I have thought the matter over, and, while I do not like to believe it, I think it is true.'" Of her rooms at the observatory, Miss Grace Anna Lewis, who had been a guest, wrote thus: "Her furniture was plain and simple, and there was a frank simplicity corresponding therewith which made me believe she chose to have it so.

It looked natural for her.

I think I should have been disappointed had I found her rooms fitted up with undue elegance." "Professor Mitchell's position at Vassar gave astronomy a prominence there that it has never had in any other college for women, and in but few for men.

I suppose it would have made no difference what she had taught.

Doubtless she never suspected how many students endured the mathematical work of junior Astronomy in order to be within range of her magnetic personality." (From "Wide Awake," September, 1889.) A graduate writes: "Her personality was so strong that it was felt all over the college, even by those who were not in her department, and who only admired her from a distance." Extract from a letter written after her death by a former pupil: "I count Maria Mitchell's services to Vassar and her pupils infinitely valuable, and her character and attainments great beyond anything that has yet been told....