Word: agassiz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This evening at 8.15 o'clock, the Radcliffe College Orchestra and the Pierian Sodality of 1808 will join in a concert in Agassiz House, Radcliffe College. The tickets for the concert are $.75 each, and may be purchased at the Harvard Cooperative Society, in the Music Building from 9 o'clock until noon, and in Agassiz House from noon until 2 o'clock...
...Membership of the committee is as follows: Corporation; President Conant; Henry L. Shattuck, '01, Treasurer of the College; and Charles P. Curtis '83 of Boston, and Grenville Clark '03 of New York, Fellows of the College. The members of the Board of Overseers on the committee are George R. Agassiz '84, of Boston, President; Henry James '99, of New York; and Charles F. Adams '88, of Concord. The representatives of the Alumni are Archibald G. Thacher '97, of New York; Joseph L. Valentine '98, of Chicago; and Alfred M. Tozzer '00, professor of Anthropology, of Cambridge...
...Richard C. Sullivan '35, and John R. Yungblut '35, have been chosen for the male parts in "Craig's Wife," the play by George Kelly, which will be presented by the Idler Club of Radcliffe College. The production, directed by Mrs. Benjamin E. Sibley, will be given at the Agassiz Theatre next Friday and Saturday evenings at 8.15 o'clock...
Charles Francis Adams '88, president of the Harvard Alumni Association, George R. Agassiz '84, president of the Board of Overseers, Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and master of Leverett House, will also speak. Nathaniel F. Ayer '00, president of the Harvard Club, will act as toastmaster...
...transmission to men of Watson's particular stamp. Much nonsense has been traced to him, including the rugged kind of individualism and the apotheosis of the practical man. But the characteristic residuum of his thought is not so close to either of these as to the admirable maxim of Agassiz: "No one sees farther into a generalization than his own knowledge of details extends." With the qualifications imposed by James' own "sensitive breastbone" and the bow given to pragmatism by its chief apostle's acceptance of God as a provable entity, his philosophy is much farther from dissolution than...