Word: taylorisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fact: The Romance of the Mind", Dr. Henry Osborn Taylor, Emerson...
From the solitude of his estate in Connecticut Dr. Taylor has written expositions of the development of thought belief, and culture. Since he confines himself so exclusively to writing Dr. Taylor does not hold any professorship in any university and lectures but rarely. He was the Lowell lecturer at Harvard in 1917 and the West lecturer in Leland Stanford University in 1920. He has spoken occasionally before the National Institute of Arts and Letters of which he is a member. Tomorrow he will discuss "Primitive Strain and Religion" and on Thursday will speak on "Fact in Art and Science...
...coming lectures of Henry Osborn Taylor will give the University an opportunity to hear one of her most widely read graduates. Interested primarily in the tracing of the shifting, currents of thought throughout the ages, the author of "The Medieval Mind" has the rare faculty of carrying his reader into the spirit of a bygone era without losing perspective...
Among historians Dr. Taylor's studies are the standard works on the history of ancient and medieval intellectual life. Philosophers turn to his books not only to profit by his researches but to obtain the benefit of his own interpretations. To the general public his writings offer an intellectual stimulus only equaled by his delightful style. His works are among the few that are both significant to the expert and interesting to the layman...
...Taylor's place among American men of letters is all the more note-worthy because, like Francis Bacon, he took up the search for knowledge purely as a hobby after the stress of a busy life of affairs. Too many scholarly treatises read as if written from a painful sense of duty; Dr. Taylor, a former practising lawyer, writes purely for dis-interested enjoyment, yet compares favorably with his professional contemporaries both in substance and in vitality. Particularly interesting to undergraduates should be the lectures of a man who is notable for having brought a penetrating simplicity into a field...