Word: josselyn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Josselyn wrote of the Massachusetts settlements: "The Diseases that the English are afflicted with, are the same that they have in England, with some proper to New-England, griping of the belly (accompanied with Feaver and Ague) which turns to the bloudy-flux, a common disease in the Countrey, which together with the small pox hath carried away abundance of their children." This same Josselyn attributed to the Indians "the great pox" (syphilis), consumption of the lungs, the King's Evil (scrofula) and falling sickness-all of which happened to be imports from the Old World...
Kenneth L. Josselyn '77, vice-chairman of the Mather House committee, asked the deans to move 30 students out of Mather as an "arbitrary measure to correct the problem this year...
...added that "in the long run" corrections should be made in the system used to determine how many students are assigned to each House. That system "is unfair to Mather" because it does not take into account architectural differences between Mather and other Houses, Josselyn said...
...proposed boycott is "not a threat, but more of a general warning" that the University will lose money if the crowding is not improved, Ken Josselyn '77, vice-chairman of the Mather House Committee, said yesterday...
...Josselyn and others-including some people from the Winthrop House Committee who believe that their House was unfairly dealt with and is bearing too much of the crowding burden-are presently trying to compile a new set of identical capacity figures that will include the number of living rooms in each House...