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by a woman to the University. It seemed fitting that 

 she, who thus showed her sympathy with Hberal 

 learning and with the principles of freedom embodied 

 in the first New England college, should be commem- 

 orated in the first college for women ever associated 

 with Harvard. This adjustment between the Annex 

 and Harvard has been reached after a year of the 

 most careful deliberation between the Corporation 

 of Harvard, the Corporation of our Society, and the 

 Harvard Faculty. Surely the combination of three 

 such bodies in full knowledge of the facts and in per- 

 fect accord with each other, — the Annex Society 

 representing fifteen years of experience in the intellec- 

 tual training of women under Harvard instruction, — 

 the Harvard Corporation ready to accept at the 

 hands of the Annex the whole direction of the future 

 education of their students, — and lastly all the pro- 

 fessors supp>orting this transfer — surely such a triple 

 Alliance may be trusted as having all the elements of 

 safety and permanence. 



I am aware that our small means have been made a 

 reproach to us, and that our opponents and your pe- 

 titioners say that we are not rich and well-endowed 

 enough to be trusted with the giving of degrees. It is 

 true that our means are small as compared with cer- 

 tain of the colleges for women. But such as they are, 

 they have been well husbanded; and the fact that we 

 never have been in debt and that we have now pleas- 

 ant buildings with accommodations for the instruc- 

 tion of three hundred students, with ample recitation 

 rooms and lecture halls, with an excellent working 



