Word: santayana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Santayana exiled himself from the United States in 1912, when he abandoned his Harvard professorship in philosophy. In one of two letters now in possession of the CRIMSON, Santayana gives his reasons for never having returned to this country: "I had none except the absence of any reason for going there. I had never felt that it was my natural milieu." The notes are addressed to A. A. Roback, former instructor of Philosophy at Harvard, and now a professor of Psychology at Emerson College...
Although he was extremely popular among his students, Santayana and his colleagues shared a certain amount of hostility towards one another. He taught here from 1889 until 1912, receiving a full professorship in 1907. This is the golden age of Harvard's Philosophy Department, which had men like William James, Josiah Royce, and George Palmer...
...Santayana attended Harvard College during the years 1882-86. He wrote for a magazine, "The Harvard Monthly," and was a cartoonist for the Lampoon. He did no writing for the humor magazine, however, because "My English was too literary, too ladylike, too correct for such a purpose; I never acquired, or like the American art of perpetual joking...
...unfortunately, popularity is hardly the word to describe his relations with his colleagues. The principal targets for his attacks were James and Royce; they replied in kind. One of his associates remarked that "Santayana believes there is no God and Mary His mother...
...Santayana's students, Clarence L. Lowis '05, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, called his classes in Plato "a delight for their erudition, their humanity, and the exquisite quality of his spoken words...