Word: santayana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...significant that President Lowell who so often said that this is the "age of advertising" should live to see Harvard's men of learning go on the air along with Chase and Sanborn and Dainty Dot Hosiery. The days are gone when Santayana could sit in his cloister and ponder upon the mysteries of the universe. Now he is known to every stenographer as the author of "The Last Puritan," soon to sell for $1.69 a copy at Liggett's. Those members of the faculty who find themselves unable to write, and shudder at the thought of President Conant...
...first of a series of monthly articles by prominent men outside of the College, members of the recently revived Harvard Monthly have succeeded in getting George Santayana '86, noted philosopher and member of the original 1885-86 Monthly board, to agree to write a reminiscent article for the magazine...
...LAST PURITAN-George Santayana -Scribner...
...Monthly" was founded in 1885, and included in its first list of editors was George Santayana '86, author of "The Last Puritan." During its career, many other literati have served on its board, among them John R. Dos Passos, Jr. '16, Robert S. Hillyer '17, E. E. Cummings '15, Bernard Berenson '17, and last but hardly least, Ernest A. Simpson '17, of Queen's husband fame...
...thrilled Harvard in James Conant's own undergraduate days -William James, Josiah Royce, George Santayana, Charles Townsend Copeland- most are now dead or retired...