New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-02-20
TRAvRLs IN CASHMERE. LITTLE TIBET, AND CENTRAL
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TIE AGASSIZ MEMORIAL.

A TEACHERS AND PUPILS fUND-TRIBUTEs TO IBB
GREAT NATURALIST.
lFRon REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE J
Boston, Feb. 18.--It is proposed, in connection
with the "Agassiz Memorial" TO invite the pupils
and teachers of the whole country to contribute to
this undertaking in the shape of 4" Teachers and
Pupils Memorial Fund" circular will be dis
tributed very generally through the United States
in the next thirty days, which will read substan-
TALLY as follows:
LOUIS AGAssIz TEACHER.
This the heading Of his simple VIII this was bis
chosen ute Te e be- @ done rae the
dignity OF the profession and TO Improve It's methods
Ills riends-he friends OF educatonpropose to raise
tbe TO S Wonk ny 70 %hsh be deyoea h
Museum of Comparative Zo0logy-whch Ia at once Il
collections Of the Old World and school open ~
all the teachers IN the land
proposed that Oh the birthday OF Agassz the ?eth
day OF May, 1874, all the teachers and pupils OF TINS
country shall contribute something, however small 10
1.-The Teachers aud Pupils Memorial Fund" IN honor
OF Louis Agassz this fund TO be kept separate from
Others aud Its income to be applied to the uses OF the
Museum.
1t seems impossible that the response TO this ap-
peal should not be universal. Agassiz Of the
most ideal teachers that the world has ever seen,
and the attention of teachers and scholars cannot be
too often directed to his example.
Seldom has any death caused sorrow at once so
profound and so elevated as his. One of his own
family said We all had courage till the breath had
left his body because We upheld by his spirit
which was 80 strong" DIR. 4. w. Parsons remarked,
" TO me the legacy Of Agassiz was faith: his the
most believing Of soulsD DIR. Parsons has embodied
something of this feeling in sonnet which deserves
to be universally read, among the tributes to our
illustrous dead:
AGLssIz.
What made the greatness of our great man gone
Facts about fishes threading laws that rule
Ila ola iar Snar am IN va fhH "a
An eye whose gaze with equal reverence glOwed
At a small start OF his Alpine thronet
Or that he founded for our land q school i
Never to zee that harvest which he sOwed =
His large compaDonsblp with man, shell, stone,
Aud every type OF the most High The fool
Who thinketh In his heart there is no God
Stands here In silence. Mid our tears and pain
This Joy uppermost beneath his rod
Bowling, bless Him for each nobler mind
Whose highest VISION science fails 10 blind
Living, Agassiz drew from every man bIs best
His enthusiasm was contagious, and the dullest
minds responded to it. Dead We gave him our best,
still. Emerson has seldom spoken SO nobly OF so
tenderly as at the Aeassis meeting last Saturday.
James r. Fields has written poem which will be
like wreath of immortele on that honored grave.
His praises in every publication, his name on
every tongue. The memoir Of him, which his wife
is preparing will be the most widely read biography
of our time; and the museum, whose perfection is
TO be his memorial, will be shrine where all who
honor greatness and love goodness will delight TO
bring their o1eIiDgs LC.n