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...other four: Philosophers William James, Josiah Joyce, John Dewey, William Ernest Hocking...
...nation's first agricultural experiment station. It was the first U.S. school to provide a post-graduate course for the Ph.D. degree. Then crusty old Elias Loomis pioneered in devising the basis for modern weather maps and Bertram Boltwood discovered ionium. Sheffield's most famous teacher: Josiah Willard Gibbs, the top mathematical physicist of his day, who laid down the laws which form the basis for modern thermodynamics...
Although, as Lincoln Scholar Benjamin P. Thomas wrote, "Lincoln was loved and hated, lauded and blamed, as few men have been before or since," the hero myth got off to a head start. It dominated Lincoln literature until the end of the 19th Century. Josiah Holland's Life, which appeared within a year of Lincoln's death plugged the theme that Lincoln was model youth and had made the grade through pure idealism. Its sale of more than 100,000 copies indicated to many royalty-conscious writer how the average reader liked his Lincoln served-only the palatable...
...JOSIAH G. CHATHAM
Cotton Mather, Josiah Quincy, Harrison Gray Otis and Abbot Lawrence Lowell are only a few of the more prominent veterans of the Commencement platform, according to Packard...