Word: annexation
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...history of the Annex is a very interesting and very instructive matter. As one reads it, the impression grows from beginning to end that the action of the overseers in incorporating it as a part of Harvard University, is the most natural and most logical thing in the world. From the very beginning in 1879 friends of the Annex have been friends of Harvard; its chief promoters have been for the most part Harvard professors and their wives; the influences which have contributed to its dignity and high character have been influences which have helped Harvard to its greatness...
...newspaper articles would give the impression that some change will be noticeable from the old state of affairs to the new. This, however, is not the case. For years the Annex has followed the courses of Harvard College, and all instruction has been given by professors and instructors of Harvard. The same plan will be pursued when the Annex changes its name; and the only apparent difference will be in the degree. Hitherto the Society for the Collegiate instruction of Women has been able to give nothing beyond a certificate stating that the graduate has performed the work required...
...statements in the newspapers to the effect that students of the Annex under the new agreement will be admitted to the full privileges of the University, are absolutedly incorrect. They have already given outsiders the idea that something like co-education is to be put into practice here, while in reality the distinction between the Annex and the college is to remain exactly as at present...
Yesterday the overseers put an end to all the discussion about the Harvard Annex by formally receiving it as an organic part of Harvard University. There will now be within the pale of the University two colleges, Harvard College and Radcliffe College; here we have a suggestion of Oxford and Cambridge which will touch the pride of those students who look with admiration on the great English universities. This action of the overseers is a direct compliment to the cause of the higher education of women and a direct compliment also to this particular institution. A formal acknowledgement from Harvard...
...detailed information about more methods of boarding than would be generally supposed to exist in Cambridge, he offers as a means for meeting the present needs of the college, the plan of a large central kitchen supplying many club tables, each, perhaps, with a local sub-kitchen as an annex to the main one; the whole to be under the control of the college...