms of human life, she never 
 regarded her work as completed. When one idea 
 passed from the laboratory of the North Bennet School 
 to its practical application in the public schools, a 
 way was cleared for another experiment; therefore 
 the potential, spiritual loss to the school is inestima- 
 ble irreplaceable. But the memory of her personal 
 devotion that governed the policy and inspired her 
 board members and workers is a priceless heritage. 
 
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 NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES 
 
 -A. WOODS 
 
 Introduced by 'Dr. Eliot. 
 
 ONE of Mrs. Shaw's most striking characteristics was her ardent faith in intel- 
 ligent experimentation, a faith inherited from both sides of her family. It is 
 delightful to see throughout this remarkable life the ample fruits of this devotion 
 to intelligent research in difficult fields. 
 
 The next subject is neighborhood houses and settlement work, and Mr. 
 Robert A. Woods is to speak to us on that subject. He is an authority on the 
 history of the development of these good works in this community; and he 
 has been familiar with Mrs. Shaw's participation in that valuable movement. 
 I present to you Mr. Woods. 
 
 MRS. SHAW was the former rather than the 
 reformer. She was one of the very first of the 
 constructors in community terms. The kindergarten 
 once off her hands, she took up the problem of child 
 and mother education for the years of infancy. The 
 day nursery was exalted by Mrs. Shaw into an educa- 
 tional institution, and not a mere agency of material 
 relief. As such, it prepared the way for the settlement 
 work that was to follow. 
 
 When sloyd instruction was assumed by the public 
 schools, Mrs. Shaw was not content with building up 
 a school for the training of sloyd teachers ; she pro- 
 ceeded to carry out the varied logic of her experiment 
 through trade classes, instruction in artistic handi- 
 crafts, and a prevocational school. 
 
 It was my good fortune to see Mrs. Shaw from time 
 to time when she was transforming her day nurseries 
 into settlement houses. There was not a single fine, 
 
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 broad, free, downright principle in this new-formed 
 democratic enterprise to which she did not instantly 
 and instinctively respond, that a high average of 
 capacity and training must be drawn upon, that the 
 members of the local staff must wholly involve them- 
 selves in the scene, that the largest freedom and in- 
 centive to personal expression should be taken for 
 granted, that the program should be read out of the 
 protean book of local life, and that the neighbors 
 should be drawn in as participants and partners. 
 
 She had already gone eagerly into the work of social 
 clubs for working girls and boys at a time when this, 
 now everywhere recognized, educational agency was 
 in its earliest beginnings. Besides developing her al- 
 ready established neighborhood centers, she, as one 
 of the greatest Americans who was also an immi- 
 grant, created a new type of settlement house which 
 has successfully specialized upon the training of our 
 new citizens. From out of it has come a new educa- 
 tional function, that of vocational guidance. 
 
 No racial distinctions were ever registered in con- 
 nection with any of her enterprises. Her insistence 
 upon this principle has been the means of preserving 
 neighborhood unity and loyalty even across the color 
 line. 
 
 Throughout the country there have been not a few 
 instances in which settlement houses have been sus- 
 tained wholly or chiefly by individual large donors.
 
 In nearly all cases, such association brings repression, 
 not stimulus. Mrs. Shaw has always been the inspirit- 
 ing, vitalizing leader. She has been one of a group of 
 colleagues, first among equals, a true sister superior. 
 Her mind was always imbued with great motives and 
 principles. She was in the fullest sense the daughter 
 of one of the greatest disciples of nature. She was 
 always ready to learn from the humblest member of 
 any of her working forces. She had those two con- 
 clusive marks of the highest personal power, the 
 insight of the seer to discern surprisingly the meaning 
 of apparently unfamiliar situations, and an unlimited 
 capacity for detail and for the remembrance of facts. 
 She had a thorough system by which each house and 
 staff had all its functions clearly set off, and through 
 which she minutely followed up the efficient prose- 
 cution of their work. All her houses were always in 
 the fullest fellowship with every similar and related 
 endeavor in the city, for the sake of every value that 
 might come from mutual re-enforcement. True to the 
 principle of which she was one of the first exponents, 
 that the municipality should be adding new educa- 
 tional functions to its broad scheme of service, of 
 recent years she took the lead in the extensive appli- 
 cation of some of the motives of the settlement by 
 means of the school center. 
 
