234 ELIZABETH GARY AGASSIZ 



TO MRS. LOUIS AGASSIZ 



Cambridge, April 10, 1893 



DEAR MRS. AGASSIZ: Owing to my absence in 

 New York, I did not get your note until midnight on 

 Sunday, and could not therefore talk with you before 

 the meeting as I should gladly have done. It is, of 

 course, quite natural that we should have serious 

 doubts about more permanent relations with the An- 

 nex, and think of the dangers to the College which 

 we have inherited as a trust for life only. My talk 

 with Mr. Warner showed me quite clearly that there 

 was really no reasonable limit to what the Annex 

 might fairly ask of us. The Annex really wants all 

 that the College has, and does not expect to get it 

 except through the College. If we give our degrees 

 we must give the instruction necessary to fit women 

 for those degrees, and that means either a duplica- 

 tion of our instruction, or to some extent coeduca- 

 tion. I have no prejudice in the matter of education 

 of women and am quite willing to see Yale or Colum- 

 bia take any risks they like, but I feel bound to pro- 

 tect Harvard College from what seems to me to be 

 a risky experiment. . . . 



Yours very sincerely, 



E. W. HOOPER 



TO EDWARD W. HOOPER 



DEAR MR. HOOPER: I have been away from home a 

 day or two and so did not answer your letter promptly, 

 but so far as I am concerned a great deal less than 



