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...crew of Harvard men rowed against all comers, and in the same year there is a record of the Beacon Cup Regatta, in which the Harvard crew won a three-mile race from seven others. President Eliot rowed in the Harvard boat and the bow oar was Mr. Alexander Agassiz. The complete make-up was: 1, B. W. Crowninshield (stroke); 2, C. Crowninshield; 3, C. W. Eliot; 4, J. H. Ellison; 5, R. B. Gelston; 6, A. Agassiz...
...large frame containing photographs of the first faculty of the school, as they appeared at the time of their first meeting in 1847. The following members are among the most distinguished: Hon. Edward Everett, William Cranch Bond, Joseph Lovering, Cornelius C. Felton, Jeffries Wyman, Asa Gray, Louis Agassiz, Eben N. Horsford, Charles Beck, and Benjamin Pierce...
There are also separate pictures of Asa Gray and Louis Agassiz, presented by Mrs. Gray and Mrs. Agassiz; and pictures of the first four deans, Professor Horsford, Professor Walcott, Gen. Eustis, and Professor Chaplain. These rooms are a great improvement on the rooms before occupied in the Scientific School Building...
Mention is also made of a gift of $1000 for the purchase of books by Mrs. Harriet Jackson Morse of Boston in memory of Mrs. Sarah Alden Ripley. A new scholarship, just founded, bears the name of the president, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz. The Massachusetts Society of Colonial Dames also offers for the first time a prize of not less than fifty, nor more than one hundred, dollars for the best essay of sufficient merit on some subject connected with the Colonial History of New England...
Fifty years ago next September Louis Agassiz was made a professor of Harvard. The Museum founded by him in 1859 has since developed into an establishment which has cost over a million of dollars, and which has an invested endowment of nearly $600,000. However, the building which he planned is not yet finished and, although his son and successor as Director of the Museum has aided the Museum financially, the poverty of the establishment is hardly concealed. The later generations who are reaping the benefit of Agassiz's great inspiration should hasten the completion of the Museum...