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WHEN the Harvard Annex was started it was declared in the most emphatic manner that it was not a step towards co-education, that nothing was intended but a Girls' High School in which the teachers should be Harvard professors. This was by no means a novelty: long before the Annex was dreamed of, Harvard professors had given lessons at private schools in Boston. This was all well enough; professors of course had a right to dispose of their leisure in giving additional instruction, and nothing was thought of the matter. So it was when the Annex was established...
...regarded as a protectionist sheet, - such matters are, of course, out of the range of a College journal, - but from a spirit of fairness and justice to all parties, and the desire that Harvard should not be regarded, as it is at present, as a mere training school for free trade...
...said we can do nothing worse than write a book about an enemy, but I am certain that I can do nothing better than to paint Antigone beside her name, either as she is, might, or should have been, or as I imagine her to be. But what school shall I take as a model? I rather like the French, if they would use a little more drapery. The Dutch have more drapery than the French, though they are deficient in other respects. I cannot bear the sight of those Dutch girls with hats something less than the circumference...
...betting was no circumstance to the rest of their behavior. By some underhand means or other they have induced that fellow, Blazes, - who played last year on the Princeton team, - to play back on their eleven; got him into their medical school or some such measly trick, - in all probability, just to play against us, - and before they had been playing half an hour, he nearly got into a fight with our man, Jack Hardcase, who, as you know, is one of the most gentlemanly men that ever played on our eleven. You see Jack ran at Blazes when Blazes...
When we studied as school-girls together...