 None understood better than she that the most 
 radical of all reforms is the emancipation of the 
 
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 human spirit from within, and the direct development 
 of its co-operative powers. Yet she was prepared to 
 do her thoughtful part in support of any measure of 
 legislation or public administration which gave 
 promise of sapping the sources of misery, or of ex- 
 panding the opportunities of life. She was awake to 
 the need of profound economic readjustments, and 
 we are told that she was giving some of the last days 
 of her life to the great problem of the equitable dis- 
 tribution of the national income. It was such a com- 
 bination of faculties, of interests, of pursuits, that 
 made one always feel in conversation with Mrs. Shaw 
 the impress of a statesmanlike mind, and realize that 
 she might easily have fulfilled the duties of any higher 
 post, if there were such. 
 
 Exceptional achievement in these diversified human 
 relations is never possible to the person who is not to 
 the depths of subconsciousness a friendly person. Mrs. 
 Shaw always and under all circumstances was sponta- 
 neously so. She actually embodied the essence of the 
 true ideal of national culture worlds apart from 
 another much vaunted sort which is expressed in 
 the watchwords, " sweetness and light." She was 
 simple in a way which this age can hardly under- 
 stand ; yet wise as a spirit that had come from afar. 
 She had that inextinguishable gaiety of heart which 
 sometimes seems predestined as the foil to great sor- 
 rows. Carrying that authority which comes of large 
 
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 bounty and a soul sincere, and unconsciously inti- 
 mating in her presence something almost august, she 
 was always ready in full degree for the interplay of 
 minds in whatever group she was. 
 
 She was so unfailingly young in affairs most of 
 which were thought to be particularly the property 
 of youth itself, she was so full of vitality, that it is 
 impossible to imagine her life as ended. On this 
 Easter Day, the bright hope of immortality, let us 
 think of her as forever young ; as one who has gone 
 from among us to the fulfillment, in some vaster 
 sphere, of service here begun. And so we, her fellow- 
 workers, proudly salute her as we say farewell. When 
 another great citizen, Phillips Brooks, passed beyond 
 the earthly scenes, it was said of him, and we now 
 repeat it of her : 
 
 " Never to the mansions where the mighty rest, 
 Since their foundation, came a nobler guest." 
 
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 SUFFRAGE 
 
 *MRS. 
 
 Introduced by 'Dr. Eliot. 
 
 DURING the last twenty years of her life Mrs. Shaw took a strong interest in 
 suffrage for women and participated generously with personal service and money 
 in the various organized efforts to advance this cause throughout the country. 
 Mrs. Maud Wood Park can tell us something of what she did for this great 
 movement. I present to you Mrs. Park. 
 
 OUR tribute to a woman who was noble and 
 kind in a rare degree is to record her loy- 
 alty to her own sex. Her interest in suffrage began 
 twenty years ago when a meeting of representative 
 women was called by Mrs. Mary Hutcheson Page, 
 and Mrs. Shaw listened with grave attention to the 
 proposal that that group of women should do active 
 work in Massachusetts and contribute money to the 
 campaigns throughout the country. 
 
 From that time on Mrs. Shaw dedicated a constantly 
 increasing part of her time and means to the funda- 
 mental work of raising the quality of humanity by 
 raising the political and social status of women. She 
 became convinced that the equality of women before 
 the law was indispensable to social progress that should 
 be permanent. Thereafter she shared with her accus- 
 tomed generosity in every one of the campaigns in 
 Western states, so many of which resulted in victories. 
 
 In the local work in Boston she gave her time, and 
 particularly gave her courage, to every effort and 
 
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 every step in the movement. For sixteen years she 
 served as president of the Boston Equal Suffrage As- 
 sociation for Good Government, which she founded, 
 and that office meant a real and constant leadership 
 in every detail of the work except presiding at meet- 
 ings, a public prominence that she shrank from with 
 characteristic modesty. 
 
 As an evidence of the quality of her leadership I will 
 read her last message to our association, a letter which 
 breathes her spirit. 
 
 Dear Members, Co-workers and Friends : 
 
 Yes, dear "friends" for we are united by ties of the 
 most sacred character in the undertaking of a work 
 which is vital and which binds us to co-operate and 
 strive to the utmost of our ability. 
 
 We are together again after a short and temporary 
 lull, during which a taste of rest and an opportunity to 
 look within have tended only to ensure new consecra- 
 tion and a new determination to give ourselves wholly 
 to this great work. 
 
 Our National President has made known her plan 
 of work for us. Let us unite again with redoubled zeal 
 and pray for the strength, inspiration and insight to 
 come up to her standards, and pledge our faith to her 
 and to each other to give our all: hand, mind, and 
 heart, to accomplish more this year than ever before. 
 
