Word: whosee
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...sombre gorge, whose bastioned walls...
LOUIS JOHN RUDOLPH AGASSIZ died Sunday evening, December 14, 1873, and there is no one in this country whose death will be more deeply mourned, either as that of a private citizen or of a man of science. Professor Agassiz, of Huguenot descent, was born in the parish of Mottier, near Lake Neufchatel, Switzerland, on May 28, 1807. His lineal ancestors, for six generations, were clergymen; his mother was the daughter of a physician, and to her his early education is due. While quite young he evinced a taste for scientific study, which he developed by attending the College...
Whereas God in his infinite wisdom has taken from among us the scholar whose fame is endeared to our hearts by the love we have borne for him as a teacher...
Resolved, That, while recognizing the inscrutable wisdom of Almighty God in thus removing from us our most honored member, we deeply deplore the loss of one whose enthusiasm inspired, and whose sympathy and ready assistance were never wanting to, the student of Natural History...
...same building with the school are rooms for the old pensioners ("cods," from "codger," the boys called them), whose number, about eighty, the old bell rings out every night just as Big Tom at Oxford gives the number of students in Christ College. There is something very pleasant and even touching in this union under one roof of lives so different as the careless school-boy's, with all the world before him, and the pensioner's in his black gown, with his work all done and only waiting for his dismissal. That most beautiful passage...