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...Annex Glee and Banjo Clubs will give their annual concert followed by a reception at the Fay House on Monday evening, April 3rd. The patronesses are Mrs. Louis Agassiz, Mrs. Martin Brimmer, Mrs. Josiah P. Cooke, Mrs. F. Gordon Dexter, Mrs. Charles W. Eliot, Mrs. Arthur Gilman, Mrs. Nathaniel S. Shaler, Mrs. Henry Whitman, and Mrs. Quincy Shaw...
...Hoar was a great friend of Prof. Agassiz and was himself quite a scientist. He was many times invited to deliver lectures on geology and other sciences by the colleges in New England but always declined...
Phillips Brooks was a Harvard man. This does not mean merely that he graduated in '55, that class which contains such other names as Alexander Agassiz, Robert Treat Paine and Theodore Lyman. His interest in his university did not end at graduation, but ever since, he has not only kept a warm place for his Alma Mater in his great heart, but by his efforts has contributed, and contributed largely to the advancement of Harvard manliness. His affection for his class and college is shown in this short extract from a characteristic note written to his class secretary, " I shall...
...reason for this closer union of the Annex and the University have been clearly stated by Mrs. Agassiz in a letter to the last Nation, and as it is probable that these reasons are not fully understood by undergraduates in general it would not seem unadvisable to state them briefly. They are first, "that the existence of the Annex and its present course of study may be permanently insured to its students;" second, "that the students of the Annex may have freer use of the library and other educational facilities belonging to the University than they now enjoy"; and third...
Professor Agassiz will start in January on a three months' yachting cruise in the Carribean Sea to study the animal life there. He will be accompanied by A. G. Mayer of the Graduate School...