 Let us enter this new year of work united and happy 
 in the coming together again for the fulfillment of our 
 pledges of the past, united in the sure hope of realizing 
 the form of government which Lincoln has immortal- 
 
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 ized by the words, "Government of the people, for 
 the people, by the people," and which at last is really 
 to be by the whole people. 
 
 With this in view we are indeed bound to be brave, 
 active, and joyful* in doing, each one to the very ut- 
 most, what we can, with all our might and with all our 
 heart and with all our soul. 
 
 Read the enclosed list of work and decide what you 
 will do, and then do not fail to do even more. 
 Yours with love always, 
 
 PAULINE AGASSIZ SHAW. 
 
 In our work, as in her other activities, she had a 
 far-seeing vision combined with an extraordinary 
 attention to details. She eagerly shared in every 
 feature of our work, never excusing herself from the 
 smaller services because they were small, nor because 
 of the heavier burden that she was carrying. While 
 she had the power to see forward to the thing that 
 was going to develop into something useful, she had 
 the other power of communicating her spirit to others 
 and making us all wish to follow and be like her. 
 We always felt, as Miss Blackwell has said, " the 
 comfort of her kindness." There was about her a 
 selflessness, a habit of thinking of others and never of 
 herself, the beauty of holiness that shone in her face 
 and beckoned us on to better things. 
 
 * How like her those words are : "brave, active, and joyful." M. W. P. 
 
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 I will close by reading a sonnet which seems to me 
 to have caught the essence of a beautiful life beauti- 
 fully lived. 
 
 TO PAULINE AGASSIZ SHAW 
 
 To help and soothe and hearten and to love 
 The more despised to cherish all the more, 
 In sacred trust she kept her chanced- on store, 
 
 Giving herself, not casting from above ; 
 
 As if her generous hand she would unglove, 
 
 Or would, unthanked, need's own to need restore. 
 What love to envy is, what peace to war, 
 
 Her nature was to them that snatch and shove. 
 
 The brooklike laugh of youth unforfeited, 
 
 The face where shone the light her spirit fed, 
 The veil of manners woven by the soul, 
 The ready will to make her part the whole ; 
 
 Gone, gone with all our gratitude unsaid, 
 
 So leaving us to follow where she led.
 
 PEACE 
 
 J. <M4LCOLM 
 
 Introduced by Dr. Eliot. 
 
 ALL her life Pauline Agassiz Shaw was trying to eliminate evil from human 
 lives by introducing and fostering good. She thought that was the way to 
 improve human society and government. Hence she took constant interest in 
 all efforts to prevent war and assure peace; and from the time it was formed 
 she took an active part in the Massachusetts Branch of the Woman's Peace 
 Party. Mrs. J. Malcolm Forbes knows all about her connection with the 
 Peace Movement. I present to you Mrs. Forbes. 
 
 WERE it not for our great love for Pauline 
 Agassiz Shaw, there are some of us who feel 
 we could not accede to the request to speak of her 
 to-day, for it seems impossible to give more than a 
 suggestion of her wonderful personality. But for her 
 sake we must try, because a tribute, however inade- 
 quate, may carry forward some of the inspiration 
 which we, who have had the joy of working by her 
 side, have received in full measure. 
 
 Others have spoken of her achievement in bringing 
 to Boston new ideas, and seeing that these were 
 made concrete. 
 
 At the beginning of some of these undertakings she 
 encountered indifference, skepticism, and even hos- 
 tility, but she succeeded in demonstrating so com- 
 pletely the value of the causes she espoused, that the 
 public finally perceived their worth and gave sympa- 
 thetic support. 
 
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 Thousands of men, women, and children are leading 
 happier and better lives because she had the foresight, 
 the courage, and the persistence to introduce or to 
 amplify measures for their health and uplift. 
 
 It is my privilege to speak of her interest in the 
 international relations movement. Pauline Agassiz 
 Shaw was a seer, combining with vision unusual 
 discrimination. These qualities made her realize the 
 peace movement as fundamental and inevitable. 
 
 More than once she said to me, " The two great 
 causes in the world to-day are the peace movement 
 and equal suffrage !" "They are independent," she 
 once continued, " but suffrage will help to establish 
 more quickly the overthrow of the war system." 
 
