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Henry Greenwood Bugbee, Jr. has been awarded the first George Santayana Fellowship in Philosophy for 1953-54, Dean McGeorge Bundy announced yesterday...
Established by the terms of Santayana's will, the fund provides for the annual appointment of "a person of any age or nationality who may be thereby enabled freely to devote himself, in any place of his choice approved by the Harvard Corporation, to the subjects which have occupied my own life." In addition, the Fellows must be doing graduate or postdoctoral study under the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...option on a TV station in Vancouver, Wash, as well as the San Leandro, Calif, daily News-Observer (5,473). In periods of expansiveness. Sackett has been known to roam the coast picking up options to buy papers as lightly as he tosses off philosophic oratory from William James, Santayana or John Dewey. Six years ago in Seattle, he announced he had bought the ailing Star, hastily pulled out, leaving an option behind when he could not meet the purchase price. Where Sackett hopes to raise the money to buy the Los Angeles News is his secret. But News Publisher...
Howard's Alain Locke, 66, a fussy little (5 ft. 4 in., 104 Ibs.) man with a shabby old briefcase, known to scholars all over the U.S. as the foremost Negro philosopher. At Harvard Locke studied under Royce, James and Santayana, went on to Oxford as the first Negro Rhodes scholar. Since 1912, his pince-nez quivering on his nose, he has prodded and cajoled two generations of students into raising the intellectual sights of their race: "A minority is only safe & sound in terms of its social intelligence . . . When you're up against the mass irrationality...
...George Santayana...