Word: josiah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months of the year the little quasi-ivy covered building at 14 Plympton St. (named for Josiah Plympton, president of Harvard before Henry Dunster) houses the Harvard CRIMSON, called by those who love it Cambridge's Only Break-fast-Table Daily...
...eighth House will be named "Quincy House," the Corporation voted yesterday. The name commemorates Josiah Quincy, fifteenth President of the University...
...gentleman to the left with a diminishing thatch of hair and Victorian high collar is Josiah Quincy, another Harvard President resurrected for a House name...
...Josiah Quincy was a Puritan in the truest Harvard sense, and mixed his education with political gamesmanship. He served at one time (the Beacon Street era) as a reform mayor of Boston, and was subsequently relegated to Washington's House of Representatives. He was a Federalist...
Quincy's 17 year (1829 through 1845) as czar of Bohemia-on-the-Charles were not significant for their pacificity. Josiah dealt his justice with a poker-face--suspending the entire sophomore class in 1834 for "roughhousing" about the infamous Yardling "Rebellion Tree...