Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another interesting fact in the history of Harvard is that after the settlement of John Hancock's estate, that worthy gentleman, who graduated in 1754, and was a former treasurer of the corporation, still owed $526 to the college. According to Reverend Carroll Perry of Ipswich, who wrote an essay on Hancock, the latter was also very unsatisfactory in his administration of his alma mater's finances, and the result was that Hancock's reputation as patriot and statesman has suffered with many people. However, the Reverend Perry attributed this unsatisfactory administration to the fact that Hancock, during his stewardship...
Featured in this quarter's Hound and Horn is an essay on the philosophy of William James by one Henry Bamford Parkes. Mr. Parkes makes no new contribution to the criticism of James, but his essay is a competent restatement of the master's position in modern thought. It will be remembered that Professor Whitehead called James, like Descartes, the founder of a new philosophical epoch--with this statement Mr. Parkes takes issue, on the ground that his philosophy "contains too obviously the seeds of its own dissolution." Statements of this kind are very difficult to analyze or to assess...
...account of the spiritual release of one man. It is rather vague because it tries simultaneously to show how a person can be both a eligious mystic and an unbeliever, and what the future of the Church is to become of the ideas are reminiscent of Macterlinck's essay on Emerson, others all up the image of an on-the-fence minister trying to be liberal and let the young 'uns have their game of golf on Sunday. For all its erraticism, the article will strike home in a few hearts...
...those courses which President Dunster classed as "Technologicae," a term derived from the Greek technai and meaning, according to Professor Rand, the "arts as a whole." What would otherwise have been a pedantic display of mossy notes becomes, under Professor Rand's polished hand and humane perspective, an entertaining essay...
...essay on Freud, the great Viennese is linked with Hindu philosophy, an astounding, but, it appears, by no means an impossible feat. Mr. Santayana's argument is very plausible and proceeds from Freud's assertion that "the goal of life is death." The concluding essay in this work deals with Julien Benda and the infinite as he propounds it. For his readers Mr. Santayana leaves a query. Are they to think that for Mr. Santayana the infinite is bad, as it was for the Greeks? Answers will vary...