Word: josiah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Churchill bides his time, but Colonel Josiah Wedgwood, a fiery Labor M. P. related to Wedgwood China and a Constitutional authority of repute, has already drafted a motion in effect telling the King to marry whom he likes and defy Baldwin...
...Josiah Quincy president of Harvard at the 1836 bicentennial and a methodical man by nature, did up a pile of letters from alumni congratulating the University on its 200th birthday, and stuck them away in the attic of University Hall. 100 years later, flocks of photographers and reporters buzzed around the old documents, and there was a great furore over their un-sealing...
Harvard first paused to celebrate its past under fussy old President Josiah Quincy in 1836. The Bicentenary graduating class had 39 members, less than contemporary Dartmouth, Princeton, Union, or Yale. A handful of New England college presidents were invited to be the learned guests of honor. All but President Heman Humphrey of Amherst declined the opportunity to listen to President Quincy's two-hour historical oration. Josiah Quincy was bitterly disappointed that his Bicentennial was less an academic festival than a convivial reunion of Harvardmen. In one form or another this year, the Harvard Tercentenary has been going...
...thrilled Harvard in James Conant's own undergraduate days -William James, Josiah Royce, George Santayana, Charles Townsend Copeland- most are now dead or retired...
...Josiah Quincy, Jr., in bringing to a close the celebraties of Harvard's Bicentennial, in 1836, made the following prediction: "A century will soon roll away, and there will be another clan-gathering of the sons of Harvard. They will come rushing, as it were, on the wings of the wind, from every quarter of our land . . . Creatures of a day, it is delightful to multiply our associations with that distant time. In this spirit, the banner that floats over us has been prepared. It will be deposited among the archives of the University. Our hope is, that a century...