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Harvard Club of Eastern New York, Albany, Edward S. Godfrey III '34, 235 Lenox ave,; Harvard Club of Fairmont, West Virginia, James O. Watson '00, Watson Building; Harvard Club of Houston, Nathaniel Ware '34, 323 Bankers Mortgage Building; Harvard Club of Jacksonville, Josiah D. Segal '21, P.O. Box 329; Harvard Club of Kansas City, Ralph W. Elis '26, 1001 Commerce Building...
...professors as for its president. There was George Santayana, the strange Spaniard who complained as much about Harvard and "the taste of academic straw" as Adams did.. There was Barrett Wendell, who looked as if he might have stepped out of the court of Queen Elizabeth; pudgy Josiah Royce ("the Rubens of Philosophy," William James called him); and Philosopher George Herbert Palmer, who once told a student: "It will hurt nothing at your age to have a nervous breakdown. As a matter of fact, I sometimes think it would be a good thing . . ." And there was Charles Eliot Norton...
...modest way, Raphael Demos is an American success story. A Greek immigrant who worked his way as a janitor to his Harvard Ph.D., Demos now holds Harvard's imposing Alford professorship of natural religion, moral philosophy and civil polity (one predecessor: Josiah Royce). But in the current Harvard Alumni Bulletin, Demos has an un-American doctrine to advocate: it is high time, he thinks, that educators paid some attention to failure stories...
FLORIDA: Harvard Club of Jacksonville: Josiah D. Segal '21, P. O. Box 329, Jacksonville...
...born the 13th and last son of a poor Staffordshire potter; Josiah Wedgwood died the father of an industry. What Henry Ford did for cars in the 20th Century, Wedgwood had done for plates, pots, cups & saucers in the 18th. Judging by the show of his vast works (and those of his descendants) which opened in the Brooklyn Museum last week, Wedgwood had taste as well as technique...