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...well-reputed Claremont Trio. The night’s exciting undercurrent was palpable as the audience filed into the theater’s 1166 seats and cheered more boisterously than usual for the black-clad performers as they warmed up under the watchful statues of James Otis and Josiah Quincy.The energy amplified when HRO president Chrix E. Finne ’07 bounded aboard the platform to introduce conductor Dr. James Yannatos, HRO’s buoyant music director since 1964.The performance opened with Giuseppe Verdi’s “Overture to La Forza del Destino...
Quincy embraces its “People’s House” image, using the nickname in its own newsletter. Named for the antislavery Boston mayor and 15th Harvard president, Josiah Quincy, Class of 1790, it is the largest of the 12 undergraduate Houses and has, up until now, placed no restrictions on out-of-House upperclassman diners, according to the University Dining Services We site. Freshmen could eat there when accompanied by a Quincyite...
Some of the night’s performers did comment on the atypical venue-with its chandelier, statues of the American patriot, James Otis, and a former Harvard president, Josiah Quincy, and grand wooden ceiling...
...expulsion in 1766 for criticizing rancid butter served in the Commons, and in 1768, they revolted against raising academic standards by smashing tutors’ windows. In the “Great Rebellion of 1834,” students raised a black flag of rebellion and burned University President Josiah Quincy, Class of 1790, in effigy. And in 1969, University President Nathan M. Pusey ’28 famously called in Boston and Cambridge police to forcibly remove students that had taken over University Hall to protest ROTC recruitment on campus...
...woke up, did he learn that the armor plating he had been wearing on his chest had saved him from a large piece of shrapnel. "If I hadn't had body armor, I'd be dead," he says. Braddock got a Purple Heart, and he and his buddies--Specialist Josiah Jurich, Sergeant Charles Jordan and Staff Sergeant Marvin Albert II--were all awarded Bronze Stars. He was alive, with just one small regret. "They burned my helmet and Kevlar vest." O.K., two regrets. "I wanted a cool scar, like this," says Braddock, slashing his hand across his eye. He wears...