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There are, however, many personal effects and recollections concerning the philosopher that give us another picture than the one of the detached "cold fish," the man renowned for the "coldness. . . the cruelty, of his wit...
...lucidity and polish of his writing also characterized his style of lecture delivery. This, plus the "coldness, not to say the cruelty, of his wit," made him a popular teacher, and attracted students like T. S. Eliot '10, Felix Frankfurter, Conrad Aiken '11, and Walter Lippmann...
...western part of the land there and from the lower and upper-most corners. These are the roundheaded, tallest, heaviest and most florid of the race. These are the Irishmen who are quite so often pictured in cartoons and stories as the "big, affable guys with a ready wit and a brawny...
...born on the island, mostly of English and Channel Island stock, with generous traces of Irish, Scotch and French. Isolated for centuries, their character tempered by wresting a living from their bleak island and the sea around it, the Newfies have developed into an independent, hardworking, happy breed. Their wit and individuality show strongly in their geographic names. Newfoundland places are called Happy Adventure, Come By Chance, Heart's Delight, Witless Bay, Cuckold's Cove, Naked Woman Point and Horse Chops. Humor and theology are neatly blended in the fact that a harbor with a broad, easy entrance...
COMMENTS: This course suffers from the basic problem of all elementary GE courses, to wit, that it must try to give the student a technique of analysis within its field without being able to delve too deeply into the field itself. Within this limitation, however, this course was quite well received by '55, which felt that it had received some basic understanding of the techniques of the social sciences from...