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Harvard at this time had one of the most star-studded Faculties of its history. Josiah Royce, Herbert Palmer, George Santayana, George Lyman Kittredge, Charles Townsend Copeland and George Baker have made this era known as the Golden Age of the Yard. Nevertheless, most students were satisfied with the "gentleman's C" often acquired through last minute cram courses at private tutoring schools. Faculty members met the problem of a rather disinterested student body in different ways. Kittredge maintained stern discipline during his lectures. If a student left the room when the bell rang and Kittredge was still speaking...
...might hold forth on the great men he personally knew well--Whitehead, Sibelius, Harvey Cushing, Santayana, Rolland, Koussevitzky, Sir Richard Livingstone, Gilbert Murray, Samuel Eliot Morison; or on the things absorbed into his marrow--the sweep of Homer, the wisdom of Sophocles, the vitality of Michelangelo, the depth of Beethoven, the ironies of Stendhal, the scope of Goethe, the imagination of Berlioz, the thrust of Ibsen, the grandeur of Wagner, the vigor of Whitman...
...There is no question about his greatness," according to Roderick Firth, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity. In a history of philosophy in the twentieth century, Firth says, Lewis will be ranked along with John Dewey, George Santayana, and Alfred Noyes Whitehead, even though he was a "philosopher's philosopher" unknown to the layman...
Kirkland House will present a Santayana Centennial tonight at 8 p.m. in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the noted philosopher, poet, and Harvard professor. Members of the panel of speakers include Henry L. Alken, professor of Philosophy, Irving Singer of the M.I.T, Humanities Department, Henry May of the University of California at Berkeley History Department, and Marshall Cohen of the University of Chicago Philosophy Department...
...Santayana never seemed more passionately committed to his philosophy than in the last days before his death-a death that, as Cory describes it, had some of the majesty of Socrates'. He was racked with pain from cancer of the stomach, unable to eat or drink. When Cory murmured about "the peace that passeth all understanding," the old rationalist shot back: "If it passeth all understanding, it's simply nothing. I have no faith in a blind, cosmic feeling of peace." In his last moments, Cory asked him if he was suffering. "He replied in a voice...