Word: agassizã
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...Cambridge School Committee voted unanimously last night to strip the name of famous 19th century Harvard professor Louis Agassiz??a Darwin-refuter and, many residents charged, a “bigot”—from the local Agassiz elementary school...
Aside from the clinical and the stern, selections from “Curious and Ingenious” also demonstrate moments of tangible pathos. Head-shots of Louis Agassiz??s African slaves were initially taken to aid in the Harvard philanthropist’s desire to “prove the existence of a separate human species,” but now, the delicate, minute plates reveal something more. Viewed frontally and in profile, his four slaves exude a mournful yet dignified air. It becomes clear the torment and strain that incarcerated life has wracked on their bodies...