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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This evening at 8 o'clock the University baseball squad of 18 players will leave by the Federal Express for the southern trip. Assistant Manager Jones, Coach Pieper, and Fallon, the rubber, will accompany the squad. Manager Wyman went last night to make arrangements for the accommodation of the squad in Charlottesville...
Annapolis, April 15, 1910.--The Harvard crew arrived here today at 12 o'clock and immediately took a short row before lunch, practicing three racing starts which went very well. In the afternoon the crew paddled over the inside course. The work was very encouraging and the crew continued the steady improvement shown in Cambridge early in the week, getting a better proportion throughout the stroke, and quickening the catch. Owing to the change from fresh to salt water all the riggers in the new shell had to be lowered. Coach Wray followed the work in a single, the weather...
...latter, which occurred in 1873, at which time also Mr. Alexander Agassiz lost his wife. At his father's death he was put in charge of the Museum, and carried on the work according to his father's ideas and his own. From that time forward he went away every winter on various excursions and, as time passed, these excursions were to distant parts of the world...
...years went on, he built the present Zoological Museum one piece after another on his own plans, and of course paid for it. He served for some years, at two different times, as a member of the Corporation of the University, and he always watched and guided the work in the Museum personally and with great care. In summer he lived at Newport where he had a nice house and an excellent laboratory, which was sometimes filled with students. He enjoyed his life at Newport, as the climate suited him and, although he did not go on the water much...
This winter he went to Egypt to have a quiet, pleasant time, and has enjoyed himself very much. Just before going he had begun another plan for helping the American Academy of Science here. Nobody ever saw any sign of money in his life, except as he could use it for the good of education or to help other peo- ple, and whenever it happened that any man at Cambridge died, whose family needed relief, Mr. Agassiz was always to the fore. A nobler, higher or more useful life no man ever lived, and withal he has kept the very...