Boston Coffee Parties

Dean Henderson's office*
(Pendleton Hall)
Tuesdays*
12:30 - 1:30*

*Time and place subject to change depending on our current course schedules. Changes will be posted here.

Every Monday when classes are in session, history coffeehouses, formally known as "Boston Coffee-parties" are held in Dean Henderson's office. Anyone interested in history is invited to come drink coffee, discuss history, and talk about life. We usually have a fun bunch of faculty and students gathered to chat, but sometimes things get serious.
The seriousness all started on a bright sunny afternoon in October, I believe. Two students were distressed about finding the answer to a history question and came to the Boston Cofffee-party hopeful that one of the attendees would know the answer. But after the rash comment that "you can find anything on the Internet!" was made the answer was denied them and the students were instructed to find the answer on the web.

After 2 hours of fruitless searching the students gave up on the Internet and resorted to looking in their old course notes. There they found the answer without much trouble, but the damage was done.

Thus began the trivia questions.

Question	Answer	Source
Who was the first Pope to call himself "God's vicar on earth"?	Pope Gregory VII	class notes from Hist115 taught by BDH
Who was the first known to say "the only thing neccessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing"?	President Kennedy	Rev. Cole's book
Who was the first known to write "the only thing neccessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing"?	Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1968)	Martin Porter http://www.tartarus.org/martin /essays/burkequote2.html
What were Nathan Hale's last words?	"It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander-in-chief."	Rev. Cole's book*
Who first called Egypt the "gift of the Nile"?	Herodotus' grandfather	Rev. Cole's book*

* Further bibliographic information for this source has not been shared by the trivia-question-finder. An investigation will follow but Coffee with Chronos cannot promise results efficiently since this is out of our hands. Thank you for reading!