Word: hume
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...field. Would not history and philosophy, perhaps, be an even better combination? One cannot, indeed, appreciate any period without some acquaintance with its philosophy, but to find its philosophy one must turn to its literature, and not merely to the literature of the professed philosophers. Great as Locke and Hume are, they do not begin to sum up in their pages all the philosophical thought of Eighteenth Century England. Their importance is beyond question, but could one get anything like a complete picture of that era without some consideration of Addison, Swift, Defoe, Fielding, Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds and Adam...
...lengths of open water. Keith Kane, former Harvard football captain, requires no introduction. Pulling a strong oar at No. 4 in the Oxford boat, he did his job for Oxford on the English Thames as he did for Harvard on the Thames that passes Red Top. Tevis Hume, formerly of Princeton, and F. K. Brown, of Washing- ton, were the Americans who assisted at the Oxford track victory at the Queen's Club, London. Hume won the 220-yard hurdles in 25% seconds and Brown took the shot put with 42 feet 8 inches-a 'varsity record...
...Hourwich. They will speak in the order named above. The alternates, who have assisted in obtaining material for the speeches, and who will help in preparing the rebuttals, are G. E. Barton and B. G. Bechhoeffer. The Yale men, who will oppose them, are T. C. Hume, W. E. Birds all, and J. MacH. Hopkins Jr., and, as alternates, D. C. Downes and T. E. McHugh...
...this line he has achieved a marked success at the Garrick Theatre in New York, with which he is connected. Among his best-known recent productions have been "John Ferguson" and "Jane Clegg," which is now running there. Mr. Simonson has been connected in his work with S. J. Hume '13, Irving Pichel '14, R. E. Jones '10 and others well known in the theatrical world. While in the University Mr. Simonson was a member of Professor G. P. Baker's English...