New-York tribune., 1886-04-04
THE HARVARD GIRLS.
THE annex FINDS A HOME.

THE ANNEX" FINDS A HOME.
IFRoM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF TRIBUNE
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, April 2.-Close by the
Washington elm Garden-st. old-fashoned man
sion which belonged to the Fay family. Tue Off
OF "Socety for the Colleg ate Instruction Of
Women by Professors aud other Instructors Of Harvard
College have looked upon this place with longing for
several years. tut the family heirs naturally did not
wish to sell 1t. 1t came about in be course OF time.
however. that a lady was left alone TO occupy
her ancestral home she decided to 20
elsewhere to live aud offered it to the
woman's college. The quaint old house with its little
lawn all that could be wished for, so the Society
purchased IL. and the wherein the famous
song Fair Harvard" written fifty years ago has
become the Annex" library. TINS library Is a coscy
room at the top of the house. From Its windows one
looks across The Cambridge Common to the college
building ont into the branches OF the historic
Washington elm gateway.
On cool days there is always bright fire burning in
the library CRATE. Around the walls the few hundred
books which the neucleus OF the library There is
reading table furnished with all the home and foreign
and there is study table where in the dark
hour before dinner on winter afternoons artistic
duplex burner gives that home light to the which
only a lamp with pretty shade has power to shed.
When the pupils need books that to be found in
this rOom they are brought over from the Harvard
library by small boy who rushes back and forth with
the speed and Importance of pony express
Until TINS year Annex" girls seldom to the Col
lege Library but their position is assured by
the possession Of college home, aud professors and
students beginning look upon them with less criti
cal and more approving eyes.
1t was an ambitious young woman from the West who
first insisted upcn having Greek lessons from Harvard
professor and she did not fa,cr in her persistence
until she got them The beloved classical professor
confesses in athletic phrase: She cleaned out"
After that several girls began to want lessons and at
last the plan of womans college was formed by Pro-
fessOr GreenOugh Mr.. Arthur Gilman and others The
regular classes began threo years ago. and three
classes have been graduated. There seventy
five students In attendance. When the officers the
society get enough endowment money from the
good folk who like to endow colleges, 1t Is
probable that tho annex" will, Ike Grton,
receive name and become a regularly Incorporated
part OF Harvard. The professors now repeat for iemi
nine the words they other
hours TO the men, There is story current here
that the professor OF sanskrit had last year just
elective student IN college and one In the annex" As
things now he obliged to lecture to the young
alone and then say all TO the young
The professors have aclkeys and let themselves in by
the front door, but the pupils goaround TO the side door
The young women are rather proud OF the drawing
room not much for what II is for what IL be-
fore generous girls made 1t homckc by put
ting down rags, and some outside friends hung up
tans ana pictures and added beautiful marble Her
mos" Here the officers OF the society
on Thursdays in March" TO take tea from
-four to six" for the furtherance OF the
socia! interests OF the annex" Everybody
Cambridge Boston who had given bit OF love
money influence subscription to the Harvard
perilne /" has been these Thursdays Mrs.
Agassz, Miss LongfcllOw, Mrs Gurncy Mrs Glluan and
Miss HOrsfOrd have been the hostesscs. Mrs. A-assn
Annex" written her heart. ana many OF the
students would ike to her to the wo'nans
college. name must be bestowed TO it In tine for
'Aunex Is only the nickname given by certain pro-
I-ssors wife u mskesh!f until more dIgnncd title
could be found
People 10 the Thursdays" took their tea in
the recepon-room the hall or In the duing-ro0m
where the pupils get cup from the housckeeper
any day OF the week. though Of them lodge in
house Up one flight of stairs the Office of the
taries, Mrs Gilman and Miss Howe, and
either side are three class-rooms. At the back
this floor is tho conversation room
"Cbatterbox." little snuggsry girls are
free TO talk aloud and read newspapers to tue
mothery sofa i'll the comfort idleness. On the top
noor besides .he library. two other rooms devoted
to TIE study OF science Here at almost any hour OF the
day may eager faces bent microscopes or
experiments Iii physics The physical laboratory Is
thoroughly well hted and special students have access
to the larger opportunities OF the college museums.
A large aud constantly Increasing number OF profes-
sors take au active interest In the "Annex work. sev
era oi tn them "e ea 10 .eaGm ior nohng when The
amount which the society can afford 10 Is not worth
unwecome addition the salaries of the younger
Bnt even they teach quite much for love Of The
do not yet acknowledge the probabilities OF incorpors
ton with the university.
The students vary IN and in training. Gifls OF
seventeen who have been nurtured questions and
problems from their earliest school days come here and
sit down TO the entrance examinations with much
calm conposuro and uncOncern they could possibly
shOw IN stinG down TO breakfast. Other elder women,
who have perhaps been engaged for years In a pro-
fession enter special without exannstlon as in
foreign universities. and follow the study that
active fo has Shown them that they need. In Doctor
Royce's philosophy classes one finds Cambridge women
OF mature years who take his thorough tuition 4
means Of Intellectual exercise. Teachers who have
the harness for yers high school or academy
here to get new impetus and broader culture for
their work.
One of the IN ost popular courses in the Annex 4.
this year ny Professor Parker The women we'll
the alve with literary ambitions.
There Is guessing how many aspirants In " Eaglsh
r. are dreaming OF future OF fame result OF their
pres devotion TO themes and theses
The most famous and ressve Harvard professors
the Annex list aud all OF them give the
ment for womens higher education at least negative
support from President Eliot down. DIR. sargents gym
nahum Is chosen for the athletic Inaidens
aud boat II promised for by the enter
prising Freshman girls of this city Tney have ea
OF competing with the after the Of the
young women In d.. Holiness last book.
III was not b0at-racing, blcy cling crlcketplaying
student who uttcrance amusing remark III
gard To the Annex students He was ~ rather stud
lous Young man who would stand higher IN his classes
II IL we're not for the nearness OF Boston and the thou
SAND and one diversions OF social nature. Scme one
told him That an Annex" girl had taken honors III
classics higher than young man Ia the university on
the same EXAMINATIONS Oh well, girls have nothing
10 do but stln>y said he, have too much else
THE PUPPY WAS HUNGRY.
lady entered a broadway car holding in