Word: gilson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lowest dives. Publishers made the rounds themselves, bought drinks for the performers, distributed chorus sheets among the customers. Edward B. Marks is still publishing songs at 62, as acute to the value of a plug by Rudy Vallée as he was to one by Lottie Gilson, the curvey "Little Magnet,'' who in the 1890s drew tears each night at Tony Pastor's on 14th Street. Fortnight ago Edward B. Marks published a song history of the last 40 years, a book as shrewd in its sidelights on changing manners as it is in its appraisal...
...philosophy of wish fulfillment, but that is because he does not know anything about William of Occam, or Thomas Aquinas, or any of the mediaeval rebels whose scholasticism led them into the friar movement, and knows too much abut Siger of Brabant and Buridan. Professors DeWulf and Gilson have been so busy defending scholastic philosophy that they have never had time to use it; the time to condemn the scholastic view on Russia is after a competent scholastic philosopher has formed it, not after it has been conjectured by people who are not only unsympathetic towards, but even ignorant...
...chair of scholastic philosophy, which has been brilliantly filled in the past by Maurice de Wulf and by Etienne Gilson, is now in its third year of interregnum. The intellectual history of the middle ages, Professor Taylor's History 6, and their political theory, Professor McIlwain's Government 6, form parts of the mediaeval picture which are of necessity incomplete without a systematic study of the mediaeval view of man and the universe. With the growing interest in mediaeval studies at Harvard and elsewhere, it is particularly unfortunate that this chair has been allowed to lapse...
...closing of its library cannot afford to permit a temporary situation, easily misinterpreted, to become permanent. Both economy and the difficulties of choice have a limit, and as a vital scholarly need must limit the first, so should three years have limited the second. Under Professors de Wulf and Gilson scholastic philosophy filled a prominent place in the course list; that place should not be vacant much longer...
Professor Etienne Gilson of the College de France will deliver the first of his three lectures on "Social Functions of Theology in the Middle Ages" at five o'clock this afternoon in Emerson D. Another lecture will be given tomorrow afternoon at the same time and there will be one on Friday evening at eight o'clock. The series, which are under the auspices of the Division of Philosophy, are open to the public...