Word: josiah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...official representative of the Josiah Quincy family, Mark deW. Howe '28, professor of Law, said his grandfather really meant no more to him than to the audience, and he might just as well "talk about Adam...
Also the other House Masters; Mayor Thomas M. McNamara, City Manager John J. Curry '19, Councillor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, and other representatives from the City; Mark de Wolfe Howe '28, professor of Law, who is a member of the Josiah Quincy family, representatives from Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson & Abbot, architects, and the staff and members of Quincy House...
...must have taken satisfaction, if he ever could, reflecting on the moral education he provided for sixteen years of Harvard students. The brash students themselves may have disagreed with him, but Josiah Quincy was staunchly proud of his righteousness in upholding the old verities against the moral latitude of new and looser generations
...Josiah took what he thought was the sensible course. On May 29th, he dismissed the entire sophomore class, and made the stunning announcement that criminal prosecution would be instituted against the window-breakers. Then, hell broke loose. More windows were smashed, Quincy was hanged in effigy, handwriting appeared on the wall in the chapel saying "A Bone for Old Quin to Pick," and the flag of rebellion flew over Holworthy. Quincy himself testified for three days before the Concord grand jury, the only three times he missed morning prayers while at Harvard...
...House, named after Josiah Quincy, 15th President of the University, is an eight-story modern structure, designed on a skip-stop arrangement for the living quarters. This system is based on a three-floor "sandwich," with all the living rooms on the middle floor and solid floors of bedrooms above and below. Only the middle floors have central corridors with access to elevators--a new feature in College residential buildings...