198 ELIZABETH CARY AGASSIZ 
out forming classes in some way, so that the expense 
would be divided among several. Time passed on, and 
we did not effect any arrangement. ... We did not 
give up our study of the higher education of women 
here. I looked over the field, found out what had been 
done and then tried to learn if there was any general 
demand for such instruction as the Harvard profes- 
sors gave. This led me to conclude that there were 
a good many women who wished to get exactly the 
same course of study that was given in college... . 
In the meantime Mrs. Gilman and I studied plans to 
accomplish our desire. We thought of hiring a build- 
ing, placing it under the care of a matron and arrang- 
ing with the professors to give repetitions of the col- 
lege courses in it. Other plans suggested themselves 
to us, before we decided upon the one since adopted. 
When we had reached this stage, the matter was held 
in abeyance for months, because I feared to present 
it to any of the professors lest it should be received 
with disapproval. At last...I concluded to ap- 
proach Professor Greenough and ...I laid out the 
scheme [before him], as it has since been carried out. 
I told him that I had made out a list of instructors in 
the different departments, and wished that he could 
do the same, and that then we would compare them. 
He expressed much interest in the plan and entered 
into it with warmth. He made out a list of professors, 
and it proved very much like mine. He told me of 
Miss Leach, whose presence, he thought, would lead 
the instructors to look favorably on the plan.... 
He said he would speak to some of the professors 
