Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-07
In the Harvard Annex"
From the Boston Globe.


None of the students live at the school, but
while they are in the building they are on the
most intimate terms and feeling OF sociabil-
ity among the students is encouraged by the
authorities
Amy young woman who wishes to become a
student in the college must write to Arthur
Gilman, the well-known author and educator,
who Is secretary, and he finds out all about the
student and her family. The ages Of the ap-
plicants vary from eighteen to forty years.
After the student has passed the entrance
examination and has come 10 Cambridge, wha.
is called the students committee OF the college
Is called on for the performance of an import
ant function. This committee is entrusted with
the responsibility of either selecting the home
in which the student Is to live or supervising
the students selection. All this applies, Of
course, only to the case of the student who
comes from distant state or q not very ada
cent city or town of New England.
All Of the students at the annex who have no
homes in Cambridge board in private families
in that city. OF the 160 students at the annex
this year there are about fifty who live in this
way. The other 100 or more students come
from such places as Roxbury and Cambridge
and Soncryile and Newton. Their homes are
In those towns, and when they get through
with their work at the annex every day they 60
home.
Outside of the supervising interest which the
authorities have in the social life of the stu
dents, there is another interest that manifests
Itself In all kinds Of pleasant WAYS. The young
women are encouraged to regard their instruc-
tors as persons who are more to them than
official pedagogues. And then the students
have no class spirit, no social sets, none of the
barriers to kindly intercourse that inevitably
exist in other colleges
For several years a certain ceremony has ex-
listed at the annex. It il the getting together
at the commencement of the college year of all
the students. The new students assemble at
the invitation Of those who have been on the
body has jolly good time. Everybody
gets acquainted with everybody else ut these
gatherings. 1t is the commencement recep-
ten. and there are dancing and the usual ad-
juncts to a social affair. But the invitations
are strictly confined, alas! to the students
themselves.
On this particular day the annex building il
delivered over to the students. Every room in
the house il theirs to do "a they please and they
usually please. The refreshments are supplied
by the annex housekeeper, and the students
who give the invitations pay for the fun. Ice
cream and cake and chocolate and from 100 to
$50 students-this is the list Of sweets to be
enumerated in describing the makeup Of the
reception. The eve of man has never looked
upon the scenes at these gatherings and prob
ably never will, and the chronicler of annex
social history must be content to accept his in
formation second hand.
Afternoon teas are y conspicuous feature Of
the social life Of the annex. These teas were
held in the parlor ON Thursdays the year before
last and on Wednesdays last yea-. At these teas
there are present the professors Of the college
and their wives and anybody elsa to whom the
young women are kind enough to send invita-
tons. They don't begin to have these teas nm
til after Thanksgiving day.
Before long the annex will have e. MANY
clubs ~ Ia usual in regular college.