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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attachment of the membership charge to the term bill. With such cooperation on every side, the commuting students who campaigned so pugnaciously and vociferously last spring have no further requests to be answered. The success or failure of Dudley Hall is squarely up to students who do not live in Cambridge. An "Open House" week is now in progress, allowing students who are eligible for membership to become acquainted with an institution which eminently deserves and will amply repay their support...
...Santayana received an inheritance, immediately resigned from Harvard, settled in Oxford. Repelled by German culture, at home in England, he was pro-Ally during the War, wrote Egotism in German Philosophy during the War years. After the War Santayana moved to Paris, has lived for the past twelve years in an obscure hotel in Rome, sees few visitors, has no friends who live permanently in Rome, carries on a wide correspondence, writing letters that are as polished as his published works. He admires Proust, reads Jacques Maritain, is interested in Spengler, Freud, Hindu philosophy, occasionally passes days without speaking...
...From the hotel room in Rome where he has lived obscurely since 1923, George Santayana has looked back to Harvard and New England for his fable. Born in Madrid, Dec. 16, 1863, he was 9 when he was taken to Boston, where his half-brother and half-sisters were members of the famed Sturgis family of New England. A strange set of circumstances lay behind this migration. "None of us," Santayana once wrote, "ever changed his country, his class, or his religion." Santayana's Spanish-born parents met in the Philippine Islands. His mother's first marriage...
...popular lecturer, Santayana's courses became famed. His students included T. S. Eliot, Conrad Aiken, Walter Lippmann, Bronson Cutting, Felix Frankfurter. Robert Benchley attended his classes, said that he could not understand the words but that the music fascinated him. Continuing to live in isolation, Santayana was commonly considered snobbish. Disliking Boston society, he called it "a Harvard faculty meeting without any business." Although he enjoyed teaching, described it as "a delightful paternal art," he admitted disliking ''the taste of academic straw," was ironically amused when President Lowell declared that he was not interested in the degree...
...yacht, drifting about the world, while occasional intimations of his paganism and vice reach Great Falls, Conn., to scandalize the family and cloud the contentment of his wife. In a loveless household Oliver grows up, excels at games and studies without exerting himself, does not begin to live until, at the age of 17, his father carries him away on his yacht...