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Unlike the recent controversies at Baylor and Harvard, however, the opposition to University Presidents Leonard Hoar and Samuel Langdon was led by the students, not by faculty...
...College student body’s full-scale desertion of the campus in 1675, partly in response to Hoar’s allowance of cruel beatings of disobedient students, left Hoar no choice but to resign. More than 100 yearss later, the students petitioned the Corporation for Langdon’s removal, writing, “as a President, we despise you.” Langdon promptly submitted his resignation...
...month of May the Poem Box Society had decided to honor former Harvard President Leonard Hoar (1630-1675) by renaming the Box in his honor. Until June please refer to it as the Hoar House Poem Box,” he wrote in an e-mail...
This defense of Lexington’s historical significance often results in clashes with nearby Concord, that other town that (falsely, from the Lexington view) claims the shot heard round the world. In 1824, Concord resident Samuel Hoar claimed in a speech that his town had made the first “forcible resistance” to the British, offending Lexington’s town pride and sparking the appointment of a committee to collect evidence on the battles of Lexington and Concord. The 40-page pamphlet that resulted from the committee not surprisingly documented Lexington’s noble...
Though the third president of Harvard, Leonard Hoar, Class of 1650, was the first to be formally installed, the ritual elements still practiced today began in 1707 with the installation of John Leverett, Class...