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...want to shield the professor from our cruel world. Closet scholarship is unavailing in a commercial civilization. The thinker must be in vital touch with the magnificent display of energy precious souls term materialism. But high pay is no means to this end. It creates a barrier where we want a bridge. Salaries higher than a living-wage detach from life: only serious work and sacrifice pay in the end. JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT...
...Chapel at 11 o'clock, Sir Henry Jones, LL.D., F.B.A., Litt.D., Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Glasgow, Scotland, will be the speaker. He was formerly Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at Saint Andrews and has written the books, "Browning as a Religious and Philosophical Thinker," "The Working Faith of a Social Reformer," "The Philosophy of Lotze," and others...
Doubtless Mr. Russell's attitude toward the war and toward nationalism motivated some of the remarks--remarks such as this: "The chair demands a philosophical scholar who is an ethical thinker of distinction, and Mr. Russell with his provocative individualism, is hardly that." Why, indeed, must all distinguished ethical thought be anti-individualistic? Is only the man who swallows tradition, keeps in the straight and narrow path of past systems of morals, and who, above all, agrees with you--is only he a distinguished ethical thinker? Clearly, it is not Mr. Russell's distinction as a philosopher against which...
...will be made remains to be seen, but it does not seem likely that if Mr. Russell is called to Harvard he will be asked to take the chair held by such men as Professor Palmer and Professor Royce. The chair demands a philosophical scholar who is an ethical thinker of distinction, and Mr. Russell, with his provocative individualism, is hardly that. If any Englishman is wanted for the post, Canon Rashdall is probably the man with experience as an educator who is best fitted for it. But greatness in such a place is largely a matter of personality...
...lumber cut, sawed and split-how many tons of coal raised from the mine and delivered-equal in value the influence on men of poems like the "Psalnt of Life," of songs like the "Marsellaise" and the "Star Spangled Banner"? Do I seem to exaggerate the significance of the thinker and his work?" said the late Professor Royce to his class one day. "He doubts, analyzes, pries into this and that, and men say, 'How dry, how repellent, how unpractical, how remote from life!' But after all he is prying into the secret places of the lighting of Jove...