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Poundstone, wearing a blue suit and a multicolored shirt, pointed to the statue of Josiah Quincy that stands to the right side of the audience, dramatically illuminated for the show, and asked, "Is there a Harvard student here who knows who that guy is?" Nobody knew...
...Josiah Nott, a respected physician in the1840s, who was then considered one of the foundersof the American school of anthropology, tookKames' hypothesis further. He asserted that Blackswere of a different species, and called mixed-racepeople 'hybrids.' He warned against intermarriagebetween white and Black, predicting it would bringthe fall of both 'species...
...SPRING OF 1834, Harvard College went berserk. Josiah Quincy, president of Harvard University at the time, wrote the parents of the College on June 4 to inform them of "the nature and course of these outrages." In his letter, he describes how the difficulties all began with one stubborn student in Greek class. "On being told by his Instructor that when 'he directed anything to be translated, he expected it would be done,' the student replied, 'I do not recognize your authority,' shut his book and paid no attention to his recitation afterward." The 23-year old student chose...
...were just sitting around the fire trying to get cozy, then the Duraflame broke and flames went everywhere," Josiah T. Epps '98 said...
...more dramatic resolution now: A hang-dog Quincy resident, confessing to the most ridiculous of crimes, comes forward to the jeers of house residents. The Master administers the punishment quickly with Josiah Quincy's staff. Soon a certain behind is as red as a missing foosball...