Word: professors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This colection, which is coming here through the instrumentality of Langdon Warner '03 and Mr. Yanagi, a Japanese professor from Tokio who is at Harvard this year, is to pass around the country, going to Cleveland, Philadelphia, and Chicago museums after its showing here...
ALTHOUGH a scientific cosmology in not easily comprehended by the layman interested in the interdependence of the instruments and the methods of science. Professor Whitehead constructs his metaphysical explanation more vividly than might be supposed. "Science and the Modern World," which consists of an amplification of the Lowell Lectures for 1925, is meant for those who are interested in the readjustment of the philosophy that "builds cathedrals before the workmen have moved a stone and destroys them before the elements have worn down their arches...
...author has been extremely apt in his choice of similes and metaphors to clarify the technical language of physics which necessarily permeate such a volume. The ordinary reader, therefore, begins to see the glimmer of the movements of mentality traced by Professor White-head from the seventeenth century to the present time, even though be falls to follow much of the reasoning that lies beneath unfamiliar terminology. And although it requires a deep study, despite the fact that the work is for beginners, to to grasp the full meaning, nevertheless the treatment of scientific ideas in scientific terms is more...
Byron Satterlee Hurlbut '87, Professor of English, died last night at 11.30 o'clock at the Cambridge Hospital after a brief illness. No announcement as to funeral services has been made. He is survived by his wife...
...Professor Hurlbut was taken ill less than three weeks ago, and after a short period of sickness was taken to the hospital for an operation, which was performed on December 11. His condition was considered critical for a time but he seemed to be on the road to recovery right up until last night. The exact nature of his illness was not revealed...