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While the Faculty of the present day are the most perfect instructors, it is supposed that some leadership, of a supreme order, might be of service to Harvard, and through Harvard to the country. Older graduates remember, gratefully, the good they gained from James Russell Lowell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Asa Gray, Louis Agassiz, and other leaders of men, who were lecturers, and the regret they felt that Harvard did not employ John Fiske, J. H. Choate, J. C. Carter, George Bancroft, Francis Parkman, J. L. Motley, Ralph Waldo Emerson, W. H. Prescott, and others like them, as regular lecturers...
...state of congestion. The new structure will be a two-story addition to the present building and will extend to the west toward Garden street, taking the place of the old library wing, which will be removed, and covering part of the site recently occupied by the Asa Gray House, which was removed some weeks ago. The addition will be of similar construction to the Kidder wing, the gift of N. T. Kidder '82, of Milton, which has been completed during the last two years, and will be made with special attention to safety. Nothing of an inflammble nature will...
...latter list was approved by the committee and will be sent immediately to the architects. The names are: John Adams 1755, James Russell Lowell 1838, Louis Agassiz, h. 1848, Ralph Waldo Emerson 1821, Joseph Warren 1759, Cotten Mather 1678, Joseph Story 1798, Benjamin Peirce 1829, Edward Everett 1811, Asa Gray h. 1844, Henry Dunster, first president of Harvard College; Charles Summer 1830. The committee was empowered to submit ten more names to be added to the above list. Professor Hollis stated that this manner of choosing names for the memorials is not a precedent but that in the future...
...Ninety Donors. For the Asa Gray Memorial Fund. The largest gift, amounting to $10,000, was made by Mrs. Warren B. Potter...
Establishing the Asa Gray professorship of systematic botany...