The tenth annual report of Secretary Gilman of the Society for the College Education of Women contains many interesting facts and statistics concerning the work and growth of the Annex. So fast has been the growth that Fay House in now not large enough to accommodate the classes. The building contains a reception room, a lunch room, a small conversation room, two reading rooms (both together inadequate), a laboratory of botany, two small apartments for the librarian and secretary respectively and four lecture rooms. The laboratories of Physics, Chemistry and Zoology are in other buildings. The office of the secretary is already too small for the rapidly increasing business that is brought to it; and it is unnecessary to say that the class rooms are far too few. So small a number does not allow proper ventilation between lectures, and even if there were enough to accomodate all the classes conveniently, this would be a great disadvantage; but when it is added that no one of the rooms is large enough to allow a class of twenty to be comfortable for the space of an hour, it is apparent that greater accommodations are imperatively needed. During the year the executive committee have taken some steps towards preparing a simple plan for the enlargement of Fay House in the rear, by which its present dignified and antique front may be preserved.

During the year the endowment fund has been increased $1000. The work of the Society has been carried on the past year without incurring debt but it has been necessary to practice the most rigid economy. The executive committee have felt that a more generous investment of money in current expenses would be judicious. This is especialy true in regard to the library, which needs frequent additions to make the various courses as fruitful as they ought to be.

The following professors and instructors in Harvard college conducted courses in the Annex last year: New Testament, Professor Thayer; Greek, Professors Wright and Goodwin, Messrs. Wheeler and Parker; Latin, Professors Lane, Allen, Greenough, Smith and Preble, Messrs. Richardson and Parker; English, Professors Briggs and Wendell, Messrs. Baker, Clymer, Kittredge and Hayes; German, Professors Sheldon and Bartlett, Messrs. Babbitt and Grandgent; French, Professors Cohn and Sanderson, Mr. Sumichrast; Italian, Dante, Professor Norton, Philosophy, Professor Royce; Political Economy, Professor Tausigg and Mr. Huntington; History, Professors Macvane. Emerton and Hart, Mr. Bendelari; Music. Professor Paine, Mathematics, Professors Byerly and B. O. Pierce, Mr. Sawin; Physics, Messrs. Hall and Whiting; Chemistry, Dr. Huntington; Natural History, Professors Mark and Goodale, Messers. Parker, Washburn and Ganong.

The following recapitulation shows the number in the different departments of instruction:

CLASSES. STUDENTS.

New Testament (Introduction) 1 9

Greek, 6 37

Latin, 8 57

English, 9 115

German, 5 37

French, 6 27

Italian, 1 7

Philosophy, 2 29

Political Economy, 1 7

History, 4 43

Music, 1 2

Mathematics, 3 16

Physics, 2 17

Chemistry, 2 7

Geology, 2 8

Botany, 2 17

Total, 55 435

Students have come from the following states and Islands: California 1; Connecticutt 3; Hawalian Islands 3; Illinois 2; Indiana 3; Kansas 1; Kentucky 1; Massachusetts 90; Missouri 1; New Hampshire 2; New York 6; Ohio 2; Virginia 1.