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...hundredth anniversary of the birth of Louis Agassiz h.'48, will be celebrated in Cambridge during the latter part of May under the auspices of the Cambridge Historical Society. The principal feature of the celebration will be a public reunion of the surviving pupils of Professor Agassiz in Sanders Theatre on Monday evening, May 27, at 7.45 o'clock. At this meeting, Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson '41, the first vice-president of the society, will preside; and brief addresses will be made by President Eliot, Professor A. L. Lowell '77, of the Department of Government, and Professor W. H. Niles...
Popular Science--"Civology--A Suggestion," by L. M. Keasbey '88; "A Defence of Pragmatism," by W. James '69; "How shall the Destructive Tendencies of Modern Life be met and overcome," by R. C. Newton 74; "Joseph Leidy," by W. K. Brooks '75; "Louis Agassiz," by E. E. Hale...
...principal foreign zoological societies will send delegates. After the election of officers, the delegates will be divided, according to their interest in different branches of zoology, into sections for daily discussion. There will be three general meetings, several excursions, and a reception by Mr. Alexander Agassiz '55, chairman of the general committee. The Harvard Esperanto Society is considering the feasibility of having members act as guides to the foreign delegates...
Another article of interest is Mr. Samuel Henshaw's illustrated account of the Okayi, a rare specimen just acquired by the Agassiz Museum of an African animal akin to the giraffe. A criticism, by S. T. M., of the exhibition of the Camera Club addresses itself particularly to amateur photographers. General entertainment is provided in Mr. Stoddard's diary of a youthful would-be dilettante...
...banquet at 7.30 o'clock at the Hotel Somerset, Boston. Invitations have been sent to all men, who have ever rowed on a University crew, and preparations are being made for 350 guests. J. J. Storrow '85 will preside. President Eliot, Major H. L. Higginson h.'82, Professor Alexander Agassiz '55, A. G. Hodges '74, R. F. Herrick '90, F. L. Higginson, Jr., '00, O. D. Filley '06 and R. L. Bacon '07 will speak...