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...history," said Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead once, "before I read it." He played games amid relics of the Roman, Saxon and Norman conquests; his father was vicar of a church built by the medieval Minster monks. As a boy he watched British seapower-in full sail-pass through the Channel. He prepped at 1,200-year-old Sherborne School, which claims Alfred the Great as a pupil...
Today, at 86, a retired Harvard professor, Philosopher Whitehead lives quietly in Cambridge, Mass., seeing only friends (and never the press),*reading history and philosophy, and recalling the past. On long London bus rides he used to amuse himself by imagining the great figures of history as his companions. He liked to wonder what they would think of what he saw about him. This week, in Whitehead's newly published Essays in Science and Philosophy (Philosophical Library; $4.75), readers will find this same sense of continuity and perspective...
...like a quarterback throwing a forward pass and catching it himself. As Virginia's wartime governor, urbane Colgate Whitehead Darden Jr. had often told the people what was wrong with their state university and had persuaded the General Assembly to spend $4,500,000 to fix it. Last week ex-Governor Darden took on the presidency of his languishing alma mater...
Thomas North Whitehead, director of Administration at Radcliffe, spoke yesterday on "Hebrew--Christian Ethics in Administration" instead of his father, as had been reported in the University announcement...
...Whitehead pointed out in his talk that "Hebrew-Christian ethics are built on the value and dignity of each and every human being...