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, 



