Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Presently, his brother-in-law, Mr. Shaw, acquired an interest in a copper property at Lake Superior and interested Mr. Agassiz in this property. Difficulties in the management arose, and Mr. Agassiz went to Calumet, in the upper peninsula of Michigan, with his wife and oldest child, George, and lived there for two years, organizing the work and developing the mine, putting in new machinery and generally getting everything into good order...
...Agassiz, who was then managing a coal mine in Pennsylvania, was called by his brother-in-law, Mr. Quincy A. Shaw, to go to Michigan to represent his interests in the supervision of the operations in the Calumet, Hecla and Huron Copper properties, the controlling interest in which Mr. Shaw had acquired. With his arrival there Agassiz began his career in copper mining, in which he continued uninterruptedly for forty-four years. He long survived the term of all his early contemporaries in the direction of that industry in Michigan. During his career he not only developed the largest...
Harvard is the only University of any importance in the country which has no swimming tank whatever. At Annapolis, Michigan, and Wisconsin swimming is a requirement for graduation. Today teams from Yale, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia and the College of the City of New York will compete in the intercollegiate swimming meet, but Harvard, the only other member of the Intercollegiate Swimming Association, can not enter a team, because the lack of proper facilities has made the development of a creditable team impossible. For practice the swimmers have been obliged to rely upon the uncertain...
Owing to the absence of Professor R. B. Merriman '96 the second half of History 11 will be in charge of Professor A. L. Cross '95, of the University of Michigan. Professor Cross will also give, during the second half-year, the course known as History 9 which was formerly conducted by the late Professor Charles Gross...
...Princeton, Nebraska, Stanford, and Kansas. The enrollment of undergraduate women also shows a satisfactory general increase; at Cornell and Syracuse the number of undergraduate women is larger than that of the men. Harvard continues to lead in the number of male academic students, being followed by Yale, Princeton, Michigan, Chicago, Wisconsin, Columbia, and Minnesota...