AGASSIZ CENTENARY AT 7.45

The one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Louis Agassiz h.'48 will be celebrated in Sanders Theatre this evening at 7.45 o'clock, under the auspices of the Cambridge Historical Society. At this hour a public re-union of the surviving pupils of Professor Agassiz will take place and the audience which will do honor to the great scholar and teacher promises to be a distinguished one.

Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson '41, the first vice-president of the society, will preside; and brief addresses will be made by President Eliot, Professor J. C. Gray '59, of the Harvard Law School, Professor A. L. Lowell '77, of the department of Government, and Professor W. H. Niles of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor I. L. Winter '86, of the division of Elocution, will read poems on Agassiz by Longfellow and Whittier, and letters from those pupils of Professor Agassiz who may not be able to attend, will also be read. Music will be furnished by the orchestra of the Cambridge Latin School at 7.20, and the addresses will begin at 7.45 o'clock.

With the exception of a limited number of seats, which will be reserved until 7.35 o'clock for invited guests and for members of the Cambridge Historical Society. No tickets will be issued and the greater part of the theatre will be open to the public at 7.15 o'clock. Persons presenting the tickets will be admitted to the theatre from the vestibule of Memorial Hall by the Cambridge street entrance, and the other entrance will be reserved for persons not presenting tickets. The centre section of the first balcony will be reserved till 7.35 o'clock for ladies who attended the Agassiz home school, and their escorts.