Word: palmers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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GEORGE HERBERT PALMER...
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...Richard Palmer Waters Jr. '34 of Brookline was elected secretary-treasurer of the Class of 1934, as a result of the recent elections, instead of Bertram Gordon Waters Jr. '34 of Brookline as erroneously announced in yesterday's CRIMSON...
...telling the story of his life, Professor Palmer has sketched with brevity numerous circumstances, often trivial in size, which have had a bearing on his career. The absence of generalizations and the restraint in the description of personal events combine in such a manner as to remove both false humility and wearing trivia, qualities often consequent in accounts of this type. Naturally, his tracing of the rise of the department of Philosophy at Harvard is the most interesting topic handled. The change of system from one consisting of a minister who made occasional ventures into speculative ethics and morals, even...
Inconsequential as much of Professor Palmer's facts may be, the terse style prevents it from becoming tedious, but the true flow of ripe wisdom is not reached until the second half of the book. Here the passages are so inchoate with thought that the sentences are almost without exception deep, if not winged, aphorisms. Professor Palmer's work should go on the shelves side by side with the settled wisdom of other great personalities in American letters...