 ... had been much influenced by long intimacy with his next-door neighbor, Benjamin Peirce the mathematician, and with Louis Agassiz, his brother-in-law and close friend.  Harvard Memories - Página 20por Charles William Eliot - 1923 - 142 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
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...was a genial, open-minded man, whose natural gifts and practical experience lay in the direction of language and literature, but whose views of education...President of the College since 1845. Unfortunately his régime lasted but two years; for he died suddenly in office. Then came another clerical appointee,... | |
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