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Faust’s work focuses on the spread of ideas and the maintenance of power. She specializes in Southern intellectuals, like James Henry Hammond, Josiah C. Nott and Edmund Ruffin, who embraced slavery and later secession. These are complex characters whose racism was detestable, but who also fought hard to spread occasionally live-saving ideas: Nott promoted the fight against the mosquito to limit malaria, and Ruffin was an agronomist who advocated agricultural lime...
...first time in over 100 years, a layman—Josiah Quincy, class of 1790—took the oath of office. A tough politician, Quincy tried to lay down the law. In response, the students burned him in effigy in the Yard...
...KILLED IN EFFIGY Josiah Quincy, class of 1790 (burned) Edward Everett, class of 1811 (hung...
...regain control and put the faculties in their place. In an age where corporate dictators are out of fashion, and many are out of work or in jail, there are some, even here, who long for a charismatic figure on a white horse who can get things done. Josiah Quincy, Class of 1790, president from 1829 to 1845, was just such a person. He was not an academic, but a lawyer, and more importantly, Mayor of Boston, famous for clearing out the brothels on Beacon Hill and renewing the city’s commercial center with what we now know...
...become a collecting institution. “If we had collected since the beginning, we would have an amazing collection of 20th century art,” Buttenwieser said. The permanent collection has 29 pieces so far. Most is of high quality, with a few truly exceptional pieces like Josiah McElheny’s “Czech Modernism Morrored and Reflected Infinitely,” and Cornelia Parker’s “Handing Fire (Suspended Arson).” The current special exhibition, “Super Vision,” presents an all-star cast...