Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-04-13

ANhaf hlAA " % llt NlHA ll' was NNNN .Nf
than any Of them. 50 wrote Throdor,
Lyman, one OF the great natulalrts ola
students, about Agasdk WHOM ~ died.
President David starr Jordan, oi Leland
Stanford university. was also ono u
Agaa,z's students. He contributes to
The Popular Science Monthly au sd
mirablo sketch Of tho man who gave
biology IT, impetus Va America.
President Jordan writes especially
about AgaGsiz's summer school at Pcni.
kcsc, the pioneer Of summer schools In
America. Pcuike.o IS desulato island
Of sixty acres, eighteen miles south Of
New Bedford, Oh tho Maasachuscits
coast IN tho month Of Juno. 1873.
Asassia began his school here, tho Ia.
struciiona being glyon In an old barn.
Ernest lngotsoll aud Edward 3. Morse
wcrc among the pupils that summer 1t
Pcnikosc. Porhnp' from Agassiz Mr..
Moro learned his doxterity with chalk
and blackboard, FOR the masipr was sol.
dom without piece Of chalk In hia
hand Above all things, Agaslz op.
posed the use Of books In natural sci.
oncc Nature. and nature only. should
be the volume the learner studied. For
the zoology committed to memory irom
the printed page he had no respect
He looked on the school 10 Penikcse ns
q mission work OF the gtsatost impor.
lance he was an enthusiast nll his lilo
long. picturesque IN all ho said and did
lie opposed Darwinnm vchomcnuy,
perhaps on account Of tho natural rev.
orunco of hia character His saying- ato
npnorisms IN themselves. Auougs
quoiedby Mr.. Jordan are tho followingi
"Nou cannot do without one speciality
Thoso who have suceccdcd host hayo
followed for years some slim thread
which has once Ia awhile broadnol
out aud disclosed some treasure worth a
lifelong search " aside all con.
ocit." 81 feel les agony at unpropr-
eiics in churches than in sciuuuho
laboratory
Perhaps The host evidence Of Agasil's
success %. q teacher lie. IN tho fact that
oyoy one Of tho mon specially trained
by him wont over 10 tho ranks Of BAR
win and the eyolutiouisls tie Taught
hia pupils To- think tor themselves. "uot
10 think na ho did sUys Mr.. Jordan.
Consequently they Thought out ths
question Tor themselves and became
.,oluuouists.
AZ Fcuikcsc that one summer no
taught teachers how 10 instruct their
pupils, How they should teach natural
history, botany or amy kindred topic no
illustrated by this arccdoic.
% 10 save an a1iiis, 90 Scvton Mass,
iHiUtcs tOaHhcut' Institute conducted I.H iIur.
bor Mann. Ny rullcsi was gTs-fhurporf 1
passed arvund a large iaruf Wy.o Insects aud
mHlu tNHry Teacher TAKE nrr sud hold 10 while
l WAS spf1kiuF. Z any ouu dropped tus inject,
lsiunpol tlu Dec picked % up This was At That
tImc q great Innovation and excited muU 20
lnushtHr aud dffiHi1u, There cau Dr. no triie
IFuarcss Ia tho teaching of natural suIgurv uu.
~ such methods hvrumr general.
Agusiz died ia December. 1873. IN
the summer OF 1874 there was an at.
tempt made to continue tho school, but
the mnator spirit was gone. "Thc li'
was gone oHi from p,pitvso. and at tho
onl Of the summer tho authorities OF tho
museum clolcl the doors Of The Ander.
son school forever" The buildings re-.
main exactly tho same to this day. how.
ever.