Word: gilson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Etienne Gilson, exchange professor of philosophy from the University of Paris, announced recently just before returning to France that he is planning to organize an institute of medieval study at the University of Toronto. Professor Gilson will remain for the next six months at the University of Paris conducting courses in philosophy and then expects to develop the institute which will conduct research into the fields of medieval philosophy, literature, art, architecture, and political science...
...last few years, Professor Gilson has been spending the first half year at Harvard and the second half at Paris, lecturing on medieval philosophy at both universities. It is expected that he will return to Cambridge next year to continue his courses...
...University game summary follows: HARVARD PENNSYLVANIA Ellison, g. g., Douglas Hartnett, pt. pt., Monk Markwett, sp. cp., Utz Lane, 1d. 1d., Button Mulliken, 2d. 2d., Gilson (Pine) Park, 3d. 3d., Borschom Hatch (Pickard), c. c., Ott McQuaid (McGuire), 3a. 3a., Sterling Glenn, 2a. 2a., Edwards Dreier, 1a. 1a., Moore Murphy, o.h. o.h., Johansen Wallance, i.h. i.h., Hirsch...
...them to donate money for the building of a church; then to skip the hills and return to the city bootleggers, with the church fund. Little did they reck that Red Belwyn (Margaret Lawrence), beautiful crookess of the gang, would discover LOVE through the burly person of Devil Ace Gilson (Louis Bennison), head of the Southern Gentlemen's Association of Moonshiners. But she does. And the evildoers drink wood alcohol, thereby losing forever their sight of God's true Heaven. This melodrama, which might have been good satire-comedy, is both thick and thin...
However those who had any contact with him often felt that Professor Gilson's choice of field was a comparatively unimportant accident. As is so often the case with a great personality what he taught about Aquinas or Abelard, interesting though it was, acted merely as a bridge from his mind to those of his listeners. With communication once established first papers for citizenship in the super national, super temporal country of cultivated minds were quickly passed across. Yet, though Professor Gilson fought against Germany without a trace of hate, his type of mental distinction is very French. Only...