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...best to supress these outbursts. Faculty resolutions would be passed to examine the problem. students would be expelled. But nothing seemed to work untill the Great Rebellion of 1834. It was during May and June of this year that the Rebellion Tree had its greatest glory. President Josiah Quincy severely punished many students for this disturbance--he expelled all but three from the Sophomore Class. This fact alone may explain the subsequent lack of any serious outburst against the administration. More probably, however, students realized they could never hope to surpass the epic struggle of those two months...
Among the organizations they have approached is the Russell Sage foundation of New York, which recently made a grant to J. Lawrence Dohan '55, founder of the P.B.H. Mental Hospital program, for projected mental health study. The Committee is also soliciting the 51 million dollar Commonwealth Fund and the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation...
...Died. Josiah Willard Hayden, 81, president (since 1937) of the $70 million Charles Hayden Foundation (founded by his bachelor brother, Wall Street Financier Charles Hayden), distributor of some $20 million of the foundation's money for the "well-being, uplifting and development of boys and young men"; of injuries suffered in an auto accident; in Arlington, Mass...
Chosen on the Class Day Committee were James G. Douglas, Jr., William Wetmore, Josiah Potter, Foster S. Davis, Vincent L. Hennessy, Charles B. Lakin, and James L. Ware. John Cross was the Class Secretary...
Yale was also a powerhouse that fall, so much so that many observers considered it "the greatest Eli gridiron machine since the war." The varsity's 14-0 loss was thus sustained without the loss of Crimson honor, and despite the hard running of Harper and fullback Josiah W. Potter, another sophomore...