Agassiz

Agassiz immediately began to question him to find out what he knew.

Agassiz placed in front of him a smelly fish.

The next time the young man was asked what he had seen, Agassiz was pleased with his reply.

This was the beginning of Agassiz's unusual teaching method.

I entered Professor Agassiz's laboratory, and told him I had enrolled my name in the Scientific School as a student of natural history.

Agassiz was satisfied with Shaler's background knowledge, but this alone was not enough to admit him to the school.

Shaler also attended Agassiz's lectures, and though he found them fascinating, they were a less important part of his work.

Wearily he began all over again. Late that afternoon Agassiz approached him again. "Do you see it yet? " the teacher asked.

Louis Agassiz was the first to note signs of glacial erosion and sedimentation in diverse regions of Europe and North America.

Many students today would not find Agassiz's method of teaching foreign or unusual.

It occurs to me, Mr. Agassiz, that almost nowhere in this country can American boys learn about natural science.

Going to lectures was a popular activity in 1847 and Louis Agassiz was becoming a popular speaker.

At the end of the hour's talking Agassiz turned away saying, "That's not right. "

All he heard from Agassiz each day was a friendly "Good morning. "

Agassiz cautioned him, though, that the books might not be right.

When he arrived at Harvard he went to a wooden shed-like building where Agassiz had his laboratory.

In the essay, Scudder relates the lesson in observation he learned under Professor Agassiz.

In Agassiz's day the sport was fencing, so he challenged Shaler to a bout.

One day after Louis Agassiz had been in America about a year, he was approached by a rich Bostonian.

The young man was seated at a table in Agassiz's laboratory.

Many of the teachers had criticized Agassiz's new method of teaching, saying it wasn't thorough.

For five hours he talked, answering questions put to him by Agassiz and the other men.

"What can I do for you, Mr. Lawrence? " Agassiz invited him into the house.

As more and more people learned about the world around them, Agassiz's fame spread.