Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What attracts me to existentialism is that it is a philosophy of human life, whereas a lot of modern philosophy doesn't have anything to do with anything anybody is interested in. There are uncountable 'problems' in philosophy, but some questions we don't care to know the answer to. Everybody is just about fed up with the traditional problems brought up by Hume, for instance...
...John Hall and Charles Ford, were new appointees with brand new Ph.D.'s and with serious plans for their own scholarly achievements. Both men were tall and thin, and both were blond. If a colleague in another department did not know them very well, he might even have mistaken one for the other. During a department meeting, Hall had got up and made a brief but rather passionate speech about Professor Greg, saying he was world-renowned, how proud he was to be teaching a course that Greg had once taught, and how indebted to him everyone in their profession...
When the motion was reintroduced, it passed unanimously.... Walking back to his office, Briggs felt mildly elated. Perhaps Hall and Ford had had a good idea after all. Certainly it did the department no harm for the administration and even the public to know they wished to honor one to whom honor...
...Yeah. You know, model, make and serial number. You need 'em all, and the color...
Please accept my profound thanks for including a program for the Penn-Harvard game in your issue of last Saturday. It is gratifying to know that, since the H.S.A. is helping undergraduates to earn their way through Harvard by raising the price of programs, someone is helping other undergraduates to curtail their expenses by providing free programs. John H. Frohlicher...