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teacher and expositor. He expounded clearly and sympathetically 

 before any audience the fundamental principles of his science, and 

 gave examples illustrating the principles with both hands, and 

 with shining, smiling face. He was just that, — a teacher by 

 nature, an enthusiastic, earnest, moving teacher. 



As Professor Gray has just said, he came into this Puritan 

 society like a warm glow into a chilly room. He was a revolution- 

 ary spirit in Harvard College, an exception to all our rules. He 

 welcomed special students, for instance, who could not possibly 

 pass the examinations for admission to Harvard College. He 

 kept them for years in his laboratory', training them in his obser- 

 vational method, — quite a new introduction among us. Many 

 of our best people disapproved of that method! The son of one 

 of our most distinguished surgeons submitted himself to the teaeii- 

 ing of Agassiz in the crude zoological laboratoiy, and received 

 several trilobites upon which he was expected to spend weeks, — 

 examining them, seeing what he could discover in them, and mak- 

 ing a record of his discoveries. He was kept at this sort of work 

 for weeks without a book, and without plates. \\v was to mak(> 

 his own plates. At last the son .les(ril)e<l this (.n-.v.s to the 



was at bottom a naturalist, lik.^ .'very phy.icini, or sui-eon. and 



AikI llien, what a new kind of professor Agassiz was in this old 

 t,,\Mi: He hail none of the regular habits of the traditional Har- 



when" to ..noke in the Coll.-v Yard wa> a -fave ollVnce. He 

 never wrnt to rhnreh. Sin,(h.v wa> his day of rest, but he did tiot 

 take it in the New l-^iLilaiid fa-hion. His mode of lecturing waa 



