Word: wishing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...United States, until he became almost as familiar with their broad expanse of country as the husbandman with the few acres which he tills. Through all this great activity he ever kept in view the one object to which his efforts were directed: it was his earnest wish to gather specimens for a natural history of his adopted country, and to present them in classified form; this desire ultimately gave rise to the Museum of Comparative Zoology...
...Peabody. The number of people in the Chapel was very great; but, owing to the good arrangements of the Committee, there was no crowding or confusion, and the perfect silence of the large assembly was a good evidence of its grief for the death of Agassiz, and its earnest wish to pay him the last sad honors...
...room, expressing many a wish...
...benefit of those students in the Academic Department who wish to know the times and subjects of the first-year lectures at the Law School, and by whom delivered, the following list is printed: Forenoon Lectures begin at eleven o'clock; those on Monday and Tuesday are on Real Property, given by the Hon. Emory B. Washburn; those on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, on Contracts, by Professor J. B. Ames. Afternoon Lectures begin at three. The lecture Monday afternoon is on Crime and Procedure, by Professor Washburn; Tuesday, on Torts, by Professor Lathrop; and Friday, on Civil Procedure (either...
...these engravings who before did not know that they were on exhibition. This exhibition, I learn, takes the place of the former practice of opening the collection a certain number of hours every week for those who have made appointments. The new arrangement will undoubtedly please all who really wish to get from these art treasures what can be gotten by continued and undisturbed study, and what can never be obtained by satisfying a restless curiosity, which would skim over twenty prints in a time scarcely sufficient to get what there is in one. These prints will remain on exhibition...