Word: agassiz
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...scientific method on all of its willing students, must produce marked effects on character. The most prominent of these are: (1) the substitution of enthusiasm for indifference; (2) a self-respecting humility conjoined with charitableness; (3) an increase of sincerity. These effects were illustrated by the lives of Louis Agassiz, Jeffries Whyman, and Asa Gray. What can be the possible dangers in a method which possesses such marked advantages over the methods which it has displaced? Is it not likely that the very extreme specialization may lead to too contrasted views in regard to other fields of inquiry than...
...present the largest room in Boylston is occupied by a collection of mineralogical specimens, one of the most valuable in the country, representing a large pecuniary value added to the labor of a life time. The remedy which Professor Cooke proposes is to have an addition built to the Agassiz Museum for the accommodation of this collection, and then to have the room which it now occupies in Boylston, fitted over for a lecture room for Chemistry A. The plan is a practicable one, for the room in Boylsion could be fitted to accommodate nearly five hundred men, while...
During the vacation, the death of Mr. T. G. Cary of Cambridge took place. He was indirectly connected with Harvard, as the assistant of the late Professor Louis Agassiz, and has conducted valuable researches in the natural history of the Western States
...library report for the year ending September 1, 1888, shows an increase of 481 volumes, 1, 607 parts, and 121 pamphlets. The details are as follows: Gift-29 volumes, 36 parts, 10 pamphlets; exchange-141 volumes, parts 613, pamphlets, 91; purchase-50 volumes, 149 parts, 5 pamphlets; A. Agassiz-79 volumes, 809 parts, 15 pamphlets; binding parts-182 volumes...
...proposed to give a complimentary dinner soon to Professor Lovering in honor of his election as professor emeritus and of his service of fifty years as full professor in the university. The committee in charge consists of Mr. Justin Winsor and Professors Agassiz and Trowbridge...