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10 TECHNIQUE Vol. XXVII gresses at home and abroad, and with him she shared that special prominence in American science which fell to the lot of Professor Rogers through his own investigations and teach- ing and through those of his three brothers, — scientists all. And when it became apparent that there was need and room in Boston for an Institute of Technology, Mrs. Rogers entered with keenest interest and enthusiasm into her husband ' s plans for its foundation and development. Then came our bloody Civil War, in which, and in the Vir- ginia she knew so well, she lost her only brother, Captain James Savage. But hardly had the smoke of battle lifted when the Institute was opened, — in April, 1865, — and Mrs. Rogers, as the wife of its Founder and first President forthwith assumed that queenly relation to it which she held for all of us until her death and will always hold. This is not the place to dwell upon Mrs. Rogers ' complete devotion to her husband in his strength and in his weakness, — for in 1870 illness compelled him to resign the Presidency and to retire into almost absolute seclusion for eight long years; or to tell of her gracious hospitality to hundreds of Institute ofhcers and students at her winter home on Marlborough Street or at her summer home — Morningside — at Newport; or of her in- sistence that the Institute should keej) inviolate its essential independence, avoiding entangling alliances with other Insti- tutions; or of her love and abiding admiration for President Walker, her husband ' s chosen successor; or of her last great work for the Institute — her own and her beloved husband ' s onlv child — in bestowing upon it after her death her ample fortune. Here is no word of sorrow — but only of rejoicing, for the noble and gracious and devoted life of the first lady of Tech- nology. Here is only a humble tribute from the students of her cherished Institute, laid lovingly upon the altar of her memory. Here is only their i)arting token of admiration and affection and farewell!
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TO THE MEMORY OF MRS. WILLIAM BARTON ROGERS |N the summer of 1845 the Professor of Geology in the old and famous University of ' irg•inia while on a visit to the White Mountains of New Hamp- shire met there a law ' er, the distinguished author of the New England Genealogical Dictionary, Mr. James Savage of Boston, with his family. The acquaintance thus begun gradually ripened into intimacy until in 1849 Mr. Savage ' s eldest daughter, Emma, became Mrs. William Barton Rogers, under which name she is destined to be forever remem- bered and loved by all Technology, long after our memory of her has passed over into tradition. For four years after her marriage Mrs. Rogers lived with her husband in the historic quadrangle of the University of Virginia, but in 185.5 Dr. Rogers resigned his professorship and with his wife removed to Boston. From the very beginning of her acquaintance with Pro- fessor Rogers, Emma Savage took the deepest interest in scien- tific subjects, especially geology — alwa s a favorite study of her husband ' s — but hardly less in physics, chemistry, and meteorology. And when, in 1858, Darwin and Wallace gave to the world their theory of natural selection, and the great move- ment toward evolution began in earnest with the publication of The Origin of Species in 1859, Mrs. Rogers, like her hus- band, became an ardent evolutionist. With Professor Rogers she watched the establishment and development of the Law- rence Scientific School at Harvard and the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale. With him she travelled widelv, and bv travel came to know many of the leading geologists and other scien- tific men of P urope. With him she attended scientific con- [ 9 ]
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