An "Annex" at Columbia.

Ever since 1876 women have endeavored to enter Columbia College. In 1880 a provision was made to enable women educated at other places to obtain degrees upon examination by the faculty of Columbia. This concession was not enough, and last winter a movement was started which ended in a petition for an establishment similar to the Annex at Harvard. This petition has been granted by the the trustees of the college. The course of study, and the requirements for admission and for a degree are to be the same as those of the college, but all recitations are to take place in a building entirely separate and distinct from the buildings of the college. The same professors are to teach the same branches in the women's college as in Columbia proper and the same examination papers are to be given to corresponding classes in both institutions at the same time. In granting the application to the women's committee, the trustees specified that the women's college should have no dormitories in the college buildings or in the neighborhood of Columbia College proper, and that the institution should not depend for financial support in any way upon Columbia College.

It is expected to have the building ready for the use of the Annex by the fall of 1889, by which time the instructors will have been selected, and the students admitted.