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Principal Eliphalet ("Elephant") Pearson learned them just that when he opened the school with 13 boys shortly before George Washington marched out of Valley Forge. A hefty Harvardman, Tyrant Pearson ruled by rod and God. His awed charges, including Josiah Quincy, 6, a future Harvard president, paid $10 a year and toiled from dawn to dusk. On the school seal, Paul Revere engraved Finis Origine Pendet, a Calvinistic commercial meaning: "One's end depends on one's origin." More hopefully, Phillips took it to mean: "Well begun is half done." George Washington thought so well of the school...
Common to all of them is long devotion to the goal set by that gentle needier, Raphael Demos, 70, holder of Harvard's imposing Alford professorship of natural religion, moral philosophy and civil polity (one predecessor: Josiah Royce). The goal: to plumb "who we are, what we know, and how we know it." A Greek immigrant who worked his way through Harvard as janitor of the Lampoon building, Christian Platonist (The Philosophy of Plato) Demos roiled Cambridge with Socratic questioning for 45 years. The aim of education, he argued, after Socrates, is to become more human by learning...
...classic case is the time-honored tradition of the riot. Many great ones have taken place in Cambridge, ranging from a week-long demonstration that led former Harvard President Josiah Quincy to throw out the entire class of 1834, to the 5000-student disorder last April demanding restoration of the Latin Diploma. There are few sights more stirring than a college riot, but Harvard is not making idle threats in its pamphlet Regulations for Students in Harvard College, that the "mere presence" of a student in a disturbance or unauthorized demonstration makes him liable to disciplinary action. Several students whose...
...appointment of Firth, currently chairman of the Department of Philosophy, is effective July 1. Among his predecessors since the Alford chair was established in 1817 have been James Walker (later President of the University), Francis Bowen, George Herbert Palmer, Josiah Royce, and William Ernest Hocking...
...Josiah Norton, Latin American Consultant for A.D. Little, Inc., emphasized the "need for social consciousness on the part of American industry and government," and cited the efforts of Sears Roebuck to use local materials and raise the economic level of Mexican towns where it has branches...