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Henderson's companion was the celebrated philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, who had recently left his post as professor of mathematics at the University of London to teach philosophy at Harvard. Whitehead had been a so-called "prize fellow" of Trinity College, Cambridge, an honor that gave him six years of study at the college free from financial burdens and teaching responsibilities...
During the weekend and on the train back to Cambridge, Henderson and Whitehead fell to talking about the problems of American graduate education and the success of the Trinity fellowships. By the time they arrived at Harvard, they had resolved to meet with the University's incumbent president. Abbott Lawrence Lowell, to discuss the possibility of a Trinity-like operation at Harvard...
Some instructors have made changes in their courses since their introduction, and the subcommittee wants to ensure that the courses are still fit to remain in the Core, R. Duncan Luce, Whitehead Professor of Psychology, said yesterday...
...Whitehead wants to provide $20 million to build a 10-story building in Cambridge and $5 million a year to operate it, Robert Byers, an MIT spokesman, said yesterday...
Before his death, Whitehead would replace the trust with a $100-million endowment to fund the institute, Byers said. All of the money would go to the facility and not to MIT, Byers added...