Show conquering A LANGUAGE louis agassiz agas SIZ learned enough english to lecture while crossing the atlantic ocean the alic death of prof alexander agan aga at alz z last spring called to mind many ot the til 0 incidents connected with the ufa life of its ills famous father the career ot or the great naturalist was one of victory through endeavor when he arst first visited Ani america erica hla his unfamiliarity with the english rn glish language threatened to stand in the way of his advancement how he met the difficulty Is told by prof jules marcou in life letters and works of louis agassiz the first thing necessary in coming to td the united states was to master english sufficiently to speak in public lie he had been accustomed accustom ej to translate for some years but but ho he spoke it so little that he was very hard to understand der stand professor lyell 1401 told him when agassiz was in england that it would be useless to lecture in america in either french or german is as both languages were used in narrow limits he must speak good 1 11 glish it if lie he was to make a good during the long journey across the atlantic la in 1840 agassiz went to work in earnest to master the new language lie ho spent most of ills his time speaking and committing coin witting to words and sentences and anti repeating them aloud to anyone who had the patience to bear the rhe captain remarked 1 I never hal had a passenger like you professor agassiz Agassi zil lie he aw aa every ono else was waa charmed with tile the swiss naturalist I 1 ills his great memory helped him soon foon he had a sufficient clent kurniker nur niker of words worda and sentences to allow hini him to speak in public it was too late in ufa to admit of his being a complete corn master of english and he always poke wah a strong french accent which vas ra not without charm to his hia youths companion 3 wr |