Word: naturalist
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard Union, where he hoped that democracy and good-fellowship among Harvard students would be forever cultivated; because he had proved himself to be the most successful promoter of good music that Eastern Massachusetts had ever known; and because he was the intimate friend of Alexander Agassiz, a great naturalist and a great administrator in varied fields, who had already served two terms in the Corporation, the last of which closed in 1890; and because the Corporation of that day knew no better example of the public spirit and courage which had made New England what it then...
...outstanding feature of Colonel Roosevelt's life was his marvelous versatility. Not only as a great statesman, but also as a teacher, explorer, soldier, naturalist, public speaker, and author he has revealed a personality which has become famous the world over, the memory of which will live for years to come
...Meeting of Harvard Natural History Society. "Reminiscences of a Naturalist," by Professor Edward S. Morse, of the Peabody Museum, Salem. Conant Common Room...
Ernest Thompson Seton, the well known lecturer, author, illustrator and naturalist, will lecture on "The Message of the Indian," including a discussion of the Boy Scout work, in the Union next Monday evening at 8.15 o'clock...
...Agassiz one day in 1867 met Charles W. Eliot, professor of chemistry in the Institute of Technology, and said to him: 'Eliot, I am going to Michigan for some years as superintendent of the Calumet & Hecla mines. I want to make money; it is impossible to be a productive naturalist in this country without money. I am going to get some money if I can and then I will be a naturalist. If I succeed, I can then get my own papers and drawings printed and help my father at the Museum.' The story of his struggle to make...