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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...college. With us there is nothing similar. Primary instruction is enclosed within an impassable barrier. The scholar who goes to a primary school can keep on going all his life; he will never pass on to that which is the object of secondary instruction. And the schoolmaster will remain a schoolmaster to all eternity; he may be transferred to a city, if he is a capable man, instead of remaining in some small locality; never can he pass the barrier which retains him in primary teaching and come to secondary teaching. With you the one runs naturally into the other...
...remain, very truly, yours...
While with heaps and heaps of kisses and love I remain your affectionate...
...truly says, how much more eminent they would be did they not muddle their brains with wine. And then the bad example! But notwithstanding such arguments, no one can deny that he who is moderate is not intemperate. How to have an assurance that men will be and will remain moderate, is the problem. Just as with some classes the desire for property enforces moderation in the use of whiskey, so with others ambition teaches the lesson of moderation in wine. But there are a large number of men, and they make up a considerable part of the students, whose...
...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 he was associated with a medical college at Charleston, S. C., has been connected with Harvard. To describe Professor Agassiz's scientific labors since his arrival in this country is wellnigh impossible: he was always ready to lecture, sent valuable contributions to magazines, read instructive papers before scientific associations, was busy...