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tion out of the reach of many who covet it, and some 

 of those who come even for one year only do so at a 

 great sacrifice, though not, we think, without finding 

 the investment a profitable one. Were every facility 

 offered them, however, we hardly suppose that women 

 would ever look upon a college course of study subse- 

 quent to their school life as an inevitable or even 

 necessary part of their education; nor do we think it 

 would seem to any of us desirable that they should do 

 so. But this being granted, there still remain quite 

 enough for whom such a completion of their earlier 

 training is important in view of their occupation as 

 teachers, and if there are others who ask it purely for 

 its own sake, we surely should not deny them. . . . 



Thus far our Annex students have belonged to the 

 classes of woman named above. They have been 

 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 a little 

 change from teaching to learning, that they may go 

 back to their work refreshed and better prepared; 

 or women of scholarly tastes, with means to gratify 

 them, who come, as we have said, to study under 

 higher auspices simply because they enjoy it. We 

 have had as yet no flighty students, brought by the 

 novelty of the thing, and very little fragmentary, 

 half-digested work. Our instruction has of course 

 been limited by the lack of laboratories, apparatus, 

 books, etc. We have, however, with the help of 

 friends, collected a working library of some 800 vol- 

 umes. For the first time this year, we have also, 



