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...spite of a recent report to the contrary, the arrangement made by Professor Hanus with the Cambridge School Board still remains in force. By this arrangement Harvard students teach in the four Cambridge public schools, the Manual Training, the English High, the Russell and the Agassiz. When, however, the teachers of other schools requested recently an extension of the system to their schools, the request was voted down by the Cambridge School Board and the agreement as originally stated remains in force. Besides the men teaching in Cambridge, there are students engaged in the same work at Medford and Newton...
...prefaces his report with a plea for aid in the completion of the Museum building. When the new south corner of the University Museum is finished there will remain only one hundred feet of the south wing to be built in order to complete the structure as planned by Agassiz forty years ago. This space, originally allotted for the extension of the anthropological section, is already much needed. The material of the collections, gathered during thirty-four years, is beyond price, for it comprises relics which, owing to the spread of civilization or other causes, can never be replaced...
...most valuable single gift of the year is the large ethnological collection from the South Sea Islands, which was made by Dr. Alexander Agassiz and Dr. W. MeM, Woodsworth on the execution of the U. S. Fish Commission S. S. Albatross in 1899-1900. The specimens were largely gathered directly from the peoples of the Fj., Society, Marshall, Gilbert. They include various kinds of dishes, weapons, cloth, basis, canoes and other objects and give almost compiled and costumes of the natives...
...principal part of the collection was presented to the Department by Mr. Alexander Agassiz a number of years ago. About two years ago Mr. Elliot C. Lee '76, gave the sum of $3,000 for the construction of cases, in order that the fossils might be better preserved and arranged. The collection is now palced in seventy-five cases, with a holding capacity of 1,514 trays. Of these, 1,167 were filled when the last report of the collection was made, a year...
...Anonymous (to complete telescope), 691.36Charles Peabody (special fund for Music 7), 40.00Frederick S. Converse (special fund for Music 7), 20.00A. C. Coolidge (for purchase of books), 59.65John Harvey Trent (for expense of the Portion of Riant Library devoted to theology and hagiography), 800.00Alexander Agassiz (for changes and improvements at the new boat house), 6,145.00J. K. Paine (for purchase of books and expenses of chamber Concerts), 17.97Theobald Smith. (for research in Laboratory of Comparative Pathology), 25.00Mr. Alexander Agassiz, Mr. and Mrs. Quincy Adams, Mrs. Henry L. Higginson (for completion of University Museum...