Word: whitehead
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Professor Whitehead has been a lecturer on Mathematics for 26 years at Trinity College, Cambridge, England, the college from which he graduated. In 1921 he served as dean of the faculty of science. Today he is a fellow of the Royal Society of England and also belongs to the School of English Realists of which Bertrand Russell and G. E. Moore are two of the most prominent members. In 1922 he was the first recipient of the James Scott prize offered by the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Among his publications are the "Principia Mathematica" in three volumes, "Principles of Relativity...
...addition to his interest in philosophy Professor Whitehead is much concerned in problems of education. When he gets to Harvard he will conduct two courses; the first being a lecture course on the philosophy of science, and the second a course of two seminaries, one on motaphysics and the other on logic...
...addition to Professor Whitehead, another celebrated Englishman will come to the University next fall, according to a recent announcement of he Board of Overseers. The Rt. Rev. Arthur Cayley Headlam, bishop of Gloucester and a professor of divinity at Oxford University, will act as William Beldes Noble Lecturer for next year...
Always, however, occurs the exception. It seems probable that Professor Alfred North Whitehead, for twenty-six years lecturer on mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge is one of the lucky few whose coming will attract more than the usual amount of undergraduate attention. Besides being one of the foremost adherents of the school of English Realists, which numbers among its leaders Bertrand Russell, Professor Whitehead is a follow of the Royal Society of England, and was awarded the James Scott prize in 1922 by the Royal Society of Edinburgh...
From a mixture of two good strains, according to anthropologists, comes good stock. With Professor Whitehead bringing into the Department of Philosophy the best of English thought, it seems likely that there will shortly be a revival of the old days made famous in anecdote by the amiable differences of Professor Royce and Professor James...