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...example, in Josiah Haws's 1855 daguerreotype of Oliver Wendell Holmes, how this medium's clarity and almost harshness fits the character of the subject. But in a calotype of a blind man done ten years earlier by W.H. Fox Talbot, the tone of the photograph is very different. The calotype image has a soft, fuzzy, dreamy quality--a gentleness that interacts with the figure of the old, blind preacher playing his harp. In every photograph on exhibit--from a mystical photogravure protrait of Yeats to a study of shadows in gum-biochromate by Edward Steichen--the artist/photographer has deliberately...
...omission was made sometime between 1701 and 1840. Josiah Quincy's History of Harvard University, published in 1840, and the present Register, make the same omission...
...should, at any rate, be grateful to Professors Galbraith and Eckstein whose dispute has brought needed attention to abuses of the tenure system which deserve continuing discussion. Josiah Lee Auspitz '63 Teaching Fellow in Government
Among The Crimson and Magenta men of the first ten years were such easily recognizable names as Owen Wister '83 the novelist, Josiah Quincy '80, the future Mayor of Boston, Barrett Wendell '77, the legendary Harvard professor, and Frederic Jessup Stimson '76, Wilson's Ambassador to Argentina, who is most remembered today as the author of the early Harvard novel Rollos's Journey to Cambridge...
Small also charged that Josiah A. Spaulding, a part-owner of the hospital was using "his influence with the Nixon Administration" to have the Selective Service take punitive action against striking conscientious objectors who had agreed to perform alternative service at the hospital...