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of them taking the regular course, and the remainder rank- 
ing as special students. Quarters, beginning with two and 
speedily extending to four rooms, were rented in the house 
of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Carret, 6 Appian Way, near the pres- 
ent site of Radcliffe College, and here hospitality was given 
in good measure, literally pressed down and running over, 
to the expanding but modest enterprise. The proud mem- 
ory of Mrs. Agassiz making and hanging the muslin cur- 
tains for their windows, which some of the first students 
retain, is characteristic of the simplicity and economy that 
marked the scanty equipment. Yet the departments of 
study and the instructors were not to be despised: Greek, 
L. B. R. Briggs, W. W. Goodwin, J. W. White; Latin, 
W. W. Gould, J. B. Greenough, G. M. Lane; Sanskrit, 
J. B. Greenough; English, A. S. Hill; German, G. A. Bart- 
lett, E. S. Sheldon; French, F. Bécher, A Jacquinot; Phi- 
losophy, G. H. Palmer; Political Economy, J. L. Laughlin; 
History, G. Bendelari, E. Emerton; Music, J. K. Paine; 
Mathematics, G. R. Briggs, W. E. Byerly, B. O. Peirce, 
J. M. Peirce; Physics, R. W. Willson; Natural History, 
G. L. Goodale. 
Thus September, 1879, saw private collegiate instruction 
for women established in Cambridge under the direction 
of seven ladies as managers, of whom Mrs. Agassiz was one, 
a secretary, a treasurer and an advisory board of five pro- 
fessors, which had developed from a single advisor, Pro- 
fessor Greenough, as a nucleus. A more informal or less 
“organized” committee has rarely existed that has accom- 
plished such far-reaching results. It was even nameless, 
but its offspring was almost at birth promptly christened 
the “Harvard Annex,” by (as tradition goes) a Harvard 
