Word: aikens
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Henry David Aiken, Professor of Philosophy, announced yesterday that he has accepted an appointment as professor of Philosophy and the History of Ideas at Brandeis University. He has sent a letter to President Pusey indicating his intention to resign after July...
...doubt I could leave Harvard for any other university but Brandeis, and I go there only because I feel I can perhaps be of greater service to philosophy there," he said yesterday. Aiken expressed his high esteem for the "unquestionable technical competence" which Harvard's Philosophy Department has displayed during the 19 years he held tenure hors...
...Aiken feels confident that although he is leaving Harvard, he will be able to maintain contact with Harvard students through the cross-registering program which allows study at more than one college...
Humanistic Theology? A conservative minority disagrees. The Dowey committee's proposals "will in effect replace every distinguishing doctrine of the Reformed faith with humanistically influenced theology," charges The Rev. G. Aiken Taylor, editor of the Presbyterian Journal. The nondenominational, fortnightly Christianity Today says that the changes will "legitimize contemporary church practices that violate the Westminster Standards, including the hierarchy's mounting involvement in politico-social activity...
...highly regarded of U.S. literary awards. Since 1948, when a distinguished jury stirred a furor by awarding the initial prize to Ezra Pound,* the list of Bollingen winners has amounted to a virtual roll call of U.S. poetic merit. Among them: Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, W. H. Auden, Conrad Aiken, William Carlos Williams, Theodore Roethke. After the 1962 award to Robert Frost, the frequency of the prize was cut to every two years, but the prize money doubled to $5,000. Now the first poet to win the enriched Bollingen has been announced: the relatively unknown Horace Gregory...