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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Summer News' to Open Portals To Hot Weather Editors on July 2 | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

...eighth House will be named "Quincy House," the Corporation voted yesterday. The name commemorates Josiah Quincy, fifteenth President of the University...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Eighth House Will Honor President Quincy; Groundbreaking Planned for Early March | 2/18/1958 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Josiah Quincy: Puritan, Politician, And Man of Poker-Faced Justice | 2/18/1958 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Josiah Quincy: Puritan, Politician, And Man of Poker-Faced Justice | 2/18/1958 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Josiah Quincy: Puritan, Politician, And Man of Poker-Faced Justice | 2/18/1958 | See Source »

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