 She belonged to the Massachusetts Peace Society 
 from its foundation, she enthusiastically believed in 
 the American School Peace League, and she joined 
 the League to Enforce Peace and the World's Court 
 League. But of all the international relations organ- 
 izations in which she was interested, the Massachusetts 
 Branch of the Woman's Peace Party was nearest her 
 heart. Soon after the Branch was formed two years 
 ago, I was given the delightful commission of asking 
 her to be its first vice president. I found her at her 
 home in Jamaica Plain, and I recall how radiantly 
 beautiful she looked as she sat surrounded by the pic- 
 tures and flowers she loved. She delightedly said 
 " yes " to the proposal of our executive committee. 
 
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 "But," she insisted, "you must promise never to ask 
 me to preside." In her modesty she imagined that 
 she could not do this, and, while not accepting her 
 self appraisal, we respected her wish. 
 
 She attended regularly and enthusiastically our Ex- 
 ecutive Board sessions, and tried never to miss any of 
 the weekly lectures at Pilgrim Hall nor any of the 
 meetings of the Study Class. 
 
 Three years ago she went for the first time to the 
 Conference on International Arbitration at Lake 
 Mohonk, and her eagerness and interest had all the 
 fullness and freshness of that of a girl. 
 
 At Lake Mohonk, as elsewhere, she became the 
 center of whatever group she was in ; and of course, 
 many of the men and women students, professors, 
 and statesmen there gathered, asked to be presented 
 to this distinguished looking woman, of whom most 
 of them had heard. But Mrs. Shaw herself never 
 dreamed she was this center of attraction. 
 
 I cannot express the loss she is to each one of us 
 who is working for the movement to substitute the 
 system of law for the system of war. 
 
 Her immovable convictions made her a pillar of 
 strength. 
 
 Her firm judgment, coupled with wide sympathy, 
 and her greatness of spirit combined with loveliness 
 of manner, made her seem a gift sent straight from 
 Heaven to each one of us. 
 
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 Pier loss is irreparable, but her influence remains. 
 Her example will continue to strengthen all who are 
 working for public welfare especially the upholders 
 of unpopular movements. 
 
 A great Massachusetts woman and a great world- 
 citizen has passed on to the Eternal Home. But this 
 earth is a better place because her luminous spirit for 
 a time has dwelt among us.
 
 ADDRESS 
 
 'BOOTH 
 
 Introduced by T)r. Eliot. 
 
 MRS MAUD BALLINGTON BOOTH, whose work for prisoners is known all over 
 the world, was intimate with Mrs. Shaw for many years. I think she will tell 
 you what Mrs. Shaw's interest and help meant to the work, and what Mrs. 
 Shaw's friendship meant to herself. I present to you Mrs. Booth. 
 
 IN rising to speak this afternoon, to add a few 
 words to the many that have already been spoken, 
 I feel that it would be easier, perhaps, if I had not 
 been so near to the beloved one whose memory we 
 honor to-day. My sense of personal loss is still so keen 
 that I feel that it is hard through the mist of tears to 
 let others see what I have seen and feel, that which 
 my heart would love to make them feel of this won- 
 derful, beautiful, God -honoring personality. Long 
 years ago when I first met her there came to my 
 heart a sudden thrill. When I was sixteen years of 
 age God took from me my own sweet mother. When 
 I met Mrs. Shaw I saw her face again, and a wonder- 
 ful feeling was mine that I never lost in the long 
 years of our close, precious friendship. She seemed 
 to step into that empty place. And when far out in 
 the Western prisons where I was working, there 
 came to me the news that she was gone, there came 
 that same deep agony of loss that I had felt in my 
 early childhood. 
 
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 I was in the far West at the hour that she passed 
 on, and when I heard the news I wrote to those dear 
 daughters who stood by her side. When their letters 
 came back to me my heart was thrilled. They were 
 not letters filled with mourning and repining and 
 anguish and grief. They were letters filled with the 
 beauty and glory of the message she left, and they 
 said to me, " Oh, if you could have been there, you 
 would feel as we do ; we wouldn't call her back." 
 And then they told me that just at the end her face 
 was brightened by the glory that made it beautiful 
 even in death, and she said, " Oh, isn't it beautiful, 
 isn't it beautiful ! " I recalled how she had sat with 
 me in the sunset hour, and looking at the golden, 
 crimson glory of the dying sun, she turned to me 
 and said, "Oh, isn't it beautiful; almost like the 
 opening of the gates of Heaven ! " So in the sunset 
 hour of her dear life God gave her to see the beauty, 
 and on her face those who wondered caught its re- 
 flection. Let us forget the dirge as we hear only the 
 music from that other world. Can we not truly rise 
 on this Easter day to say, " O death, where is thy 
 sting? O grave, where is thy victory ?" When we 
 place our lilies in the ground in the fall, when we 
 plant our seeds in the spring, do we turn away and 
 mourn them dead ? Oh, no, we have our vision. As 
 we turn away we see already the blooming glories of 
 the white flowers. So can we feel this dear one lives,
 
 and the work of which you have heard from all 
 these witnesses this afternoon lives on. Back from the 
 silence comes her own dear sweet message. 
 
