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HOW AGASSIZ TAUGHT PROFESSOR 



WILDER 1 



THE phrase adopted as the title of this 

 article ['Louis Agassiz, Teacher'] begins 

 his simple will. Agassiz was likewise an 

 investigator, a director of research, and the 

 founder of a great museum. He really was 

 four men in one. Without detracting from the 

 extent and value of the three other elements 

 of his intense and composite American life 

 from his first course of lectures before the 

 Lowell Institute in 1846 to the inauguration of 

 the Anderson Summer School of Natural His- 

 tory at Penikese Island, July 8, 1873, and his 

 address before the Massachusetts State Board 

 of Agriculture, twelve days before his untimely 

 death on December 14, 1873, Agassiz was 



1 From an article by Professor Burt G. Wilder, of Cornell 

 University, in The Harvard Graduates' Magazine, June, 

 1907. The extract is taken from a reprint with slight 

 changes by the author, and is given with slight omissions 

 by the present writer. 



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