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...revolted with guns and knives in 1712, killing nine whites. Then the 1730s saw a sharp challenge to the overbearing and pompous governor, William Cosby, who was the leader of the so-called Court Party. White intellectuals revolted with words, and formed the opposition Country Party. The printer John Peter Zenger’s acquittal of seditious libel in 1735 rocked Cosby and encouraged the governor’s opponents. After Cosby died, his critics denied the authority of the lieutenant governor and formed a shadow government. To one resident, “we had all the appearance...
...Resident Peter A. Arvidson, an eight-year employee at the College’s Molecular and Cellular Biology department, said he was irked to find out about the early-morning break-in from the newspaper...
Once again senior forward Charles Altchek led his team to victory scoring the winning goal in the opening minutes of the game. With 42:31 still left to play in the first half—freshman defender Peter Glenmullen sent a ball flying from near the Harvard goal to Altchek who was down on the other half of the field. Altchek was able to not only receive the pass but shoot past the Black Bear’s three defenders and slip the ball right past the goalie and into...
This was the first formal visit of a head of state to one of the Harvard Houses, according to Kirkland Scholar in Residence Peter Emerson, the organizer of the “Conversations with Kirkland” speaker series...
Longtime Obama friend Peter C.B. Bynoe ’72 also warmed the crowd, delivering a roast of the senator in the style of a “top ten” list. Bynoe listed the fact that Obama “married well,” “stayed married,” and revealed that he “did more than inhale” as top reasons the 44-year-old politician ascended to the U.S. Senate...