Word: whitehead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arthur North Whitehead, professor of Philosophy, is 75 tomorrow; and nine of his former pupils will present him with a book of essays in his honor, a volume which "indicates some, at least, of the many directions in which his thought is being felt...
...book, entitled "Philosophical Essays of Alfred North Whitehead", is written by F. S. C. Northrop, of Yale, Raphael Demos, assistant professor of Philosophy, Scott Buchanan, of Virginia, Willard V. Quine, Junior Fellow, Henry S. Leonard, instructor in Philosophy, Paul Weiss, of Bryn Mawr, S. Kirby-Miller, of Reed College, Charles Hartshorne, of Chicago, and Otis H. Lee, of Pomona College...
...being only fitting and proper that underlings in a department should show respect for their elders and betters, the loyalty of the younger men in the department of Philosophy for the tenets of Professor Whitehead is indeed an admirable thing...
...Goheen, popular head assistant in the equally popular Philosophy A, however, the loyalty and respect transcends ordinary intellectual acceptance and borders on adulation. Or so it seemed to his students in yesterday's section meeting. In speaking of Professor Santayana and the veneration in which Professor Whitehead holds his former colleague's beliefs, Dr. Goheen stated that Professor Whitehead held Santayana to be possibly the greatest philosopher since Plato. Finding occasion later to repeat his remark. Dr. Goheen blithely quoted Professor Whitehead as considering Satayana the greatest Philosopher since Whitehead...
Thence to the office all the morning and was pleased to note Professor Whitehead doth lecture on Saturday in Emerson A at 12. This did awaken in me some thoughts how happy I would be if as a merry Vagabond I did help impress some uninspired ones that it be men who count and not courses; that it be inspiration that doth move us along as well as sheer knowledge. Indeed, methinks, there be all too much emphasis on subject matter and too little on the personality of him who doth teach and who doth learn. For what doth...