Education: Ends & Means

• Share

Reviewing the history on club life at Harvard last week, the Alumni Bulletin printed some reflections of Philosopher George Santayana. "The spirit of Harvard . . . seems to one of my generation to be changed, in the sense that it has carried out completely the ideal of President [Charles William] Eliot, *to make it an integral part, and a servant of the contemporary world. But in my time there still stirred ... a certain speculative and moral freedom. We still dared to prefer the end of life, realizable in every free and happy moment, to the means of keeping the world going faster and faster in an unknown direction. Of course, it must move on, and we with it; but we may sometimes look out of the window from the aeroplane."