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Engaging Walrus. Schweppes is pleased by the American publicity success of bearded Commander Whitehead, who actually spends most of his time as the busy head of Schweppes (U.S.A.), but it carefully varies its approach in other countries. It concentrates on cool sophisticated elegance for France, where tonic with a twist of lemon has won wide popularity as an aperitif. It emphasizes straight quality in Spain, where the haughty wealthy are sure of their status in a stratified class system and would resent any implication that one could raise his social standing by drinking tonic...
...mission to rescue Harvard psychology from the philosophers." Though he eventually saved psychology from the philosophers by bisecting the department, he recalls that he never reformed the philosophers. "At the party celebrating the separation of the psychology and philosophy departments, I said, as usual, that psychology needs controls. Whitehead made a delightful little speech: 'They devote their lives to studying the human mind and still they don't trust...
...Boring detests is the process of selection. "I hate the arrogance of the Faculty in assigning grades. If we could get rid of grades this might be fun." Then off into history: "I remember in the Department of Philosophy when we were making judgments about graduate students, Alfred North Whitehead and R. B. Perry were friends of the man in trouble. 'Oh, but he might be Aristotle,' they would say, 'oh, his wife's been ill.' I used to look at the bad record...
Alfred North Whitehead--himself an adorable genius--applies that term to James in Science and the Modern World. The aptness of the adjective is beyond question; the the truth of the noun, nearly so. For, though James lacked the light-shattering ingenuity of Newton and the monumental style of Kant, his gifts were nonetheless striking. His writings abound in magnificent arrays of quotable passages. His works teem with provocative insights--too many, perhaps, ever to be fully systematized. But, most of all, James radiates moral greatness. His openness of mind and eagerness to defend underdogs, his freedom from vanity...
...note: The CRIMSON'S 1906 crystal ball told us that Mr. Price would be graduated magna cum laude the following year; would later write, among many other books, "The Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead" and serve for many years as a member of the Overseers' Committee to visit the Department of Philosophy; and would in 1964 complete fifty years as editorialist for the Boston Globe and fifty-seven years as a Boston journalist...