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These dinners began with the first meeting of the Society on September 25, 1933. The gathering capped years of work by President Lowell, whose bequest of $1,500,000 set up the Society financially, and whose work with Alfred North Whitehead and a Committee of other distinguished scholars drafted the Society's present form. In its report, the Committee, drawing example from foreign scholarly groups, set out what has since been the philosophy of the Society...
...Crimson got a one-two in the two mile with Hal Gerry loping home ahead of Don French with a 9:51.3 time. Another surprise was turned in by Don Whitehead who won the high jump with a leap of six feet...
...fooled again! . . . There is no more reason to suppose that Einstein's relativity is anything final than Newton's Principia. The danger is dogmatic thought; it plays the devil with it." religion, and science is not immune from "I Have Been Saying . . ." Whitehead avoided dogma better than most through out his teaching career at Cambridge, London and, finally, Harvard, where he began his spectacular rise as a creative philosopher at 63, when most academicians are thinking of retirement. "The vitality of thought is in adventure," Whitehead told Price. "That is what I have been saying all my life...
...Whitehead's talk was an adventure that could lead almost anywhere. Samples...
...nine years before Author Price told Whitehead he was recording his conversation and showed him a transcript. Whitehead's reaction was characteristic. "It is very unusual to get authentic records of conversation from the past," he remarked. "I should think these pages of yours might be more valuable 100 years from...