228 ELIZABETH CARY AGASSIZ 
I address you here today in this cheerful, well-ap- 
pointed building is evidence enough of our progress 
from those days to these, and I have to congratulate 
you especially on the improvements of the past year, 
on our new lecture and recitation rooms, our well- 
lighted studio for our art classes, and lastly on the 
hall, where we now meet, — which has contributed 
so much during the last winter, not only to your means 
of instruction, but also to your pleasure and amuse- 
ments. 
This review of the past is very cheering and may 
well give us hope for the future. I must add in no 
spirit of egotism but in one of very sincere thankful- 
ness that this hope is strengthened by the ever- 
increasing confidence of the public in the Annex, of 
which we have frequent evidence. And in this connec- 
tion, let me say that in addition to many former acts 
of kindness and sympathy from the Women’s Edu- 
cational Association in Boston we owe to them a new 
debt of gratitude for their efforts in our behalf this 
winter. They have always known that we looked to- 
ward a closer affiliation with the University as our 
final goal, and this winter their committee, appointed 
by them for the purpose, has striven with untiring 
energy and zeal to raise a large sum in order to help 
us in this direction. 
I ought perhaps in the present uncertain state of 
our affairs, to refrain from even a distant allusion to 
our hopes with reference to the University. But to 
part from you today without some reference to what 
is I know uppermost in your minds as well as in mine, 
