Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strange tracks were in sandstone laid down as mud during the Pennsylvanian Age more than 200 million years ago. They must have been made by an amphibian, for no dinosaur or other sizable reptile was alive then. And it must have been a very curious beast. The tracks, 20 pairs of them, have round heel prints about three inches in diameter. Flaring out in front are two wide-spreading, clawless toes about 5½ inches long and two little toes1½ inches long. A long, trailing tail made an intermittent mark between the tracks...
...graduated from Harvard in 1858, and returned to the Yard as a professor in 1870. Though he did not know it, and would probably have been scandalized to hear it, he was teaching in what has since come to be regarded as the beginning of Harvard's golden age. Last week, present-day readers could catch a little of the shine of that era through a new book by onetime Harvard Lecturer Rollo Walter Brown (Harvard Yard in the Golden Age...
...Names. It was, for the most part, the age of Charles W. Eliot, for 40 years (1869-1909) Harvard's president and the grand seigneur of U.S. education. He was an erect and lofty gentleman, who "always had a fight on my hands," and who could be both imperious and impatient in waging it. "Do you suppose," an awed acquaintance once whispered to a colleague, "that anyone has ever called him Charley...
...Adams did.. There was Barrett Wendell, who looked as if he might have stepped out of the court of Queen Elizabeth; pudgy Josiah Royce ("the Rubens of Philosophy," William James called him); and Philosopher George Herbert Palmer, who once told a student: "It will hurt nothing at your age to have a nervous breakdown. As a matter of fact, I sometimes think it would be a good thing . . ." And there was Charles Eliot Norton, the unappeasable pursuer of beauty. After his death, students guessed that he, would enter Heaven shading his eyes against the glare and protesting...
...Undisciplinables. It was certainly the golden age of Harvard philosophers-and the greatest of them all was William James. He had wandered from art to medicine, to psychology ("The first lecture on psychology I ever heard being the first I ever gave"), and then finally to philosophy. He was forever reading the books of unknown authors, or listening to the lectures of his juniors, lest he overlook some undiscovered genius. He detested "educated cleverness in the service of popular idols and vulgar ends." As a teacher, he preferred thinkers of another sort: "Our undisciplinables are our proudest product...