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Voted: that the Corporation be the present Man- 

 agers, the members of the Advisory Board, the Treas- 

 urer and Secretary, and that Professors Charles E. 

 Norton and Francis J. Child be added. 



With this entry the Notes of Mr. Oilman end. The period 

 of informal organization was over and gone, and the re- 

 maining records of the society are kept as formal minutes. 

 On May 22, 1882, Articles of Association were signed by 

 which the Committee agreed to constitute itself a corpora- 

 tion to be known as The Society for the Collegiate Instruc- 

 tion of Women, whose purpose was to promote the educa- 

 tion of women with the assistance of the instructors in 

 Harvard University. The signers of the agreement, besides 

 Mrs. Agassiz, were Mrs. E. W. Gurney, Mr. and Mrs. Ar- 

 thur Gilman, Professor and Mrs. J. B. Greenough, Miss 

 Lilian Horsford, Professor Charles Eliot Norton, Professor 

 W. W. Goodwin, Professor C. L. Smith, Professor F. J. 

 Child, Miss Alice Longfellow, Professor J. M. Peirce, Pro- 

 fessor W. E. Byerly, Miss Ellen F. Mason, Major H. L. 

 Higginson, Mr. Joseph B. Warner. At the first meeting 

 held after the Articles were signed, on July 6, 1882, it was 

 decided that the officers should be a president, treasurer, 

 secretary, an Executive Committee, and an Academic 

 Board. Mrs. Agassiz was elected president; Mr. Gilman, 

 secretary, Mr. Warner, treasurer, Mr. Greenough, chair- 

 man of the Academic Board. On August 16 this association 

 became incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth 

 of Massachusetts as The Society for the Collegiate Instruc- 

 tion of Women a title that was used only on state occa- 

 sions, and not always then, so much simpler it was to cling 

 to the less formidable and less dignified " Harvard Annex." 



