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WOMAN IN ART school far and wide, in Europe as well as in America. Emma Willard was the superior artist of womanhood, of character, and these few pages give the present generation, but a miniature of her activities in evolving the plan, and laying the foundation of the higher educational uplift of woman in the past century, upon which the twentieth is building the prodigious superstructure for the development and advancement of the whole world in the centuries to come.

The munificent gift of a million dollars from Mrs. Russell Sage has made possible a new and architecturally beautiful home for the school, to which it moved in 1913. The gift was in memory of the mother of Mrs. Sage, who was educated under the influence of the founder, and an expression of her own appreciation of the mind, the work, and the influence of Madame Emma Willard, not only for womanhood but for the world. 281