Word: bertrand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When interviewed yesterday about Professor Whitehead, the University's latest acquisition in the Philosophy department, Dr. H. M. Scheffer said that Professor Whitehead was among the first two or three philosophers alive today. "What makes him a great philosopher" said Dr. Scheffer," is that he, with Bertrand Russell, is the foremost representative of the great English empirical tradition of Locke, Benkley, Mill, and Hume, and secondly that he is keenly aware of the philosophical limitations of empiricism...
Professor Whitehead, Sc.D., L.L.D. F.R.S., received his training at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became Senior Lecturer in Mathematics. Later he was appointed Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Imperial College in London. He became interested in comparatively new branch of knowledge, mathematical logic. He collaborated with Bertrand Russell in a four volume work on mathematical logic. Three volumes appeared before the war, and one is yet to be written. It is expected that-Professor Whitehead will complete the last volume during his five years at Harvard...
...just swallowed two bitter doses of jingoism without blinking. European countries, where a vigorous military class has long been the tradition, finds its war-like ideals trampled upon by their former defenders. Perhaps this reversed balance of trade in military illusions may mean a reversal of military strength, as Bertrand Russell insists, the United States may become the only great military nation in the world. The unsophisticated ear of American public opinion is still fascinated by the blare of warlike demonstration, and the jingo is still the herald of patriotism...
...deputation organized by Hon. Mrs. Bertrand Russell's Birth Control Committee conferred with Mr. John Wheatley, Minister of Health for Great Britain. The Committee included representatives of the medical profession, the various organizations favoring birth control, and Mr. H. G. Wells. It urged freedom for maternity centres and public health officials in giving information relative to contraception. In reply the Minister said that a clear distinction must be made between allowing access to knowledge and actually distributing it. He said that public opinion was not so definite as to permit State-aided institutions to do more than to direct...
...Celtic (White Star)?Bertrand Russell, Socialist, who has been scolding in the U. S. for the past two months; May Sinclair, English novelist...