[6] During his presidency (which was then a part-time position), the college purchased the Greenleaf estate and built five new dormitories.

In his last presidential report, Briggs wrote: “I believe that ultimately Radcliffe will become a women’s college in Harvard, but that neither institution is as yet prepared for such a union.”[7] After his retirement from Radcliffe, he wrote the novel, Men, Women And Colleges, which was published in 1925 by the Houghton Mifflin Company.

Together, they were the parents of three children:[1] Briggs died on April 24, 1934, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at the home of his daughter Lucia.

[1] He was buried at Oak Grove Cemetery in Plymouth, Massachusetts,[14] where he had a summer home.

[1] His nautical namesake, the liberty ship LeBaron Russell Briggs, was scuttled with its cargo of nerve gas on August 18, 1970, as the last installment of a project in which the United States disposed of much of its stockpile by dumping it at sea.