Q14 ELIZABETH CARY AGASSIZ 
through the generosity of Mr. Harold Whiting, our 
instructor in Physics, the command of a small physi- 
cal laboratory, fitted up by him with all the neces- 
sary apparatus. 
One thing it may be well to state here. Certain anx- 
ieties respecting the presence of young women in a 
university town, without constant oversight of their 
daily lives, have vanished on nearer approach. Our 
students are scattered by twos and threes in Cam- 
bridge families, their lodgings being chosen for them 
by their friends, or by the ladies of our Executive 
Committee. In Cambridge such arrangements are 
easily made, and we have had no difficulty in finding 
safe and pleasant homes for them. They quietly pur- 
sue their occupations as unnoticed as the daughters 
of any Cambridge residents; nor has any objection or 
obstacle arisen on that score. It should be added that 
the health of our students has been excellent thus 
far, — we have had but two cases of serious illness in 
our four years’ experience, and many of the students 
have gained rather than lost in the general look of 
vigor. 
But while difficulties are thus dispersing, and edu- 
cationally our scheme is growing apace, our means 
are dwindling even more rapidly, and we are fast ap- 
proaching the end of the sum we had provided. The 
Annex has, on the whole, been more nearly self-sup- 
porting than we had expected, and we have still funds 
enough remaining to carry it on for a year or two 
longer. Unless, in that interval, we can raise a large 
endowment fund, by which means we also hope to 
