214 ELIZABETH GARY AGASSIZ 



through the generosity of Mr. Harold Whiting, our 

 instructor in Physics, the command of a small physi- 

 cal laboratory, fitted up by him with all the neces- 

 sary apparatus. 



One thing it may be well to state here. Certain anx- 

 ieties respecting the presence of young women in a 

 university town, without constant oversight of their 

 daily lives, have vanished on nearer approach. Our 

 students are scattered by twos and threes in Cam- 

 bridge families, their lodgings being chosen for them 

 by their friends, or by the ladies of our Executive 

 Committee. In Cambridge such arrangements are 

 easily made, and we have had no difficulty in finding 

 safe and pleasant homes for them. They quietly pur- 

 sue their occupations as unnoticed as the daughters 

 of any Cambridge residents; nor has any objection or 

 obstacle arisen on that score. It should be added that 

 the health of our students has been excellent thus 

 far, — we have had but two cases of serious illness in 

 our four years' experience, and many of the students 

 have gained rather than lost in the general look of 

 vigor. 



But while difficulties are thus dispersing, and edu- 

 cationally our scheme is growing apace, our means 

 are dwindling even more rapidly, and we are fast ap- 

 proaching the end of the sum we had provided. The 

 Annex has, on the whole, been more nearly self-sup- 

 porting than we had expected, and we have still funds 

 enough remaining to carry it on for a year or two 

 longer. Unless, in that interval, we can raise a large 

 endowment fund, by which means we also hope to 



