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...makes far-reaching contributions to human thought, the institution with which he may be associated shares with him the glory of his renown, and grows as he grows. Nowhere could one find a better illustration of this thesis than in the relatively short but epochal association between Professor Whitehead and Harvard...
...rather of that small world of Harvard we would speak. There is no use disguising the very real and personal loss which several generations of Harvard men will experience when they read the announcement of Professor Whitehead's retirement. He is as well and justly celebrated among undergraduates as a great teacher in his "Phil. 3" and "Phil. 3b" as he is in the larger outside world for his "Religion in the Making" and his "Organization of Thought...
...mere formal tributes, those that come from his associates. They are deeply felt, and spontaneous in their expression. They are, in a word, appreciations of a man as well as a genius. Without question, his students and associates find much of their admiration based upon the fact that Professor Whitehead teaches no dogma. They are invariably stimulated by his large and embracive theme that the great key to philosophy is individual thinking relating to the world of experience...
...team that wins a league pennant is capable of beating any other team. In a four-game series the element of luck often is the determining factor. Witness the example of Fitzimmons' pitching in the third game or specific instances like Whitehead's grab of De Maggio's line drive in the opener...
Harvard still boasts many a faculty giant like the Law School's Roscoe Pound and Felix Frankfurter, Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, Physicist Percy Williams Bridgman, Astronomer Harlow Shapley, but in time they must yield and withdraw as Economist Frank William Taussig and Shakespearean George Lyman Kittredge did this year (TIME, Feb. 17). To replace them. President Conant admits, will be harder now that the growth of State Universities has pushed Harvard from its "natural pre-eminence," made it uncertain that a promising young scholar will heed the once undeniable "call" from Cambridge...