. The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six. A picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation. even from as far west as St. Louis. It was considereda great privilege to be taught by such a naturalist as Agassiz,and all the girls whose parents could afford it were anxiousto join the school. Of course, the great attraction was Agassiz.. . The girls parents often came with them, and sat down inthe schoolroom to listen to the lectures, which were so clear andso entertaining that every one followed with the greatest atten-tion the subjects brought up by their grea

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. The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six. A picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation. even from as far west as St. Louis. It was considereda great privilege to be taught by such a naturalist as Agassiz, and all the girls whose parents could afford it were anxiousto join the school. Of course, the great attraction was Agassiz.. . The girls parents often came with them, and sat down inthe schoolroom to listen to the lectures, which were so clear andso entertaining that every one followed with the greatest atten-tion the subjects brought up by their great teacher, howeverdifficult they might be. 2 Mrs. Agassiz says that Mr. Agassiz never had an audiencemore responsive than the sixty or seventy girls who gatheredevery day at the close of the morning to hear his daily lecture;nor did he ever give to any audience lectures more carefully 1 Louis Agassiz, His Life and Correspondence. Edited by Elizabeth CaryAgassiz. Boston : Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1886, pp. 525-529. 2 Life, Letters, and Works of Louis Agassiz, by .Tides Marcou. NewYork and London, 1896, ii. pp. 60, 61.. MR. KENDALLS SCHOOL. 211 prepared, more comprehensive in their range of subjects, morelofty in their tone of thought. ... It was the simplicity andclearness of his method that made them so interesting to hisyoung listeners. What I wish for you, he would say, isculture that is alive, active, susceptible of farther development.Do not think that I care to teach you this or the other spe-cial science. My instruction is only intended to show you thethoughts in nature which science reveals, and the facts I giveyou are useful only, or chiefly, for this object. . Agassiz hadthe cooperation not only of his brother-in-law, Professor Felton, but of others among his colleagues, who took classes in specialdepartments, or gave lectures in history or literature. Amongthese additional instructors was Luigi Monti, the Young Sici-lian of Longfellows Wayside Inn, lu sight of ^Etna bo