Agassiz at Harvard. 



master's company : I shall myself superintend the 

 methods of instruction and tuition, and, while main- 

 taining that regularity and precision in the studies 

 so important to mental training, shall endeavour to 

 prevent the necessary discipline from falling into a 

 lifeless routine, alike deadening to the spirit of teacher 

 and pupil. It is further my intention to take the 

 immediate charge of the instruction in Physical 

 Geography, Natural History, and Botany, giving a 

 lecture daily, Saturdays excepted, on one or other 

 of these subjects, illustrated by specimens, models, 

 maps, and drawings." 



This school was continued eight years, and through 

 this means he was reheved from pecuniary anxieties. 



