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...March number of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine adequate room is given to a record of the Celebration of the Founder last November, and to the Radcliffe Commemoration of Mrs. Agassiz in December. The centennial of the founding of the Pierian Sodality, March 6, gives occasion for an interesting article by G. F. Evans '05, on the early history of the Sodality; while the twenty-fifth anniversary of the production of the first Harvard operetta, "Dido and Aeneas," played by the Pudding in 1882, draws from Mr. Owen Wister, the Musical Manager, an entertaining account of the occasion. Mr. Lindsay Swift...
...speaks briefly of the work and importance of the Museum, and once more appeals for more room in which to store the constantly growing treasure resulting from gifts and explorations. The completion of the south wing of the University Museum would fill out the original design of Professor Agassiz, and would be particularly appropriate now, this year being the 100th anniversary of his birth...
...cablegram received in Cambridge Wednesday announced the safe arrival of Professor Alexander Agassiz director and curator of the University museum, in Liverpool. Professor Agassiz is on his way to Africa, where he intends to thoroughly explore most of the territory not entered by Stanley in his search for Livingstone. This portion of Africa, lying just south of the Sahara, and occupying, as it does, the central part of the continent offers the greatest difficulties to explorers...
were doubtful of their position, and Mrs. Agassiz's clear answers to the questions which they then put to her completely changed their attitude. The lawyers who had been engaged by the opponents of the charter made no defence when they were called on, and the case of the petitioners...
After the hearing the affairs of the college went smoothly. On the recommendation of the committee the charter was granted by the legislature. Mrs. Agassiz became the first president of the new college, as she had been of the preceding society, and for several years a was a strong influence in building it up to its present high position. Personally she was refined, high-brad, even aristocratic; but no woman of her generation was more influential through the sneer force of personality