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tion out of the reach of many who covet it, and some 
of those who come even for one year only do so at a 
great sacrifice, though not, we think, without finding 
the investment a profitable one. Were every facility 
offered them, however, we hardly suppose that women 
would ever look upon a college course of study subse- 
quent to their school life as an inevitable or even 
necessary part of their education; nor do we think it 
would seem to any of us desirable that they should do 
so. But this being granted, there still remain quite 
enough for whom such a completion of their earlier 
training is important in view of their occupation as 
teachers, and if there are others who ask it purely for 
its own sake, we surely should not deny them.... 
Thus far our Annex students have belonged to the 
classes of woman named above. They have been 
young women fitting as teachers, or older women who 
are already teachers, but who allow themselves, out 
of their small earnings, the rare luxury of a little 
change from teaching to learning, that they may go 
back to their work refreshed and better prepared; 
or women of scholarly tastes, with means to gratify 
them, who come, as we have said, to study under 
higher auspices simply because they enjoy it. We 
have had as yet no flighty students, brought by the 
novelty of the thing, and very little fragmentary, 
half-digested work. Our instruction has of course 
been limited by the lack of laboratories, apparatus, 
books, etc. We have, however, with the help of 
friends, collected a working library of some 800 vol- 
umes. For the first time this year, we have also, 
