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Another Tercentenary speaker, who will lecture for the first half year, is Etienne Gilson, prominent Catholic thinker and medievalist, professor of Philosophy at the College de France in Paris, and Director of the Institute of Medieval Studies at Toronto. This will be his second term at Harvard, having taught here from 1926 to 1929. This year he will give a series of public lectures on "The Unity of Philosophical Experience." In addition he will hold a student seminar on the 17th Century French Philosophers Descartes and Malebranche...
Among the most prominent of the visiting professors are Sir Frederick G. Hopkins and Etienne Gilson. Sir Frederick is a British Nobel Prize winner, and a distinguished pioneer in vitamin research, who will be a lecturer at the Medial School. Professor Gilson who is probably the foremost Catholic Philosopher in the world today, and who is a great authority on Descartes, and the whole Cartesian school, will be William James Lecturer on Philosophy for the first half-year...
...Etienne Gilson, of the College de France, Paris, and the University of Toronto, Philosophy...
...professors brought forth vague plans, and even these did not agree. A Frenchman was fatuous, an American was reflective, an Englishman was optimistic, but it took a Chinaman to pour cold water on the whole project in a stream of heartless logic. While Dr. Etienne Gilson had the European's traditional and misplaced confidence in the American public, Professor Malinowski of London asserted sensibly that any such organization hopeful of success must be backed by force. Here is nothing new. There is no doubt today that a League of Nations with "horsepower" would enforce the peace its founders dreamed...
Next year there will be the following additions to the department: Gilson from Louvain, France, in medieval philosophy, and Lovejoy, known for his work on primitivism