Word: havings
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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...
For a long time he worked alone, and alone bore the expense of collecting his materials, storing them at different places, of which the cellar of Harvard Hall was one. They were finally purchased by private subscription for the College, $12,000 being paid for them. Additions were made to...
But to get the true spirit of winter one ought to skate, I think, and that not in a rink, but on a lake or river, where one can look off to the hills and woods and feel the keen air. Now that club skates, star and acme skates, have...
No sooner are the pencil-marks obliterated from our fingers and cuffs, and no sooner are the piles of blue books safe in the hands of the dread examiner, revealing, by their deficiencies, awful tales of nights at Carl's and the Howard, than, instead of being harassed by dire...
The objects of a vacation are recreation and recuperation, and they must be sought in novelty, spiced with a little excitement; and if, by way of change, we can acquire some new accomplishment, or do a little solid reading, we need not consider this an encroachment on our period of...