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Warren A. Seavey '02, Bussey Professor of Law, Emeritus, died yesterday morning at his home in Weston after a heart attack. He was 85 years...
Melville C. Whipple, associate professor of Sanitary Chemistry, emeritus, died January 14 of a prolonged illness...
Before such chilling views took hold, philosophers always were men who thought, says Yale's Professor Emeritus Brand Blanshard, that "they could sit down in their studies and arrive by reasoning at a knowledge of the ultimate nature of the world." Perhaps in no other age had philosophers greater confidence in their capacity to do this than in the 19th century. Hegel tried to encompass all aspects of life within his dialectical logic of thesis-antithesis-synthesis, in 18 ponderous tomes. His idealistic principle that the material world exists only in relation to the Absolute mind...
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Meany, sounding as crusty as ever at 71, accepted uncontested election to a new two-year term. He also took a $25,000 pay increase, which brings his annual salary to $70,000. When Harry Bates, 83, president emeritus of the Bricklayers, resisted Meany's invitation to retire, Meany decided not to force the ancient out. In keeping with the even-tempered mood of the convention, Meany had kind words for the 89th Congress, even though it pointedly failed to give him the three pieces of legislation that labor wants most: repeal of the Taft-Hartley...