Word: agassiz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...selected in any subject by a body of older fellows eminent in different fields, upon evidence of remarkable promise; to provide them with ample stipends, and appoint them for three years with a reappointment for three more if their work in the first term justified the renewal. Mr. Alexander Agassiz once told the writer that he had such a plan in mind; and the new Houses seem to provide an excellent opportunity for an experiment of this kind. One of them will, in fact, contain a suite of dining, common and service rooms so planned as to be suitable...
Among the patrons and patronesses of this forty-fourth production of the club are the following: Mrs. G. R. Agassiz, Mrs. Thomas Allen, Mrs. John Bartol, Mrs. P. deM. Barby, Mr. and Mrs. J. deH. Bell, Mrs. M. T. Brevoort, Mrs. G. S. Burgess, Professor and Mrs. J. L. Coolidge...
...discussion of the new trend of the University suggested a more scientific approach to education instead of continuing the old plan of a "practical education." Louis Agassiz and men who thought as he did were eager to see more science and wanted the College to develop into a University in something like the European sense. Eliot, who had been elected to the Board of Overseers in July, was present during the discussions about the duties of the President. However, he took little important part in the meetings. A fortnight later, on the morning at the old Medical School in North...
...Holiday," the fall production of the Radcliffe Idler Club, given last night at Agassiz Theatre, proved to be a rather drawn-out presentation of the commonplace situations and, hackneyed problems connected with the lives of America's aristocracy of wealth. The fundamental problem is this: should one postulate an ideal of wealth as the basis of human existence or should one go out into the wilds far from monetary cares amid the birds and fish and there look at one's soul. All this is quite apparent at the end of the second act, which by the way, is brilliant...
...Bronx Express" by Ossip Dinow and Owen Davis will be the fall production of the Harvard and Radcliffe Menorah Societies to be given on Wednesday, December 14, and Thursday, December 15, in the Agassiz Theatre at Radcliffe...