Word: agassiz
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...Gray, Wordsworth, Dickens, Thackeray and Jane Austen. The power of observation is the pre-eminent characteristic of them all. Sympathy and enthusiasm accompany all close observation and genius may be described as the labour of untiring observation. Nor is this power great in works of fiction only. In science Agassiz and Darwin were peculiarly gifted in this direction...
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...Agassiz rows fairly well but he also has a tendency to shorten his stroke and to break his arms too soon...
...view of the recent interest in Ornithology, a number of students have petitioned the corporation to establish a course in that study. Dr. Agassiz, who is away at present, has given his consent to the use of the specimens in the Museum and Mr. C. E. Faxon would probably be appointed instructor. If the corporation decides to have such a course it might very possibly be one of special research...
...some time the Prospect Union has been desirous of forming a college settlement at Prospect House, and at last, through the interest which Mrs. Agassiz has taken in the movement, about $220 has been subscribed for the furnishing of a room and the expenses of men who undertake the work there. It is expected that students will live there for a week or a fortnight at a time, and their close association with the men will enable them to do much better work than would otherwise be possible. The Union has now been in existence a little more than...