Word: agassiz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this field what Harvard has been able to do in so many of the liberal arts, and give to the teaching of play-writing and the allied branches of the theatre the needed university sanction and background. Not only were the cramped quarters of Massachusetts Hall and the inappropriate Agassiz stage entirely disproportionate to the work which was being done, but completely inconsistent with Harvard traditions. But this is not the time to conjecture why Yale could offer more in this direction than we, nor to bewail the loss of a splendid institution. It is for us to recognize...
...Yale University Theatre is completed at about the same time that Harvard Square has welcomed the opening of its commercial "University Theatre" for moving picture display; while our organizations, the Dramatic Club, the Circle Francais and others, will have to continue their functions in Brattle Hall, Agassiz House and at other even less dignified places...
This evening the Graduate Schools Societies of Harvard and Radcliffe will give an informal dance at the Agassiz House from 8 to 12 o'clock. The Venetian Serenaders Orchestra will provide the music for the occasion...
...fact that many of his boys of years ago have since become nationally known. "There was C. C. Langdell," he said, gazing reminiscently down Harvard Street, "and Winthrop and Lothrop Ames, and the Sears brothers, who were the greatest tennis players of their time. And Professor Alexander Agassiz and President Eliot were two of the men living on my route for years...
...various times during the past 50 years, efforts have been made by tree surgeons to prolong the life of the Agassiz elm. In 1910 the giant tree which measured a little less than ten feet in circumference at its base, showed signs of dry not around the roots and the ailing portions were reinforced with cement fillings. Later as the tree continued to lean more and more towards the museum, which was erected in 1901, wire braces were used in an effort to straighten it. The trunk which was badly torn when the tree was partially uprooted was almost completely...