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"all the College has" would content me. I believe 

 that much might follow, not because the Annex would 

 desire it, but because in the natural phenomenon the 

 College would be likely to give it. When you say that 

 the Annex does not expect to get what it wants "ex- 

 cept through the College," to that I agree, because 

 we have aimed at academic education from the very 

 start, and to accept outside instruction including that 

 from women teachers (without any intention to de- 

 preciate it) would place us on an exact level with all 

 the women's colleges, and we really do not need one 

 in Cambridge, nor is there any reason for establishing 

 one here. In the early days of the Annex we have said 

 this over and over again, — nothing but the prox- 

 imity to Harvard justifies the establishment of a 

 woman's college here. As to coeducation except in 

 the most limited sense, it would be desired neither 

 by them nor us. 



While affairs were in this condition a little incident oc- 

 curred that had great importance in its consequences. This 

 incident was related in an address delivered at the Radcliffe 

 College Commencement exercises in 1902 by John C. Gray, 

 Royall Professor of Law in the Harvard Law School, who 

 later became a member of the Council of Radcliffe College. 

 It is peculiarly interesting because it illustrates the fact 

 that the Annex owed the important advance that it was 

 about to make to the personal regard that Mrs. Agassiz 's 

 friends had for her. The story is best told in Professor 

 Gray's own words, which were published in the Harvard 

 Graduates* Magazine for September, 1902: 



