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...Cherokee Indians were surprised and puzzled a few years ago to learn that an Englishman wanted to buy five tons of clay in the Carolina mountains. But Josiah Wedgwood usually gets what he wants. He offered the Indians £500 for the material and had it shipped back to London...
...exMarine, a Rhodes scholar, an Army officer in Viet Nam, a West Point history teacher, author of a best-selling antimilitary novel (The Lion-heads) and now president of a women's college, Josiah Bunting, 36, has a unique vantage point on the academy's current troubles. Last week TIME Correspondent Eileen Shields talked with Bunting at Briarcliff, north of New York City and only 20 miles from the Point. Excerpts...
...noisome problems. By the 1820s one out of every 65 Bostonians was, according to Haverford College Historian Roger Lane, engaged in selling liquor. The dozen "houses of infamous character" that nourished in the West End of Boston were raided in 1823 by a party of citizens led by Mayor Josiah Quincy. In 1837 a riot between volunteer firemen and an Irish funeral procession was so serious that a militia cavalry regiment of 800 horsemen was required to restore order. As a result of these disturbances, a professional police force was created, modeled after the new London police. In 1863 this...
Tough Guy. With some officers, Fair's approach won plaudits. Novelist Josiah Bunting (The Lionheads), an ex-major himself, praised Fair's leathery style in a Playboy article last fall, describing the general as "an admirable soldier" who is "always in bristling motion." But other officers, whose palms sweat when Fair raked them over with abrasive questions, disliked him intensely. To some enlisted men, Fair was a bush-league General Patton...
...Lipset's perception that a forceful reaction was actually desired by those who occupied University Hall. And the Crimson reviewer again presents his own version of Professor Lipset's logic: "The outrage of students and sympathetic faculty to the Bust was predictable, Lipset claims, because a similar reaction followed Josiah Quincy's decision to call in police to restore order after the riots of 1834." But Professor Lipset offers this comparison only to show that Harvard's resistance in external authority is long standing and traditional. The 1969 response was in fact predicted by a Crimson editor, Joel Kramer...