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“all the College has” would content me. I believe 
that much might follow, not because the Annex would 
desire it, but because in the natural phenomenon the 
College would be likely to give it. When you say that 
the Annex does not expect to get what it wants “‘ex- 
cept through the College,” to that I agree, because 
we have aimed at academic education from the very 
start, and to accept outside instruction including that 
from women teachers (without any intention to de- 
preciate it) would place us on an exact level with all 
the women’s colleges, and we really do not need one 
in Cambridge, nor is there any reason for establishing 
one here. In the early days of the Annex we have said 
this over and over again, — nothing but the prox- 
imity to Harvard justifies the establishment of a 
woman’s college here. As to coeducation except in 
the most limited sense, it would be desired neither 
by them nor us. 
While affairs were in this condition a little incident oc- 
curred that had great importance in its consequences. This 
incident was related in an address delivered at the Radcliffe 
College Commencement exercises in 1902 by John C. Gray, 
Royall Professor of Law in the Harvard Law School, who 
later became a member of the Council of Radcliffe College. 
It is peculiarly interesting because it illustrates the fact 
that the Annex owed the important advance that it was 
about to make to the personal regard that Mrs. Agassiz’s 
friends had for her. The story is best told in Professor 
Gray’s own words, which were published in the Harvard 
Graduates’ Magazine for September, 1902: 
