Word: givings
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...comes with peculiar force upon the College with which he was connected. It needs an eloquent pen to pay a fitting tribute to Agassiz, and it is impossible in these moments of general grief to assign him the place among the world's great naturalists which the future will give him. The last sad rites have been paid, and there is a vacancy to be filled in the halls of science. To Agassiz descended the mantle of Cuvier, and on whom will it now fall...
...much time in critical observation, and was preparing to record the results of his extensive researches for the benefit of the world. He felt this to be his solemn duty, and asserted the same recently in one of his lectures, and also remarked, that, although willing and ready to give information to any asking it, he yet desired that his time should not be taken up by senseless questionings. Overwork was perhaps the cause of his death. After his last lecture at Fitchburg he seemed completely exhausted, and wrote to discontinue some of his engagements; but he did not adopt...
...have asked me to send you some information upon the subject of our national system of education. I will do so in all simplicity. I shall not perhaps give you any original views upon the question, but I shall try to give you a clear idea of the system. This is all you ask of me, and I hope to succeed. But to the comprehension of our system of education, it will be necessary first to understand the mechanism of what is called the University of France...
...address on the "Ramifications of the Forensic Hyperbla," relying for its wit on poor spelling and lack of punctuation, be a sample of the performances, we cannot wonder that impromptu diversions in the way of bean and flour contests were acceptable to the audience. For a real "jolly wow" give us a Yale merrymaking...
...these first cold days, when the falling snow covers grass and trees, and the dark clouds seem to threaten a long storm, it is quite amusing to notice the different remarks with which men greet this earnest of winter. Some say, "A little more of this will give us very fair sleighing;" others, "How pretty it makes the Yard look!" but most declare with a sigh, "Now for wet feet and cold rooms and frozen ears." When we think of the number of this last class, it really seems worth while to consider whether winter could not be made...