Word: agassiz
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON, George F. Hoar, Francis E. Parker, and Henry Lee were elected Overseers for the term of six years. Rev. James Freeman Clarke, who has been a member of the Board, but was out one year, was elected for the full term. Alexander Agassiz was chosen to fill the unexpired term of Waldo Higginson, resigned...
PROFESSOR AGASSIZ is making arrangements to obtain the services of a distinguished naturalist for those students interested in natural history who propose to elect the course marked Zoology. The name of the gentleman is, for reasons best known to Professor Agassiz, at present withheld. It is sufficient to know that he stands among the first in his profession...
...influential citizens. The Museum, even in its present condition, is the best in the country; and its extension and improvement will confer honor, not only on the University, but on the State. It has reached its present position mainly through the personal efforts and the personal popularity of Professor Agassiz. But to extend the building or even to support its present necessary expenses, large sums are needed. The amount of these is so large as to be beyond the limit which a private philanthropist can hope to reach. It is a most natural course, then, to ask that the State...
...plan of University Lectures, so thoroughly tried last year, was successful enough to warrant its continuance this year, in a modified form. In addition to Professor Agassiz's course, two others are now being given, one by Mr. Samuel Eliot, on the History of the Nineteenth Century (continued), on Saturdays, at ten o'clock, in Boylston Hall; the other by Mr. C. C. Perkins, on the History of Art, on Fridays, at three o'clock, in Boylston Hall...
...reappearance of Professor Agassiz in the lecture-room, after a long absence, has revived the interest felt in the great scholar and in the science to which he has devoted his life. The lectures - which, by the way, are free - form a part of the University Course of Lectures, and are given at the Museum of Comparative Zoology on Thursdays, at 3 P. M. The subject is "The Natural Foundation of Zoological Affinity." This opportunity to obtain instruction in a very interesting department of science, from one who unites to great knowledge a clear and vivid manner of presenting...