Word: santayana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George Santayana has paid the editors of the new Harvard Monthly the compliment of phrasing for them, with his usual grace, the value and purpose of a college magazine, Youth, he says, in the leading article in the first issue, "An Apology for Being Precocious," can bring to experience what experience can not give, and what it too often kills. Youth has the gift of prophecy. It may not know well what is, but it has the right to say what ought to be. It is the time to be radical. "Especially when some storm is brewing in the world...
...Santayana's words have about them the sunlight of the Eighties. He remembers a time when youth was confident, and the elders bewildered. If his prefatory memories seem to promise what a college magazine can not now well fulfill, they are none the less moving for that. Mr. Hay, in an editorial which celebrates the magazine's revival, is more restrained. Unfortunately he and his contemporaries live in the Thirties. They have before them the example of a preceding 'generation, self-conscious and "young," which preempted the qualities of youth, its postures and certainties, and still clutches them...
...roll of Boylston prize winners contains the names of numerous famous graduates. George Santayana '86 performed the unparalleled feat of winning awards for the recitation of both Latin and Greek passages, giving a selection from Virgil's "Aeneid" in his Junior year and one from Homer's "IIiad" as a Senior H. V. Kaltenborn '09 took first place in his Senior year. George R. Agassiz '84 and Arthur C. Train '96 are also among the eminent prize winners...
...addition, the 36-page magazine will carry theatre and book reviews as well as short stories, articles, and poems by undergraduates. The policy of the Monthly will be to run as many photographs as possible, and the first issue will include cuts of Santayana, the first Monthly Board, and the Harvard Square...
Revived after twenty years of inactivity, the Harvard Monthly will feature an article by George Santayana '86, one of its former editors, in an issue scheduled for publication Wednesday. Santayana's article, entitled "An Apology for Being Precocious," is a dissertation on the first editors of the Monthly...