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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...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. He had, withal, contemplated writing a work which should show the affinities existing between the various animals of natural history...
...sheepishness there were, to be sure, and one Freshman, on the entrance of the urbane investigators, bashfully retreated to his bedroom, whence he was dislodged with some difficulty. All admitted the meanness of the act, and several gentlemen could express the violence of their indignation only by the use of words which even sporting papers banish from their columns. Most of them had no doubt but that some Freshmen resident in the entry were the guilty men, but none had the faintest idea what Freshmen. A dignified impenetrability, in short, characterized their demeanor, and, although the act has since been...
...science which to us seems almost to have been his own, to those in humbler ranks who loved him only for himself, - all lament, as a personal sorrow, the death of Professor Agassiz. In other columns will be found a sketch of his life, intended more for future use than as a supply of any present need; an account of the funeral, the simplicity of which was in accordance with his wishes; and the resolutions adopted by the Undergraduates and by the Harvard Natural History Society...
...leave to others the praise of what he has done we find our best consolation in the dignity and purity of his character, in the perfect unselfishness of his life, and in the simple faith and piety which kept pace with his knowledge and sanctified it for a noble use; that to us the lesson of his life is of especial value, as showing one of the brightest examples of courage and patience in the pursuit of truth, and an uncompromising devotion to that which his conscience dictated...
...Natural History Society have granted the use of their rooms in Stoughton to the C. T. Co. The first meeting in their new rooms was held last Wednesday night, when Mr. Robert W. Sawyer, '74, was elected President, and Mr. J. C. Holman, '76, Vice-President. The company adjourned for a month...