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...University Library outgrew its 150-year old quarters and President Josiah Quincy determined to build a new library. After failing to get any money from the State Legislature, he received a large gift from Christopher Gore "to build an enduring monument to preserve the memory of Massachusetts' former Governor and Senator, Christopher Gore." Allegedly designed after King's College Chapel in Cambridge, England, the enduring monument, Harvard's new library, was built in a style euphemistically labeled by contemporaries as "Fourteenth Century Gothic...
...college managed to survive. Gradually, it became a matter of routine for such men as William James, George Lyman Kittredge and Josiah Royce to plod their way out of the Yard for the commute to Radcliffe. Such teaching talent was bound to attract unusual students...
Always in the Philosophy Department, Demos rose to a full professorship in 1945, when he succeeded Josiah Royce as Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity. He comments about his professorship, "It is such a long title, I have to look it up to get it straight." Not restricting himself solely to philosophy, he has written several articles on the development of the "whole man" at colleges, and was one of the pioneers of the present General Education program at Harvard...
...University's reputation for liberalism continued to grow under John T. Kirkland, who followed Webber. But it was Josiah Quincy, president from 1829 to 1845, who most earnestly concerned himself with freeing education from provincialism...
Searching through the archives for interesting his torical data before the bicentennial of 1836, President Josiah Quincy came upon a rough sketch of college arms: Veritas and the three volumes. The last of the volumes in the original drawing was not opened like the first two, but was half-closed with the inscription on its back binding. Apprehensive lest such a placement be interpreted as a critique of education, Quincy revised the scal so that each book was spread open...