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Quincy's reign, though, was not completely detrimental. Gore Hall, the College library until the construction of Widener, the first Observatory, and the Dane Law College were built during these sixteen years; a start was made toward the elective system; the financial affairs of the College received a much-needed straightening-out. The Bicentennial Celebration in 1836 was long and merry; forty toasts livened the ten-hour dinner and celebration. This merriment stood alone during the business-like regime of Quincy. President Walker once deemed him "The Great Organizer of the University." Although he failed eminently in his quest...
Such proceedings naturally grated against Quincy's rigid ethics. He felt that the only cure would be suitable discipline for the offending undergraduates--but his clamping down produced even greater disorder. Quincy became a martinet, the "Tiberius" of the College. "His policy toward the students, an alternate cuffing and caressing, ended in making him the most unpopular President in Harvard history since Hoar," wrote historian Samuel Eliot Morison. Quincy knew what was right--the Puritan code of upright moral behavior--and attempted to impose this upon the naturally unwilling student body...
...Federalist Party first took note of Quincy after his flaming July 4th oration in 1798, which lambasted the French Directory and its attitude toward the fledgling United States. Edmund Quincy, Josiah's son and very partial biographer, enthused over the speech: "The effect which his oration produced upon the audience in the Old South Church was long remembered by those who heard it, for the fiery enthusiasm it aroused, and the passionate tears it drew forth." Quincy stood for Congress in the election of 1800, and, like the rest of the Federalists, went down to defeat. Democratic newspapers pointed...
ABOARD KHRUSHCHEV TRAIN, Sept. 20--A bouncy Nikita Khrushchev whistle-stopped his way toward San Francisco today, freely meeting and shaking hands with ordinary Americans for the first time...
Each undergraduate here has probably formulated some rough notions about the influences of the College; in general, one would expect the atmosphere of the University to exert a "liberalizing" or more questioning attitude toward the legacy of opinion that the student possesses when he arrives in Cambridge. But we have tried to chart these effects on different groups among the undergraduates and to isolate the causes more accurately...