Word: santayana
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...Great Leap Forward. Under President Eliot the University had clearly assumed the status of a national school; the celebrities, more often than in the Civil War era, actually taught courses. This period was especially a golden age for the philosophy department. At one time James, Josiah Royce, George Santayana, George Herbert Palmer, and Hugo Munsterberg all held appointments. Darwin, Hegel, and Helmholtz had progressively gained influence through the intervening years. On the other hand, operationalism, behaviorism, and the Freud Bomb had not yet burst upon the American scene...
Claverly is admittedly not what it once was. The swimming pool and squash court are no longer used; shoes left outside one's door at night are no longer shined by morning as they were when George Santayana was a resident, and although the famous elevator is kept in good repair, the building in general has been allowed to get a bit shabby...
...Elusive Corporal. "The young man who has not wept is a savage," said George Santayana, "and the old man who will not laugh is a fool." In Grand Illusion, made in 1937, when he was 43, Jean Renoir wept for the worlds that die in wars. In Corporal, made last year, when he was 67, Renoir laughs for the worlds that are born in debacle. And while he's about it he laughs at the ridiculous ideas people have about freedom. Renoir's laughter is contagious. Nobody will consider his new war film as fine...
Confusion persisted through the nineteenth century (which lasted longer in Boston than elsewhere), and George Santayana was forced to characterized the old College rather uncertainly, as a place which "liberated the young man from the pursuit of money, from hypocrisy, from the control of women. He could grow for a time according t o his nature, and if this growth was not guided by much superior wisdom or deep study, it was not warped by an serious perversion; and if the intellectual world did not permanently entice him... he learned that such things existed, and gathered a shrewd notion...
...grandfather were both distinguished judges; a cousin. Judge Augustus N. Hand, served with him for years on the Court of Appeals in New York (their fellow judges sometimes referred to them as "the left Hand and the right Hand"). At Harvard, Learned Hand majored in philosophy, studied under Santayana. Josiah Royce and William James, and graduated summa cum laude before moving on to law school. As a young lawyer in an Albany firm, he prospered, but he longed to sit on the other side of the bar. President William Howard Taft spotted him in 1909, named him as a federal...