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...like others, was unsuccessfully fighting a trend which began in 1879 and has culminated today in coordinate Radcliffe-Harvard education. David McCord's informal history of the Annex traces this gradual integration with the University, but concludes that by its individuality the College is still "anchored against the whole teaching force of Harvard...
...McCord's history, issued in honor of the College's seventy-fifth anniversary, is consistently interesting and amusing. By a liberal use of quotations, anecdotes and his own light verse, McCord avoids the simple recitation of names and dates which overburdens many official college histories...
...series of anecdotes describes the Annex's early struggle against a storm of masculine protest. But McCord notes that a "satisfying outburst of remonstrance and expostulation" at the idea of higher education for women subsided very quickly in the Cambridge community. The earliest bluestockings "showed ladylike behavior in all respects," he writes, citing an early report from one of the College's founders which states, "We have had as yet no flighty students...
Princeton and Yale claim to have a greater percentage of alumni donating to their Funds. "But it's unfair," McCord explained, "to compare us to them, because our Fund, since 1948, has only been for the unrestricted use of the College. Yale and Princeton, on the other hand, include in their totals gifts to their graduate schools...
...McCord expressed particular satisfaction at the alumni's enthusiasm. "You can get some idea of the increase in interest in this project when you realize that in 1953 we raised $537,790 and our present total is $503,655, with two months to go," he said...