Where is the Granary Burying Ground? Why so named? What
distinguishes it? Can you give the names of some eminent persons
buried there? In what tomb was James Otis interred? What
interesting particular was noted when his body was disinterred?
What names are given to the pre-revolutionists, the
revolutionists, and the post-revolutionists?
Who is assigned the first place among the protagonists of
freedom? Who the second? What is the remarkable thing about the
lives of many great men? Will you expand the thought?
When and where was James Otis born? What offices did he fill?
When was James Otis, Jr. born? What did he inherit from his
father and grandfather? What were transmitted to other members
of the family? Give the name of one of these members and her
peculiar gifts. What was the name of one of the brothers, and
what is said of him?
By whom was James Otis prepared for College? When did he enter
College? What is the tradition concerning him? What is said of
his College course? What of his excitable temperament? What
anecdote is recorded of him? When, and under what distinguished
lawyer did he begin his legal studies? What is said of his
preceptor?
When and where did he begin to practice law? What are some of
the incidents of his early legal career? What is said of the
defense by Otis of citizens in connection with the anniversary of
the Gunpowder Plot? What is the history of the Gunpowder Plot?
When was the first period of his Boston practice? What is said
of the non-preservation of the legal pleas and addresses of James
Otis? What does tradition say of him as an orator?
When and whom did Otis marry? What is said of the Cunnningham
family? What is said of Mrs. Otis? Who comprised the family of
Mr. and Mrs. Otis? What is said of the marriage of the elder
daughter? What of the younger daughter?
When was the second period in James Otis's life? What is said of
him as a rising man? What is said of his scholastic and literary
pursuits, etc.? What works did he compose? What did James Otis
say about the bad literary tastes of the boys of his time?
Of what is every man the joint product? What were the conditions
under which the colonial settlements were formed? What were the
feelings of the colonists towards England?
What specific conditions in the development of the colonies may
be noted? What were the immediate and forceful causes towards
revolution? What is said of the Navigation Act? of the
Importation Act? What kind of a question was that at issue?
Why?
What is said of the seaboard towns? of the traffic with the West
Indies? What period did the epoch of evasion cover? What is said
of the iron and steel industry? of ship building?
What did Hutchinson say of his own Appointment? What were some
of the personal forces at work? What is said of Hutchinson and
others? What slander of James Otis was current? In what
language was the case regarding the Writs of Assistance made up?
What is said of the trial of the case? Who was one of the
eminent spectators? What was the relation of Otis to it?
What did Chief Justice Hutchinson advise in the case of the Writs
of Assistance? What is the story narrated of Otis regarding his
want of self-control?
What is said of the controversy between Hutchinson and Otis?
What resolution did Otis offer in 1762? What is said of his
pamphlet on "The Vindication of the Conduct of the House of
Representatives," etc.? What is said of the Treaty of Paris?
What of the feelings of Americans towards the mother country?
What of the utterances of Otis?
What did the Americans claim? What was the reply of Parliament?
What is said of the Sugar Act? What of Otis' relations to
Lieut.-Governor Hutchinson? Of his relations to the Sugar Act
and Stamp Act? Of his relation to an Intercolonial conference?
What was Franklin's opinion of this conference? What is the
substance of Mr. Otis' letter to the provincial agent? Of Lord
Mansfield's view of it?
SUBJECTS FOR SPECIAL STUDY. 1. The French and Indian War. 2.
James Otis as an Orator. 3. The English Colonies in America.
4. The Influence of College Men in Public Life. 5. How the
American Colonies Grew Together. 6. The Commercial Causes of
the Revolution. 7. The Political Causes of the Revolution. 8.
Otis Compared with Samuel Adams. 9. The Repeal of the Stamp Act.