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would seem like a want of that frank sympathy in all 
matters concerning your interests here which has 
always existed between us. If I have nothing definite 
to say upon this point I can at least share with you my 
own belief that with the approval of the public, the 
support of friends of education in Boston, and with 
the confidence expressed by the Faculty of Harvard 
in the Annex and in the right she has won to what 
is best in education, we can hardly fail of a steady 
advance. But let me say in closing that whatever 
strength we may derive from without, the students 
more than any one else hold the fate of the Annex in 
their hands, and I believe they feel and accept the 
responsibility. Whatever be its attitude in the future, 
— whatever its relation to the University, — what- 
ever name it may bear, —I hope it will always be 
respected for the genuineness of its work, for the quiet 
dignity of its bearing, for its adherence to the noblest 
ends of scholarship. 
So I commend our young institution to the keeping 
of our students with a strong belief that they will be 
faithful to the trust. 