 There is so much I would like to say. Would that 
 I could give a eulogy fitting her work, her power. 
 Someone has said she was the greatest woman our 
 country has produced. There are many of us who 
 say truly that is so. We have heard of her work; 
 we have heard of her charity ; we have heard of her 
 words. We know what she has accomplished, and 
 yet her greatest force and power was not in what she 
 did, but what she was. She brought that wonderful 
 touch of sincerity, of a soul that breathed out its 
 sweetness, and it is what she was that will last with 
 us forever. Some people must have their names 
 written in letters of gold on marble, that future gene- 
 rations may know them as great, but the name of 
 Pauline Agassiz Shaw has been written with the 
 tender touch of a loving hand, with the beautiful 
 painting of the ideals for which she stood in the 
 hearts of countless thousands. Her work has been 
 spoken of truly as a work of construction. She brought 
 education to the ignorant, training to the home, care 
 for little children, wonderful development in the 
 schools. Mr. and Mrs. Shaw probably more than 
 any other two persons, have done more for the pris- 
 oners of this country, and for the broken, the hope- 
 less, the abandoned. In my work within dark, gray 
 
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 walls, Pauline Agassiz Shaw has been my greatest 
 help and inspiration, and it is through her generosity 
 and that of Mr. Shaw, that comfort and help, and a 
 new start and a new home have been brought to tens 
 of thousands of men whom the callous world looked 
 upon as outcasts. Her face that you have seen in your 
 homes, that you have loved to welcome, has been 
 loved and watched by the boys in Charlestown 
 prison, as in sympathetic tenderness she has looked 
 down by my side at their faces. I have hardly been 
 inside those walls, or rarely spoken at any public 
 gathering in and around Boston, that she has not been 
 with me or in my audience, an inspiration to us all. 
 The sweet self-effacement, the blessed influence of 
 her life will live on with us forever, and her sacred 
 message to you to-day will be a call to fill the place 
 that she has left. 
 
 You have heard of her love for the cause of woman- 
 hood. Are there any women here in Massachusetts 
 who will forget their ease, and sacrifice themselves 
 to take up her work ? 
 
 You have heard of her vision of international peace, 
 that vision which all must work for though "It must 
 be born through the agony of war ; but the day will 
 come when every nation will have laid aside its sword 
 and when hands in fraternity, in the great wondrous 
 peace that is coming, will be clasped as brothers and 
 sisters in one bond of love." Are there any here who, 
 
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 with their love for country, will rise up and hasten 
 that glad day ? 
 
 I saw a flag one day, a beautiful standard, but its gold 
 fringe was torn, its stars and stripes were stained an 
 ugly brown, its silk was bullet riven ; but it was 
 beautiful because of its story. It had been gallantly 
 carried by seven men who loved their country more 
 than their life. As each standard bearer fell another one 
 sprang into the breach and carried on the flag. She 
 has dropped the standard. Will you take it up ? She 
 who carried it so bravely has gone out into the fuller, 
 brighter life. Will you let your admiration and your 
 eulogy for this great and noble woman, this citizen 
 who had the vision for her country, will you let 
 your love and praise be only in words, or will you 
 here and now consecrate your life to the purer, better 
 service, taking up the standard that she passes on 
 to you ? 
 
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 OTHER ACTIVITIES OF 
 MRS. SHAW
 
 The Roxbury Neighborhood House 
 The Roxbury Neighborhood House began its history 
 as one of Mrs. Shaw's kindergartens and day nurseries 
 in 1878. In 1906 it was merged with other neigh- 
 borhood ventures and took its present name and 
 organization. 
 
 To-day the Roxbury Neighborhood House carries 
 on twenty - five clubs for girls, boys, and women ; 
 classes in carpentry, cobbling, cooking, claymodeling, 
 dressmaking, dancing, gymnastics, housekeeping, child- 
 ren's gardens ; stamp savings in the House and in the 
 nearby factories and laundries; music department giv- 
 ing lessons in piano, violin, and singing ; a lunch room 
 for working girls; a kindergarten (run by the Wheel- 
 ock School), a summer playground and baths, a sum- 
 mer camp in New Hampshire ; a co-operative buying 
 department for the neighborhood mothers ; and a 
 library, game-room, and pool-room, open afternoon 
 and evening. The Baby Hygiene Association has a 
 station at the House and a weekly clinic. Besides 
 these various activities the House provides from its 
 staff a grammar and high school visitor and a visiting 
 housekeeper. 
 
