Word: whitehead
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...tend to forge the Harvard of fifteen years ago, a university where students chose their courses not so much for the subject matter as for the teacher. It was the era of Kitty and Copey and John Livingston Lowes. Perhaps the greatest of them all was Albert North Whitehead, professor of Philosophy, who is celebrating his eightieth birthday today...
Professor Whitehead has contributed as much to the intellectual growth of the University as any teacher who has graced the Yard in all its three hundred years, but his fame doesn't rest on teaching alone. He has the rare combination of teaching ability and creative genius. The tradition of his Phil 3 may last as long as Harvard, but his "Principia Mathematic" and his "Process and Reason" will last as long as thought. His work in the correlation of science and philosophy have earned him a position among the greatest thinkers of our time. We wish him a happy...
Alfred North Whitehead, world reknowned philosopher and mathematician and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, will give the annual Ingersoll lecture on the Immortality of Man at the Divinity School next April, it was announced yesterday...
Before coming to Harvard in 1924, Professor Whitehead taught mathematics at the University of London and Trinity College in England...
...teachers, the parents of City College students, hundreds of educators, philosophers and clergymen, among them John Dewey, University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, University of California's President Robert Gordon Sproul, Smith's President-emeritus William Allan Neilson, Harvard's Professors Alfred North Whitehead and Harlow Shapley, Princeton's Dean Christian Gauss. In City College's Great Hall, 1,200 undergraduates cheered famed Philosopher Morris Raphael Cohen as he said: "Not a single college authority, parent or teacher in any institution where Russell has taught has complained of the corrupting influence...