440 PEOFESSOR AGASSIZ. 



Something of the character of this university, compared 

 with those of England, may be inferred from the fact that 

 there are only four resident graduates not engaged in 

 further study, in some of the schools of law, divinity, &c. 



Among the distinguished additions to its staff of 

 teachers, which Cambridge owes to the establishment of 

 its scientific school, is that of Professor Agassiz, for 

 merly of Neufchatel. In securing the services of Agassiz, 

 Mr Lawrence has conferred a boon, not only on the 

 University of Harvard, but upon the science of the 

 United States. 



Besides the profound scientific acquirements which 

 long European leisure and unabated zeal and labour 

 enabled him to attain, Agassiz possesses an agreeable 

 facility of communicating his stores of knowledge, even 

 in the English tongue. He has consequently been much 

 in demand as a popular lecturer since his arrival in 

 America; and, from this kind of distraction, is in some 

 danger, during the march of science, of losing that pre 

 eminent position as a leader in his own departments, 

 which he possessed while in Europe. 



The subject of Embryology is one upon which his 

 lectures have been most useful and instructive, and, I 

 believe, very generally acceptable. The Vestiges of 

 Creation has been as generally read in the United States 

 as at home, and has made many half-converts. Agassiz 



&quot; SECT. 9. No inn-holder, tavern-keeper, retailer., confectioner, or 

 keeper of any shop or boarding-house for the sale of drink or food, or 

 any livery-stable keeper, for horse or carriage hire, shall give credit to 

 any undergraduate of either of the colleges within this State, without 

 the consent of the president, or of such officer as may be thereto 

 authorised by the Governments of such colleges respectively, nor in 

 violation of any rules and regulations of said colleges. 



&quot; SECT. 71. If any person shall give credit to any undergraduate of 

 a college, contrary to the provisions of this chapter, he shall forfeit a 

 sum equal to the amount so unlawfully trusted or credited, whether 

 the same shall have been paid or not.&quot; Massachusetts System of Com 

 mon Schools, and Tenth Annual Report, p. 1G8. 



