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Tennant was twenty-two years of age and lived at the Y. M. C. A., Cambridge. He came from Terre Haufe, Ind. and was a graduate from De Pauw University
...This number of the Monthly is devoted to criticism of Professor Santayana's new book, 'Winds of Doctrine.' . . . Each of Professor Santayana's six essays (on The Intellectual Temper of the Age, Modernism and Christianity, The Philosophy of Mr. Henri Bergson, The Philosophy of Mr. Bertrand Russell, Shelley, and The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy) is treated in a separate paper. We also include an exposition of the philosopher's metaphysics by one of his former students. Professor Santayana was of the class of '86, and was one of the founders of the Monthly. The present editors wish this number...
...competition for the Bowdoin Prize has increased in the last few years since the administrators have encouraged the handing in of theses written on all sorts of subjects in various courses. However, considering the age and honorable record of the Bowdoin Foundation, it should stimulate more interest and call forth more effort from the undergraduates. The value and training derived from writing an essay or thesis of merit in this competition justify the effort, even though this effort may win no material reward. The term of competition is now very limited, as the last day for submitting contributions is April...
...certain extent every period is a period of expansion for any university which is at all vigorous. Every year must see changes in faculty curriculum equipment and standards if the institution is to keep up with the advancing standards of the age. Sometimes, however, because of retarded or delayed expansion in a previous period or because the time has come when the old status can no longer be endured, a sudden and therefore noticeable period of expansion sets in. Whether the first or the second of the above causes is at work, it is certain that Harvard is just...
...George L. Walton '75 will deliver a lecture on "How to Cultivate Emotional Poise in a Strennous Age," at the Medical School. Longwood avenne. Boston, tomorrow afternoon. The lecture begins at 4 o'clock and the doors will be closed at five minutes past the hour. The lecture is open to the public and no tickets are required for admittance...