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Backbone of the exhibit was the Halsey Collection of more than 100 Wedgwood portrait medallions, which Franklin's contemporaries called "cameos." Among the Franklin friends whose likenesses were thus ceramically preserved were Josiah Wedgwood himself, William Penn, William Pitt, Sir Jeffrey Amherst, Erasmus Darwin (Charles's grandfather), Charles James Fox, David Garrick, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Dr. Samuel Johnson, George Washington, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Jean François Marie Arouet (Voltaire) and Catherine II of Russia...
...quibble with your indiscriminate use of the word "late" in titling pictures of deceased persons, viz., Father Damien in your Feb. 3 issue, Edith Cavell, Feb. 17, and Josiah Royce, Feb. 24. "Late" means existing recently but not now. "Recent" is relative, to be sure, as is time itself, but would not be applied by our up-to-the-minute newsmagazine in referring to the death of Father Damien in 1889 or of Professor Boyce and Nurse Cavell in World War days. A resolution, please...
...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...