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...German Song Recital will be given at Brattle Hall, Wednesday, March 18, at 8 p. m., by Mrs. Florence Lee Whitman, soprano, assisted by Miss Emma L. Taylor, accompanist. The proceeds will be devoted to the purchase of a piano for the Agassiz School...
...opening of the new exhibition room at the Agassiz Museum, which was announced in yesterday's CRIMSON to take place yesterday, has been postponed to next Monday, the 16th...
...exhibition room at the Agassiz Museum, showing the life of the Mesozoic or Secondary period will today be thrown open to the public. In popular parlance this period is known as the "Age of Reptiles," and accordingly in this room are placed a number of typical representatives of the huge Dinosaurs and other strange reptilian forms that populated the earth at that period. The central attraction is a magnificent cast of an Iguanodon (the only one in this country) after the original in the Brussels Museum. This was a creature of gigantic dimensions, measuring at least thirty-five feet...
Beside these more notable additions many other interesting specimens-both casts and originals-are on exhibition. It was the late Professor Louis Agassiz's plan to arrange the exhibits in the Museum so as to show the succession of life from the earliest periods to our own time. For this purpose a room has been set apart for each great period. Although the collections are not yet complete, it is the intention to make them so, when it will be possible to study the manifold changes and developments in the life of the globe...
...committee has been appointed, consisting of Mrs. Agassiz, Miss Irwin, and Professors Smith, Byerly and Gray to report on the resignation of Mr. Gilman as regent of Radcliffe College. The committee has done nothing as yet and probably will not hand in its report before next June. It is impossible to say at present who will be Mr. Gilman's successor. He will of course stay in office till the end of the year, and after his resignation remain a member of the corporation and is likely to be on some of the committees...