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Speaking to an audience that filled Emerson D to overflowing, George Herbert Palmer '64, Alford Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, delivered what he intimated was his last formal lecture, yesterday afternoon. His subject was "Growing Old", and to the large group of his friends and admirers among faculty and undergraduates he spoke simply and directly concerning the glory of living, and of the path...
Professor Palmer is nearing his eighty-eighth birthday, and his talk yesterday was full of the experiences of his life. Again and again he urged the importance of proper care of the body, and stressed the need of the right kind of foods. Abstinence from stimulants of all sorts, plenty of exercise, and sensible habits were recommended for longevity...
This afternoon at 4 o'clock in Emerson D, George Herbert Palmer '64, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, Emeritus, will lecture on "Growing Old." Professor Palmer has spoken but few times recently and has intimated that this lecture, which is open to the public, will be his last...
...days ago one might have closed one's eyes in the Palmer Stadium and imagined oneself at a cricket match, were it not for the visitors' cheering section. It is not difficult to see what prompted the Amherst Student of October 7th to remark, "About 18,000 watched the start of the game, per custom more Lord Jeff supporters than Orange and Black...
George Herbert Palmer remains almost alone of the great generation of men like Royce and Santayana, that surrounded President Eliot during the early years of his administration. In a very real sense, Professor Palmer is a powerful bond connecting the little New England college of the seventies with the University of today. He is one who grew with the growth of Harvard; who saw, the while his own name attained distinction, the institution he represented increasing likewise in influence and renown. His life through the years of his active teaching here ran a course of development parallel to that...