 About sixteen hundred people use the House weekly. 
 
 Social Service House 
 
 Social Service House was established in 1901 by 
 Pauline Agassiz Shaw. The aim was to advance the 
 
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 civic and social betterment among those in the neigh- 
 borhood of the North Bennet Street Industrial School. 
 For eight years it was operated by Mrs. Shaw as an 
 experiment in social work. It was her plan that 
 Social Service House be conducted as a model home 
 in the neighborhood and serve as a connecting link 
 between the community and the Industrial School. 
 At the present time many of the usual settlements 
 activities are maintained, such as classes in knitting, 
 sewing, cooking, weaving, embroidery, toy-making, 
 and various forms of recreational activities ; with 
 strong emphasis laid upon developing civic responsi- 
 bilities. During the summer the House maintains a 
 vacation school for young children in the city, a large 
 farm in the country for mothers, children, and young 
 people, and a Caddy Camp in the mountains for boys. 
 In 1908, at Mrs. Shaw's request, the management of 
 Social Service House was taken over by the Board 
 of Managers of the North Bennet Street Industrial 
 School. 
 
 The Cambridge ^Neighborhood House 
 The Cambridge Neighborhood House, 79 Moore 
 Street, Cambridge, was opened as a day nursery and 
 kindergarten in 1878. It is situated in Cambridgeport 
 about halfway between the State House and Harvard 
 Square, in the center of a district given over to man- 
 ufactures and to the homes of working people. The 
 
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 plant comprises four buildings : the central house on 
 Moore and Harvard Streets, a three-story tenement 
 house, and two one-family houses operated as a hous- 
 ing experiment. 
 
 The work was at first exclusively concerned with 
 little children and their mothers ; and has developed 
 according to the needs of the neighborhood and the 
 times. One of the earliest Mothers' Clubs was started 
 here. An experimental trade school for girls was op- 
 erated for three years and then taken over by the city. 
 As the community has outgrown the need of its ser- 
 vice in one direction, the House has met other needs 
 as they arose. Perhaps its most distinct contribution 
 to social work has been the demonstration of the prac- 
 ticability of conducting work in a community of 
 mixed colored and white with entire disregard of the 
 color line. 
 
 The activities of the House during the past year have 
 been as follows : 
 
 Domestic Science Garden and Playground 
 
 Music Year- Round Camp 
 
 Clubs and Classes Summer Outings 
 
 Montessori School Supervised Recreation 
 
 Library and Reading Room Health Station 
 
 Lunch Room for Working Girls Housing Experiment 
 
 Animal Rescue League Branch Study of Civic Conditions 
 Neighborhood Studies 
 
 The Toggles Street Neighborhood House 
 
 The Ruggles Street Neighborhood House situated at 
 
 the corner of Ruggles and Cabot Streets in Roxbury, 
 
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 is a settlement house of the type for which Mrs. 
 Shaw cared especially, small, and in close neighborly 
 relations with the people around it. 
 
 It was opened in 1878 as a day nursery and kinder- 
 garten. It has developed the usual functions of a set- 
 tlement. The emphasis has been laid on work with 
 children, handicraft, and gardening. It was one of 
 the first settlements to develop a community interest 
 in gardening. The activities for the past year have 
 been : 
 
 Domestic Science, Class Work Visiting Housekeeping 
 
 Classes in Drawing, Dancing, Sewing 
 
 Printing, Dressmaking, Gymnasium work 
 
 Embroidery, Cobbling 
 
 Lunch Room for Working Girls Music Dramatics 
 Library Gardening Playground Health Station 
 Caddy Camp All-year-round Camp Summer Outings 
 Co-operation with City in Elmwood Gymnasium 
 Co-operation with Hospitals, Schools, Educational Institutions 
 and Civic Organizations 
 
 The Cottage Place Neighborhood House & T)ay Nursery 
 The Cottage Place Neighborhood House and Day 
 Nursery is an interesting piece of co-operation be- 
 tween the city and private philanthropy, the city 
 furnishing part of an outgrown school building and 
 part of the expense of upkeep, while Mrs. Shaw fur- 
 nishes the staff of workers and the organization. 
 
