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...complaint is not a light one, for a building's name can serve as an inspiration to its residents in all sorts of ways. Students in Quincy House have numerous occasions to invoke their home's namesake. President Josiah, including a colorful and well-attended exorcism ceremony at the beginning of each year. In Mather House, the editors of the student newsletter, the "Concrete Abstract," tip their hat to their domicile's eponym in their motto: "To Increase Mather's Spirit...
...College's pre-revolutionary years brought the 1766 "Butter Rebellion" and the plea: "Now give us we pray thee Butter that stinketh not." President Josiah Quincy in 1834 called police into the Yard for the first time to calm rioting sophomores protesting the punishment of a classmate...
...addition to more than 2000 Harvard-Radcliffe students, about 5000 students from Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley are participating in the study, funded by a $685,000 grant from the Josiah Macy, Jr., Foundation...
Last spring, 64 per cent of the students surveyed at Harvard responded to the five-year survey, which is funded by a $650,000 grant from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation. The sampling included 2200 women and a "control group" of 1000 men. Another 5800 women were surveyed at Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley...
Shaw examines the psychological imperatives that drove four specific patriots--James Otis, John Adams, Joseph Hawley and Josiah Quincy--to rebel against the king. For an historian seeking to identify the roots of rebellion, they are not a surprising group: inevitably, they all had problems with their fathers, or father-figures, early in life--the sure trigger to a Pavlovian response from a Freud-fancier. But Shaw pursues the issue with considerable sophistication. The patriots. Shaw believes, saw Hutchinson as the perverter of the king's wishes. By attributing the onus for contested British actions--particularly the Stamp Act. Townshend...