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...Harvard" was used by the University crews of '58, '59 and '60, in the first of which President Eliot '53, at that time a tutor in Harvard College, rowed at four, and Professor A. Agassiz '55, at bow. She was the first six-oared shell built in America, and differed from the racing shell of today only in being shorter, wider and higher out of the water, and having more simple rigging...
...oared shell "Harvard," the first shell of its kind to be built in America. The "Harvard" was used by the University crews of 1858, 1859 and 1860, in the first of which President Eliot '53, then a tutor in Harvard College, rowed fourth oar, and Professor A. Agassiz...
...university teams has been long established at Harvard. In boating the ante-bellum records show that even members of the body of instruction were included in the athletic family. On the roll of the University crew of 1858, for instance, appear the names of Charles W. Eliot and Alexander Agassiz, both at that date graduates and the former on the teaching staff of the University. This practice seems to have lapsed later, but in the spring of 1871, at a conference between representatives of Harvard and Yale (at which the writer was present), notice was given by Harvard that after...
...fund now amounts to $116,465.37, of which $50,000 was given by Mrs. Agassiz's family. The call for contributions met with an immediate and universal response, 453 contributions having been received in addition to those of the Radcliffe alumni, who contributed in a body. The indications are that the fund will be largely increased in the near future as various sums of money continue to come...
...definite plans for the erection of the building have as yet been completed. The understanding is that it will be named Elizabeth Cory Agassiz Hall, and be situated near Fay House on the ground belonging to Radcliffe College...