 The emphasis is laid on the care of young children 
 and the leadership of the older women in their civic 
 
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 responsibilities. Clubs and classes similar in character 
 to those of the preceding two houses are conducted 
 here during the winter. A flourishing summer school 
 is carried on during the long vacation of the city 
 schools. The nursery co-operates with the Milk and 
 Baby Hygiene Association in conducting a weekly 
 clinic. 
 
 The North Bennet Street Day Nursery 
 
 The North Bennet Street Day Nursery, in the heart 
 of the Italian district, serves chiefly the working 
 mothers of that race. In addition to the usual func- 
 tions of the day nursery, it gives special attention to 
 careful investigation, follow-up work on rejected 
 cases, and to the problem of the family as a whole, 
 of which the nursery child is but a part. 
 
 Long -Sought -For Lodge 
 
 Long-Sought-For Lodge on Long-Sought-For Pond, 
 in Westford, is the vacation house serving the four 
 neighborhood houses and day nurseries. 
 
 The plant includes a farm of about twenty acres 
 with woodland and water front, a farmhouse, a large 
 barn, and a bungalow. It is open all the year round, 
 for week-end parties in winter, and the larger groups 
 in summer. 
 
 The Children's House 
 
 The Children's House, recently built on the same 
 
 property as Long-Sought-For Lodge, accommodates 
 
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 between forty and fifty children from the nurseries. 
 The children go up as soon as the schools close and 
 remain until they re-open in September. The parents 
 go up for week-ends. The improvement of the child- 
 ren in appearance, habits, and health at the end of 
 the season is marked. 
 
 The C otta & e 
 
 The Cottage Place Library, housed in the same 
 building as the Cottage Place Neighborhood House 
 and Day Nursery, is a neighborhood " socialized li- 
 brary " working in co-operation with the city library 
 and the Neighborhood House. 
 
 The 'Vocation 'Bureau 
 
 In 1907, when the classes for wage earners, grouped 
 under what was called the Breadwinners' Institute, 
 were about to be organized for the year at the Civic 
 Service House, it was thought that the help of a wise 
 counselor, alive to the daily economic problems of 
 the workers, at the disposal of the men and women 
 who came to the classes, would be of benefit and make 
 the class-work more fruitful. 
 
 Most fortunately, the late Prof. Frank Parsons was 
 one of the volunteer members of the House stafT and 
 the suggestion enlisted his warm support. He sub- 
 mitted plans for a Vocation Bureau which would be 
 open not only to the members but to all who wished 
 to come for help in their life-work problems. 
 
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 Mrs. Shaw was consulted about the plan, and she 
 saw at once the far - reaching character of such an 
 undertaking. The first Vocation Bureau in the country 
 was opened in the fall of 1907. Professor Parsons 
 lived but a year to see the start of what has become 
 to-day a recognized function of public education. 
 
 That children should not go out into employments 
 without guidance, expert information about occupa- 
 tions, and supervision during employment has long 
 been a tenet among social workers. The Vocational 
 Guidance Movement is attempting to give a practical 
 solution to this problem. In scores of cities and towns 
 throughout the country there are public school or 
 privately supported bureaus for vocational guidance. 
 In a score of universities there are courses for training 
 workers in this new field. Mrs. Shaw has made pos- 
 sible the course given in the Department of Education 
 at Harvard University. The Vocation Bureau has been 
 conducting the vocational guidance courses at Boston 
 University and Teachers College, Columbia Uni- 
 versity. Ten years ago there was no literature on 
 the subject of vocational guidance. A recent biblio- 
 graphy published by the Harvard University Press 
 lists references on this subject, all of recent date, in 
 more than eighty pages. 
 
 Among the books issued by the Vocation Bureau 
 are Choosing a Vocation; The Vocational Guidance of 
 Youth ; Touth, School, and Vocation ; Readings in Voca- 
 
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 tional Guidance; The School and the Start in Life; 
 The Shoe Industry; The Law as a Vocation; Advertising 
 as a Vocation; Opportunities in the Department Store, 
 and many other occupational books and pamphlets. 
 
 Five years ago the Vocation Bureau organized the 
 first association of employing executives connected 
 with the principal stores, factories, and public service 
 corporations in and near Boston. The Bureau an- 
 nounced what has since been called the New Profes- 
 sion of Handling Men, and formulated the plans of 
 a modern employment or personnel department. It 
 proposed a training course for those who hire and 
 supervise employees in industrial establishments. The 
 Tuck School of Finance and Administration at Dart- 
 mouth College was first among the colleges to under- 
 take such a course. To-day there are ten associations of 
 employment executives, organized in a National Con- 
 ference, and a new literature dealing with socialized 
 phases of employment is in process of development. 
 
