CHAPTER 11. 



SCHOOL DAYS. 



Agassiz the Elder — Early College Life — College at Bienne — Vacation 

 Days — Auguste Agassiz — Making Collections — Forming a 

 Library — Village Festivals — Taste for Natural Science — A Mani- 

 festo — Agassiz Outlines His Career — Study of Fishes — Rambles 

 in the Fields — First Lectures on Zoology. 



GASSIZ the elder, while 

 a clergyman, was promi- 

 nently interested in edu- 

 cational affairs and had 

 a voice in all matters 

 pertaining to schools ; 

 not from any especial 

 desire on his part, but 

 because he had a recog- 

 nised fitness for the call- 

 ing. His influence, it is 

 said, was felt as much 

 in the schools of Orbe, 

 Motier, and Concise as in the pulpit, and one of the 

 valued possessions of his descendants to-day is a 

 piece of silver presented him by the municipality of 

 Orbe as a token of their appreciation of his services 

 in the cause of education. It is not surprising, then, 



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