Word: exceptionable
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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In 1846 Agassiz came to the United States, sent by Prussia on a scientific expedition, but, obtaining a dismissal, he determined to remain. Shortly after he became a professor in the Lawrence Scientific School, and up to the time of his death, with the exception of two years during which...
The establishment of the Natural History School at Penikese is due to Agassiz; it was to be an auxiliary of the Museum, and was founded for the purpose of enabling students to come into closer contact with Nature, and thus to make more critical observations of her works. Though hardly...
Thus, it will be seen, everything centred in the University, and it was thence that all this machinery took its motive power. To-day the system is the same, with the exception of some modifications of detail. The Grand-Master no longer exists, being superseded by the Minister of Public...
On a picture-stand (made after similar ones in the South Kensington Museum) which may be found in the main hall of the Library there are engravings, woodcuts, and etchings, from the Gray Collection with one exception, - fifty in all. These are specimens of Durer arranged chronologically. That is, the...
In the world of business gigantic failures and the enormous power exerted by the stock-broker in connection with the daring speculator have revealed a state of affairs as melancholy as it is reprehensible. The past year has been peculiarly marked by such events. A distinguished clergyman lately said, he...