corporations stood adamantly against bringing women into the university in all roles other as donors, helpmeats, clerical or library assistants. how did women claim access in that was through accommodation. the annex was created in a manner calculated so that in the words of the lady of the executive committee, quote, it stirs no prejudices, excite nos opposition, involves no change of policy for the university. and this brings us back to elizabeth agassi, the woman who smoothed the way, and with others of the ladies committee, raised the money necessary for the annex's opening in 1879. the price was invisibility. the annex began with no building. only rented rooms. for classes taught by members of the harvard faculty. the young women, according to an early brochure, quietly pursue their occupation unnoticed atz the daughters of any cambridge rest departments. there were to be no dormitories, no college life. ing a fw ing ing agassi did not want the dorms to become a college life. so it began as a unique institution of higher learning for women. and like the other six of the sisters that it joi