228 ELIZABETH GARY AGASSIZ 



I address you here today in this cheerful, well-ap- 

 pointed building is evidence enough of our progress 

 from those days to these, and I have to congratulate 

 you especially on the improvements of the past year, 

 on our new lecture and recitation rooms, our well- 

 lighted studio for our art classes, and lastly on the 

 hall, where we now meet, — which has contributed 

 so much during the last winter, not only to your means 

 of instruction, but also to your pleasure and amuse- 

 ments. 



This review of the past is very cheering and may 

 well give us hope for the future. I must add in no 

 spirit of egotism but in one of very sincere thankful- 

 ness that this hope is strengthened by the ever- 

 increasing confidence of the public in the Annex, of 

 which we have frequent evidence. And in this connec- 

 tion, let me say that in addition to many former acts 

 of kindness and sympathy from the Women's Edu- 

 cational Association in Boston we owe to them a new 

 debt of gratitude for their efforts in our behalf this 

 winter. They have always known that we looked to- 

 ward a closer affiliation with the University as our 

 final goal, and this winter their committee, appointed 

 by them for the purpose, has striven with untiring 

 energy and zeal to raise a large sum in order to help 

 us in this direction. 



I ought perhaps in the present uncertain state of 

 our affairs, to refrain from even a distant allusion to 

 our hopes with reference to the University. But to 

 part from you today without some reference to what 

 is I know uppermost in your minds as well as in mine. 



