THE PASSING OF THE ANNEX — 253 
by a woman to the University. It seemed fitting that 
she, who thus showed her sympathy with liberal 
learning and with the principles of freedom embodied 
in the first New England college, should be commem- 
orated in the first college for women ever associated 
with Harvard. This adjustment between the Annex 
and Harvard has been reached after a year of the 
most careful deliberation between the Corporation 
of Harvard, the Corporation of our Society, and the 
Harvard Faculty. Surely the combination of three 
such bodies in full knowledge of the facts and in per- 
fect accord with each other, — the Annex Society 
representing fifteen years of experience in the intellec- 
tual training of women under Harvard instruction, — 
the Harvard Corporation ready to accept at the 
hands of the Annex the whole direction of the future 
education of their students, — and lastly all the pro- 
fessors supporting this transfer — surely such a triple 
Alliance may be trusted as having all the elements of 
safety and permanence. 
I am aware that our small means have been made a 
reproach to us, and that our opponents and your pe- 
titioners say that we are not rich and well-endowed 
enough to be trusted with the giving of degrees. It is 
true that our means are small as compared with cer- 
tain of the colleges for women. But such as they are, 
they have been well husbanded; and the fact that we 
never have been in debt and that we have now pleas- 
ant buildings with accommodations for the instruc- 
tion of three hundred students, with ample recitation 
rooms and lecture halls, with an excellent working 
