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Phil. 6. No meeting of course today. G. Santayana...
...first speaker of the evening will be George Gore '34, who will give the "Address to the Graduating Class," originally delivered by Edward A. Alderman. He will be followed by Richard P. Wheeler ocC, who is to give "The British Character", by George Santayana '86. Next, selections from Edmund Burke's "Conciliation with the American Colonies" are to be presented by Leonard C. Lewin '36. The subject of the address of John W. Yungblut '35 is "The Secret of Bishop Lawrence's Wisdom," by President Lowell...
...Almighty God delighted this iconoclast. But it is the religion of love as symbolized and poetized in Christian dogma that brings him to conversion. Religion supplied the necessary ideal meaning of his earthly and therefore transient love. The similar position that the philosophic poet and man of letters, George Santayana, has taken in the past ten years may clarify what this miracle play is trying to express. Santayana has returned to the catholic form of Christianity because he feels the necessity for an ideal, as well as for a rational expression of the meanings and values of life. He further...
...Society cf Fellows wherein 24 young superscholars may seek knowledge free from academic or financial care. But thoughtful Harvardmen began to grow uneasy as the Lowell regime lengthened. Columbia was drawing ahead in this department, Chicago in that, Wisconsin in another. Old Harvard faculty giants-Royce, James, Palmer, Norton, Santayana-were dead or retired. Kittredge, Lowes, Copeland, Hocking, Perry were getting on. Where were the men to replace them? President Lowell retired with that question unanswered...
...essay on Freud, the great Viennese is linked with Hindu philosophy, an astounding, but, it appears, by no means an impossible feat. Mr. Santayana's argument is very plausible and proceeds from Freud's assertion that "the goal of life is death." The concluding essay in this work deals with Julien Benda and the infinite as he propounds it. For his readers Mr. Santayana leaves a query. Are they to think that for Mr. Santayana the infinite is bad, as it was for the Greeks? Answers will vary...