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educational work, for which we rely wholly upon 

 Harvard and her corps of instructors. 



Thus freed from anxiety about our future location, 

 our ultimate college plan becomes our next considera- 

 tion. This now exists only upon paper and I fear it 

 will be long before it takes a more tangible shape. Yet 

 I think, when completed, it will make a harmonious 

 whole and will have a charm of its own. . . . 



We hope, in short, that our college will have a 

 certain dignity and picturesqueness which will atone 

 for its want of more striking features and more ex- 

 tensive grounds. Our most imperative need is that 

 of laboratories, which may I hope be met within a 

 reasonable time. Next may come a Library building 

 where we can place our ever-increasing working 

 Library, numbering some 10,000 volumes, in secur- 

 ity from fire. 



Our buildings must of necessity be erected grad- 

 ually and separately according to our means and 

 our jnost pressing wants. But in whatever succession 

 they may appear, they will from the beginning hold 

 definite relations to each other and to the general 

 architectural scheme of which they form a part, thus, 

 securing, as we hope, unity and fair proportion in 

 the end. 



On Commencement Day of the next year Mrs. Agassiz 

 was able to announce Mrs. Hemenway's gift of the Gym- 

 nasium, the first building in the series constituting the 

 architectural scheme of the college, and also another im- 

 portant gift. 



