Word: santayana
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have, right here, one of the grossest examples of social distinction still active at the collegiate level. The final clubs, dating from the 1870s, have carved out a place for elitism beyond the norm even at Harvard. Santayana called the system "the secret society...to which everybody of consequence belonged...
...have had great professors teach here, names that will live forever in Byerly Hall," I continue. "George Santayana, William James, Frederick Jackson Turner, Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. (and Jr.), Louis Hartz, Oscar Handlin, McGeorge Bundy...
Those were battles marked by violence and death. They cannot be forgotten. The blood-stained ground on which civil rights workers walked must never be cleansed. If it fades from memory, our nation will find itself fulfilling George Santayana's prophecy of having to repeat history because we ignored it. In celebrating King's victories, we keep the past alive and by so doing educate our nation about the high cost of freedom...
...establishment of a college for women, Radcliffe (1894), originally known mainly as "the Annex." He recruited a brilliant faculty, not only notable lecturers like Ralph Waldo Emerson (on philosophy) and William Dean Howells (Italian literature), but younger teachers like Adams, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., William James and George Santayana. (They had a sense of their own value too. Said Shakespeare Scholar George Lyman Kittredge, after falling off his dais: "At last, I find myself on the level of my audience...
...have a captive audience in a lecture hall. Their writing is unoriginal, occasionally sloppy, and often repetitive. Facts overlap; the same figures reappear in separate essays, with the same glib descriptions: President John T. Kirkland is always "charming," President Charles W. Eliot is "the right sort," George Santayana is eccentric. All of the characters are flat. The authors, some of whom are quite popular for their lively lecture styles, seem to have thrown these essays together on a free weekend, using whatever information was easily available...