Word: aikens
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Associate professors Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, and Henry d. Aiken agreed last night that the prospect for western civilization is not as bleak as Assistant Professor H. Stuart Hughes thinks. In a Kirkland House Forum on Hughes' recent book, "An Essay on Our Times," both Schlesinger and Aiken declared that Hughes' diagnosis of the West represented the "failure of nerve" on the part of a few intellectuals, rather than a just observation of the current of the times...
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, associate professor of History, Henry D. Aiken '40, associate professor of Philosophy, and H. Stuart Hughes, assistant professor of History, will talk on Hughe's recent book "An Essay for Our Times" in the Kirkland Junior Common Room...
...later introduced him to the London literary world as his "best pupil." Eliot breezed through his course in three years, spent the fourth year working for his M.A. But he was no bookworm. Although he was shy, he made a point of going to dances and parties: Poet Conrad Aiken, a fellow student, recalls seeing tall, dapper Tom Eliot for the first time reeling out of the office of the Harvard Lampoon, where a punch party was in roaring progress...
...Aiken replied that we live not in an age of crisis, but in an era which is declining is some directions and rising in others. He added that the kind of philosophy needed in an age of this sort is one of day-to-day workability rather than of overall panaceas...
Perhaps this ambiguity arose in part from the very ambiguity of the title itself. Mainly, however, a lack of communication between the Forum's representative and Mr. Aiken was the cause of the misunderstanding. The Forum had no induction of censuring Mr. Aiken for this misunderstanding and regrets that the CRIMSON could not report my remarks in full...