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...academic year began quietly enough. The then President, Josiah Quincy, was starting a successful drive to secure money for a new building to house the Harvard Library, a project that was sorely needed by the College. The year previous President Andrew Jackson had come to Harvard, and the Corporation with some fuss, had bestowed an honorary degree on him. But this year the Corporation and the Board of Overseers seemed to be living in quiet harmony...
...Senior Class began drafting its statement as a reply to President Quincy's circular. But the Board of Overseers also entered the engagement by appointing a committee to look into the affair. The report of this committee under the chairmanship of former President John Quincy Adams, a relative of Josiah Quincy, was an indictment of the Senior Class circular...
...need there be. Today's individual in search of influence could do worse than seek what Philosopher Josiah Royce, more than half a century ago, called the "Great Community." In the days before World War I, Royce feared the consequences of a mindless technology. The answer, he declared, was not the destruction of machines, but the expansion of man. Man, he said, should look upon himself as part of a great community and develop a hierarchy of loyalties extending from his family, to his own community, to the great community of all mankind. Cynics might look upon this...
...delight of 300 enthusiastic onlookers, Master Charles W. Dunn yesterday stood in the Quincy House courtyard, waved the gold-headed cane of former Harvard President Josiah Quincy in the air three times, and proclaimed the House's deliverance "from the malevolence of all banshees, bogles, and kindred evil spirits...
...players scattered throughout the church sounded a hauntingly dissonant hymn by Danish Composer Per Norgard worthy of John Cage. Seated together with Sweden's octogenarian King Gustaf VI Adolf, was another secular guest, Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda. The prayer was read by Tanzanian Evangelical Lutheran Bishop Josiah Kibira, resplendent in a stole whose tribal designs stood in dramatic contrast with its white silk background. The program for the 16-day conference included everything from Bible study to some readings from Bertolt Brecht's play St. Joan of the Stockyards...