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...Philosophy A, its introductory course, compensates for its omission of scholasticism in the lectures and reading by making Professor De Wulf's book on mediaeval philosophy a possible choice for the reading period, and a graduate seminar is being planned for next year. But when courses are devoted to Kant, Leibniz, and Spinoza, the mediaeval student has a right to protest the lack of a course on a philosophy which was not, as these were, splendid digressions, but a common intellectual achievement unrivalled in its vitality and magnificence...
...Aurelius in the ancient world, Thomas Aquinas in the medieval, and Bacon, Schophenhauer, or Hegel in the modern, to name but a handful of brilliant minds outside the scope of the course. With too much time devoted to men of the past, there is no room for anything beyond Kant, with the result that the student gets the idea that philosophy ends at the opening of the nineteenth century. He knows nothing of Spencer or Nietzche or of contemporary schools, and so is given little which is of value in trying to understand present-day thought...
...Kant," Professor Burkhard, Germanic Museum Lecture Room...
...antiques, paintings and books valued at $1,000,000. With the cartoonist lives his wife, Sarah Jane Isdell, who was on the stage as Sarah Jane Dellis when they married 19 years ago. They have no children. When Cartoonist Hershfield stays home in the evening he reads Goethe, Kant, Spinoza. He has written one serious novel (SuperCity}, has completed another (By Appointment}. Also he has completed Ye Salami Shoppe, a collection of "Hebrew" jokes dedicated "To my relatives who can hardly wait for the royalties." He has one brother and seven sisters. He employs no secretary, answers voluminous mail...
...Gandhi. The Bombay government retaliated by ordering the arrest of any merchant closing his place of business. At Ahmedabad an Indian surgeon was fined 1,000 rupees for refusing for the third time to remove the Gandhi tricolor from his dispensary. Unimpressed by the much publicized martyrdom of Krishna Kant (TIME, Jan. 25). a British magistrate ordered a 14-year-old boy flogged for picketing a British bank...