CLASS OF 1866

Agnes, daughter of Nathan Parker Hunt, died of pneumonia at the home of her father, at Manchester, N.H., February 18, 1923.

Miss Hunt graduated from the Manchester High School in 1893. She entered Smith in the fall of 1897. In 1900, she received from Yale University a degree of Doctor of Philosophy. For three years she was connected as an instructor with Western Reserve College. Later she was at Wells College for two years in the same capacity. After a year's rest, she accepted the position as associate professor of history at Smith. She retained this position until called home by the sickness and subsequent death of her mother, Elizabeth Bisbee Hunt.

It would seem to the writer that the most vital interests of her life were entered into after she returned to her home in Manchester. For, in the short span that was given her to work, she made a most remarkable impression upon the social and intellectual life of her native city. She bore a prominent part in very many of the activities of the city and state, social, educational, and historical.

During the three years as instructor of history at Western Reserve, she lived two years at the settlement house maintained by the college, and took an active part in the settlement work. When she returned to Manchester in 1920, this experience fitted her to give valuable service to the Manchester Girls' Club.

One of the pieces of work she had personally undertaken and for which she had done much research work was a monograph history of the state for Smith College Studies in History. As president of the New Hampshire Smith College Club, she had an outline in readiness for a survey of the schools of the state. A local paper said of her: "In the death of Miss Agnes Hunt, not only her personal friends but the entire , city has met an irreparable loss. It has been said of her most aptly that she was a quiet force in the community, which was fortunate in having her return to it after her rich experience in other places to give to Manchester the benefit of her splendid mental and spiritual equipment. Although she worked quietly and unassumingly, it was always to some great end."

As Young has said, "Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow."

Secretary, Henry Whittemore, 47 Worcester Lane, Waltham, Mass.