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...stood on the burning deck was a moron, Professor Harry Allen Overstreet once told a child-study group. "He did not have the intelligence to adapt himself to a changing situation." In 1939, convinced that modern man is a boy on the burning deck of the aoth century, he quit his philosophy post at Manhattan's City College and turned to writing and lecturing. Author Overstreet soon gathered a new class bigger than any teacher's dream...
...Harry Overstreet's "The Mature Mind...
...called DePauw's public relations director who put me on to Dr. O. F. Overstreet, a contemporary and friend of John Clark Ridpath, and also suggested that I call Sam Rariden, editor of the Greencastle Banner. Dr. Overstreet didn't know about T-Y-T-Y and announced further that there were no living Ridpath descendants, thereby quenching that hope. Editor Rariden said I ought to call Mrs. Clyde Wildman, wife of DePauw's president, at Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis, where her husband was convalescing. Mrs. Wildman said it was all right to ask her a question...
Former assistant professor at Wesleyan University, Overstreet came to Harvard in 1947 for his Ph.D. His doctoral thesis in 1948, "Sovereignty in the Constitutions of Some International Organizations," won the Charles Sumner Prize. He received his A.B. degree in 1937 from the University of California and his M.A. degree in 1940 from Harvard...
...Overstreet is a native of San Francisco and a son of H. A. Overstreet, author of the best seller. "The Mature Mind...