Word: josiah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...closed his address to Congress on the State of the Union with a quotation from a "wise philosopher at whose feet I sat," he raised political campaigning to a metaphysical plane (TIME, Jan. 13). The quotation, an exhortation to loyalty to high ideals, came from Harvard's Professor Josiah Royce, who died in 1916. Little reason had Franklin Roosevelt to expect that a quotation from a philosopher long dead would awake echoes either philosophic or political. But even a fabulously absent-minded professor, who lived for 34 years in an oasis of metaphysical calm while he walked the streets...
...dear Mr. President: .... Josiah Royce was an idealist and an individualist, opposed in every word and thought to nearly everything for which your Administration has stood. I have felt that he would want a reply made, and have hoped some one far more learned and qualified might undertake the task which I reluctantly approach for want of one more fitted for it. The larger part of your quotation brings to mind his extemporaneous Faneuil Hall mass meeting speech in Boston, following the sinking of the Lusitania, when, though a feeble old man always a hater of war, he held...
...Boston Latin School, at Harvard, at Berlin, Santayana became an instructor of philosophy at Harvard at 26, moved freely in academic circles without being intimately known in any. Impersonal, self-contained, he lived modestly in Stoughton Hall, became a member of the brilliant group of Harvard philosophers that included Josiah Royce, William James, George H. Palmer, Hugo Münsterberg. Three times each week he walked to Brookline to visit his mother, who continued to speak Spanish and who was entirely unknown to his Cambridge acquaintances. Occasionally he invited his more promising students to tea, was lionized by Cambridge hostesses...
...sent his budget to the Capitol telling Congress all he cared to tell about U. S. finances to the end of fiscal 1937. Last week, while the Senate Finance Committee was considering the Soldiers' Bonus (see above), some of its members, headed by North Carolina's supercilious Josiah William Bailey, decided they ought to hear what Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau would have to say about the effect of paying the Bonus on U. S. finances...
...Josiah Royce (1855-1916) famed Harvard professor, whose books are used as texts in many an elementary philosophy course...