Word: agassiz
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol, R. I., is building the steam launch for the University Crew. Mr. Alexander Agassiz made the contract for it. The cost will be $3,600. The craft will be so arranged that the machinery can be controlled from the standing room forward or aft, and the direction can be changed without swinging round, as she will be sharp at both ends. The Company guarantee a light boat, that will run as fast as an eight can row and that will not make a wake which will interfere with the shells...
...COMMITTEE consisting of Prof. Asa Gray, Prof. George L. Goodale, and Mr. Alexander Agassiz have issued a circular asking for $80,000 to place the Botanic Garden upon a "sufficient and independent foundation." $25,000 has already been subscribed: of this sum, Frederick S. Ames gave $5,000; John C. Phillips, $2,500; H. H. Hunewell $1,000; Miss Marion Hovey, $100; Alexander Agassiz, $5,000; Theodore Lyman, $5,000; Theodore Lyman, $500; Quincy Shaw, $5,000; E. W. Hooper, $200; A. P. Chamberlain, $100; John Amory Lowell, $1,000; H. P. Kidder, $1,000; a conditional subscription...
...AGASSIZ MUSEUM.A splendid chance. The next German Lottery will be holden last of June or first of July. The drawing is conducted by means of a machine, and perfect fairness is therefore insured. Further condition will readily be given...
...Trustees of your University have promised to present me with the old Gymnasium, if I will agree to connect University and the Agassiz Museum with a telephone, and lay down plank walks in the Yard. I have agreed to do this, and so the entrance to the tube will be at the Gymnasium, and the exit at the billiard-room of Parker's. The modus operandi is as follows: You sit inside of the tube on a seat like those of the rowing-machines, a wad is placed at your back, and at a given signal a Yale man kicks...
March 18. Mr. A. Agassiz, "The Caribbean...