Word: agassiz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guest of honor and principal speaker the symposium featered George R. Agassiz '84, a past president of the Board of Overseers. Descended from a line of celebrated scientists, Agassiz was well qualified to talk on the contributions to the study of Darwin's theory by his father Alexander '55 and his grandfather Louis...
This move marks the first non-House participation, other than Dudley hall, in any form of intramural athletics since the days when a P. B. H. non-House crew, packed with ringers, was excluded from the House competition after it won the Agassiz Cup for two years running. It is believed that if this experiment proves successful, residents of Apley, Claverly, and Dudley may be admitted to regular House competition in the future...
...benefits. One reason for maltreatment is that years ago such students were permitted to use P.B.H. as a center and to compete on an equal athletic basis; but the crew turned out by P.B.H. proved so far superior to any House crew that after it had twice won the Agassiz Cup from Yale, its competitive right was withdrawn. Since then idleness on the issue has been backed by the argument that these outsiders have no desire to be included in the House athletic program...
Miss Lord, gowned in black sequins, stood in the doorway of Agassiz living-room, transformed for the occasion into a Continental cabaret, and introduced bevies of assorted Radcliffe girls modelling everything from lingerie to nubby tweeds...
...clearly Eliot's race all the way on the charles yesterday as a smooth and powerful Elephant shell surged across the finish line in the record time of 7:08 to win the Agassiz House crew...