Word: whitehead
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...Thilosophy and the Methods of Science," Professor Whitehead, Emerson...
...constitution, which was drawn up by a committee, composed of Edwards, Washburn, Quinn, Dennett, and Charles Cherington, is prefaced by a quotation from Alfred N. Whitehead, professor of Philosophy: "A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past." Adhering to this preamble, the program of the Liberal Club in the future will include "active participation in the political and social movements of the time, and constant adventure with new thought...
...philosophy Harvard has religious-minded William Ernest Hocking, 60, profound Alfred North Whitehead, 72, one of the three "geniuses" whom Gertrude Stein has known (others: herself, Painter Pablo Picasso). Ill health made William Zebina Ripley, 66, railroad expert, retire last March but economics in 1932 acquired brilliant Josef Alois Schumpeter, onetime (1919) Finance Minister of Austria. Since 1882 Frank William Taussig, 74, tariff authority, has been one of Harvard's proudest possessions...
...Hound and Horn is an essay on the philosophy of William James by one Henry Bamford Parkes. Mr. Parkes makes no new contribution to the criticism of James, but his essay is a competent restatement of the master's position in modern thought. It will be remembered that Professor Whitehead called James, like Descartes, the founder of a new philosophical epoch--with this statement Mr. Parkes takes issue, on the ground that his philosophy "contains too obviously the seeds of its own dissolution." Statements of this kind are very difficult to analyze or to assess; it would perhaps be more...
Married. Marion Hughes Whitehead, 22, divorced wife of Conkey Pate Whitehead, Atlanta bottling scion; and Andrew Granville Pierce III, 25, son of the one-time board chairman of American Woolen Co.; in Manhattan...