Word: whitehead
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Harvard will act as host to the American Association of Museums when it holds its annual meeting here for the first time over May 12, 13, and 14 at the Fogg Museum. Among the speakers at the main dinner will be President Lowell and A. N. Whitehead, professor of Philosophy, it was announced last night by F. B. Robinson, assistant to the directors of the Museum...
...gathering will consider the problems not only of art museums, but of all other types of museums from natural history to seismology. Among the 120 people from all over the country who are scheduled to speak or lead discussions at the meeting are, besides President Lowell and Professor Whitehead, Professor E. W. Forbes '95, director of the Fogg Art Museum, Professor P. J. Sachs '00, associate director of the Museum, and G. H. Chase '96, dean of the Graduate School, who will act as toastmaster at the dinner...
Professor Whitehead...
There is at Harvard one of the greatest of living philosophers, Professor Whitehead. It is with infinite regret that one is obliged to utter a word in criticism of him; but in what, I suspect, was an amiable moment, Professor Whiteland made an address which has been incorporated in a volume published by the Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. There are not lacking in this address indications that Professor Whitehead perceives the importance of a broad and disinterested study of business phenomena; but this broad and disinterested study will not lead to the immediate result...
...Professor Whitehead, apologizing for the teaching of routine, but it is Von Hunboldt who gives us the cue to the correct attitude of the university toward the engulfing activities called business; and yet that Professor Whitehead rather than Von Humboldt describes the current trend of university business schools is abundantly illustrated not only by the catalogues in which the schools of business set forth their aims and their offerings, but by the specific tasks which they undertake while employing a university jargon. One wonders, for example, what the real scholars and scientists at Harvard think of 'scientific research in advertising...