AGASSIZ AT HARVARD 



visiting the normal schools, and associating 

 himself actively, as far as he could, with the 

 interests of public education in Massachusetts. 

 From this time forward his college lectures were 

 open to women as well as to men. He had great 

 sympathy with the desire of women for larger 

 and more various fields of study and work, 

 and a certain number of women have always 

 been employed as assistants at the Museum. 



The story of the next three years was one of 

 unceasing but seemingly uneventful work. The 

 daylight hours from nine or ten o'clock in the 

 morning were spent, with the exception of 

 the hour devoted to the school, at the Museum, 

 not only in personal researches and in lecturing, 

 but in organizing, distributing, and superin- 

 tending the work of the laboratories, all of 

 which was directed by him. Passing from 

 bench to bench, from table to table, with a 

 suggestion here, a kindly but scrutinizing glance 

 there, he made his sympathetic presence felt 

 by the whole establishment. No man ever 

 exercised a more genial personal influence over 

 his students and assistants. 



His initiatory steps in teaching special 



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