Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late John William Navin Sullivan was an able mathematician, a gifted and lucid interpreter of physics, a lover of music, a searcher for beauty in both music and science. A lonely and meditative man himself, he regarded Beethoven as the greatest of all musicians, Newton as the greatest of all scientists. His life of Beethoven is one of his best-known books. A few days before he died last August in Surrey, England, of disseminated sclerosis, he completed his Isaac Newton. Last week this book was published...
...Sullivan's biography does not bring to light any new material about Newton, and he draws freely on other biographers. But Sullivan was fascinated by the human being which harbored such a magnificent mind, and from the available material he tried to draw, with fair success, a clearer picture of the 17th Century's greatest scientist as a person...
...Says Sullivan: "From all the passions which give direction to most men's lives, sexual love, paternity, friendship, citizenship, religious aspirations, the desire for fame, the desire to benefit humanity, Newton seems to have been free. From the point of view of most men his life, in spite of its prodigious achievements, would seem pointless. . . . His life was one long meditation, but his interest in the subject of his meditations was exhausted in the act of understanding...
Keynote of the evening was approval of the House plan, already approved by all House Committees and all but one Master. Guest speakers were Rodman W. Paul '36, Assistant Dean, Paul Reardon '32, Richard H. Sullivan '39, newly elected president of the Student Council, and Irving Murray...
Every member of the new Council was present, including, besides officers Sullivan, Bunker, and Harvin, Cleveland Amory '39, Charles L. Burwell '39, Oliver P. Bolton '39, Clarence E. Boston '39, Morton L. Freed '39, Robert L. Green '39, F. Austin Harding '39, Richard H. Sullivan '39, Mason Fernard '40, Theodore L. Hazlett Jr., '40, Frederick Holdsworth '40, James D. Lightbody '40, Douglas Mercer '40, and Phil C. Neal...