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...hundredth anniversary of the birth of Louis Agassiz h.'48 will be celebrated in Sanders Theatre this evening at 7.45 o'clock, under the auspices of the Cambridge Historical Society. At this hour a public re-union of the surviving pupils of Professor Agassiz will take place and the audience which will do honor to the great scholar and teacher promises to be a distinguished...
...more or less familiar with the good work which the Society has done to preserve the records and traditions of the College, we have few occasions when we can show our appreciation and interest in tangible form. The idea of celebrating the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of John Harvard is a novel one and one which furnishes many possibilities for unique and effective ceremonies. We know that undergraduates will join heartily in any celebration which is arranged, but we feel that they should be willing to co-operate with the officers of the Memorial Society this spring...
...Murray, the pressure of the Persian army on the Ionic coast, caused the literary, as well as the military, supremacy to pass from Ionia to Attica, and as a result, the authentic recitation of the Iliad was also transferred. About this time the decay of the epic and the birth of tragedy marked the beginning of a new epoch...
...hundredth anniversary of the birth of Louis Agassiz h.'48, will be celebrated in Cambridge during the latter part of May under the auspices of the Cambridge Historical Society. The principal feature of the celebration will be a public reunion of the surviving pupils of Professor Agassiz in Sanders Theatre on Monday evening, May 27, at 7.45 o'clock. At this meeting, Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson '41, the first vice-president of the society, will preside; and brief addresses will be made by President Eliot, Professor A. L. Lowell '77, of the Department of Government, and Professor W. H. Niles...
...genius of a different order from that of our poet, said well concerning him: 'I should have to think if I were asked to name a man who has done more and in more valuable directions for America.' And, so, at the close of a century from his birth, in every quarter of our land, America is celebrating the birthday of him who did so much for her. Everywhere the tone of affection will mingle with the tone of admiration. It is the man whose life was as beautiful as his own verse; it is the exceptionally good and pleasant...