EDITH MINOT TWISS
1873 - 1925
The Faculty of Vassar College wishes to record its
sense of the loss which it has suffered in the
death of Edith Minot Twiss, Associate Professor of
Botany. In the six years of her service here, Miss
Twiss had won the respect of the college community
for her single-minded devotion to her chosen subject
of Bacteriology and for the clear-cut efficiency
with which she served on committees of public health
in the township ad of academic business in the col-
lege. Her students appreciated the ripe scholarship
and long experience which she brought to laboratory
and lecture-room and shared with them so generously.
Few of her associates realized that her adequacy in
her work and her quiet power came from a fortitude
that met all demands upon her at the cost of great
fatigue and self-sacrifice. It was her indomitable
courage which carried her through the work of the
year to its very close, only a month before her death
Such a spirit lives on, not only in the memory of
friends, but in that growing life which she taught
and fostered in the college.
Elizabeth Hazelton Haight
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