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...City, January 11 1842-44 James family in Europe 1852-55 School in New York 1856-58 School and tutors in England and France 1859-60 School and tutors, Switzerland and Germany 1860-61 painting with W.M. Hunt 1861 Enters Harvard 1864 Enters the Medical School 1865-66 With Agassiz expedition in Brazil 1867-68 Europe, Mainly Germany 1869 M.D., Harvard 1869-72 Ill-health and recovery 1873 Instructor in anatomy and physiology at Harvard 1873-74 In Europe, especially Italy 1875 Begins teaching psychology 1878 Marries Alice Howe Gibbens 1879 Begins teaching philosophy 1885 Professor of philosophy 1889 Professor...
...March 1865, James interrupted his studies to embark on a field trip to Brazil. Louis Agassiz, the great biologist, led the expedition, and for one full year the troupe investigated the fauna and flora of South America. A mild case of smallpox made the initial months unpleasant, though it left James with no facial pock-marks. By October his health and spirits had improved considerably. Despite the ill-concealed homesickness of many of his ship-board letters, James seldom regretted the journey in late life...
...nothing more then geography, was an outstanding array of gifted and vigorous men. The home-grown Atlantic Monthly was then publishing the work of Hawthorne, Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes, Emerson, Whittier, and Charles Eliot Norton. In science, to which James initially devoted his efforts, Asa Gray, Benjamin Peirce, and Louis Agassiz stood at the forefront. His earliest chemistry teacher, who--like Conant--later renounced a scientific career to become president of Harvard, found James "very interesting and agree able" but somewhat impulsive and of fickle academic tastes...
...production this year will be a departure from precedent: an original opera written especially for the Society by undergraduates. Called The Conversion of Saint Pelagia, the Harlot, the opera was composed by Roland C. Perera '63 with a libretto by David S. Cole '63. It will be performed in Agassiz...
...pyrometer, which has already performed well on the 61-inch reflector telescope at Harvard's Agassiz Station, measures the temperature of a small area of the moon's surface at a time. On a map of the moon some five feet in diameter, this area is about the size of a postage stamp. As the pyrometer scans the moon from side to side and from top to bottom, the record of intensity maps the distribution of temperature over the whole disc of the moon...