RADCLIFFE COLLEGE 315 
educational work, for which we rely wholly upon 
Harvard and her corps of instructors. 
Thus freed from anxiety about our future location, 
our ultimate college plan becomes our next considera- 
tion. This now exists only upon paper and I fear it 
will be long before it takes a more tangible shape. Yet 
I think, when completed, it will make a harmonious 
whole and will have a charm of its own.... 
We hope, in short, that our college will have a 
certain dignity and picturesqueness which will atone 
for its want of more striking features and more ex- 
tensive grounds. Our most imperative need is that 
of laboratories, which may I hope be met within a 
reasonable time. Next may come a Library building 
where we can place our ever-increasing working 
Library, numbering some 10,000 volumes, in secur- 
ity from fire. 
Our buildings must of necessity be erected grad- 
ually and separately according to our means and 
our most pressing wants. But in whatever succession 
they may appear, they will from the beginning hold 
definite relations to each other and to the general 
architectural scheme of which they form a part, thus, 
securing, as we hope, unity and fair proportion in 
the end. 
On Commencement Day of the next year Mrs. Agassiz 
was able to announce Mrs. Hemenway’s gift of the Gym- 
nasium, the first building in the series constituting the 
architectural scheme of the college, and also another im- 
portant gift. 
