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...main steps of the building. Before we go on with our tour of the Yard, note please on the right Emerson Hall, named after Ralph Waldo Emerson. Here many famous philosophers have lectured as Harvard professors, including, among others. Royce, James, Palmer, and Santayana...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Library Most Imposing Building in Yard | 9/1/1937 | See Source »

...dressed woman from New York, puffing a cigarette in a corner of her mouth, pin a red rose on a shabby beggar who was blind . . . . A thousand black birds break their journey through the sky and stop at a marble ruin lit with moonlight . . . . Mussolini, the Pope and George Santayana...

Author: By Christopher Janus, | Title: Tbe Oxford Letter | 5/21/1937 | See Source »

...unlike Oliver, Mr. Santayana's morality is not static. Like Mario he can act. He can compare, criticise and share the virtues of ways of life different from his own--which Oliver could never...

Author: By Christopher Janus, | Title: Janus Describes Visit to Santayana at Rome; Writes of His Studious Life | 5/5/1937 | See Source »

...Santayana is Unique

Author: By Christopher Janus, | Title: Janus Describes Visit to Santayana at Rome; Writes of His Studious Life | 5/5/1937 | See Source »

...talk with Mr. Santayana it is as difficult to pigeon-hole him as a "type" as it is to pigeon-hole his philosophy. He's not an American, though he was educated there; he's not a Spaniard, though he was born one. He's more the ancient Greek somehow or other brought up in the 19th century England. Though he dislikes "the taste of academic straw" he's a scholar who zealously fools his work. He has the greatness of genius, and yet the common sense of one richly human. Like the ancients, he would make philosophy...

Author: By Christopher Janus, | Title: Janus Describes Visit to Santayana at Rome; Writes of His Studious Life | 5/5/1937 | See Source »

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