Word: hecla
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...work of the Cancer Commission in the City of Boston; $6,200 from various donors for the purchase of Van Dyck portrait for the Fogg Art Museum. Another gift, from Erasmus D. Leavitt '08, of a number of drawings and drawing cases belonging formerly to the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company, was also reported. The establishment of "The N. P. Hallowell '61 Memorial Scholarship," was announced the fund being furnished by the children of the late Norwood Penrose Hallowell and the income to be awarded at mid-years to a member of the Freshman class, who shall hold the scholarship...
...Agassiz one day in 1867 met Charles W. Eliot, professor of chemistry in the Institute of Technology, and said to him: 'Eliot, I am going to Michigan for some years as superintendent of the Calumet & Hecla mines. I want to make money; it is impossible to be a productive naturalist in this country without money. I am going to get some money if I can and then I will be a naturalist. If I succeed, I can then get my own papers and drawings printed and help my father at the Museum.' The story of his struggle to make...
...America from Germany in 1849, when thirteen years old, and received his later education at Harvard, where he was graduated in 1855, and at the Lawrence Scientific School, where he received the degree of S.B. in 1857. Ten years later he turned his attention to the Calumet and Hecla copper mines on Lake Superior, and in consequence of his ability, attention, devotion, and business habits made them a great financial success. Yet even at this busy period we find the dominant note of Alexander Agassiz's life continuously sounded,--the desire to add to the sum of natural knowledge...
Alexander Agassiz's relations with Harvard began with his graduation in 1855. In 1857 he received the degree of S.B. from the Lawrence Scientific School and in 1885 the degree of LL.D. from the University. The fortune which he amassed in the development of the Calumet and Hecla copper mines was spent in endeavors to advance zoological research. His gifts to the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology amounted to more than a million dollars. He was a member of the Board of Overseers from 1873 to 1878 and in 1885, and a Fellow of Harvard College from...
Major Higginson began his address with a short account of Professor Agassiz's life, especially that part relating to his marine work and to the upbuilding of the Calumet and Hecla mine, a feat he accomplished only after hard and protracted labor. "After 1873, he spent several months of each winter in some foreign country to make researches, and it was during these times that he did so much sea-dredging." Mr. Agassiz's scientific writings number more than two hundred titles, including volumes and short papers...