Word: santayana
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...George Santayana, '86, one time professor of Philosophy at Harvard, was yesterday named candidate for King of the United States by the Monarchists party of Boston...
...Walt Whitmans, rejected by the people whom they would serve. For one suspects that they have forgotten (or perhaps they have never known) the hard truth, "Nothing is further from the common people than the corrupt desire--to be common people," if one may amend Mr. Santayana's dictum...
...caste marks-a broad Harvard A (he spoke with a slight lisp), clothes cut on English models, interest in such unprofitable subjects as modern music-did not make him one of them. In 1910 he left Harvard where he had been a favorite pupil of Philosopher George Santayana, who called him "Young Aristotle." He went to New Mexico to die of tuberculosis. Instead of dying he recovered and roamed over the State studying its archeology, making friends with its Spanish-speaking citizens. He already spoke fluent French, German, Italian. From New Mexicans he learned Spanish. For the next few years...
...vigor of his Yankee predecessors. Harvard's President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell turned up at the tercentenary exercises to praise Latin School's "insistence on hard work and its methods of self-education." Many an old Latin School boy nodded approvingly at the message which Philosopher George Santayana (1882) sent to his schoolmates: "The merely modern man never knows what he is about. A Latin education, far from alienating us from our own world, teaches us to discern the amiable traits...
...very beginning the course should not be taken by those who have no background in philosophy or science nor any inclination to do intensive and highly abstract thinking on their own part. The reading consists largely of the lecturer's own works and some by men like Santayana, James, Hume, and Mill. The lectures require a great deal of concentration and assume a background in philosophic and scientific thought...