Word: agassiz
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Workshop will present "Rusted Stock," a four-act play of New England life by Miss Doris Halman, Radcliffe 1G, a member of English, 47a, at Agassiz House, Radcliffe, this evening and tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. The play was written last year in English 47, and has since been revised preparatory to this performance. Miss Halman also wrote "Will o' the Wisp," the one-act phantasy which was given with great success as a curtain-raiser in December...
...joint meeting of the Harvard and Radcliffe Socialist Clubs will be held in Agassiz House, Radcliffe, this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. C. Wheat 2L and A. C. Binder 1Dv, who were recently sent to Washington as peace delegates from the Harvard Union for American Neutrality will be the principal speakers. A general open discussion on the present international crisis will follow, with a view to drawing up convincing arguments to prove that the United States should not enter the war. The meeting will be open to all members of the University...
...private performances of the play will be given at Agassiz House, Radcliffe, some time during the week of March...
Fire which broke out shortly before 8 o'clock last night destroyed the upper floor of the house built by the late Professor Alexander Agassiz '55, at 34 Quincy street, corner of Broadway, which he left in his will to the University. When the fire was discovered a still alarm was sent in and then a regular first and later a second alarm were sent in, calling engines from Brattle and Central squares. For an hour the trolley cars on Broadway were blocked...
Besides the damage to the upper floor by fire, the entire house is water-soaked. The valuable ceilings and mural decorations which Professor Agassiz had there have been removed. The fire was caused by an overheated furnace, according to the Cambridge fire chief...