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Tunes by Monteverdi and Vivaldi played by the New York Chamber Soloists. Free--For tickets, sent SSE to Peabody Mason, POB 153 Back Bay Annex, Boston, Ma. 02117. Wednesday...
...Acquiring a higher gate outside the annex building courtyard...
Harvard made it plain from the beginning that it was in no way responsible for the "Annex." But in 1893 President Charles W. Eliot and the Fellows of Harvard College realized that they would have to contend with "X College...
After painstaking negotiations, Elizabeth C. Agassiz, Radcliffe's founder and first president, finally persuaded Harvard to take some responsibility for the girls at the Annex. President Eliot agreed to countersign the women's diplomas, Harvard assumed responsibility for approving Faculty appointments, and the president and Fellows were to be the "visitors of X College...
...identity crisis--it had no name. Since its inception it had officially been referred to as "The Society for the Intercollegiate Instruction of Women." Agassiz proposed to name the school for Ann Radcliffe, who in 1643 had donated 100 pounds sterling for a Harvard scholarship. So in 1894 the Annex was incorporated as Radcliffe College...