Word: josiah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This book, which contains the full academic record, week by week, of every student in the College is dated 1831 and is in the handwriting of Josiah Quincy, who was then President of Harvard...
Address by the President of the University, including a report of the contents of the package sealed in 1836 by President Josiah Quincy (to be opened at a pro forma meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association in the Faculty Room, University Hall, on Tuesday, September 8), and the sealing of a new package to be opened by the President of Harvard University...
...Yale in 1921, however, James Rowland Angell was, as in a measure he still remains, an unknown indeed. Faculty scientists heard that he had been a psychologist, pupil of John Dewey at Michigan, student of William James and Josiah Royce at Harvard, one of the first of the bright young men who went to Germany to explore what was, at the century's turn, an exciting new field of learning. Administrative officers of the University knew that President-elect Angell had long since given up pure scholarship to become faculty dean and acting president of the University of Chicago...
Backbone of the exhibit was the Halsey Collection of more than 100 Wedgwood portrait medallions, which Franklin's contemporaries called "cameos." Among the Franklin friends whose likenesses were thus ceramically preserved were Josiah Wedgwood himself, William Penn, William Pitt, Sir Jeffrey Amherst, Erasmus Darwin (Charles's grandfather), Charles James Fox, David Garrick, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Dr. Samuel Johnson, George Washington, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Jean François Marie Arouet (Voltaire) and Catherine II of Russia...
...quibble with your indiscriminate use of the word "late" in titling pictures of deceased persons, viz., Father Damien in your Feb. 3 issue, Edith Cavell, Feb. 17, and Josiah Royce, Feb. 24. "Late" means existing recently but not now. "Recent" is relative, to be sure, as is time itself, but would not be applied by our up-to-the-minute newsmagazine in referring to the death of Father Damien in 1889 or of Professor Boyce and Nurse Cavell in World War days. A resolution, please...