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...extremely popular among his students, Santayana and his colleagues shared a certain amount of hostility towards one another. He taught here from 1889 until 1912, receiving a full professorship in 1907. This is the golden age of Harvard's Philosophy Department, which had men like William James, Josiah Royce, and George Palmer...
Nine years later, undergraduates broke $300 worth of windows, and President Josiah Quincy called in the Grand Jury of Middlesex County to nab the offenders. The students were outraged and followed by smashing furniture, setting off explosions, wearing crepe on their arms, hanging their President in effigy from the Rebellion Tree, and breaking more windows...
...like young Peter Richards, who gloried in the weight of the white man's burden. Even on the dark side of the color line which galled the three Africans aboard, there was no brotherhood. To Mr. O. K. Chibude, a leftist civil servant on the make, native Missionary Josiah Selwyn was a timid object of contempt. Lij Makonnen despised them both...
Under the presidency of Theologian Timothy Dwight, Chemist Benjamin Silliman, father of scientific teaching in the U.S , set up his pioneer laboratory, out of which grew the autonomous Sheffield Scientific School. Gradually, Yale began to accumulate some of its brightest ornaments. There were Physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs, who formulated the laws that form the basis for modern thermodynamics, Elias Loomis, who helped devise the modern weather map, Geologist James Dwight Dana, Sociologist William Graham Sumner...
Other University Press books this spring include Margaret Mead's 1950 Inglis Lecture on "The School in American Culture" and the first of the Emily Dickinson papers given last year to Harvard. The opening volume, her letters to Doctor and Mrs. Josiah Gilbert Holland, include over 30 of her poems besides 93 letters...