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Harvard first paused to celebrate its past under fussy old President Josiah Quincy in 1836. The Bicentenary graduating class had 39 members, less than contemporary Dartmouth, Princeton, Union, or Yale. A handful of New England college presidents were invited to be the learned guests of honor. All but President Heman Humphrey of Amherst declined the opportunity to listen to President Quincy's two-hour historical oration. Josiah Quincy was bitterly disappointed that his Bicentennial was less an academic festival than a convivial reunion of Harvardmen. In one form or another this year, the Harvard Tercentenary has been going...
...Josiah Quincy, Jr., in bringing to a close the celebraties of Harvard's Bicentennial, in 1836, made the following prediction: "A century will soon roll away, and there will be another clan-gathering of the sons of Harvard. They will come rushing, as it were, on the wings of the wind, from every quarter of our land . . . Creatures of a day, it is delightful to multiply our associations with that distant time. In this spirit, the banner that floats over us has been prepared. It will be deposited among the archives of the University. Our hope is, that a century...
This book, which contains the full academic record, week by week, of every student in the College is dated 1831 and is in the handwriting of Josiah Quincy, who was then President of Harvard...
Address by the President of the University, including a report of the contents of the package sealed in 1836 by President Josiah Quincy (to be opened at a pro forma meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association in the Faculty Room, University Hall, on Tuesday, September 8), and the sealing of a new package to be opened by the President of Harvard University...
...Yale in 1921, however, James Rowland Angell was, as in a measure he still remains, an unknown indeed. Faculty scientists heard that he had been a psychologist, pupil of John Dewey at Michigan, student of William James and Josiah Royce at Harvard, one of the first of the bright young men who went to Germany to explore what was, at the century's turn, an exciting new field of learning. Administrative officers of the University knew that President-elect Angell had long since given up pure scholarship to become faculty dean and acting president of the University of Chicago...