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Many valuable collections were added to the Agassiz Museum, either by gift or by purchase. The Peabody Museum also enlarged its collections considerably as well as its building...
...needs but a perusal of the President's report to assure us that Harvard is in a very prosperous condition. Not only have the numbers of students in the different departments increased, but extensive additions have been made to the University accommodations. The Agassiz and Peabody Museums have been enlarged, a new dormitory built, and the Chemical Laboratory to some extent remodeled. A university such as ours, however, is constantly in need of improvements, and the most important of these have been touched upon in the report just published. Nearly all college endowments are encumbered with stipulations...
...scientific method on all of its willing students, must produce marked effects on character. The most prominent of these are: (1) the substitution of enthusiasm for indifference; (2) a self-respecting humility conjoined with charitableness; (3) an increase of sincerity. These effects were illustrated by the lives of Louis Agassiz, Jeffries Whyman, and Asa Gray. What can be the possible dangers in a method which possesses such marked advantages over the methods which it has displaced? Is it not likely that the very extreme specialization may lead to too contrasted views in regard to other fields of inquiry than...
...present the largest room in Boylston is occupied by a collection of mineralogical specimens, one of the most valuable in the country, representing a large pecuniary value added to the labor of a life time. The remedy which Professor Cooke proposes is to have an addition built to the Agassiz Museum for the accommodation of this collection, and then to have the room which it now occupies in Boylston, fitted over for a lecture room for Chemistry A. The plan is a practicable one, for the room in Boylsion could be fitted to accommodate nearly five hundred men, while...
During the vacation, the death of Mr. T. G. Cary of Cambridge took place. He was indirectly connected with Harvard, as the assistant of the late Professor Louis Agassiz, and has conducted valuable researches in the natural history of the Western States