Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...teachers of the law in this country. But Dean Thayer brings more to the Law School than the abilities of a practicing lawyer, for he has already taught there at intervals, and has always been in close touch with the Law Faculty through the associations formed by his distinguished father. In short, Dean Thayer has been regarded more as one of the Faculty than as an outsider. We heartily extend our welcome to him as the new Dean of the Harvard Law School...
Upon graduating, he entered the Scientific School, and also taught in his father's school for girls, which was opened in the autumn of '55. This task of a handsome young fellow instructing a lot of girls who were just beginning to live was embarrassing no doubt, but he got through that trial well. After graduating from the Scientific School, he entered the coast survey, and presently turned up in California, where he lived for some time. He had originally meant to be a civil engineer and to go onto some of the railroads, thinking the west a great field...
...made an under-officer in the Zoological Museum over which his father presided and was there for several years at a very small salary, living all this time in his father's house...
...dividends, and thereafter Mr. Agassiz was easy, so far as money was concerned. He had been enabled to get some stock of this mine through the help of friends, and presently was able to pay off his indebtedness. When he came back, he worked in the Museum with his father until the death of the latter, which occurred in 1873, at which time also Mr. Alexander Agassiz lost his wife. At his father's death he was put in charge of the Museum, and carried on the work according to his father's ideas and his own. From that time...
...scientific periodicals, and reports of scientific bodies, are numerous and cover all branches of natural history. He is the joint author with his stepmother, Mrs. Elizabeth C. Agassiz, of the fifth volume of "Contributions to the Natural History of the United States," which was left un-finished by his father, "Seaside Studies in Natural History," and "Marine Animals of Massachusetts...