Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-03
saturday, March 3, 1883.
rHn HARvARD ANNEX.

Much Fun has baHh made of stthe Harvard ! Annex, !" but those wAo win can afford to be I laughed at. This institutfon is now in it's fourth year, and has proved decided suc- cess. It came into life quietly. few ladies \ in Cambridge, wishing to secure for women l share in the benefits of Harvard, arranged 1 with professors and Instructors to repeat to classes of young women, without the walls, the instruction they give to young men with 1 in. The professors have, it is said, found their ezassss eager for knowledge and ready and able to do as much work as the young
 men. In several cases the proficiency in difficult studies has been such as would enti- tle the student to the highest honors upon the established scale of the university.
 About two hundred women interested in the Annex met in Boston Thursday, and Mrs. Louis Agassiz read very interesting report. Since the school was organized the number
 of pupils has averaged from thirty-fve to
 forty. Three of these, who have held high
 rank in all their studies, are graduating this
 year, and others are preparing to do so in
 the two following years. As now limited,
 the Annex is, for the class of women to
 oSPSOAesAAJ
 The charge per year for full college course
 is $2OO, $50 more than is paid by Harvard
 students. It therefore costs those who
 enter for the whole four years $500, besides
 the expense of living in Cambridge. The
 single courses are $75 year. Thus far the
 students have been either young women
 fitting as teachers or older women who are
 already teachers, but who allow themselves
 out of their small earnings the rare luxury
 of little change from teaching to learning,
 that they may go back to their work re-
 freshed and better prepared. To these are
 to be added not few women of scholarly
 tastes with means to gratify them, who come
 to study under higher auspices simply be-
 cause they enjoy it.
 Mrs. Agassiz thus refers to very enceur
 aging feature of the enterprise f'We have
 had as yet no fighty students, brought by the novelty of the thing, and very little fragmentary, half-digested work. Certain anxieties respecting the presence of young women as students in a university town, without constant oversight of their daily lives, have vanished on nearer ap- proach. Our students are scattered by twos and thRees, in Cambridge families, their lodgings being chosen for them by their friends, or by the ladies of our executive committee. They quietly pursue their oecu- patton as unnoticed as the daughters of any Cambridge residents, nor has any objection or obstacle arisen on that scere."
 The ladies who now have the Annex in charge hope to raise, within the next year or two, large endowment fund, and to estab fish definite and permanent relation with the university. On this point the report says "A college at Cambridge holding only an undecided, indefinite relation to Harvard is a very different thing from one officially connected with the university. Even had we the means to continue on our present basis we can have no permanent hold on the ad- vantages we have won until we are in some sense accepted by Harvard, till our affairs are administered ana our studies directed by the same organization as governs the univer- sity herself. For this we cannot hope till we can bring to Harvard the means of providing for the child We ask her to adopt nor have we any right to ask this without such pro- vision" It is proposed to raise $10o,O0o for an endowment fund, and $26, 900 have been subscribed during the last fortnight.
 There will of course be much discussion 1 before the Annex gets formally adopted by 1 Harvard, but there is 8 good argument for 1 it's adoption in the fact that it has lived and | fourished by the side of the college without | doing damage or disturbing anybody. If it is joined to the college there is no reason to believe that it will do any harm and it will | do more good than it has been able to do un- der the present plan. L