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...Harvard, he found not only William James but also Idealist Josiah Royce. Hocking promptly adopted both these men as "my honored masters." In the first, he found a challenge, in the second, a response. Over the next 40 years, he gradually molded that response into an eloquent philosophy of his own, passed it on to hundreds of Harvard students. Though of formal bearing, he never lacked fire: it was the fire of a man who believed with all his heart that "to know that the world has a meaning [is] the philosophic minimum...
...Fired Josiah Marvel Jr. and Raymond S. McKeough, Truman-appointed members of the International Claims Commission, which handles claims of U.S. investors whose property has been nationalized by foreign governments. Marvel and McKeough, who had refused to resign their $15,000-a-year jobs after the election, had settled only 132 claims in more than three years, still had 1,000 pending...
...Lilly family to head the company. Joining Lilly as a sales representative in 1929. Beesley worked his way up to sales manager of the Cleveland and Indianapolis districts, served as director of personnel and trade relations, finally as vice president of executive administration. He takes over the duties of Josiah Kirby...
...somehow he managed to come out of it all. He got his Ph.D. at 18, and did graduate work in philosophy under Bertrand Russell, John Dewey, Josiah Royce and George Santayana. For a time he vacillated between mathematics and philosophy, finally chose math, with brilliant results. Looking back on his youth, Norbert Wiener tries hard to strike a judicious balance. He still admires the standards of scholarship and devotion to intellectual matters he learned from his father. He cannot help agreeing with papa that it was worth learning geometry, Greek, Latin and German "at an age when most boys...
Ralph, Barton Perry, Edgar pierce Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, was a student and colleague of Santayana's for more than 16 years, and shared a place with him in Harvard's--and America's--Golden Age of Philosophy, the years when William James and Josiah Royce also taught at the college...