 From the beginning of this work Mrs. Shaw gave 
 unstintedly and continuously of her thought, time, 
 counsel, and help. It was her vision of what voca- 
 tional guidance and right employment methods would 
 do for education and industry, which made possible 
 the growth of these enterprises. 
 
 The Vocation Bureau, and the movements which it 
 has made possible, were only one expression of Mrs. 
 Shaw's love for humankind, one trail of the many she 
 blazed for the socializing of school, work and life itself. 
 
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 The fivtC Service House. A Social Settlement and a School for 
 
 Citizenship. . . Founded IQOI 
 
 The Civic Service House was founded in 1901 when 
 immigration reached its half-million mark. The fol- 
 lowing ten years the new immigration poured in at 
 the phenomenal rate of a million a year. Boston was 
 then the second largest port, and the North End, 
 where the old immigration station is still located, was 
 the great gateway, second only to Ellis Island. 
 
 Mrs. Shaw saw the opportunities for civic service 
 in this field and dedicated the House at the very out- 
 set to the constructive citizenship of adult immigrant 
 wage earners, men and women seeking a foothold on 
 new soil. Someone said that " the cause of good gov- 
 ernment and patriotism is halting because the rear 
 detachments of our citizenship are not brought for- 
 ward into the contest." This is especially true of our 
 new citizenship groups, the great inarticulate minori- 
 ties who often hold, in many a local, state and na- 
 tional campaign, the balance of power on election 
 day. The Civic Service House, during the sixteen 
 years of intensive field work, therefore addressed 
 itself particularly to the task of articulating these 
 powerful minorities to our body politic. 
 
 Since 1901, practically three waves of immigration 
 swept over the North End and out into the great 
 beyond of the American continent the Jewish, the 
 Italian, the Polish. To each movement the House 
 
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 contributed its quota of leadership, men and women 
 schooled in democracy. In the early days, when the 
 night school was but a way station for young boys 
 who had prematurely left the day school, the Civic 
 Service House Night School was a pioneer in this 
 field of Americanization. Later, when the public 
 night schools began to function in the neighborhood, 
 we were able to contribute not only interpreters and 
 teachers specially trained for the new task, but new 
 text books designed to meet the particular needs oi 
 adult immigrants.* 
 
 Out of our New American clubs graduated also 
 many of the splendid group of young men now con- 
 ducting the large and active North End School Cen- 
 ter. Through the pioneer efforts in vocational guid- 
 ance by Professor Frank Parsons with an immigrant 
 group on the roof garden, one summer evening, came 
 forth the first two volumes of the new literature on 
 this subject : " Choosing a Vocation," and " Voca- 
 tional Guidance of Youth." 
 
 Out of our social service groups also developed the 
 volume on " The Field of Social Service," especially 
 intended for volunteers and widely used by members 
 of women's clubs." 
 
 " Street-Land," the product of an educational experi- 
 ment under the auspices of the Boston Public 
 Schools, in the guidance and supervision of the vast 
 
 * Bibliography : " Civic Reader " and " Civics for New Americans." 
 
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 army of immigrant children trading in the city streets 
 represents another phase of Mrs. Shaw's interest in 
 the complex problems of the immigrant family. As 
 a result of a prolonged co-operative campaign a new 
 park was established in the North End. Our share in 
 the nation-wide study of the " Boy Problem," under 
 the auspices of the National Federation of Settlements, 
 shortly to be published in book form, again would 
 have been impossible without Mrs. Shaw's generous 
 interest and support. 
 
 This world struggle is forcing on us daily new prob- 
 lems, yes, a new terminology. Such words as " for- 
 eigner" and "alien," so repugnant to Mrs. Shaw's 
 democratic instincts, have been forced back on the 
 American public with ominous meaning. We are now 
 talking of "alien friends" and " alien enemies." Many 
 of us who have fought these tendencies are now obliged 
 to reinterpret these terms in the light of new and un- 
 precedented conditions. The World War, therefore, 
 clearly emphasizes the need of not only an interna- 
 tional but a domestic immigration policy. We are 
 therefore glad to record our share in the successful 
 consummation of a protracted movement in this Com- 
 monwealth for the establishment of a State Immigra- 
 tion Commission which will henceforth co-operate 
 with all social agencies in the effort to develop a 
 distinctively American program, all the more urgent 
 to-day when democracy is being challenged. 
 
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