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...strange coincidence, death came on the same day to America's and to England's greatest botanists-Asa Gray and Thomas Irvine Boswell...
FEBRUARY 12. SUNDAY.Appleton Chapel, 7.30 p. m. Alexander McKenzie, D. D. (A service in memory of Asa Gray.) (The front pews are reserved for members of the University until...
...life of the great man at whose funeral many had gathered a few hours before. He said that we must ask ourselves what it was that gave that life its grace and charm. It was the simplicity, the childishness, the purity of mind that marked the greatness of Asa Gray. He had kept his simplicity because he had not thought of himself, but had been filled with the sense of unattained duty, of the great aims of life. The whole life was a lesson for all men. To have the simplicity of true greatness they must put away the narrowing...
...funeral of Professor Asa Gray took place Thursday noon in Appleton Chapel. The services were very simple, and, with the exception of a very few floral decorations, there was an absence of display. Rev. Dr. Peabody read passages from the Scriptures and Dr. McKenzie delivered the eulogy. Among the many people present were the officers of the University, Judge Hoar, President Dwight, James Rus sell Lowell, and other eminent gentlemen. The remains of Professor Gray were taken to the Mt. Auburn Cemetery, where they were placed in the family vault...
...served the American Academy of Arts and Science as its president, and has presided over the American Association for the advancement of science. In 1884 his portrait, made in bronze, was presented to Harvard College. No tablet of bronze will be necessary to perpetuate the scientific fame of Asa Gray. It is well, however, that generations of scholars yet unborn may thus be able to gaze upon the gentle features of a man whom no one has yet surpassed in the lustre which he has shed upon their Alma Mater...