Word: agassiz
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...friends of Mrs. Louis Agassiz have raised a fund to establish a building at Radcliffe College, of the kind known as a students' house, in which the needs of the students for food, rest and recreation may be provided for. A building of this kind has long been desired and accordingly two years ago the Radcliffe Alumni Association undertook to raise the sum of $100,000 for the purpose. A committee of thirty was formed from among Mrs. Agassiz's friends, in order that the fund might be completed by her eightieth birthday, which occurred on December...
...fund now amounts to $116,465.37, of which $50,000 was given by Mrs. Agassiz's family. The call for contributions met with an immediate and universal response, 453 contributions having been received in addition to those of the Radcliffe alumni, who contributed in a body. The indications are that the fund will be largely increased in the near future as various sums of money continue to come...
...concert will be given in Sanders Theatre on Friday evening, December 5, in honor of the eightieth birthday of Mrs. Louis Agassiz. The programme will be rendered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Choral Art Society of Boston. Tickets will be entirely by invitation...
...Southern Pacific, has been placed in position in the Warren gallery at the Peabody Museum. The photographs are arranged in fourteen cases, each containing from eight to ten pictures and show the typical dress and customs of the natives of these regions. The photographs were taken by Alexander Agassiz, W. McM. Woodworth, A. G. Mayer, H. K. and W. E. Faulkner, and by members of the "Albatross" expedition...
...some remarkably fine specimens from the Aleutian Islands, British Columbia and California, and an odd and rare gambling placque of the Yuma Indians of Nevada. Mrs. Q. Nuthall has presented the Museum with several cases of rare Mexican objects, and a representative collection has been received from Mr. Alexander Agassiz, illustrating the ethnology of the Maldive Islands, which he visited last winter...