Word: santayana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those poor, unfortunate inanities of Harvard 1911 have my profound sympathy. They, with their fellow Yale and Princeton men, represent the shattered remnants of the Puritanism that Santayana has so aptly described. The really sad thing is that they are too damn stupid to work the system out to its logical end. . . . They prefer to stay shut up in their own self complacence, completely oblivious of the changing world about them...
Thence, back to the Tower, and to read what W. L. Phepls spoke of Santayana. I much surprised Santayana has not dined out in ten years (for, I hear, he was a popular member of society while at Harvard) and that he does now cook his own breakfast: and that at the age of nine he could not speak a word of English but that now he is probably the best prose writer living and certainly the greatest philosopher that ever thumbed his nose at all that was the Harvard philosophy department...
Last February onetime Professor George Santayana, 72, published his first novel (The Last Puritan-TIME, Feb. 3). Last week onetime Professor Alvin Johnson, 61, followed suit. But aside from their authors' profession, these two first novels had little in common. Spring Storm was not a novel of ideas but a simpleminded, affectionate tale of nonage in Nebraska. Though critics might well say the narrative creaked and that it was peopled by wooden marionettes out of Horatio Alger, they also found that its mixture of old-fashioned naivete and shrewdness had genuine charm...
Philosophy has a small number of concentrators, 37 this year and about five more expected next year. It has however eight faculty men, headed by internationally famous Whitehead, who are either associate, assistant, or full professors. Nor does it need to rest upon the laurels it acquired under James, Santayana, Royce, and Palmer; it is still considered one of the best, if not the best, philosophy department in the country...
OBITER SCRIPTA-George Santayana-Scribner ($2.50). Collection of scattered lectures, essays, reviews by the onetime Harvard philosopher whose first novel (The Last Puritan, TIME, Feb. 3) made him a best-seller...