Word: growth
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...value; was carefully studying the Selachians, which work will probably now have to cease; and was also investigating the Echinoderms. It is believed that these investigations will be carried on by his son, Alexander Agassiz. He had made large collections of eggs for the purpose of examining the embryological growth of birds. It was his intention during the present winter to publish a text-book for the use of the undergraduates who take Natural History as an elective; this book was to contain simply a description of animals, leaving the student to draw his own inferences from their organization...
...growth and greatness of the Museum of Comparative Zoology must be a source of gratification to all lovers of Natural History. Students intending to devote the greater part of their lives to this branch of knowledge need no longer go to Europe with the expectation of finding better facilities to aid them in their investigations. In the course of his remarks last week to those who had elected studies at the Museum, Professor Agassiz said that twenty-six years ago there was not a single specimen, with which to illustrate a lecture, possessed by the Institution, which now offers better...
...very imperfect conception of what is called Culture, - that movement of which Matthew Arnold was the leader, and of which he himself says that its aim is the perfection of our human nature on all its sides, in all its capacities; that it presses ever onwards to an ampler growth, to a gradual harmonious expansion of those gifts of thought and feeling which make the peculiar dignity, wealth, and happiness of human nature. Surely a high purpose, but one not incapable of being but partly understood or not understood at all; and thus culture comes to seem to many people...
With gratification I remember that my preparatory years were devoted exclusively to the study of the Classics. Kuhner and Harkness were my constant companions; and in the light of their wisdom my love for the ancients found being and growth. It gives me pleasure to recall the fact, that at my admission examination, though I located Manilla on the coast of Mexico and Mt. Shasta in Hindostan, I was able to give correctly the location of the Bosporani and the Cyziceni...
...ascertained if we look at the religious life of the students. This, among those who make any claims to being religious men, is of as high a character as at other colleges. Certainly, men do not pretend to religion from selfish motives, nor is their piety a hot-house growth. They profess religion because they believe it, and stand by it all the better for the lack of a forcing temperature. The College is a little world by itself, and the bad influences of a world are here, and the good also...