Word: agassiz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this year to make two full crews, Coach Ed Brown announced yesterday. As a result there will be only very informal rowing this fall, no single House having enough to compete as a unit. House crews never appear in their full strength until spring, however. Last May in the Agassiz Cup race Winthrop House crew won from a field consisting of Dunster, Eliot, and a combination crew. This Winthrop House crew lost to a Yale class crew in the final race of the season last June. Yale house crews may be organized by this year...
...first meeting of the Harvard Board of Overseers for the year 1933-34, was held yesterday afternoon in University Hall. George R. Agassiz '84, of Boston was re-elected President of the Board...
Died. Rodolphe Louis Agassiz, 61, Boston banking & mining tycoon, board chairman of Calumet & Hecla Consolidated Copper Co., onetime international poloist, grandson of the late great Naturalist Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz; after long illness; in Prides Crossing, Mass., his home since...
Resting place of many of America's most distinguished dead among them Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Sumner, Edward Everett, Louis Agassiz, Phillips Brooks, Charlotte Cushman, Edwin Booth, Charles W. Eliot, Julia Ward Howe and Mary Baker Eddy. Noted for its famous statues and monuments, including those of John Winthrop, John Adams, James Otis and Joseph Story. The Sphinx, the work of Martin Milmore, is a greatly-admired statue. Open daily...
...today there are over 100,000 students in 356 colleges in the United States under instruction. Courses at Cambridge in biology, chemistry, and geology followed quickly in those days when Boston was floating on the flood-tide of a renaissance of intellectual interests, and the brilliant foreign professor Louis Agassiz intoxicated the sages of Concord with natural history. The gradual enlargement of these courses into a regular Summer School of Arts and Sciences and its subsequent growth was but the work of time...