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...stalwarts of Harvard's Golden Age of Philosophy, George Santayana '86, died Saturday night in a Roman convent...
...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...
...CAREER WAS brilliant. He hurried through college in three years, and returned for a fourth as assistant in Santayana's fashionable philosophy course. Lincoln Steffens sought him out to help muckrake the politicians in Everybody's Magazine After a turn as a socialist reformer in Schenectady, he retired to the Maine woods to write A Preface to Politics. T. R. did an admiring review. When Herbert Croly founded the New Republic, it was inevitable that Walter Lippmann should be invited to become an editor. When Woodrow Wilson swung the New Freedom to the defense of the British Empire...
...Rome, on his 88th birthday, Philosopher George Santayana granted one of his rare interviews to a thoughtful reporter: "I haven't changed my mind basically about my philosophy, but I don't have the sense of simplicity that I used to have . . . Once upon a time I was not reconciled to the world because there were many things about it I did not like. Today, I am still not reconciled to it but for another reason-that I find things are not so simple to explain as I once imagined...