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 University of the value and importance of the work of the Harvard Annex must mean everything to the Annex; it must contribute to its success in many ways. The fact that diplomas will be given by the new Radcliffe College countersigned by the president of Harvard University, will add immensely to the dignity of the institution and to the significance of its degrees. The compliment is not all in favor of the smaller institution, however. The Annex authorities have long sought the recognition from Harvard which they have now obtained. They have felt how much more influential the institution would be as a part of Harvard University than it could possibly be as a college by itself. Both institutions may congratulate themselves on the new relations. We feel sure that the final adjustment of this matter will meet with the hearty approval of members of the University; though co-education in the popular sense of the word will not exist here, under the new arrangement the higher education of young women will be brought much nearer to that of young men and given the place that fairmindedness must admit that it deserves.