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LOUIS AGASSIZ.

ILLUSTRATIVE EXTRACTS ON HIS METHOD OF INSTRUCTION WITH AN INTRODUCTORY NOTE BY LANE COOPER PROFESSOR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE IN CORNELL UNIVERSITY.

  The beauty of his better self lives on
  In minds he touched with fire, in many an eye
  He trained to Truth's exact severity;
  He was a Teacher: why be grieved for him
  Whose living word still stimulates the air?
  In endless file shall loving scholars come
  The glow of his transmitted touch to share.

—Lowell, Agassiz.