Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1894-07-06
THE GROWTH OF A Few YEARS.
How tho Work of the Harvard Annex Has
Increased Since 1870.


How tho Work of the Harvard Annex Hal
Increased Since 1870.
The report of Arthur Gilman, secre
tary of the Society for the Collegiate In
| struction of Women by the Professors
and Other Instructors of Harvard Col
lege, covers the thirteenth year, ending
Sept. /, 1899, and shows remarkable
growth and prosperity. The annex was
started in small way. Before it was
thought of there had been instruction
for women by professors in colleges, but
that instruction was not of the character
planned to be given in Cambridge. III
1876 the originators of the undertaking,
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Gilman, thought
an arrangement could be made by which
women could receive instruction from
the professors in Harvard college.
The admission of women directly to
the college was out of the question. Ac-
cordingly no advances were made di-
rectly to the corporation of the college,
but instruction was asked of the profess
ors, whose college duties were to be in
no wise interfered with. 1t was not
until 1878 that the plan was perfected
and brought to the attention of Professor
and Mrs. j. B. Greenough, who heartily
approved of it. Most of the other pro-
fessors gave their immediate assent to
the request to teach women, and Presi-
dent Eliot added important counsel and
encouragement. A directing body was
then formed, consisting of Mr.. and Mrs.
Gilman, Professor and Mrs. Greenough,
Miss Lillian Horsford, Miss Alice NJ.
Longfellow, Mrs. Josiah Parsons Cooke,
Mrs. z. w. Gurney and Mrs. Louis
A9assiz
In February, 1879, the first circular
was issued, and in the September fol-
lowing the annex opened. The first
year began with twenty-five students,
who formed twenty-nine classes Of in
struction. and called for the services of
seven professors, four assistant profess
ors and twelve instructors. At first tile
annex occupied two rooms in house on
Appian way, near the college. From
year to year additional rooms were re-
quired, and finally the society moved
into its present home in the Fay house.
This building was an old brick mansion.
formerly the home of Edward Everett
Soon after the annex secured the PROF.
erty Fay house had to be much en-
larged, but the additions were so planned
that the dignity and character of the
old structure were retained.
When the annex took the Fay house
in 1885 the question of finances became
a serious one. At the beginning the en-
terprise had no strong financial backing
There was an annual deficit Of about
1900 for the first five years. This sum
was cheerfully made up by men and wo-
men in Boston who were interested in
the work The money for the enlarge
ment of the new quarters was alst
raised, and an endowment fund started
Miss Horsford, the treasurer, gives the
receipts last year as s47 ,9SS.5S, and the
expenditures as about S, 900 less. OF the
income $4,000 was from tuition fees,
$1,000 for a Maria Denny Fay scholar
ship and 81 900 from two years interest
on the general fund; $27, $50 was expend-
ed in salaries, ,04S on the library and
So, 1886 on the building.
Mr.. Gilman calls attention to the fact
that the number Of students increased
during the year from 174 to 241, and this
fall there are nearly 300 The teaching
force comprises more than seventy Of the
professors and other instructors of Har-
ward college, and as usual represents the
older professors as well as the later addi-
tions to the faculty. The graduate stu
dents numbered twenty-five, coming
from such institutions as Boston univer-
sity, Bryn Mawr college, Kansas univer-
sity, Nebraska university, Barnard col
lege, Smith college, Wisconsin univer-
sity, Oberlin college, Vassar college,
Mount Holyoke college and Wellesley.
One hundred and thirteen institutions
furnished students. against seventy
seven the year before.
In the classes the special increases
were in the departments of Greek, Latin.
English, German, French, italian, phil
osophy, political economy, history, tie
fine arts, mathematics, astronomy, chem
istry, botany, physical geography and
geology. The degree of bachelor of
arts, or rather the degree certificate, was
conferred upon ten; master of arts upon
one; final honors in classics upon one;
final honors in history upon one; second
year honors in classics upon three, and
the Sargent prize for the best translation
of an ode of Horace, competed for by
the students of the college as well, went
to Miss Margaret Foster Herrick, of
Boston. Boston Letter.
Nrs. Gladstone,