Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When we attempt to survey the lifework of Alexander Agassiz, we are astonished at its amount, variety, and quality. He was largely engaged in commercial undertakings; he carried on detailed researches on the group of the Echinoderms; he added scientific knowledge of the great oceans by his deep-sea researches; he travelled more extensively than any other man of his time in studying coral-reefs; and he assisted Harvard, his alma mater, by his generous donations to her museums and other interests...
There are two tempers of mind found both in the Christian and the non-Christian faiths, the world-accepting and the world-renouncing tempers. The believer who accepts the world as a revelation of God and who finds in every human act and relation a deep meaning, believes in a better world because of the very incompleteness of this world. The nonbeliever looks forward to death because it closes all, and the believer because it does not. In the world-accepting view the believer tries to find God's will for man and following it he finds that...
...then again, was the drawing meant to express humor? Ah, there is a point to consider! If the author remembers Life's "The Glorious Fourth," which perhaps he never saw, he recalls the deep moral uplift of the picture...
...University. Last June when Professor Palmer had been a teacher at Harvard for 40 years, a committee of 27 of his former pupils of which Professor C. M. Backewell, of Yale, was chairman, decided to have the portrait painted as a tribute to him and a token of their deep appreciation of his work. The portrait, which was painted by Mr. Charles Hopkinson '91, is now in the Trophy Room. It will be put on exhibition in the Union soon and will eventually be hung in the Faculty Room...
...subjects of the lectures are as follows: February 6--"The Hydrosphere, Deep Sea Instruments"; February 9--Depth of the Sea and Physical Conditions of Great Depth"; February 13--"The Composition of Ocean Water"; February 16--"Oceanic Temperature and Circulation"; February 20--"Plant Life in the Ocean"; February 23--"Animal Life in the Ocean"; February 27--Coral Reefs and Theories of Their Structure and Origin"; March 2--"The Floor of the Ocean...